A bit of play + freedom
Taking a little of a break…
Hello beautiful people, I am 88% close to wrapping up my next article on AI {artificial intelligence}, language, and Venus' loop around the sky, but all of a sudden I had the urge to indulge in other things this week. [Context The Sun and Mercury are in playful Gemini while Mars and Venus dance in delightful Leo, so I will leave you with 9 random things, enjoy
1- a poem
2- a song
3- a set of random images
4- a video (youtube) with link to a transcript
5- a quote
6- an excerpt from one of the books I am reading
7- a tweet
8- a meme
9- a voice message
All random
Till next week…
1- A poem:
We are the time. We are the famous
metaphor from Heraclitus the Obscure.
We are the water, not the hard diamond,
the one that is lost, not the one that stands still.
We are the river and we are that greek
that looks himself into the river. His reflection
changes into the waters of the changing mirror,
into the crystal that changes like the fire.
We are the vain predetermined river,
in his travel to his sea.
The shadows have surrounded him.
Everything said goodbye to us, everything goes away.
Memory does not stamp his own coin.
However, there is something that stays
however, there is something that bemoans
We Are The Time We are the famous.
Jorge Luis Borges [24 August 1899 - 14 June 1986]
2- a song:
i don’t want to feel the thunder
i don’t want to feel the rain
i take heed of these omens
i don’t want to return the same.
i just want to believe in something
i don’t want to feel this grey
i take heed of these omens
i heed what the lightning said
there’s a god-shaped hole
in every seekers soul
turned cold in rebellion
as life unfolds
like a quest once told
Love’s dance towards the one…
3- a set of random images
4- a video
The Psychology of Power – How to Dethrone Tyrants, academy of ideas.
“If…if… We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation. We spent ourselves in one unrestrained outburst in 1917, and then we hurried to submit. We submitted with pleasure!
…We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,The Gulag Archipelago, Volume 1
5- a quote:
“Nobody looks at the moon in the afternoon, and this is the moment when it would most require our attention, since its existence is still in doubt.”
~Italo Calvino
6- an excerpt from one of the books I am reading
“The future is the imaginable activity of man in its creative march. Imagining is the creative power, not only of the poet, the artist, the actor, and orator, but of the scientist, the inventor, the merchant, and the artisan. Its abuse in unrestrained, unlovely image making is obvious. But its abuse in undue repression breeds a sterility, which robs a man of actual wealth of experience. Imagining novel solutions to ever more complex problems is far more noble than to restrain or kill out desire. Life is the continuing solution of a continuously synthetic problem. Imagining creates events. Our world, created out of men’s imagining, comprises unnumbered warring beliefs. Therefore there could never be a perfectly stable or static state. Today’s events are bound to disturb yesterday’s established order. Imaginative men and women invariably unsettle a preexisting peace of mind.”
“Hold fast to your ideal in your imagination. Nothing can take it from you but your failure to persist in imagining the ideal realized. Imagine only such states that are of value or promise well. To attempt to change circumstances before we change our imaginal activity is to struggle against the very nature of things. There can be no outer change until there is first an imaginal change. Everything we do unaccompanied by an imaginal change is but futile readjustment of services. Imagining the wish fulfilled brings about a union with that state. And during that union we behave in keeping with our imaginal change. This shows us that an imaginal change will result in a change of behavior. However, our ordinary imaginal alterations, as we pass from one state to another, are not transformations. Because each of them is so rapidly succeeded by another in the reverse direction; but whenever one state grows so stable as to become our constant mood, our habitual attitude, then that habitual state defines our character and is a true transformation.”
Infinite Potential Neville Goddard & Mitch Horowitz.
7- a tweet
How Twitter has become the new “uncensored media” (to a certain degree)…
8- a meme
