from a sign in the 1967 British science fiction series The Prisoner:

"Questions are a burden to others - answers a prison for oneself."

Taken from the series' point of view, it's rather Orwellian. Taken from a philosophical point of view, I can see truth in it.

At least for me.

Musings, musings.

Any thoughts? Anyone? Bueller?

(Only a partial list of the Dalai Lama's Instructions for Life, but they seem incredibly appropriate right now.)

1. Take into account that great love and great achievement involve great risk.

2. When you lose, don't lose the lesson.

3. Follow the three R's:

Respect for self,
Respect for others and
Responsibility for all your actions.
 And from my March ( Read more... )

is fucking cruel sometimes;
taunting,
or at least has a wickedly sharp sense of humor

my question of the day is:

what if your destiny (even if it is to do good) is something you don't want?

said with the belief that I create most of my own reality, and with a distinct dislike for the concept of inevitability, but also the observation that the ( Read more... )

you make me remember

lightning storms
summer breezes
the bitter taste of fear in my throat
whispers of my grandmother
final chords echoing and shouting unto the heavens
quiet sobs wrapped in cotton
caresses of stars
an ache for blood
the wind singing to me in the night

I think perhaps I dreamt of you when I wrote (oh so many years ago):

And the man in the ( Read more... )

I said once in my journal that one of my life goals was to believe in fairies until the day I die.

It's not that I believe life is all sweetness and light, or that magic is abundant (in fact, I think it's rather limping along in a way).

It's that I wanted to be sure I kept my wonder and joy and creativity and balance and belief and hope alive for as ( Read more... )

Is it really too much for me to expect that at some point I'll find a group of bohemian intellectuals and artists who want to sit around and discuss philosophical and mundane things from various perspectives in a modern-day salon ( Read more... )

 "We live in such a humourless age," Domenica remarked. "It used to be possible to laugh. It used to be possible to enjoy oneself with fantasies - such as your ridiculous hymn - sorry, Angus - but now? Well, now there are all sorts of censors and killjoys. Earnest, ignorant people who lecture us on what we can think and say. And do you know, we've ( Read more... )

Okay....I'm begging you (all of you) - find some time to answer this one - it's for a very important project of mine (namely, gathering the answers so I can support or change my theory!!!)     :::smile:::

If you knew someone was deliberately setting you up to hurt you,
but the process allowed you to more fully experience and explore a certain ( Read more... )