However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is.

H. D. Thoreau

[pokracovani:
You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man's abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace. The town's poor seem to me often to live the most independent lives of any. Maybe they are simply great enough to receive without misgiving. Most think that they are above being supported by the town; but it oftener happens that they are not above supporting themselves by dishonest means, which should be more disreputable. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society. If I were confined to a corner of a garret all my days, like a spider, the world would be just as large to me while I had my thoughts about me. The philosopher said: "From an army of three divisions one can take away its general, and put it in disorder; from the man the most abject and vulgar one cannot take away his thought." Do not seek so anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many influences to be played on; it is all dissipation. Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights. The shadows of poverty and meanness gather around us, "and lo! creation widens to our view." We are often reminded that if there were bestowed on us the wealth of Croesus, our aims must still be the same, and our means essentially the same. Moreover, if you are restricted in your range by poverty, if you cannot buy books and newspapers, for instance, you are but confined to the most significant and vital experiences; you are compelled to deal with the material which yields the most sugar and the most starch. It is life near the bone where it is sweetest. You are defended from being a trifler. No man loses ever on a lower level by magnanimity on a higher. Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.]

YouTube - Instruction Manual for Life [cc]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAIpRRZvnJg

"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library."
— Frank Zappa

There is an enormous amount of work waiting to be done by human beings: building, exploring, solving problems, caring for one another, creating, dancing, telling stories, inventing. But the vast majority of all that is not packaged as „jobs“.

Spirited Away - Always with me

Somewhere, a voice calls, in the depths of my heart
May I always be dreaming, the dreams that move my heart
So many tears, of sadness, uncountable through and through
I know on the other side of them, I will find you
Everytime we fall down to the ground,
we look up to the blue sky above
We wake to its blueness, as for the first time
Though the road is long and lonely and
the end far away, out of sight
I can with these two arms, embrace the light
As I bid farewell, my heart stops, in tenderness I feel
My silent empty body begins to listen to what is real
The wonder of living, the wonder of dying
The wind, town and flowers, we all dance one unity
Somewhere, a voice calls, in the depths of my heart
Keep dreaming your dreams, never let them part
Why speak of all your sadness or painful woes of life
Instead let the same lips sing a gentle song for you
The whispering voice, we never want to forget, in each passing memory
Always there to guide you
When a mirror has been broken, shattered pieces scattered on the ground
Glimpses of new life, reflected all around
Window of beginning, stillness, new light of the dawn
Let my silent empty body be filled and reborn
No need to search outside, nor sail across the sea
Cause here shining inside me, it is right here inside me
I have found a brightness, it is always with me

klasika :)

"Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is mearly energy condensed through a slow vibration, we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, life is only a dream and we are the imaginations of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather." -Bill Hicks

pobavila mě nedávno tato kouzelná formulace z náhodně objedveného cca 25let starého časopisu VTM (článek se týkal radioaktivity):

"Conrad Röntgen objevil v r. 1895 záření doposud neznámého původu, a proto jej nazval neutrálním označením paprsek-X. Až teprve Marie Curie-Sklodowská zjistila, že se jednalo ve skutečnosti o Röntgenovo záření."

Nevím, zda je toto pure mem, ale považuju minimálně za originální poklonu nenahraditelné ženské logice (a zrovna u MC Sklodowské to ani nelze myslet pej orativně, ač je pravděpodobnější, že za tím stojí spíše redaktor(ka) VTM:)

SOME PEOPLE NEVER GO CRAZY, WHAT TRULLY HORRIBLE LIVES THEY MUST LEAD ch.bukowski

The World's Need
So many gods, so many creeds,
So many paths that wind and wind,
When just the art of being kind
Is all this sad world needs

Ellen Wheeler Wilcox

česká lidová, odposlechnuto dnes při procházce se psem...

Starší paní: "Když neska dete na voperaci, tak si musíte všecko zaplatit a nikdo se neptá kde na to vemete. Neni to dobrá doba neska..."

Starší pán: "To už řikali naši tátové."

Heart and Mind- Luke Ramsey Artist Portfolio
http://lukeramseystudio.com/personal/heart-and-mind/

[ CZUPA @ ALTERNATIVE & STRANGE COMICS - zvlastni komiksy kresbou ci myslenkou vybocujici z mainstreamu ... ]

"If you think you're so spiritual, go and spend two weeks with your parents..."

Ram Dass

„Jednej tak, jako by se maxima tvého jednání měla na základě tvé vůle stát obecným přírodním zákonem“,
„Jednej tak, abys používal lidství jak ve své osobě, tak i v osobě každého druhého vždy zároveň jako účel a nikdy pouze jako prostředek.“ --Kant