Life With the Dead

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

- Alan Watts (via astral-travel)

(Source: brainmaze, via astral-travel)

377

At every moment of our lives, we have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss.

- Paulo Coelho (via astral-travel)

(Source: rabbitinthemoon, via astral-travel)

2884

I think that anthropology (and the other social sciences) are the ideological arms of sociopolitical arrangements. I use ideology here not in the narrow sense of propaganda, but in the sense of pervasive idea system making up a world view that both reflects and molds certain social arrangements. In general, scholarship reflects and molds the sociopolitical system called a university, and universities are not independent from our social order, but are paid and organized to perpetuate and legitimize it.

- Esther Newton (1940~), Mother Camp (via literary-ethnography)

28

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

-

Stephen Hawking

(via the-star-stuff)

(via outofchaoscomesclarity)

268

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.

- Sigmund Freud (via mermaidsongs)

(Source: bavarde, via sweet-peasorbet)

459

Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

- Desmond Tutu (via cwnl)

(Source: thelittlephilosopher, via kaleidoscopicmind)

1811

No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.

- Aristotle  (via elige)

(Source: freyjageist, via outofchaoscomesclarity)

1309