09 March 2011

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

Hannah Arendt
Everything contains something else. Every thing, action, thought, process, contains trapped within it what we call the internal. This is the most mysterious of concepts. It is not the history of the thing, or the motivation of the action, or the origin of the thought, or the energy of the process. Neither is it spirit or essence: all of these exist. The true internal neither exists in the way other things do, nor does it not exist. It is the tremor between existence and non-existence. The almost. The divine. The secret. Our job is to help it break free – expose it ever so gently. For this we need to become like it and of it – foresake the swagger of knowing for the sake of an ever opening softness.

08 March 2011

you enter into something fully and, in doing that, you take it beyond its own limits or expose it to its own limitations

Jeffrey W Robbins

07 March 2011

Seize the moment
Life is a power of singularization; a power to create differences.

Lee Spinks

06 March 2011

The only way out of the morass was a radical leap of faith, a flight into the unknown.

Sylvère Lotringer

04 March 2011

Reality manifests only through connexion.
in the game of truth, one undergoes changes

Michel Foucault

03 March 2011

wordless companionship
It is precisely those parts of myself I take for granted and never question – assume to be fundamental and unchangeable – that I need to inspect, shake, unsettle, fracture, erode, and clear away. To go through the stiff instituted self and into the fluid and ever-changing essential self.
An instruction is not a signal to do but a call to become.

02 March 2011

Like a stalking cat, bristling with intensity.
leave the furrow
I sink deep – into Earth and bones – of body and character – until I become of the Earth. Then, and only then, is my humanity released – I become both human and extra-human. Part of my humanity is the drive to go beyond myself – to exceed my self, and reach for the stars. For this I need more energy than my paltry frame can either harbor or muster – I need the Earth.

01 March 2011

Principle – an unconditional statement