Good old-fashioned idealism

It was winter,
and I went outside.

I said, ‘World,
I’m immortal.
I’ll always exist.
But you only exist because I see you.

If you don’t give me anything,
I won’t give you anything.’



Friedrich Liechtenstein being interviewed in Once an Ornamental Hermit, Now a German Media Darling by Sally McGrane, The New York Times, 25 July 2014. Submitted by Daniel Galef.

Cocoons: A Fibonacci Poem

We
are
becoming more
and more relaxed
with uncertainty, more and more
relaxed with groundlessness, more and more relaxed with

not having walls around us to keep us
protected in a little box
or cocoon.—Enlightenment
we do
not
have.



From The Bearable Lightness of Being by Pema Chödrön, March 2014, Shambhala Sun. Submitted by Ali Znaidi.

Buddhist bullseye

The look of
the moment
Infinity scarves



Sign in the Juniors department of Target, 1 March 2014. Submitted by J.R. Solonche.

Qoheleth

Overheard in the Co-op:
"You work bloody hard all your life
and then when you're finished
you have to go and see the doctor every day."


A tweet by @SeeingMore, 4th January 2012. Submitted by Marika Rose.

I have a phobia

I have a phobia
of leaving my arm
out of a car window
when I'm driving.
I think it has something to do 
with playing the guitar 
and needing my arm.



Slash interviewed in the Guardian. Submitted by Gabriel Smy.

On Utility

Philosophy is not

meant to be practical.
It is not meant
to have a use.

It does not exist to

make us more productive

girls and boys. It is a

diet of words to feed

our soul by way of

stimulating our mind.

It is not a roast-beef

sandwich, but more the

substance of an

ethereal longing.



Taken from a Lost in Technopolis blog post on the 13th May 2009. Submitted by Marika Rose.

Thought and Jocularity

When I was twelve, I was interviewed by
a doctoral candidate in
education and asked what I wanted
to be when I grew up.

I said that I wanted either to be
a philosopher or a clown,
and I understood then, I think that much
depended on whether or not

I found the world worth philosophising
about, and what the price of
seriousness might be. I was not sure I
wanted to be a philosopher,

and I confess that I have never quite
overcome that doubt.



Read on 1 June 2009 in 'Undoing Gender' by Judith Butler (London: Routledge 2004), p234. Submitted by Marika Rose.