The Satirical Art of Paul Kuczynski - Stop and Think

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“Oscar Wilde described the womb-flower of existence as “the flowers in which the gold bees dream.” Yet that golden flower isn’t at the end of the line- you are living in it. The radiating petals, the mandala, the great circle of the flower is the galaxy in which you live, and it is the whole universe radiating around you. Of course this radiance is also in a cycle, and that cycle is the dance you are intimately involved in, if you can only realize that the purpose of life is not in the future.”

-Alan Watts, Still the Mind

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Guy-I'm-flirting-with:	"Why are you a vegetarian?"
Me:	"Well, if I ate meat, I wouldn't be against eating you. Alot of people get kind of freaked out by that, so I just say vegetarian to evade any idea that I might be a cannibal."
Guy-I'll-never-see-again:	...

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Knokke, Belgium. August 2010 ☼

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le corps n’est qu’une image

apoetreflects:
“You don’t have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.” —C. S. Lewis

And let’s add some related Saint-Exupéry in there:
“L’essential est invisible pour les yeux.”

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art: to capture experience

although high,
never up;
storming hour
stays behind with
day.

sense a selflessness, limitless
now like a pre-winter storm;
a calm, desperate chill
before expected warmth,

leading me to this springtime snow;
an april shower that shocks my may flowers,
to bloom
or to be seeds,
lost in fertile soil.