Objects and Subjects

"Things are objects because of the subject - mind." - The Great Way read by Ram Dass

Check out this poem. It’s awesome!

"She gave me a big smile and said, “Who are we this time?" from Who Am I This Time? by Kurt Vonnegut

A Haiku from Basho

From time to time

The clouds give rest

To the moon-beholders.

- Matsuo Bashō

She invited literary people, and they were brought to her at once in multitudes. Afterwards they came of themselves without invitation, one brought another. Never had she seen such literary men. They were incredibly vain, but quite open in their vanity, as though they were performing a duty by the display of it. Some (but by no means all) of them even turned up intoxicated, seeming, however, to detect in this a peculiar, only recently discovered, merit.

The Devils - Dostoyevsky

Attitudes and mental actions leave impressions on your mind stream that are like subtle seeds.

Steps on the Path to Enlightenment - Geshe Lhundup Sopa

They tell me, shaking their heads: 'You should be kinder... You are somehow-furious.' I used to be kind. It didn’t last long. Life was breaking me hitting me in the teeth. I lived like a silly puppy. They would hit me- and again I would turn the other cheek. I’d wag my tail of complacency, and then, to make me furious, someone chopped it off with a single blow. And now I will tell you about fury, about that fury with which you go to a party and make polite conversation while dropping sugar into your tea with tongs. And when you offer me more tea I’m not bored- I merely study you. I submissively drink my tea from the saucer, and, hiding my claws, stretch out my hand. And I’ll tell you something else about fury. When before the meeting they whisper: 'Give it up... You’re young, better you write, don’t jump into a fight for a while...' Like hell I’ll give in! To be furious at falsehood- is real goodness! I’m warning you- that fury hasn’t left me yet. And you ought to know- I’ll stay infuriated for a long time. There’s none of my former shyness left in me. After all- life is interesting when you’re furious!

1955 Translated by Tina Tupikina-Glaessner, Geoffrey Dutton, and Igor Mezhakoff-Koriakin (revised) Yevgeny Yevtushenko

It’s supposed to be a bunny… that I made with Crayola Model Magic Clay. It doesn’t dry, so I can make a lot more little bunnies!

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#Halloween is never far away

Immobility is retrbution for youthful flight.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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The Poet and the painter casting shadows on the water as the sun plays on the infantry returning from the sea. The do-er and the thinker: no allowance for the other as the failing light illuminates the mercenary's creed. The home fire burning: the kettle almost boiling but the master of the house is far away. The horses stamping - their warm breath clouding in the sharp and frosty morning of the day. And the poet lifts his pen while the soldier sheaths his sword.

Jethro Tull, “Thick as a Brick”

Winter in Tarkhany where Mikhail Lermontov spent his childhood. Postcards from 1989.

We almost always forgive those we understand.

Mikhail Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time  (via wordsnquotes)

Moments of happiness one forgets, but sorrow never.

Mikhail Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time