SHORT THOUGHTS
if some appear as if they are linked, it is entirely their responsibility. Anyone who takes seriously anything in these thoughts equally does so at their own risk.
1
Don't fuck with reality; it will bite you in the arse.
2
The universal aloneness, once it has been breached, can never return, the same as matter, once created, is never destroyed.
3
Truth is sometimes unpalatable, but always simple
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From order comes accuracy; from chaos comes truth
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Accuracy is the sibling of truth; integrity is the mother of both
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Accounting uses the language of numbers to create its fictions
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A person without fear is a person without judgment
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The mostly unconscious fiction of living aims to escape reality; the mostly conscious fiction of the author seeks to capture it.
9
Law concerns the comparative persuasiveness of two or more rival fictions
10
The woven strands of society are both the cradle and the scold's bridle of the soul.
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Both the objective and the subjective universe expand with seeming infinity, but the subjective universe, expanding through imagination, is unfettered by physics
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Ignorance and cowardice are the physics of the subjective universe in that they inhibit the freedom of imagination.
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Self-awareness is a black hole that sucks the entire universe into the confines of self14
Words are fingernails holding on to the edge of being.
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Thought is intermittent death within the life of being, and like all death, the seed of new life.
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Our "real" lives are faded graffiti on the infinite surfaces of our imagination.
17
I practice the ambiguity of my religion in the cathedrals,
synagogues, temples and mosques of my imagination, because there is housed
all the terror and
magic of my being.
18
The past and the future are time; the present is space.
19
There is no god big enough for humanity, but then, we do have one another.
20
We do not exist by divine purpose; our scale makes that improbable
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We exist because we are...and we came into existence randomly
22
We spend our lives in the
solitary confinement of self-awareness, and through its walls we hear but
faintly the sounds of others about whom we can only
wonder within ourselves.
23
Pleasure must be conscious to be meaningful, but then, why should it be meaningful at all?
24
Love of love is addiction; love of another is a gift.
25
It is in our universal insignificance that we discover our individual significance.
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Once we have mattered to another, we can never cease to matter to ourselves.
27
The only argument I find for the existence of god is the cynicism of a universe in pursuit of existence.
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Order in the universe no more justifies religion than its chaos justifies atheism - it is all merely a matter of scale.
29
To find safety in oblivion is to survive through self-cannibalism.
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To strive only for safety is to defer the inevitable oblivion of death through the voluntary oblivion of life.
31
Society chews words like cattle chew the cud.
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You'll do better getting it right looking bad than getting it wrong looking good.
33
It's good to keep your feet on the ground; it's fatal to get them stuck there.
34
We can glimpse the universe only through the keyhole of self.
35
Without yourself you have no context.
36
It's better to believe in good than in god.
37
Man was not created in the image of god; god was created in the image of man.
38
Good teaching makes both teacher and pupil both pupil and teacher.
39
Considering the extent of human suffering the ultimate blasphemy is to allege the existence of god.
40
What a waste when, because of what we cannot have, we do not have what we can have.
41
At the ultimate trial of god, "Man" will not be called as a witness, but will be handed in as "Exhibit A".
42
My clean shaven chin finds the world as stubbly as ever.
43
In the crowded suburb of every ego, there should be one cool, shaded asylum.
44
Increasingly, there seems to be more artists than art.
45
If existence comes at the expense of life, death has already won.
46
One man's bias is another man's balance.
47
Death is the cradle of tomorrow; tomorrow is the grave of yesterday.
48
Because the earth is round, and turns around itself, and the moon turns around it, and it turns around the sun - patience will be rewarded with all of time.
49
My arms are too short for this universe.
50
Life is a day visitor between birth and death.
51
The poet uses imagination to bring us reality
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To be, art, conceived in the womb of reality, must be born into the universe of imagination.
53
In this land there are so many with so little that very little can make a difference to so many
54
To own is a burden; not to own even more so.
55
Don't bring your eye to the camera, bring your soul.
56
Words are to poets what opium is to the people.
57
We are all hedonists, we differ only in what we believe would please us.
58
Responsible hedonism - an oxymoron that should be a motto
59
Wisdom grows not on the tongue and the lips but in the eyes and the ears
60
Money makes the world go in circles
61
There's a novel in every human, although often in a foreign language.
62
The tools of the visual arts include shape, colour,
texture, dimension; the tools of music include tone, pitch, dynamics,
silence; the wordsmith has only
the few words humanity brought into the universe.
63
Whether through god or the butterfly, how anxious we are to decline the exhilarating burden of individual freedom
64
Cloud is made of poets' skin
65
They go from capitalist to corpse, they do not pass being, they do not collect life
66
Language perfected the Lie
67
Until a partner has farted in your bed you cannot claim to have loved.
68
Addiction is flight; passion is pursuit
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Ancient man slaughtered beasts to hide his nakedness; religious man slaughtered reason to hide himself
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Few amongst us should, upon reflection, lament more what we have done than what we have not done.
71
It is only on the very cusp of birth and in the exact moment of death that we brush with the true universality of being human.
72
Faith is dumbing down to god
73
Since I did not pre-exist myself, I was not lucky to be plucked from the unknown.. I AM that luck.
74
The unknown is the mother of all gods.
75
Don't run so fast that you can't feel the wind.
76
Where in 'work hard play hard' is the wonder of softness?
77
Just as the uncomprehending elephant prods her lifeless calf, my awareness probes my dying body.
78
In love there is one thing worse than a pack of lies - a pact of lies.
79
Passion is the crazy road to life; caution the tedious road to death.
80
The absolute corollary of self-awareness is loneliness.
81
Age feeds off our bodies like an invincible parasite
82
Love unwanted is exile from self.
83
This old dog hangs from my soul like skin from a dying man
84
Infatuation ebbs and flows with the tide; love survives in the beauty, the terror, and the deep mystery of the ocean.
85
I escaped father christmas & easter bunny fairly early, god soon after; apartheid took me longer, because that was real.
86
It's sobering how in every human body there lurks a human being
87
There is one problem about reason - it has an identical twin, unreason, and they squat together in the skull.
88
We look at lost memories with the empty eyes of orphans
89
Better the human you know than the angel you don't
90
Turn your nose into the winds that carry the scent of flowers
91
The difference between reality and irreality, sanity and insanity, often is only perspective
92
Energise with your gut; execute with your head
93
Unhappines is always framed in joy, happines is in sadness - only, we never see the frame.
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In reality the stakes are so much higher, as are the rewards
95
It can be easier to live with the art than the artist
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Even a boy can reason, only a man can feel
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