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Frantisek Formanek
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The early-November day is foggy and colorless. The sky and the street are the same color. The trees look skeletal. There is bright wet wadded litter all along the seams of street and curb. The houses are skinny three-deckers, mashed
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DFW can be so marvelously poetic at times w/o being overly sentimental.
“Tady jsou paláce, — tady podkroví,
tady jsou sytí, — tady hladoví,
jedni jsou otroci, — druzí diktátoři
a všichni jsou choří.
Svět je jak srdce kulatý
a je-li do půle rozťatý,
— umírá”
― Těžká hodina
tady jsou sytí, — tady hladoví,
jedni jsou otroci, — druzí diktátoři
a všichni jsou choří.
Svět je jak srdce kulatý
a je-li do půle rozťatý,
— umírá”
― Těžká hodina
“Mostly I have felt myself becoming a servant of sadness. I am still looking for the beauty in that.”
― Bluets
― Bluets
“Little solace comes
to those who grieve
when thoughts keep drifting
as walls keep shifting
and this great blue world of ours
seems a house of leaves
moments before the wind.”
― House of Leaves
to those who grieve
when thoughts keep drifting
as walls keep shifting
and this great blue world of ours
seems a house of leaves
moments before the wind.”
― House of Leaves
“We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.”
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“We all want expanded consciousness and bliss. It's a natural, human desire. And a lot of people look for it in drugs. But the problem is that the body, the physiology, takes a hard hit on drugs. Drugs injure the nervous system, so they just make it harder to get those experiences on your own.
I have smoked marijuana, but I no longer do. I went to art school in the 1960s, so you can imagine what was going on. Yet my friends were the ones who said, "No, no, no, David, don't you take those drugs." I was pretty lucky.
Besides, far more profound experiences are available naturally. When your consciousness stars expanding, those experiences are there. All those things can be seen. It's just a matter of expanding that ball of consciousness. And the ball of consciousness can expand to be infinite and unbounded. It's totality. You can have totality. So all those experiences are there for you, without the side effects of drugs.”
― Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity
I have smoked marijuana, but I no longer do. I went to art school in the 1960s, so you can imagine what was going on. Yet my friends were the ones who said, "No, no, no, David, don't you take those drugs." I was pretty lucky.
Besides, far more profound experiences are available naturally. When your consciousness stars expanding, those experiences are there. All those things can be seen. It's just a matter of expanding that ball of consciousness. And the ball of consciousness can expand to be infinite and unbounded. It's totality. You can have totality. So all those experiences are there for you, without the side effects of drugs.”
― Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity
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