Painting on paper, 20 x 20 cm: Ambiguous impulses for your mental cinema!
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@vigocarpathian This is not only wonderful practical advice, but inspiring - thank you!
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Oh, oh, do this one next:
"My life has a superb cast, but I cannot figure out the plot.”
― Ashleigh Brilliant
“A journal — any writing — is a chance at immortality, or if not eternal life, at least a little more life, a little more after death” (Elisa Gabbert, 'Any Person is the Only Self,' pp. 102f).
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Photography: Self portrait, March 2025
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A quotation from Marcus Aurelius
We were born for cooperation, like feet, like hands, like eyelids, like the rows of upper and lower teeth. So to work against each other is contrary to nature; and resentment and rejection count as working against someone.
[γεγόναμεν γὰρ πρὸς συνεργίαν ὡς πόδες, ὡς χεῖρες, ὡς βλέφαρα, ὡς οἱ στοῖχοι τῶν ἄνω καὶ κάτω ὀδόντων. τὸ οὖν ἀντιπράσσειν ἀλλήλοις παρὰ φύσιν: ἀντιπρακτικὸν δὲ τὸ ἀγανακτεῖν καὶ ἀποστρέφεσθαι.]
Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 2, ch. 1 (2.1) [tr. Gill (2013)]
Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/7491…
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I have to tell you, buddy
Every time I think about abstract concepts in depth I eventually feel like I go full circle and end up where I started. Like one of these impossible geometry drawings by Escher. Often I don't really come to a satisfying conclusion beyond: "shit's complex and fucked up".
While I am keenly aware of the fact that my own cognition imposes limits on the degree of my understanding - that is the complexity of mental models I can realistically draft up and employ to make sense of the world - I cannot help but wonder if this circular nature of reasoning is somehow symptomatic of some fundamental laws of nature. An expression of some circular property of reality. The carousel goes around and round and round and round. Get on for another round!
@stk
To block or not to block,
Man... Even 1980s Monty Python know what up.
life is either
inherently worth living
or not at all
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Still on the fence :/
Bonus points for black-and-white thinking.
Sometimes it's important to focus on the big questions. The big picture. The things that really matter and define life in this big, beautiful world.
Questions such as...
Why TF is the Tooheys jingle stuck in my head?
A quotation from Thoreau, Henry David:
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Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still. Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
»
Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/72667/
Galaxy Song
a song written by Eric Idle and John Du Prez
from ‘Monty Python's 1983 film ‘The Meaning of Life’
Create Your Own Meaning!
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“The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.” — Joseph Campbell 
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Life is what you make of it! Embrace your journey and define your purpose.
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Focus on what brings you joy, fulfillment, and connection. Remember, every moment is an opportunity to create meaning in your life! 
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@Melissabeartrix guess it is kinda inevitable #weekend #meaningoflife
There was the sound of faint footsteps far away in the darkness. They approached, slowly and deliberately. And stopped. A voice said: One. One. One, two. One, two. Then the footsteps went back into the distance. Another voice said: One, two, three, four— And the universe came into being. Matter exploded into being, apparently as chaos, but in fact as a chord. This had shape. It had rhythm. It had a beat, and you could dance to it.
Everything did.
T. Pratchett
