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The virtues of free enterprise can become distorted by greed & delusion. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#business #compassion-love #finance #mindfulness #occupy

Seeking is endless. It never comes to a state of rest; it never ceases. ↗

— Sharon Salzberg

#mindfulness #art

Nothing is as it seems, but something is everything it is made out to be. ↗

— Carroll Bryant

#philosophy #philosophy-of-life #thinkers #thinking #life

One of the best ways to support the development of patience is to cultivate happiness with yourself. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#mindfulness #psychology #wisdom #art

Any methodology for developing patience requires a multi-tiered approach. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#patience #psychology #spirituality #art

Chivalry, stimulating conversations, everything is said to be a lost art nowadays. But nothing is a lost art, unless it’s a sunken statue—in a river of lava. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#chivalry #conversations #stimulation #art

Gormenghast. Withdrawn and ruinous it broods in umbra: the immemorial masonry: the towers, the tracts. Is all corroding? No. Through an avenue of spires a zephyr floats; a bird whistles; a freshet beats away from a choked river. Deep in a fist of stone a doll's hand wriggles, warm rebellious on the frozen palm. A shadow shifts its length. A spider stirs... And darkness winds between the characters. - Gormenghast ↗

— Mervyn Peake

#classic #gormenghast #gothic #literature #art

Internet, jogos de video, computadores, são úteis, mas tâm destruído algo inviolável: a infância. Onde está o prazer do silência? Onde está a arte da observação? Onde está a inocência? Angustia-me que o sistema esteja a gerar crianças insatisfeitas e ansiosas. Fortes candidatas a serem doentes psiquiátricos e não seres humanos felizes e livres. ↗

— Augusto Cury

#art

An artist is the magician put among men to gratify--capriciously--their urge for immortality. The temples are built and brought down around him, continuously and contiguously, from Troy to the fields of Flanders. If there is any meaning in any of it, it is in what survives as art, yes even in the celebration of tyrants, yes even in the celebration of nonentities. What now of the Trojan War if it had been passed over by the artist's touch? Dust. A forgotten expedition prompted by Greek merchants looking for new markets. A minor redistribution of broken pots. But it is we who stand enriched, by a tale of heroes, of a golden apple, a wooden horse, a face that launched a thousand ships--and above all, of Ulysses, the wanderer, the most human, the most complete of all heroes--husband, father, son, lover, farmer, soldier, pacifist, politician, inventor and adventurer... ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#history #literature #art

Mysticism is the art of union with Reality. ↗

— Evelyn Underhill

#mysticism #art