PHOTOGRAPHY isn’t a matter of taking pictures. It’s a matter of having an eye.
THE SECRET OF PHOTOGRAPHY is, the camera takes on the personality and the character of the handler. The mind works on the machine–through it, rather. WALKER EVANS
IN EVERY RELIGION THERE IS LOVE, YET LOVE HAS NO RELIGION. RUMI
THE POET IS A MADMAN LOST IN ADVENTURE.
TEARS FALL IN MY HEART LIKE THE RAIN ON THE TOWN.
Paul Verlaine
TO BE YOURSELF IN A WORLD
THAT IS CONSTANTLY TRYING TO MAKE
YOU SOMETHING ELSE
IS THE GREATEST ACCOMPLISHMENT. Ralph Waldo Emerson
THE ANIMA AND ANIMUS SHOULD FUNCTION AS A BRIDGE, OR A DOOR, LEADING TO THE IMAGES OF THE COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS, AS THE PERSONA SHOULD BE A SORT OF BRIDGE INTO THE WORLD. Carl Jung
EMANUEL SWENDENBORG 1688-1772-“Heaven and Hell”-“The Delights of Wisdom”–“The True Christian”—“Apocalypse Explained”
CONSCIENCE IS GOD’S PRESENCE IN HUMANS.
HEAVEN is not located on high but where the God of love is and this resides within a person, wherever he or she might be.
KINDNESS is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think.
WORSHIP DOES NOT CONSIST IN PRAYERS AND IN EXTERNAL DEVOTION, BUT IN A LIFE OF KINDNESS.
THIS I CAN DECLARE: things that are in heaven are more real than things that are in the world.
AL GORE 1948–VICE PRESIDENT–“An Inconvenient Truth”.
WE’RE OPERATING THIS PLANET LIKE A BUSINESS IN LIQUIDATION.
WHEN FEAR DISPLACES REASON, the result is often irrational hatred & division
EVERY NATION HAS A MORAL OBLIGATION TO SAFEGUARD THE FUTURE.
G.I.GURDJIEFF 1866-1949-“Meetings With Remarkable Men””In Search of Being”
IF YOU HELP OTHERS, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years but you will be helped. Nature must pay off the debt. It is a mathematical law and all life is mathematics.
TO SPEAK THE TRUTH is the most difficult thing in the world; one must study a great deal and for a long time in order to speak then truth. The wish alone is not enough. To speak the truth one must know what the truth is and what a lie is and first of all in oneself. And this nobody wants to know.
YOU CAN NEVER AWAKEN using the same system that put you to sleep in the first place.
IF we knew what a number of people are actually dead & what number of these people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.
AWAKENING begins when a man realizes that he s going nowhere and does not know where to go.
THE CROWD neither wants nor seeks knowledge and the leaders of the crowd, in their own interests, try to strengthen its fear and dislike of everything new and unknown. The slavery in which makind lives is based upon this fear.
CONSCIOUS FAITH IS FREEDOM.
EMOTIONAL FAITH IS SLAVERY.
MECHANICAL FAITH IS FOOLISHNESS.
MILAN KUNDERA1929-2023 “The Unbeable Lightness of Being””Laughable Loves””IMMORTALITY” “The Book of Laughter and Forgetting””The Joke”.
WHEN THE HEART SPEAKS, THE MIND FINDS IT INDECENT TO OBJECT.
THE WORST THING IS NOT THAT THE WORLD IS UNFREE but that people have unlearned their liberty.
THE SOURCE OF FEAR is in the future & a person freed of the future has nothing to fear.
TO LAUGH IS TO LIVE PROFOUNDLY.
OPTIMISM IS THE OPIUM OF THE PEOPLE.
THE STUPIDITY of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.
PEOPLE are always shouting they want to create a better future. It’s not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.
THERE is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments & most of the time we are ageless.
THE GREEK WORD for “return” is nostos. Lagos means “suffering.” So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.
MODERN STUPIDITY means not ignorance but the nonthought of received ideas.
BEAUTY IS A REBELLION AGAINST TIME.
A MAN IS RESPONSIBLE FOR HIS IGNORANCE.
THE SOURCE OF ANXIETY lies in the future. If you can keep the future out of mind, you can forget your worries.
MEMORY DOES NOT MAKE FILMS — IT MAKES PHOTOGRAPHS.
IN THE REALM of totalitarian kitsch all answers are given in advance & preclude any questions.
THE WORTH of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in & for other people.
LOVE is a continual interrogation. I don’t know of a better definition of love.
MERELY by being born intelligent, you right away find yourself in absolute exile.
YES, IF YOU’RE LOOKING FFOR INFINITY, JUST CLOSE YOUR EYES.
THE STRUGGLE of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
HAPPINESS IS THE LONGING FOR REPETITION.