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buffleheadcabin
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Yo-Yo Ma - Bach Six Cello Suites - BBC Proms 2015

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(interview just past the end of the first hour)
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ah

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Out of every one hundred men, ten shouldn’t even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior, and he will bring the others back.

—Heraclitus
Fragments

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subcognition
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attractive to the eye, soothing to the smell

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cutie

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re(pair

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cutie

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fishing with a straight hook

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question

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Are we not at peace in the interval when one thought ceases and another does not yet arise?


—Ramana Maharshi

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Whenever you entrust your heart to a thought,

something will be taken from you inwardly

Whatever you think and acquire, the thief will

enter from that side where you feel safe

So busy yourself with that which is better, so

that something less may be taken from you.


—Rumi
Mathnawi II:1505-1507

William Chittick version

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the parable of the equal hearts

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Once there were two lovers that had equal hearts.

One would pursue one,
the other would pursue the other.

Then the angels looked down and said:
“What a waste,” and made them perceive each other.
Their hearts melted into one.

They had no use for the world
so they leaped into the swift river.
This heart was always restless
and the only place where it had any rest at all was on the beach.

But even on the beach one said:
“I wish we’d never been made one.”
And immediately one half flew up in the sky
and the other half into the sea.
But they yearned for each other.
And when it rained the one in the sea said:
“This is a message from my other half in the sky.”
And when the water was evaporated from the ocean and rose
up, the other said:
“This is a message from my other half in the sea.”

The angels were stumped.
There’s one thing that God is not able to endure –
a suffering heart.
He felt one half in the sky and one half in the sea.

God thought what to do.
So the one in the sky fell down into the sea
and immediately both turned to sea water.
Ever since that time when the water is drawn up from the sea
and it rains this is not an ordinary rain. It’s the rain
that affects people and softens them.
I painted a painting called This Rain.


—Agnes Martin
the parable of the equal hearts

—Agnes Martin
This Rain, 1960 Oil on canvas

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listen

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3:30, sigh ...
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needful things

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Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal; but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal.

–Jesus of Nazareth
Matthew 6.19-20

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