August 2011
12 posts
“I learned there isn’t a neutral gear in relationships. You’re either working on moving forwards or you’re slipping back. I used to think of people pretty much as independent individuals in control of their own destinies - sort of determining what happened to them largely by free will. And now, I see families as organisms and think much more in a vertical direction. Some behaviour, particularly in relationships, is stuff that you learn and that you inherit. There’s a great Kenneth Tynan phrase I used in one song that didn’t make it onto the album: ‘We seek the teeth to match our wounds.’ If you’re born in a cage, you yearn for the cage. But you can grow past that. One image I like is that you’re on a boat drifting towards the rocks, and you can be in two positions. You can be downstairs bitching about the weather and the captain and the ship, or you can be at the helm, with the wheel in your hand. Once you accept the responsibility of having got yourself in that situation, that automatically gives you the power to get out of it, if you so choose.”
—Peter Gabriel
No Fear
I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain-Frank Herbert, Dune Series
“The human race will begin solving its problems on the day that it ceases taking itself so seriously.”
—The Principia Discordia (via discordianquotes)
(That's When I Reach for My) Revolver
Mission of Burma
Right now, this song would be appropriate as my theme song.
“If you really want to make Eris laugh, make plans.”
—The Book of Eris (via discordianquotes)
