Praise the mutilated word

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke


The unknown is an abstraction; the known, a desert; but what is half-known, half-seen, is the perfect breeding ground for desire and hallucination


...taking midnight out of our pockets, we shall light a fire


There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm


Identity is gradual, cumulative; because there is no need for it to manifest itself, it shows itself intermittently, the way a star hints at the pulse of its being by means of its flickering light. But at what moment in this oscillation is our true self manifested? In the darkness or the twinkle?


Praise the mutilated world


If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idlehttp://butdoesitfloat.com/Praise-the-mutilated-world

The Tsar's finger

http://bigthink.com/strange-maps/580-the-legend-of-the-tsars-finger

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R Kelly . . .

Trapped in the Closet ch 1

cute

http://www.funnyfoodart.com/

Get lost

lost lectures

Hope

Obama's reelection victory speech 2012

"I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting."

Words

You have no enemies, you have no friends, you only have teachers.

In the particular lies the universal.

here.

Invocation to Patanjali

yogena cittasya padenaa vacam

To purify the mind, the consciousness (citta), Patanjali gave the science of yoga (yogena) to us. To purify our use of words (pada) and speech (vaca), he gave commentary on grammar to us, so that our use of words and way of speaking is clarified, distinct and pure.

malam sarirasya ca vaidyakena 

To remove the impurities (malam) of the body (sairira), he gave us the science of medicine (vaidyakena).

yopakarottam pravaram muninam 

Let me go near the one who has given these things to us.

patanjalim pranjalir anato'smi

Let me bow down (anato'smi) my head with my folded hands (pranjalir) to Lord Patanjali.

[In order to meditate on the Patanjali's work we are then given his form]

aahu purusakaram 

From the hand up to the head he has the shape (karam) of a human (purusa).

sankha cakarasi dharinam 

In his hand he is holding the conch (sankha) and the dosc (cakra). 

sahasra sirasam svetam

On top of his head (sirsam) [because he is the incarnation of Adishesha, the greatest cobra] he has a thousand (sahasra) bright/white (svetam) hoods of the cobra.

pranamami patanjalim

I bow down to that Patanjali. 

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