“It’s like swimming across a river with our eyes closed, this passage through the center of our life. Sometimes we have to navigate from the inside out – when the stars hide their light when we cannot see the bank on the other side, when the hounds of our past bark on the shoreline braying their mournful song at our leaving.” ~Laura Weaver Posted on June 12, 2013 by underthebluedoor Posted in Art, General, Poetry, Quotes 2 Comments Artwork by Christian Schloe Source: Dreamwork with Toko-pa
“Maybe the mind is waiting for you to choose FREEDOM so that it can have a rest.” ~Mooji Posted on June 11, 2013 by underthebluedoor Posted in Art, Check It Out, General, Quotes 1 Comment
“The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible.” ~ William S. Burroughs Posted on June 11, 2013 by underthebluedoor Posted in Art, General, Quotes 1 Comment
“Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can’t afford the time to think. Tuition fee increases are a “disciplinary technique,” and by the time students graduate, they are not only loaded with debt, but have also internalized the disciplinarian culture. This makes them efficient components of the consumer economy.” ~Noam Chomsky Posted on June 10, 2013 by underthebluedoor Posted in General, Protest, Quotes, Truth 5 Comments
“We often forget that we are nature. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we’ve lost our connection to ourselves.” ~Andy Goldsworthy Posted on June 10, 2013 by underthebluedoor Posted in Art, General, Quotes 1 Comment
“It does not take a majority to prevail… but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.” ~Samuel Adams Posted on June 10, 2013 by underthebluedoor Posted in Check It Out, General, Quotes, Street Art Leave a comment
“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.” ~ Rumi Posted on June 8, 2013 by underthebluedoor Posted in Art, General, Poetry, Quotes Leave a comment
“Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.” ~Oscar Wilde Posted on June 8, 2013 by underthebluedoor Posted in Art, General, Quotes Leave a comment
“Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.” ~Peace Pilgrim Posted on June 8, 2013 by underthebluedoor Posted in Art, Check It Out, General, Quotes 2 Comments
“The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.” ~Malcolm X Posted on June 7, 2013 by underthebluedoor Posted in Art, General, Quotes, Truth Leave a comment Turn it off and free your mind. “If you don’t control your mind, someone else will.” ~John Allston