"You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet."
-Franz Kafka
-Franz Kafka
Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
Henry Rollins (via kari-shma)
It was getting hard to keep all the things I didn’t know inside me.
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer (via creatingaquietmind)
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One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
Jack Kerouac, Dharma Burns (via girlwithoutwings)
FDR was right: ‘The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.’ More so than any terror threat, it is the fear mongering about national security that presents the greatest danger to our Republic’s future. No ‘home of the brave’ would be brow-beaten by fears of ‘giving rights to terrorists’ into resigning its own rights, inviting repression upon itself by allowing government powers long used to define authoritarianism. Welcome to the U.S. House of Representatives! Is it too generous to say that democracy in America hangs by a thread?
Shahid Buttar, Congress cans the Constitution, as Chicago police abduct activists
The failures of Congress, or for that matter the (to quote…ahem…Sarah Palin) “lamestream press” to pay any heed to these myriad [transpartisan] voices [of dissent against the NDAA] suggests a process problem even beyond military detention. If our elected leaders are beholden to executive power and hellbent on eroding the judiciary’s (and their own) ability to check future abuses, does it even matter what We the People do?
It’s a bit like watching a Republic fall apart at the seams, in slow motion.
(via theamericanbear)
