Fuliyama Dancer

Bizim kampüsün yeni bebişleri.... Thanks to Alessandro

You never remain with any feeling, pure and simple, but always surround it with the paraphernalia of words. The word distorts it; thought, whirling round it, throws it into shadow, overpowers it with mountainous fears and longings. You never remain with a feeling, and with nothing else: with hate, or with that strange feeling of beauty. When the feeling of hate arises, you say how bad it is; there is the compulsion, the struggle to overcome it, the turmoil of thought about it... Try remaining with the feeling of hate, with the feeling of envy, jealousy, with the venom of ambition; for after all, that's what you have in daily life, though you may want to live with love, or with the word love. Since you have the feeling of hate, of wanting to hurt somebody with a gesture or a burning word, see if you can stay with that feeling. Can you? Have you ever tried? Try to remain with a feeling, and see what happens. You will find it amazingly difficult. Your mind will not leave the feeling a...

To demand what we don't have is to waste what we do have. KEN KEYES

One Must Have Great Feelings In the modern world where there are so many problems, one is apt to lose great feeling. I mean by that word feeling, not sentiment, not emotionalism, not mere excitement, but that quality of perception, the quality of hearing, listening, the quality of feeling, a bird singing on a tree, the movement of a leaf in the sun. To feel things greatly, deeply, penetratingly, is very difficult for most of us because we have so many problems. Whatever we seem to touch turns into a problem. And, apparently, there is no end to man's problems, and he seems utterly incapable of resolving them because the more the problems exist, the less the feelings become. I mean by "feeling" the appreciation of the curve of a branch, the squalor, the dirt on the road, to be sensitive to the sorrow of another, to be in a state of ecstasy when we see a sunset. These are not sentiments, these are not mere emotions. Emotion and sentiment or sentimentality turn to cruelty, th...

Özgürlük, insanın yalnızca kendi irade gücünü ortaya koyması, onu gerçekleştirmesi değildir. Özgürlük daha çok bizim başkalarının varlığını tasarlayabilme gücümüz, başkasını, başkası olarak kabul edebilme yeteneğimizdir. Iris Murdoch

Truly it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then the light is nearest of all to us. Meister Eckhart thanks to Ben for this contribution

Today everyone went out to see this rare event. In front of our department, they took this photograph of the sun getting slowly dark..and looking more like the moon... .