the sunny point of view

A boat adorned and decked sails out for mountains oh
and there begins maneuvers with heavy-to, heavy -ho

Weighs anchor by a pine tree groove and takes abroad
a cargo of fresh mountain air at lee and port

She's made of blackest stone, she's made of flimsy dream
her boatswain is naive, her sailors plot and scheme

She's come from the deep depths of ancient bygone times
and here unloads her troubles and her trembling sighs.

O come my lord and Jesus, I speak and am struck daft
on such o loony vessel on such a crazy craft

We 've sailed for years on end, and still we' ve kept afloat
we 've changed a thousand skippers on this balmy boat

We never paid the slightest heed to cataclysms
but plunged headlong in everything with optimisms

And high up on our lookout mast we keep for sentry one
who ever and on remain our Sun and Sovereign Sun!


- The Crazy Boat (Odysseas Elytis, from "The Sovereign Sun", trans. Kimon Friar)

a way of understanding, forces that shape our lives

It's said that the West was built on legends
and that legends are a way of understanding
things greater than ourselves;
forces that shape our lives,
events that defy explanation,
individuals whose lives soar to the heavens
or fall to the earth.

This is how legends are born.

Ghost Rider (2007)

sooner or later this ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces

We’ve arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements -- transportation, communication, and all other industries; agriculture, medicine, education, entertainment, protecting the environment; and even the key democratic institution of voting -- profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things, so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for awhile, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

- Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

Zusammenfliessen von Strömen

Unser kreativer Geist erschafft mit unseren Emotionen die Welt in der wir leben aus den potentiellen Welten unserer Wahrnehmung.

- Katerina V. Bruch

not my business, human beings are like that

I'm sorry but I don't want to be an emperor.
That's not my business.
I don't want to rule or conquer anyone.
I should like to help everyone:
Jew, gentile, black man, white.
We all want to help one another.
Human beings are like that.
We want to live by each other's happiness, not misery.
We don't want to hate one another.
In this world, the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone.
The way of life can be free and beautiful but we have lost the way.
Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into bloodshed.
We have developed speed but have shut ourselves in.
Machinery has left us in want.
Our knowledge has made us cynical, our cleverness, hard and unkind.
We think too much and feel too little.
More than machinery we need humanity.
More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness.
Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost...
The aeroplane and radio have brought us closer.
These inventions cry out for the goodness in man, cry out for universal brotherhood, for the unity of us all.
Even now my voice is reaching millions, millions of despairing men, women and children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people.
To those who can hear me I say, do not despair.
The misery upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress.
The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took will return to the people.
So long as men die liberty will never perish.
Soldiers, don't give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you, enslave you, regiment your lives, tell you what to think and feel, who drill you, treat you like cattle and use you as cannon fodder.
Don't give yourselves to these men, machine men with machine minds and machine hearts.
You are not machines, you are not cattle, you are men!
You have the love of humanity in you.
Don't hate.
Only the unloved and the unnatural hate.
Soldiers, don't fight for slavery, fight for liberty!
St Luke says, "The Kingdom of God is within man."
Not in one man nor a group of men, but in all men.
In you!
You have the power to create machines, the power to create happiness.
You have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.

In the name of democracy, let us use that power.
...


- The Great Dictator (1940)

the knowable core

Dr. Zimsky: For here in the great infinite unknowable man can come to know the most important thing of all; himself.
He can understand...

What the fuck am I doing?
(burst of laughter)


- The Core (2003)

Pantopia meets martial arts: The Art of Peace

Y: What could have been the alternative to the slaughter of Ulysses on his return in order to bring back balance?

Mahatma Gandhi: Non-violent refusal to cooperate with injustice is the way to defeat it. You see, we must not hate the British, for they have not taken India from us. We have given it to them.

César E. Chávez: I perfectly agree with Mr. Gandhi. Furthermore non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak. Non-violence is hard work. It is the willingness to sacrifice. It is the patience to win.

Y: It probably takes a lot of conciousness and deep understanding of realities to be able to deal with severe situations.