“Our mind is always subject to being distracted by thoughts of what happened in the past and ideas of what could happen in the future, but the living experience is what is happening NOW.” MindIdeasHappensPastHappenedSubjectsHappeningsDistracted Book:Turning the Mind Into an Ally Source: Turning the Mind Into an Ally
“I don't want to force somebody to talk about sensitive subjects if they're not into it, but at the very least, even if that's happening off camera, it's allowing everybody to be on the same level, and creates an atmosphere on set that engenders trust.” IfsWantForceLevelsSubjectsHappeningsCamerasAtmosphereSensitiveAllowing Author:Joe Swanberg
“Especially for those of us living in the Western culture, death to a large extent is still a taboo subject. It's considered something dreadful that shouldn't be happening. It's usually denied. The fact of death is not faced. What we don't realize in Western culture is that death has a redemptive dimension.” StillsFactsCultureRealizingSubjectsHappeningsWesternDimensionsDeniedTabooWestern Culture Author:Eckhart Tolle
“It's cool that we got rid of that, but we got rid of everything - the encouraging pat on the back or even a hug which I find can be acceptable in some situations. I know that it's a sensible subject and that we're trying to avoid nasty things, but [you can] have as many rules as you want, there will still be stuff happening anyway.” KnowsWantTryingStillsStuffSituationSubjectsHappeningsSensibleAcceptableHugNasty Author:Philippe Falardeau
“If you look at the end of the movie [Monsegnor Lahzar], I give a lot of space to what the spectator can also imagine of what's going to be Bachir's life afterwards. So, there's the restraint part, and there's the fact that the story is happening in the school which allowed me to tackle all these subjects without making it too didactic, because in the school everything happens.” IfsGivingLooksEndsFactsStoriesHappensSchoolSpaceImagineSubjectsHappeningsThings HappenRestraintSpectatorsDidactic Author:Philippe Falardeau
“I didn't want make art about the internet at all. It's a really hard subject to take on and I did not set out to do that. But, it was real and it was what was happening.” WantArtRealHardSubjectsInternetHappenings Author:Erika M. Anderson
“I remember being very affected by what was going on there towards the end of Apartheid. And the subject is still very pertinent, politically, to what's happening around the world today, in terms of negotiating peace talks. I had always been interested in this period of change in South Africa, generally, for a variety of reasons.” WorldStillsEndsReasonTodayRememberTermSubjectsPeriodsHappeningsSouthAround The WorldVarietyAffectedSouth AfricaWorld TodayApartheidNegotiatingPertinentPeace Talks Author:Chiwetel Ejiofor
“Basically, I'm a perpetual student. I start by finding a subject I really don't know very much, but that I'm curious about. I learn about it through books in a library, by doing interviews with people who know a lot about the subject, and by going out on my own and seeing for myself what's happening.” PeopleKnowsBookMy OwnSeeingSubjectsStudentsFindingsHappeningsLibraryCuriousInterviewsPerpetualGoing Out Author:Eric Schlosser
“To think that we are disconnected in some way serves the occupation whether it's through indifference or a distancing. It is a colonial approach of making you a subject and them the spectators. That is disturbing and counterproductive. And then suddenly they are surprised or find it alienating that the microcosmic effects of Palestine are happening in the U.S., France, and England, whether it's from the Islamic movements or immigration factors. Keeping a false purity of their countries will harm them eventually.” ThinkingWayCountrySubjectsEffectsMovementApproachHappeningsEnglandHarmImmigrationFactorsFranceIndifferencePurityIslamicOccupationPalestineSpectatorsDisturbingDisconnectedCounterproductiveFrance And England Author:Elia Suleiman
“Early British pop was helped tremendously by the writing of Bob Dylan who had proved you could write about political and quite controversial subjects. Certainly what we did followed on from what was happening with the angry young men in the theatre.” MenWritingYoungPoliticalSubjectsHappeningsAngryPopsBritishTheatreYoung ManBobDylanControversial Author:Pete Townshend
“Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy, then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness. Science fiction? It is already happening to some extent in our own society... Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed, modern society gives them antidepressant drugs. In effect, antidepressants are a means of modifying an individual's internal state in such a way as to enable him to tolerate social conditions that he would otherwise find intolerable.” PeopleWayGivingMeanStatesHappensIndividualSocialFictionImagineSocietyModernConditionsSubjectsEffectsDrugDepressionHappeningsScience FictionToleranceTerroristUnhappyInternalsRemoveUnhappinessIntoleranceTolerateDepressingMathematicianAnarchistNot HappyModern SocietySocial ConditionsUnhappy PeopleAntidepressantsModifying Author:Theodore Kaczynski
“But nirvana is a radical transformation of how it feels to be alive: it feels as if everything were myself, or as if everything---including "my" thoughts and actions---were happening of itself. There are still efforts, choices, and decisions, but not the sense that "I make them"; they arise of themselves in relation to circumstances. This is therefore to feel life, not as an encounter between subject and object, but as a polarized field where the contest of opposites has become the play of opposites.” IfsFeelsStillsPlayActionChoicesDecisionEffortAliveSubjectsFieldsObjectsCircumstancesHappeningsOppositesRelationTransformationIncludingAriseRadicalEncountersContestsMy ThoughtsThoughts And ActionsChoices And Decisions Book:Psychotherapy East & West Source: Psychotherapy East & West