“It's strange how deserts turn us into believers. I believe in walking in a landscape of mirages, because you learn humility. I believe in living in a land of little water because life is drawn together. And I believe in the gathering of bones as a testament to spirits that have moved on. If the desert is holy, it is because it is a forgotten place that allows us to remember the sacred. Perhaps that is why every pilgrimage to the desert is a pilgrimage to the self.” IfsBelieveLittlesSelfTogetherRememberLife IsSpiritTurnsI BelieveWaterLandHumilityStrangeWalkingHolySacredMovedForgottenI Believe InBonesBelieverDesertLandscapeTestamentGatheringPilgrimageMoved OnMiragesDrawn Together Book:Red: passion and patience in the desert Source: Red: passion and patience in the desert
“We can use doubt to self analyze. A measure of doubt can help us to attain self-honesty. But, like too much water, too much doubt will also destroy us.” SelfHelpingUseWaterDoubtToo MuchHonesty Book:How to Wish Source: How to Wish
“The existence of a medium, after all, is its absolute justification, if as so many seem to think, it needs one and all comparison of potentialities is useless and irrelevant. Whether a water-color is inferior to an oil, or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important as either, is inconsequent. To have to despise something in order to respect something else is a sign of impotence. [emphasis added] Let us rather accept joyously and with gratitude everything through which the spirit of man seeks to an ever fuller and more intense self-realization.” IfsThinkingMenNeedsImportantSelfSeemsSpiritOrderWaterExistenceAcceptingColorGratitudeAbsolutesPhotographOilDrawingIntenseSelf RealizationMediumsRealizationUselessComparisonDespiseJustificationInferiorsIrrelevantEmphasisImpotenceEtching Author:Paul Strand
“In Canada, when we speak of water, we're speaking of ourselves. Canadians are known to be unextravagant, and one explanation of this might be that we know that wasted water means a diminished collective soul; polluted waters mean a sickened soul. Water is the basis of our self-identity, and when we dream of canoes and thunderstorms and streams and even snowballs, we're dreaming about our innermost selves.” KnowsMeanSoulSelfDreamMightSpeakWaterKnownIdentityBasesExplanationStreamsCanadaCollectivesSelf IdentityThunderstormSnowball Author:Douglas Coupland
“Once you are present in the Energyfield of Self-discovery, it's like you are a piece of ice in warm water. The warm water is the Self. The ice is the mind. The warm water is not fighting with the ice. The ice can not resist the melting. It is a natural and fatal attraction.” MindSelfFightingWaterNaturalPiecesLike YouDiscoveryWarmAttractionSelf DiscoveryIceCan NotMeltingFatal Attraction Author:Mooji
“The sole work and deed of universal freedom is therefore death, a death too which has no inner significance or filling, for what is negated is the empty point of the absolutely free self. It is thus the coldest and meanest of all deaths, with no more significance than cutting off a head of cabbage or swallowing a mouthful of water.” SelfDeathWaterFreedomCuttingEnlightenmentEmptyUniversalDeedsSignificanceSoleFillingSwallowingCabbageCutting Off Book:Phenomenology of Spirit Source: Phenomenology of Spirit
“[Somali maritime violence] is a response to greedy Western nations, who invade and exploit Somalia's water resources illegally. It is not a piracy, it is self defence. It is defending the Somalia children's food.” ChildrenSelfNationsWaterViolenceResourcesResponseWesternGreedyExploitsDefencePiracySomaliaWater ResourcesSelf DefenceMaritimeSomali Author:Muammar al-Gaddafi
“Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another, it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people, and her example, her assistance, her encouragement, has thrilled two continents in this western world with all those fine impulses which have built up human liberty on sides of the water. She stands, therefore, as an example of independence, as an example of free institutions, and as an example of disinterested international action in the main tenets of justice.” PeopleIfsWorldHumansTwoSelfActionAmericaSidesWaterJusticeLibertyOne ThingExampleFineBuiltEncouragementIndependenceInstitutionsWesternInternationalImpulseContinentsAssistanceSovereigntyGoverningWestern WorldDisinterested Author:Woodrow Wilson
“Winning the men's confidence requires much of a commander. He must exercise care and caution, look after his men, live under the same hardships, and-above all- apply self discipline. But once he has their confidence, his men will follow him through hell and high water.” MenLooksSelfCareWinningWaterHellHe ManDisciplineExerciseHardshipSelf DisciplineCautionCommanders Author:Erwin Rommel
“As we begin to plan for a new human society, we need to foster common values about clean air, water, and other elements of self-sustenance. These, along with a complete inventory of Earth's resources, will form the basis for a holistic approach to cybernated decision-making.” NeedsHumansSelfEarthFormValuesWaterDecisionCommonPlansAirElementsApproachResourcesBasesCleanDecision MakingHuman SocietyHolisticSustenanceInventoryClean AirHolistic Approach Author:Jacque Fresco
“Chris Hemsworth is like Christopher Reeve in that he can do two things: he can wear a big red cape without a shred of self-consciousness. But he's also funny as hell, and he's so sweet. So with all the fish-out-of-water stuff, he's so funny. So he does almost two jobs in a way.” WayDoeTwoSelfBigsJobsStuffWaterCan DoConsciousnessHellSweetRedFishesTwo ThingsSelf ConsciousnessCapesTwo JobsFunny As Hell Author:Tom Hiddleston
“As far as the stars are from the earth, and as different as fire is from water, so much do self-interest and integrity differ.” DifferentSelfEarthStarsInterestWaterFireIntegritySelf Interest Author:Lucan