The ensō is also a sacred symbol in the Zen school of Buddhism
From what I read the meaning of the enso is in giving up control of things you have no control over. When you make an ink circle on paper, you only get one try and if you don’t like the result you can’t go over it a second time because that would only end up ruining it more. You have to do your best the first time and be at peace with the result.
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“If you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling. You must write every single day of your life. You must read dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next. You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads. I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you. May you live with hysteria, and out of it make fine stories — science fiction or otherwise. Which finally means, may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.”
― Ray Bradbury
Well that’s an interesting take on things.
“I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”
(Source: howard-be-thy-name)
“People can say lots of things. It’s what they DO that will tell you everything.”
There’s nothing like marching with 200 000 people who think just like you, like going out on the Porch every night at the same time as the neighbor’s you don’t even know to make some loud noise, to make you feel like you actually might kinda like the place where you live. You other provinces should try it sometime. ;)
Took my daughter out pot-banging this evening.
almost look like an acadian tintamare
Tintamare! My neighbor hood finally joined the nightly event 2 days ago! Clang clang!
Jean-Léon Gérôme, Tête de femme coiffe de cornes de bélier étude, 1853.
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Jacques-Louis David, Napoleon Crossing the Alps
I feel like this is a GPOY
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People demonstrating support for Ai Weiwei in Hong Kong last year.
Here’s a link to a person’s Flickr page I found!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dawvon/5797584406/in/photostream/