"…The Outsider is doubly a rebel: a rebel against the Established Church, a rebel against the unestablished church of materialism. Yet for all this, he is the real spiritual heir of the prophets…The purest religion of any age lies in the hands of its spiritual rebels. The twentieth century is no exception." ~ Colin Wilson
Art
Eternal.
It is and will always be what you say, what you write and what art you actually create that truly matters the most. Popularity doesn't determine your worth and the followers will always come & go looking for the next big thing. That's the unfortunate side effect of too much mass media. People not noticing … Continue reading Eternal.
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Poetry Must Be …
Poetry http://www.gentlemanoutsider.com
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On Truth, Life & Writing
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Picasso’s Poetry
whisper the shiver of hands blind without memory and so, friendly still yet sweet like the words forgotten to the tremble of lips quiet there are no surprises here rest your eyelids until they become stone rest your heart until it stops (it beats now only for itself in some secret place) http://www.cipherjournal.com/html/picasso_poems.html
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“In a life properly lived, you’re a river. You touch things lightly or deeply; you move along because life herself moves, and you can’t stop it; you can’t figure out a banal game plan applicable to all situations; you just have to go with the “beingness” of life, as Rilke would have it.” ~ Jim … Continue reading
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Mission
The world has been lost. Gone into the unnamed void. We drink our coffee, put on our coats and go to work and sense that something is missing, aware something is no longer there. We have changed. We have forgotten who we are. Or maybe this is just the beginning of becoming, the transformation of … Continue reading Mission
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Be Visionary
The Visionary …All men should possess a ‘visionary faculty’. Men do not, because they live wrongly. They live too tensely, under too much strain, ‘getting and spending’. But this loss of the visionary faculty is not entirely man’s fault, it is partly the fault of the world he lives in, that demands that men should … Continue reading Be Visionary
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No Matter
No matter how hard you study, if you do not become one with the art you pursue you can never truly be one with the universe and the spirit of the thing itself will always elude you. You must have extraordinary passion, patience, and self discipline to make the journey alone. ~ Miyamoto … Continue reading No Matter
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“We grow in direct proportion to the amount of chaos we can sustain and dissipate.” ~ Ilya Prigogine
R.M. ENGELHARDT 