((For none of us can ever express the exact measure of his needs or his thoughts or his sorrows, and human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.)) Flaubert!
Hello friendssss
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Jordan Elizabeth Dependahl
[Baltimore / Brooklyn,NY]
24 and glad
>>>>>>>
Here for:
writing/snapping
and...heartattacking?
whilst obtaining my MFA
from THE New School.
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In An Effort To:
record daily notables
& the boring in betweens.
weeee
A purely mental life may be destructive if it leads us to substitute thought for life and ideas for actions. The activity proper to man is not purely mental because man is not just a disembodied mind. Our destiny is to live out what we think, because unless we live what we know, we do not even know it. It is only by making our knowledge part of ourselves, through action, that we enter into the reality that is signified by our concepts.
again.
(Source: sweetasahoneybeehive, via southstreetcollective)
The fruitfulness of our lives depends in large measure in our ability to doubt our own words and to question the value of our own work. The man who completely trusts his own estimate of himself is doomed to sterility.
Merton. again.
The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men! A weird life it is, indeed, to be living always in somebody else’s imagination, as if that were the only place in which one could at last become real.
The Seven Storey Mountain
Thomas Merton
