"When you are aware, you see the whole process of your thinking and action; but it can happen only when there is no condemnation. When I condemn something, I do not understand it, and it is one way of avoiding any kind of understanding. I think most of us do that purposely; we condemn immediately and we think we have understood. If we do not condemn but regard it, are aware of it, then the content, the significance of that action begins to open up. Experiment with this and you will see for yourself. Just be aware - without any sense of justification - which may appear rather negative but is not negative. On the contrary, it has the quality of passivity which is direct action; and you will discover this, if you experiment with it."
- Jiddu Krishnamurti (via illuminatedbeing)
(via marcegalactica)
"He might have been naive, but he didn’t care; he said he’d rather die with his heart on his sleeve than end up another cynic."
- Let The Great World Spin, Colum McCann (via wrists)
"I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It’s nice."
- The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger (via weepling)
(Source: lifeoverdoes, via wrists)
"When a writer turns up in his own fiction it is often to pose questions about the arbitrariness and artificiality of narrative. That doesn’t seem to be the main focus of Coetzee’s interest here. It is more, perhaps, a question of ethics, touching on the morality of making people up, and then devising trials and torments for them, designed to expose and test their deficiencies. (…) Slow Man does not drag; but it is specialized in its interest, and a reader who is not interested in the problems of writing fiction may find the novel dry.” - John Lanchester, The New York Review of Books"
- http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/coetzeej/slowman.htm
"Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly."
- Franz Kafka (via trendytraveler)
(Source: misswallflower, via trendytraveler)