An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. 


Martin Luther King, Jr. 

posted 7 months ago

You’re obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd.  You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation.  It is that permanent contradiction between your ideas and desires and all the dead formalities and vain pretenses of your civilization which makes you sad, troubled and unbalanced.  In that intolerable conflict you lose all joy of life and all feeling of personality, because at every moment they suppress and restrain and check the free play of your powers.  That’s the poisoned and mortal wound of the civilized world.  

posted 8 months ago

Quietly, like a night bird, floating, soaring, wingless
We glide from shore to shore, curving and falling
but not quite touching;
Earth: a distant memory seen in an instant of repose,
crescent shaped, ethereal, beautiful,
I wonder which part is home, but I know it doesn’t matter …
the bond is there in my mind and memory;
Earth: a small, bubbly balloon hanging delicately
in the nothingness of space

Alfred M. Worden

Apollo 15 Astronaut