December 2011
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November 2011
“Discernment requires mindfulness — of our abilities and weaknesses, of eternity...”
– God’s Longing for Us Fulfilled in Discernment
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“The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening...”
– John Berger, Ways of Seeing (via mythologyofblue)
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“The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition… always new books, new...”
– Roland Barthes (via asoapimpressionofhiswife)
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Crush Point →
Crowds are a condition of urban life. On subways and sidewalks, in elevators and stores, we pass in and out of them in the course of a day, without pausing to consider by what mechanisms our brains guide us through so easily, rarely touching so much as a stranger’s shoulder. Crowds are often viewed as a necessary inconvenience of city living, but there are occasions when we gladly join them,...
