My next “project” will be to watch as many Kurosawa’s movies as I can.
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“You are rowing a boat across a big lake. It’s a beautiful day and you are going to meet a friend for lunch, and you are rowing very hard. Then out of the blue another boat hits you from behind. Immediately, you whirl around, enraged and ready to lash out at whomever hit you, but you see the boat is empty. What happens to your anger? Your anger dissolves. As soon as you see there is no one to blame, your anger dissolves. That’s what are lives are like; no matter where we are or what we are doing, there is no one to blame for our unhappiness. It’s our own reactions to people and circumstances that make us unhappy.”
(Source: imaginewerenotreal, via fuckyeahexistentialism)
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The Four Noble Truths:
- There is suffering.
- There is a cause to suffering.
- There is an end to suffering.
- The is a path out of suffering
"Pain is strange. A cat killing a bird, a car accident, a fire…. Pain arrives, BANG, and there it is, it sits on you. It’s real. And to anybody watching, you look foolish. Like you’ve suddenly become an idiot. There’s no cure for it unless you know somebody who understands how you feel, and knows how to help."
Charles Bukowski (via fuckyeahbukowski)
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The beautiful is hidden from the eyes of those who are not searching for the truth, for whom it is contra-indicated. But the profound lack of spirituality of those people who see art and condemn it, the fact that they are neither willing or ready to consider the meaning and aim of their existence in any higher sense, is often masked by the vulgarly simplistic cry, ‘I don’t like it!’ ‘It’s boring!’ It is not a point that one can argue; but it is like the utterance of a man born blind who is being told about a rainbow. He simply remains deaf to the pain undergone by the artist in order to share with others the truth he has reached.
Andrei Tarkovsky.
For Camus, the beauty which people encounter in life makes it worth living. People may create meaning in their own lives, which may not be the objective meaning of life, but can still provide something for which to strive. However, he insisted that one must always maintain an ironic distance between this invented meaning and the knowledge of the absurd, lest the fictitious meaning take the place of the absurd
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