Pinned
I have felt ruthlessness in my hands and terror in my eyes. I have felt my soul burn with fire that left my skin cold to the touch. I have seen things I would never believe. But I never gave in to fear. I never lost my own will, unyielding, defiant.
Let this be a new beginning, lest death take your last chance from you.
Ernst Jünger, in a documentary telling a story about his service during WW1, during the battle of Cambrai, honoring the memory of a fallen english adversary.
Your quality of life will increase ten-fold when you learn to appreciate the sight of a little bird
i bet it feels good as fuck to erupt from the soil as a skeleton warrior
Ulan District, 070000, Kazakhstan - from Wikipedia article on Left- and right- hand traffic
Rene Guenon
The Crisis of the Modern World
No exoteric teaching is capable of providing true knowledge, which man must find only within himself, for in fact no knowledge can be acquired except through a personal comprehension. Without this comprehension, no teaching can lead to an effective result, and the teaching that awakens no personal resonance in the one who receives it cannot give any kind of knowledge. This is why Plato says that 'everything that a man learns is already within him'. All the experiences, all the external things that surround him, are only an occasion to help him become aware of what is within himself. This awakening he calls anamnesis, which signifies 'recollection'.
Know Thyself
Rene Guenon
If they told me right now to abandon all vanity and all pride, every desire and every ambition, any dearest memory of the past, the sweetest future enticement, and to live uniquely in you and for you, without any tomorrow, without any yesterday, without any other bond, without any other preference, out of the world, entirely lost in your being, forever, until death, I would not hesitate, I would not hesitate. Believe me. You have looked at me, spoken with me, and smiled and answered; you have sat beside me, and you have been silent and thought; and you have lived, alongside me, your eternal existence, that invisible and inaccessible existence that I do not know, that I will never know; and your soul has possessed mine right down to the depths, without changing, without even knowing it, like the sea drinks a river... What does my love do for you? What does love do for you? It is a word that has been profaned too many times, a sentiment that has been falsified too many times. I do not offer you love. But will you not accept the humble tribute of religion that the spirit addresses to a nobler and higher being?
Gabriele D'Annunzio
“The past is never dead, it’s not even past.” - William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun
THE LORD OF THE RINGS ORIGINAL RALPH BAKSHI ANIMATION CELS
anything you lose by being real was fake
You can't have a welfare state and a rentier economy AND unrestricted immigration all you'll get is losing the mandate of heaven
(grabs you by the shoulders) you have to make room for new experiences in your life. you have to go through the unpleasant work of leaving your comfort zone, even if just for a few minutes at a time. because if you don't, your brain will trick you into stagnation. you will start to believe that the world can barely fit you in it. but that's not true. it's the opposite way around. you can fit the whole word inside of you. your task is only this: to welcome it with open arms
