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Sophia Loren in Boy On A Dolphin (1957)

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I had a discussion with a great master in Japan, and we were talking about the various people who are working to translate the Zen books into English, and he said, "That's a waste of time. If you really understand Zen, you can use any book. You could use the Bible. You could use Alice in Wonderland. You could use the dictionary, because the sound of the rain needs no translation.

~ Alan Watts

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A protest march to Jerusalem in July. Dr. Bressler said the multiday demonstration was “almost a spiritual experience.”

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Mr. Xi inspected the Rocket Force in Beijing in 2016.

Rocket Force sounds like a '60s puppet show, like Fireball XL-5.

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“Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.””

— Robert Heinlein

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source: Agnes Lee, New York Times

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Todd Alcott (prints!)

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I had two dreams about him after he died. I dont remember the first one all that well but it was about meetin him in town somewheres and he give me some money and I think I lost it. But the second one it was like we was both back in older times and I was on horseback goin through the mountains of a night. Goin through this pass in the mountains. It was cold and there was snow on the ground and he rode past me and kept on goin. Never said nothin. He just rode on past and he had this blanket wrapped around him and he had his head down and when he rode past I seen he was carryin fire in a horn the way people used to do and I could see the horn from the light inside of it. About the color of the moon. And in the dream I knew that he was goin on ahead and that he was fixin to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there. And then I woke up.

- Cormac McCarthy, 1933-2023

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Sam Whitney/The New York Times; images by CSA Images/Getty Images The Struggle to Explain the ‘Gender Well-Being Gap’

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tweeted excerpts from A Field Guide to Getting Lost, via Rebecca Solnit's twitter

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Glittering Sea, Hiroshi Yoshida, 1926