The paradox of whether one is doing it because one wants to or because one is told to — from Adam Phillips’ “Missing out”.

Have truly benefitted from some spiritual practices you guided me towards, Pavanasoonu 🇮🇳 ji — thank you, and happy Rama Navmi.

The hardest work: taking in before letting be.
From who else but Gillian Rose.

Sei allem Abschied voran.

It was a pleasure meeting you, Sir.
I am very proud that we have served this nation in our little ways — history will be kind to us.

You are not alone 🙏

Train just stopped in the middle of a tunnel and sat for a second. Somebody said “There was an earthquake.” Nobody said anything for a second as the train kept sitting and a guy goes “Man, fuck this. I’m late for work.”

Deleuze quoting the painter Gustav Courbet who spoke of people who woke up at night crying “I want to judge! I have to judge!” [from Nietzsche and Saint Paul]

Thoreau on his death bed — on being asked what were his feelings about the next world: “One world at a time.” [From SS diary, 9.20.1977]

Deleuze in Proust and Signs:

“There are few themes on which Proust insists as much as on this one: truth is never the product of a prior disposition but the result of a violence in thought.”

(trans. Richard Howard)

“We cannot stay amid the ruins. Neither will we rely on the new; and so we walk ever with reverted eyes, like those monsters who look backwards” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Compensation [Essays, first and second series]

Susan Sontag in February 1976, a time when she had what she called “fits of lucidity.”

New Heraclitus just dropped.

I had copies already, but could not resist this beautiful new edition from Rajkamal Prakashan 📚

Nope. We are good. Send your cotton and salt to TTP.

Never fall into a ditch you cannot come out of.

A leaked memo by Assistant Secretary of State Bill Russo warns: 'The Israelis seemed oblivious to the fact that they are facing major, possibly generational damage to their reputation not just in the region but elsewhere in the world.' Via Ishaan Tharoor
npr.org/2024/03/22/124…

A reminder how ISIS (and other Islamist terrorist modules) need to be taken seriously, especially by those who have no understanding of such things.
A short excerpt from an old story on ISIS modules work.

पुलवामा कांड को लेकर हमेशा सवाल उठाए जाते हैं। लेकिन ढंग से लोगों ने इस केस के अनुसंधान के विषय में पढ़ा ही नहीं। एनआईए के दस्तावेजों तक पहुंच दूर है तो एनआईए की जांच से जुड़े तथ्यों और घटनाक्रमों पर Rahul Pandita ने किताब लिखी है The Lover Boy of Bahawalpur.. आप ज्ञानार्जन के…

ISIS hasn’t been able to do a Crocus in India is not because they are not trying. It is because, unknown to most of us, cells (and lone wolves) are continually being detected and destroyed.