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Yes, maybe something like https://portable.fyi/#2021-01-02-pocket-web-books .
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See also https://portable.fyi/ built with portable-php[1][2], "a single HTML document from a collection of Markdown files." 1. https://github.com/cadars/portable-php 2. https://new
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A bit reminiscent of the discussions between J. Krishnamurti and David Bohm.
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Saunders released a new book at the start of the year which I've been meaning to pick up: titled A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life [1], it's like a creative wri
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Here's a quick, short review by a random user on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3426819525?book_show_a... The play itself is fairly short but I'd need to ruminate on it for weeks on end
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Connected maybe to the excerpt you mentioned, here is this excerpt (hopefully not too nihilistic or pessimistic) from E.M. Cioran - who seems to have become so apparent to me this past year - and his aphorism-filled, philosophical book titl
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T.S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral .
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Alternatively, there's localForage[1][2]. 1. https://localforage.github.io/localForage/ 2. https://github.com/localForage/localForage
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Alternatively, you can use something like https://blot.im/ - "...turns a folder into a blog... you put files inside your blog’s folder [and] they become blog posts."
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See also Walter Benjamin's short piece "On the Mimetic Faculty" (1933)[1]. In short: "...language may be seen as the highest level of mimetic behavior and the most complete archive of nonsensuous similarity: a medium int
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Reminds me: For a while now, I've been thinking about apophatic theology, also known as negative theology[1]. Particularly in the sermons by Meister Eckhart, the German theologian and Christian neoplatonist[2]. I wonder about the conne
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I suppose the only encounter I've had with theosophy is through Rudolf Steiner[1][2], whom I find infinitely intriguing - you might enjoy the Rudolf Steiner Press Audio[3] if you like Blavatsky. > Blavatsky had a HUGE influence on I
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Here are several of my favorite excerpts by him/related to him to which you might enjoy if you haven't already came across them: "You were asleep. I wake you. The vast morning brings the illusion of a beginning. You had forgo
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Related: The German musical collective of the same name, Popol Vuh[1], who in my eyes is notably known for being behind the soundtrack of Werner Herzog’s Aguirre, the Wrath of God, are particularly great. For instance, listen to this lovely
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Yes, such a good recommendation. Reminds me of Bernard Berenson's epigraph for that particular book: "A complete life may be one ending in so full identification with the non-self that there is no self to die."
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- Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace - Dulce María Loynaz, Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems - Virginia Woolf, Selected Diaries - Alejandra Pizarnik, Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962-1972
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I read something earlier this week which makes me think Whitman wouldn't necessarily be online. From Irving Howe's "The Idea of the Modern": "Subjectivity becomes the typical condition of the modernist outlook. In i
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> We already live in a tech panopticon Which is, in other words, due in large part to what is referred to as "myopic engineering" or "engineering myopia": this idea that, as Heidegger writes in What is Called Thinkin
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The latest philosophical text I've been living in is E.M. Cioran's On The Heights of Despair[1]. As a Goodreads review puts it: "The most relentlessly-pessimistic author not to have killed himself and, therefore, the writer o
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Wallace is pleading to us to hear the call of primitivism (this is no stoic plea, AFAIK). Awareness as a reversion to the primeval, which is a common act for everything perfect according to Rilke. Husserl cries: "Back to the things the
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Paulo Freire: “One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success.”
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Can't say whether I agree or not but I'm reminded of Werner Herzog's interview with GQ[1]: "I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century. A major, major mistake. And it
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Einstein: "Time and space are not conditions in which we live, but modes by which we think. Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, determined by the external world." Paul Brunton:
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"If your ideology is focused around production or productivity or work then you’ve already failed."
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> “In Heidegger’s later work, he argues that technology in the modern metaphysical tradition tends to “provoke,” “force out,” and “challenge forth” the world, such that the primary intention is to “force” the world to yield energy. Heide
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Only life is renewable, technology cannot and will not save us.
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> “She [Simone Weil] intrigued me because of her great reputation for intelligence and her bizarre get-up... A great famine had broken out in China, and I was told that when she heard the news she had wept: these tears compelled my respe
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Huxley frequented Orange County. The monastery I regularly attend (Ramakrishna Monastery in Trabuco Canyon) was previously a college (The Trabuco College of Prayer), as mentioned in the piece, for prayer and study of mysticism to which Huxl
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"What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it all the rest are not only useless but disastrous.&q
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When I think of Pessoa, I can't help but think of a few lines by the Chinese poet Hanshan (1): "Meanwhile the moon of our mind shines bright. / How can phenomena compare?" 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

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