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My name's Benedikt. This is where I post things that inspire me.

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…[E]ach atom turns out to be nothing but the potentialities in the behavior pattern of others. What we find, therefore, are not elementary space-time realities, bu rather a web of relationships in which no part can stand alone; every part derives its meaning and existence only from its place within the whole.
— Henry P. Stapp
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Our world is threatened by a crisis whose extent appears to escape those who have the power to make great decisions for good or evil. The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything—except our way of thinking. Thus we slide toward an unparalleled catastrophe. We need an essentially different way of thinking if humanity wants to survive.
— Albert Einstein
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Neues schaffen heißt Widerstand leisten. Widerstand leisten heißt Neues schaffen.
— Stéphane Hessel
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Freiheit ist immer Freiheit der Andersdenkenden.

Dort, wo andere Freiheit als das Recht des Einzelnen auf Willkür sehen, das nur am Recht der anderen auf gleiche Willkür seine Grenze findet - dort, wo andere Freiheit als natürliches Recht des Einzelnen sehen, das nur durch die gleichen natürlichen Rechte anderer beschränkt wird, - dort erkennt Rosa Luxemburg, dass Freiheit ein gesellschaftliches, ein verpflichtendes Verhältnis von Menschen zueinander ist. Und der Kern dieses Verhältnisses ist ein Verhalten, in dem Menschen die Freiheit anderer Menschen ermöglichen.

Gegen jeden Opportunismus gewandt, forderte Rosa Luxemburg, dass Freiheit, damit sie wirkliche Freiheit ist und nicht der verdeckte Zwang zur Anpassung, die Freiheit der anderen als Andersseiende ermöglichen müsse. Das Verhalten als freier Mensch, so versteht und praktiziert sie es, besteht genau darin, anderen die Möglichkeit zu geben, als Andere frei zu sein. Bevor Freiheit ein Recht ist, ist sie eine Pflicht. Die Gleichheit in der Freiheit ist eine Gleichheit der Verschiedenen.

— Rosa Luxemburg (via Freitag)
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It is important to emphasize that episodes of holotropic states of varying duration can also occur spontaneously, without any specific identifiable cause, and often against the will of the people involved. Since modern psychiatry does not differentiate between mystical or spiritual states and mental diseases, people experiencing these states are often labeled psychotic, are hospitalized, and receive routine suppressive psychopharmacological treatment. My wife and I see these states as psychospiritual crises or “spiritual emergencies.” We believe that, properly supported and treated, they can result in emotional and psychosomatic healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.
— Grof & Grof 1990, 1989.
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All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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permalink Poetry Machine, for 2 players  One player (the ‘poet’) produces poems, represented here by potatoes  placed in the launching tube. The other player (the ‘critic’) expresses  their opinion of the poems using the hammer provided. 
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Poetry Machine, for 2 players
One player (the ‘poet’) produces poems, represented here by potatoes placed in the launching tube. The other player (the ‘critic’) expresses their opinion of the poems using the hammer provided.


(via SUPERFLEX)

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We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.
— william james
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