Wandelgang: citaten
God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, plenty and want. But he is changed, just as when incense is mingled with incense, but named according to the pleasure of each.
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They do not understand: how that which separates unites with itself. It is a harmony of oppositions, as in the case of the bow and of the lyre.
(Uit de fragmenten van Herakleitos)
Marvel, a garden among the flames!
My heart can take on any form: a meadow for gazelles, a cloister for monks. For the idols, sacred ground, Ka'ba for the circling pilgrim,
the tables of the Torah, the scrolls of the Qur'án. I profess the religion of love; wherever its caravan turns along the way, that is the belief, the faith I keep.(Ibn Arabi)
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"I had heard the discords resolving into harmonies; for one moment I had stood on another sphere and contemplated from afar, but also from close by, that procession which is both human and divine, wherein I, too, had my place, this our world where suffering existed still, but error was no more. From such a perspective our human destiny, that vague design in which the least practiced eye can trace so many flaws, gleamed bright like the patterns of the heavens."(from: Marguerite Yourcenar - Memoirs of Hadrian)
"I realized that I had joined a pilgrimage to the East, seemingly a definite and single pilgrimage—but in reality, in its broadest sense, this expedition to the East was not only mine and now; this procession of believers and disciples had always and incessantly been moving towards the East, towards the Home of Light. Throughout the centuries it had been on the way, towards light and wonder, and each member, each group, indeed our whole host and its great pilgrimage, was only a wave in the eternal stream of human beings, of the eternal strivings of the human spirit towards the East, towards Home."
(Hermann Hesse)
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“Het verhevene van het doen ligt niet in ledige bezigheid en in plichtsvervulling, maar in de liefde. De bewonderingswaardigedingen der natuur te leren kennen is de weg om deze bouwmeester, deze zo grote uitvinder te leren liefhebben. De ware liefde ontspringt aan een veelomvattende kennis van het geliefde object. De minnaar wordt aangetrokken door het beminde, maar als het beminde iets laags bij de gronds is, wordt ook de minnaar vulgair.” Leonardo da Vinci in: Karl Jaspers, Leonardo en Nietzsche, 1966
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Essay: On the autonomous university experiments
On the notion of autonomy and our course ‘How does the university work’ By Jasper Ligthart When reflecting on the course we’ve organized and its relation to the theme of autonomy, I can roughly envision two different approaches to the … Read the rest of this entry
Teaser docu ‘How does the university work’
De documentaire over dit onderzoek (waar ik aan heb meegewerkt) zal later dit jaar verschijnen.
De laatste nacht
DE LAATSTE NACHT De nacht gaat over ons heen diep onder het raam slaapt het dorp, ver achter de huizen de zee. nog lijkt hier alles vertrouwd: de kamer, het raam en het licht, en mijn hand die schaduwen vout … Read the rest of this entry
Doggone
I want to make my peace with God she says God’s peace the god-piece In pieces the peaceful god God-pieces to the dogs Dog’s peace oh god God’s pieces please the peaceful dog Doggone the god’s peaceful pieces Peaceful the … Read the rest of this entry
Lastenia
Lastenia wat nog aan woorden in mij wakker ligt kan ik voor alle dag gebruiken ik kan het bloed doen stollen ik kan in andermans gedachten wonen en er vruchten stelen ik kan als een hond geslagen huilen en … Read the rest of this entry
Anima
Animula, vagula,blandula, Hospes comeque corporis Quae nunc abibis in loca Pallidula, rigida, nudula, Nec ut soles dabis jocos. (Hadrianus) ‘Mijn teer wild zieltje’ Spreekt lichaam dat uw gastheer is ‘Gezel, ’t is waar Soms wankel en mitsdien Aarzelend. Ongezien Ontsnappen … Read the rest of this entry
When I have fears
When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has glean’d my teeming brain, Before high piled books, in charact’ry, Hold like rich garners the full-ripen’d grain; When I behold, upon the night’s starr’d face, Huge … Read the rest of this entry
Koffie
Een van de mooiste ervaringen, zeker in visionaire toestand, is toch het brouwen van een potje koffie. Terwijl de kamer zich langzaam met geuren vult begint heel de wereld over te lopen in dat kleine potje. De stroperige, nauwelijks-vloeibare druppels … Read the rest of this entry
Four ton mantis
Mantises are exclusively predatory. Insects form the primary diet, but larger species have been known to prey on small lizards, frogs, birds, snakes, fish, and even rodents. they will prey upon any species small enough to successfully capture and devour. … Read the rest of this entry
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