Leonard Cohen’s Rant

Hope and Despair for a City I Love

not to eat but to taste, taste so wide it slips its chains and colors sounds

How I became an enlightened Teletubby

What a strange time it is to be a dead star, reanimated by chance and patience

If they stop walking and say 'woah' at stuff, that's a green flag.

What do we do about The Mystery?

It arrived alongside a gigantic noise that threatened to shred apart the fabric of reality. For a moment we just stared, like deer in the headlights of a car the size of the moon.

I felt as if someone had gently removed the top of my head. I could see from the horizon in front of me, to the horizon behind me, from Jordan to Israel, and every glorious thing in between.

“The sort of mental sharpness you need for the kabbalah is almost perpendicular to sanity, more like a very specific and redirectable schizophrenia. I stayed functional by keeping my mind in a very specific state that probably wasn’t very long-term healthy.”

- UNSONGBOOK, Chapter 1, by Scott Alexander

It is easier than you might think to quickly redefine for yourself what is beautiful and what is monstrous. 

A chavrusa is an intellectual spouse, a spiritual colleague, and a second brain.

“You are about to embark on a wonderful adventure. I am going to open up a door for you, and you can walk right through it, ok dad?”

1- Stand alone, in front of a mirror or a wall.

1- Lay with your face and palms on the ground.

“You should have made me first, not him.
By the time this is over,
I’m going to make you wish
you had never made me at all.”

Seagulls can drink fresh water. That’s not that impressive until you consider that they can also drink Seawater, because of their eyes.

To find healing, we need to find each other. To find each other, we need to find ourselves.