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The Country of Artists
James Bond really accurately predicted that the biggest threat to life on earth is super rich businessmen whose money didn’t make them happy and now their hobby is destroying the world.
~ Stephan Abram
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If I feel myself, like the compost heap, beginning to melt, it means that I am also melting into another story. A bigger story. A wider cast of characters. Let me dance between ripe and rot. I don’t know what act in the play comes next. But I know what my prayer is. Make me bigger than an ‘I’. Make me good soil.
~ Sophie Strand
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In the late ’60s, when [brother Ethan Coen] was 11 or 12, he got a suit and a briefcase and we went to the Minneapolis International Airport with a Super 8 camera and made a movie about shuttle diplomacy called ‘Henry Kissinger, Man on the Go.’ And, honestly, what we do now doesn’t feel much different from what we were doing then.
~ Joel Coen
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Our minds are habituated to relate to suffering by resisting it through blame, bitterness, anger, resentment. That resistance is what the Buddha called ‘the second arrow,’ which follows the first arrow, the direct experience of pain. So much additional suffering comes from believing that ‘things shouldn’t be this way’ — when in fact…
