B.p. Quotes

The mouth remembers what the brain can’t quite wrap its tongue around & that’s what my life’s become. My life’s become my mouth’s remembering, telling stories with the brain’s tongue.

Since the beginning of the world, a prayer is a prayer and a curse is a curse-- no matter the people-- no matter the language-- Man has given a thousand different namesto his god, but look into the face of each one-- long enough-- hard enough-- You will find one truth.

Maybe even more important than the D.B.P. [Divine Brotherhood of Pythagoras], ∞-wise is the protomystic Parmenides of Elea (c.515-? BCE), not only because of his distinction between the 'Way of Truth' and 'Way of Seeing' framed the terms of Greek metaphysics and (again) influenced Plato, but because Parmenides' #1 student and defender was the aforementioned Zeno, the most fiendishly clever and upsetting philosopher ever (who can be seen actually kicking Socrates' ass, argumentatively speaking, in Plato's Parmenides).

I tried so hard to find life within myself, to live for something great—something that would make life worth living

It were as though the building’s kilometres of clanky old ductwork connected up to an asthmatic giant with poor oral hygiene, hidden away somewhere in the basement.

I'm sure this is a diversionary ploy. But that doesn't mean it isn't real." -Abe Sapien

And then one day he realised that of course he was always staring at his hand when he wrote, was always watching the pen as it moved along, gripped by his fingers, his fingers floating there in front of his eyes just above the words, above that single white sheet, just above these words i’m writing now, his fingers between him and all that, like another person, a third person, when all along you thot it was just the two of you talking and he suddenly realized it was the three of them, handling it on from one to the other, his hand translating itself, his words slipping thru his fingers into the written world. You.

With the front casing removed, he fired up the boiler and showed him the colour of the gas flame. ‘It should normally burn blue, but due to corrosion, the flame is blue to orange, which is a tell-tale sign of leaking carbon monoxide.

. Maybe postmodern writers like me all have post-atomic poetic feet & that’s what makes them ugly to the pre-atomic eye & difficult to notate. Maybe this is THE ATTACK OF THE MUTANT POST-ATOMIC FEET! Maybe this is why we’re always saying the words: ‘take me to your reader.

If we are not safe, we are chronically in a state of evaluation and defensiveness” (Porges, 2011b, p. 14). It is a ventral vagal state and a neuroception of safety that bring the possibility for connection, curiosity, and change. A polyvagal approach to therapy follows the four R’s: Recognize the autonomic state. Respect the adaptive survival response. Regulate or co-regulate into a ventral vagal state. Re-story.

Staying away from things you like and doing things well even if you do not like them are the real challenges in life.

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Death is complicated." -Johann Kraus

A horse's fresh foam, extracted and infused with rose oil loosens strong ear pains" – Jonston [1657b, p. 19]. The dung boiled in white wine has strength against colic.  Applied topically it also soothes pain for those with swollen joints.

The only things that moved in the neighbourhood were bits and bobs of bafflingly pointless machinery, whittling the hours busily doing nothing. Waiting to be freed from flesh. It was an oppressive reality come home to roost. This house here contained dead people. And that one, and that one there. The same all the way down the block, horrible, inexplicable, and so quiet.

At the beginning of June 1944 electronics came to Bletchley. I was totally out of my depth there, but with various discreet questions from my esoteric sources, I gathered that our present Bombes were electromagnetic and that Professor Alan Turing, along with the electronic wizard T. E. Flowers of the Post Office Research Station at Dollis Hill, were working together desperately anxious to speed up the process of decipherment. Tommy Flowers decided to employ 1,500 thermionic valves instead of the electromagnetic relays. These apparently propelled the undertaking into the world of electronics and thus Colossus was born. The speed of decryption of this machine was remarkable and Colossus began operating at B.P. in February 1944, followed by Mark II using 2,400 valves. By the end of the war ten Colossi were in service at Bletchley. I am still bemused and confounded but thank God for Tommy Flowers and Alan Turing.

For the record, Parmenides' metaphysics-which is even wilder than the D.B.P's, and in retrospect seems more like Eastern religion than Western philosophy-is describable as a kind of static monism, and Zeno's paradoxes (of which there are really more than four) are accordingly directed against the reality of (1) plurality and (2) continuity. For present purposes we are concerned with (2), which for Zeno takes the form, as Russell mentions, of regular physical motion.

PATRICK HENRY HIGH SCHOOL  Department of Social Studies   SPECIAL NOTICE to all students Course 410    (elective senior seminar) Advanced Survival, instr. Dr. Matson, 1712-A MWF   1. There will be no class Friday the 14th. 2. Twenty-Four Hour Notice is hereby given of final examination in Solo Survival. Students will present themselves for physical check at 0900 Saturday in the dispensary of Templeton Gate and will start passing through the gate at 1000, using three-minute intervals by lot. 3. TEST CONDITIONS: a) ANY planet, ANY climate, ANY terrain; b) NO rules, ALL weapons, ANY equipment; c) TEAMING IS PERMITTED but teams will not be allowed to pass through the gate in company; d) TEST DURATION is not less than forty-eight hours, not more than ten days. 4. Dr. Matson will be available for advice and consultation until 1700 Friday. 5. Test may be postponed only on recommendation of examining physician, but any student may withdraw from the course without administrative penalty up until 1000 Saturday. 6. Good luck and long life to you all!   (s) B. P. Matson, Sc.D.    Approved: J. R. Roerich, for the Board

Jack Goody (1977) has convincingly shown how shifts hitherto labeled as shifts from magic to science, or from the so-called ‘prelogical’ to the more and more ‘rational’ state of consciousness, or from Lévi-Strauss’s ‘savage’ mind to domesticated thought, can be more economically and cogently explained as shifts from orality to various stages of literacy. I had earlier suggested (1967b, p. 189) that many of the contrasts often made between ‘western’ and other views seem reducible to contrasts between deeply interiorized literacy and more or less residually oral states of consciousness.

Cardiac muscle tissue occurs only in the heart (the body’s blood pump), where it constitutes the bulk of the heart walls. Like skeletal muscle cells, cardiac muscle cells are striated (see Figure 4.9b, p. 139), but cardiac muscle is not voluntary. Indeed, it can and does contract without being stimulated by the nervous system. Most of us have no conscious control over how fast our heart beats.

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Every psychology—my own included—has the character of a subjective confession” (1929b, p. 336).

I once asked Master B.P. Chan if the ancient qigong and martial arts masters had superior abilities to those of the present. He said, "In general, yes. But only because they were more patient." ... Most students abandon the practice and look for a new form of "entertainment". But it is precisely at this stage that the most lasting benefits are cultivated.

Naturally shy and quiet people are often called upon to excuse or explain their dislike of talking to strangers or wishing to avoid them completely

know by this point in my life that the more you try not to think about something, the more it feasts on every part of your mind.

I’d started to feel shaky as soon as she mentioned the word ‘grief’ – a word I’m not ready to accept or let into my world at present.

When you’re looking back, it’s hard not to let what would happen later influence your view of events.

La idea de orden espontáneo puede expresarse mediante estos tres elementos centrales: 1) En el complejo orden de la sociedad los resultados de las acciones humanas pueden ser muy diferentes de lo que los hombres planearon individualmente; 2) los individuos, al perseguir sus propios fines, sean estos egoístas o altruistas, siguiendo reglas de conducta adecuadas, producen resultados útiles o beneficiosos para otros; 3) finalmente, el orden de la sociedad es en gran parte el resultado de conductas individuales que no tienen tal fin como propósito, pero que son canalizados hacia esos fines por instituciones, prácticas y reglas, muchas de los cuales tampoco han sido inventadas deliberadamente, sino que han sido aceptadas por haber sobrevivido a un proceso de evolución durante el cual dichos sistemas de normas guiaron exitosamente a los grupos o comunidades que los adoptaron. (Ravier 2012b, p. 41)

[...] c'était la voix de Leonard Cohen qui chantait encore et encore "Dance me to the end of love". Encore et encore. On parlait de Cohen entre deux gorgées de J&B. (p. 8)

There are certain people who behave in quite a peculiar fashion during the work of analysis. When one speaks hopefully to them or expresses satisfaction with the progress of treatment, they show signs of discontent and their condition invariably becomes worse. (1923b, p. 49)

For years, films had suggested this plot development by having one woman whisper into the ear of another, but some audiences snickered at this, so studios had begun using the actual words. “There must be a sweeter phrase for motherhood in pictures,” wrote B. P. McCormick of Canon City, Colorado. “Don’t say a mother is ‘having a baby.’ Let’s get above the level of the cow having a calf. Motherhood is worthy of a sweeter expression.

Don't hurt anyone and don't be hurt by anyone.

a aceitar-se como é, sem desejar imitar modelos transitórios das glórias momentâneas, que brilham sob os focos das lâmpadas da ilusão.” (2009b, p.55)

It helps to remind yourself of what you're good at and where you excel so when you have to engage in something that is hard for you, it doesn't become overwhelming. Tell yourself, I'm good here. I'm great there. This sucks, but it will be over in twenty minutes. Maybe it's twenty miles or twenty days or twenty weeks, but it doesn't matter. Every experience on earth is finite. It will end someday, and that makes it doable, but the outcome hinges on those crucial seconds you must win! There are consequences to this shit. Quitting on a dream stays with you. It can color how you see yourself and the decisions you make going forward. Several men have taken their own lives after quitting SEAL training. Others marry the first person who comes around because they are so desperate for validation. Of course, the reverse is also true. If you can withstand the suffering, take a knee, and make a conscious One-second Decision in a critical juncture, you will learn perseverance and gain strength by winning the moment. You will know what it takes and how it feels to overcome all that loud doubt, and that will stay with you too. It will become a powerful skill you can use again and again to find success, no matter what scenario you're in or where life takes you. It's not always the wrong move to quit. Even in battle, sometimes we must retreat. You might not be ready for whatever it is you've taken on. Perhaps your preparation wasn't as thorough as you'd thought. Maybe other priorities in life need your attention. It happens, but make sure that it is a conscious decision you're making, not a reaction. Never quit when your pain and insecurity are at their peak. If you must retreat, quit when it's easy, not when it's hard. Control your thought process and get through the most difficult test first. That way, if you do bow out, you'll know it wasn't a reaction based on reason and had time to devise your plan B. p91

Before he’d had a chance to respond (although how he was to do so hadn’t quite come to him) Eleanor continued.

Love was the vital ingredient. And when combined with betrayal, the resulting reaction can have the power of a nuclear bomb.

Myers MF, Gabbard GO. The physician as patient: a clinical handbook for mental health professionals. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Publishing Inc.; 2008b. p. 196.

Look to the sky and dream, for dreamer drive the world forward, beyond the impossible.

Gartner predicts that by 2020 twenty-five billion things will be connected to the Internet24 and estimates that there are at least 130 million enterprises. There are already three billion people online worldwide.25 Business times people times things (B × P × T) means that the number of possible interactions and the creative opportunities and unexpected breakthroughs and threats will grow. Explosively.

One sidelight for the fundamentalists in our group: B.P.L. owns 71.7% of Dempster acquired at a cost of $1,262,577.27. On June 30, 1963 Dempster had a small safe deposit box at the Omaha National Bank containing securities worth $2,028,415.25. Our 71.7% share of $2,028,415.25 amounts to $1,454,373.70. Thus, everything above ground (and part of it underground) is profit. My security analyst friends may find this a rather primitive method of accounting, but I must confess that I find a bit more substance in this fingers and toes method than in any prayerful reliance that someone will pay me 35 times next year’s earnings.

For the first time as a scrabbling, bickering species we stood united. Every sodding person on the planet looked up today and whispered the same question, whether it be in awe, greed, or terror. What's Out there? Answers were sure to be forthcoming, ready or not.

Because people never saw how it was going to end up like this. Hemmed in by gadgets; cut off from each other. Every man an island. And as there were less and less people we just humanised the gizmos so that nobody felt lonely. No neighbours, only a talking fridge to keep you occupied, or a stupid dancing toaster.

Ah, o estilo... Você não saberá o que é ter "butterflies in the stomach", novamente, até ter ciência deles.

The probability that Monty opens door B if the prize is behind door B is: P(Monty opens B|B) = 0. The probability that Monty opens door B if the prize is behind door C is: P(Monty opens B|C) = 1. We can now calculate the probability that Monty opens door B: P(A) × P(Monty opens B|A) + P(B) × P(Monty opens B|B) + P(C) × P(Monty opens B|C) = . Finally, apply Bayes theorem: P(A|Monty opens B) = . P(C|Monty opens B) = . In plain English: if you happen to choose door A and Monty opens door B to reveal a lemon then the probability of the Bugatti being behind door C is . If you ever find yourself in this

But that's how it felt, pathetic or no. In a life entirely lacking in romance, that one moment of beauty smote me. I almost brayed a laugh. I'd finally fallen in love, and it was with the entire world.

No need to witness what great and terrible beasts might roam beyond the city's walls. They were all right here, a construct of hot cries and thrashing limbs that raged unchecked. It was everybody's waking nightmare. Invoked in this heated bedlam the Blessed had sculpted themselves anew in humanity's very flesh.

By then Geoffrey's threadbare soul had been left far behind standing by the side of the highway. Did he feel anything anymore? Warm? Cold? Watching after them, mouth open as if to call out; did he wish at the last moment to have done life differently?

O prospecto de ser algo, mesmo por dinheiro, sempre produziu em mim uma certa ansiedade, pois ‘ser gay’, ‘ser lésbica’ parece muito mais do que uma simples injunção para me tornar quem ou algo que eu já sou. E de forma alguma acalma essa minha ansiedade dizer que isso é ‘parte’ do que eu sou. (BUTLER, 1993b, p. 307) Ao

Lerner similarly asserts that “Mises . . . assumes the pricing system transformed unaltered from a perfectly competitive economy” and contends that this “dogmatic” viewpoint considers “sacrilegious” any attempt to “improve on a ‘perfect’ price mechanism” (1934b, p.

The two boys did quite a lot of cycling, playing cycle polo in a field not far from Cooldrinagh, just as their father had done earlier in a team run by a man called Wisdom Healy.110 The scene in Beckett’s novel Dream of Fair to Middling Women, where the two brothers go off on their bicycles to the sea, recalls a poignant memory of his childhood: That was in the blue-eyed days when they rode down to the sea on bicycles, Father in the van, his handsome head standing up out of the great ruff of the family towel, John in the centre, lean and gracefully seated, Bel behind, his feet speeding round in the smallest gear ever constructed. They were the Great Bear, the Big Bear and the Little Bear; aliter sic, the Big, Little and Small Bears … Many was the priest coming back safe from his bathe that they passed, his towel folded suavely, like a waiter’s serviette, across his arm. The superlative Bear would then discharge the celebrated broadside: B-P! B-P! B-P! and twist round with his handsome face wreathed in smiles in the saddle to make sure that the sally had not been in vain. It had never been known to be in vain.111

Bucci proposed that if the referential process is disrupted by conflict or trauma or fails to develop adequately, the symbolic and subsymbolic systems within the schemas are dissociated, thereby affecting the organization of the schemas, the regulation of emotional arousal, and the construction of emotional meanings. Applying her multiple code theory to alexithymia, she suggested that the dissociation within and between the verbal and non-verbal components when the connections are disrupted or fail to develop is “far more complex than being without words for emotions; in some emotional-somatic disorders, the patient is without symbols for somatic states” (Bucci, 1997b, p. 165).

A literatura consegue iluminar as áreas mais obscuras de nosso cérebro, como também tocar as áreas mais densas de nossa derme, e é por esse favor racional que podemos substituir um humano por um livro.

Student: When I ask myself what this spiritual journey is about, I say it is nothing more than getting ride of all concepts, am I right? Poonjaji: Spirituality doesn't tell you to get rid of anything. What will be removed? Where will you put it? In this world there are mountains and rivers and animals. If you get rid of them, where will they go? They have to stay here. It is better to stay with everything and with love, not to reject or accept. --Poonja, 1992b, p.36