The Sun Magazine | The Undiscovered Country

The Sun Magazine | The Undiscovered Country

You remember those two quotes I posted a while ago? They were both from this article, which you might be interested in. It's rather beautiful, I enjoyed reading it :)

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"The environmental movement needs to stop saying, "Step out of the SUV, and keep your hands where I can see them," and instead say, "Here, taste this tomato. Taste this cheese. Taste this microbrew. It's delicious. What do you have that's good?" It's not just that we need to become a more diverse movement; it's that we want diversity. We want to throw a better party. We want to have more music, more food, more people."

~ John Elder, "The Undiscovered Country: John Elder On The Wild Places Close To Home", by Leath Tonino in the SUN Magazine June 2013

a selection of sunbeams from The SUN Magazine October 2007 with Society lyrics played by Eddie Vedder

"The most striking contradiction of our civilization is the fundamental reverence for truth that we profess, and the thoroughgoing disregard for it that we practice."
-Vilhjalmur Stefansson

"In order to live with integrity, we must stop fragmenting and compartementalizing our lives. Telling lies at work and then expecting great truths in meditation os nonsensical"
-Sharon Salzburg

"You don't see things are they are. You see things as you are."
-Talmud

"The experience is there, the reality is there, but how to get at it? Everything I type turns into a lie simply because it is not the truth."
-Joyce Carol Oates

"Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself -- except why he was born and the meaning of his unique life?"
-Margaret Storm Jameson
(The meaning of life?... We fit into nature someplace, why don't we seem to anymore? How do we remember again?)


"Say not "I have found the truth," but rather, "I have found a truth"."
-Kahlil Gibran


"Society " Written by Jerry Joseph Hannan, performed by Eddie VedderIt's a mystery to meWe have a greed with which we have agreedYou think you have to want more than you needUntil you have it all you won't be free
Society, you're a crazy breedI hope you're not lonely without me
When you want more than you haveYou think you needAnd when you think more than you wantYour thoughts begin to bleed
I think I need to find a bigger place'Cause when you have more than you thinkYou need more space
Society, you're a crazy breedI hope you're not lonely without meSociety, crazy and deepI hope you're not lonely without me
There's those thinking more or less, less is moreBut if less is more how you're keeping score?Means for every point you make your level dropsKinda like it's starting from the top, you can't do that
Society, you're a crazy breedI hope you're not lonely without meSociety, crazy and deepI hope you're not lonely without me
Society, have mercy on meI hope you're not angry if I disagreeSociety, crazy and deepI hope you're not lonely without me

Sunbeam, from The Sun

"It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts."
Bill Vaughan