Date: March, 2007
"We don't have a 'scissors in the mind' that can trim away dissonance at will, in an effort to isolate our knowledge in actu from uncomfortable aspects of our knowledge of the world."
preview | full record— Habermas, Jürgen (b. 1929)
Date: March, 2007
"This fiction [of the self] gets replaced with the image of a consciousness that hangs like a marionette from an inscrutable crisscross of strings."
preview | full record— Habermas, Jürgen (b. 1929)
Date: 2007
"She had a mind like a mongoose but she was not, in the end, a worldly woman."
preview | full record— Díaz, Junot (b. 1968)
Date: 2007
"When panic grips your body and your heart is a hummingbird, / Raven thoughts blacken your mind until you're breathing in reverse, / All your friends and sedatives mean well, but make it worse, / Every reassurance just magnifies the doubt, / Better find yourself a place to level out."
preview | full record— Oberst, Conor Mullen (b. 1980)
Date: 2007
"Got a cricket for a conscience, always looks the other way."
preview | full record— Oberst, Conor Mullen (b. 1980)
Date: 2007
"A cocaine soul starts seeming like an empty cabaret."
preview | full record— Oberst, Conor Mullen (b. 1980)
Date: 2008
"There is tremendous precision and gentleness in the practice: the precision of noticing what is happending, the waterfall of thought; the gentleness of being nonjudgmental, not rejecting the busy mind. Over time, acknowledging that we are thinking and coming back to breath, the waterfall gradual...
preview | full record— Barker, Phil
Date: 2008
"When people begin to practise mindfulness they are usually surprised to discover how busy the mind is: like a waterfall, one thought tumbling after the next."
preview | full record— Barker, Phil
Date: 2008
"Open our skulls, look in with a penlight, and you'll find an odd museum of ideas."
preview | full record— Adiga, Aravind (b. 1974)
Date: 2008
"Open our skulls, look in with a penlight, and you'll find an odd museum of ideas: sentences of history or mathematics remembered from school textbooks (no boy remembers his schooling like one who was taken out of school, let me assure you), sentences about politics read in a newspaper while wait...
preview | full record— Adiga, Aravind (b. 1974)
