Friday, 30 April 2010

Flugzeugballon / Airplane Balloon

David Vogt Photography - Flugzeug BallonDavid Vogt Photography, Berlin 2010.
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10 Resolutions for Mental Health (4)

I shall not turn my life into a thin, straight line which prefers abstractions to reality. I shall know what I am doing when I abstract, which of course I shall often have to do.

From a lecture by Clyde Kilby, October 22, 1976.

Wednesday, 28 April 2010

David Vogt PhotographyDavid Vogt Photography, Berlin 2010.
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10 Resolutions for Mental Health (3)

"I shall not fall into the falsehood that this day, or any day, is merely another ambiguous and plodding twenty-four hours, but rather a unique event, filled, if I so wish, with worthy potentialities. I shall not be fool enough to suppose that trouble and pain are wholly evil parentheses in my existence, but just as likely ladders to be climbed toward moral and spiritual manhood."

From a lecture by Clyde Kilby, October 22, 1976.

Monday, 26 April 2010

Oberbaumbrücke

David Vogt Photography - Oberbaumbrücke BerlinDavid Vogt Photography, Berlin-Kreuzberg-Friedrichshain 2010.
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Sunday, 25 April 2010

10 Resolutions for Mental Health (2)

"Instead of the accustomed idea of a mindless and endless evolutionary change to which we can neither add nor subtract, I shall suppose the universe guided by an Intelligence which, as Aristotle said of Greek drama, requires a beginning, a middle, and an end. I think this will save me from the cynicism expressed by Bertrand Russell before his death when he said: 'There is darkness without, and when I die there will be darkness within. There is no splendor, no vastness anywhere, only triviality for a moment, and then nothing.'"

From a lecture by Clyde Kilby, October 22, 1976.

Wednesday, 21 April 2010

10 Resolutions for Mental Health (1)

"At least once every day I shall look steadily up at the sky and remember that I, a consciousness with a conscience, am on a planet traveling in space with wonderfully mysterious things above and about me."

From a lecture by Clyde Kilby, October 22, 1976.

Wednesday, 14 April 2010

Monday, 12 April 2010