Michele Pasin / Quotes

Beauty is the beginning of terror

The moorhens were gliding toward me across the burning black water. Somehow they were both moving and staying still at one and the same time. There was a…

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #beauty #fear #poetry #psychedelics

Discovering Ockeghem's Requiem

During the trip when I caught my first glimpse of the sacred, I had been listening to a CD of Hildegard of Bingen. The music must have touched me more deeply…

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #music #religious-experience #history #beauty

Huxley's chair like the Last Judgment

Confronted by a chair which looked like the Last Judgment—or, to be more accurate, by a Last Judgment which, after a long time and with considerable…

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #psychedelics #fear #religious-experience #beauty #symbols

Il barattolo rotto e riparato di Rikyu

L’antichità del wabi si deduce dalla sottile patina di polvere sui muri, o dalle tazze incrinate, non per questo inutilizzabili. Un mercante mostra…

Lo Spirito del Giappone (Leonardo Vittorio Arena) #aesthetics #tea-ceremony #beauty #objects

La solitudine sull'isola e la purezza del silenzio

Per gran parte dei tre mesi e mezzo che ha passato sull’isola è stato praticamente da solo, se si esclude qualche operaio e trasportatore, e ogni tanto…

Villa Metaphora (Andrea De Carlo) #solitude #silence #beauty #thinking

Letting go into beauty

I had ever felt truly meditative on a trip. The acid hadn’t been played out at all. The same sense of boundaries dissolving, which had allowed me to become…

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #psychedelics #nature #beauty #meditation