"The alchemist picked up a book that someone in the caravan had brought.
Leafing through the pages, he found a story about Narcissus. The alchemist knew the legend of Narcissus, a youth who knelt daily beside a lake to contemplate his own beauty. He was so fascinated by himself that, one morning, he fell into the lake and drowned. At the spot where he fell, a flower was born, which was called the narcissus.
But this was not how the author of the book ended the story. He said that when Narcissus died, the goddesses of the forest appeared and found the lake, which had been fresh water, transformed into a lake of salty tears. “Why do you weep?” the goddesses asked.
“I weep for Narcissus,” the lake replied.
“Ah, it is no surprise that you weep for Narcissus” they said, “for though we always pursued him in the forest, you alone could contemplate the beauty close at hand.”
“But… was Narcissus beautiful?” the lake asked.
“Who better than you to know that?” the goddesses said in wonder.
“After all, it was by your banks that he knelt each day to contemplate himself!”
The lake was silent for some time. Finally, it said: “I weep for Narcissus, but I never noticed that Narcissus was beautiful. I weep because, each time he knelt beside my banks, I could see, in the depths of his eyes, my own beauty reflected.”
“What a lovely story”, the alchemist thought."
— Paulo Coehlo, (1988) The Alchemist
Leafing through the pages, he found a story about Narcissus. The alchemist knew the legend of Narcissus, a youth who knelt daily beside a lake to contemplate his own beauty. He was so fascinated by himself that, one morning, he fell into the lake and drowned. At the spot where he fell, a flower was born, which was called the narcissus.
But this was not how the author of the book ended the story. He said that when Narcissus died, the goddesses of the forest appeared and found the lake, which had been fresh water, transformed into a lake of salty tears. “Why do you weep?” the goddesses asked.
“I weep for Narcissus,” the lake replied.
“Ah, it is no surprise that you weep for Narcissus” they said, “for though we always pursued him in the forest, you alone could contemplate the beauty close at hand.”
“But… was Narcissus beautiful?” the lake asked.
“Who better than you to know that?” the goddesses said in wonder.
“After all, it was by your banks that he knelt each day to contemplate himself!”
The lake was silent for some time. Finally, it said: “I weep for Narcissus, but I never noticed that Narcissus was beautiful. I weep because, each time he knelt beside my banks, I could see, in the depths of his eyes, my own beauty reflected.”
“What a lovely story”, the alchemist thought."
— Paulo Coehlo, (1988) The Alchemist
Forwarded from Rudolf Schnaubelt
If gradual climate catastrophe comes to your area, what would you do? Would you…
Anonymous Poll
13%
end it all because your life is likely all downhill from there
43%
migrate somewhere else, even if you're unwanted
44%
try to survive where you are even though the local environment is inhospitable
Forwarded from The Verge
Lime, Jump, Bird pledge to remove their Miami scooters to avoid flying menaces
https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/29/20839910/lime-jump-bird-scooter-hurricane-removal-florida-miami-orlando-tampa
Source:https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/29/20839910/lime-jump-bird-scooter-hurricane-removal-florida-miami-orlando-tampa
The Verge
Lime, Jump, Bird, Spin pledge to remove their Florida scooters and bikes to avoid flying menaces
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Forwarded from SOLA RISE on bluberry sky (Солярка 🌙)
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Anti-Dystopia
NASA Earth Science at 2030: a Vision of the Future
Fun fact: This NASA project had been underway for years. The previous iteration had references to The Venus Project on it's now defunct website.
https://invidio.us/watch?v=K3K990kVLS0
https://invidio.us/watch?v=K3K990kVLS0
Remember, eating the rich may result in prions or disease.
👩🌾 Always compost 👨🌾
👩🌾 Always compost 👨🌾
Forwarded from Data Scientology
Showing long term average annual temperature and total precipitation on one map using hue and saturation [OC]
/r/dataisbeautiful
https://redd.it/cxgb92
/r/dataisbeautiful
https://redd.it/cxgb92
I was playing around with resin and different dyes and accidently created some sort of aurora borealis situation.
http://redd.it/cx785d
http://redd.it/cx785d