I just wanted to share some photos of what is probably my main cycle route at the mo and my place to go for reflection. I swear you cannot beat some of these views on the island.
I won't be here for too much longer, but i have certainly had a lot of time alone in the last two years, got my head down and am feeling rejuvenated. Nature is my sanctuary and i would always recommend just finding a quiet spot where only you know, and just listening.
To accompany the pics, i will add some of my favorite quotes. All being well, there might be one or two you may not of heard before.
Stay free and wild.
Jon <3
“I struggle between what I know is right in my own mind, and some warped truthfulness as seen through other people's eyes who have no heart, and can't see the difference anyway.”
― Ian Thomas Curtis (Joy Division)
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.”
― Ernst F. Schumacher
“Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden and Other Writings
“I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.”
― Hunter S. Thompson
“If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.”
― Joseph Campbell
“The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.”
― Mark Twain
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
― Confucius
“A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.”
― Marcus Garvey
“The truly fashionable are beyond fashion. ”
― Cecil Beaton
“No one rules if no one obeys”
― David Icke
“The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one’s mind, is the condition of the normal man. Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.”
― R.D. Laing, The Politics of Experience/The Bird of Paradise
“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski
For billions of years since the outset of time
Every single one of your ancestors' survived
Every single person on your mum and dad's side
Successfully looked after and passed onto you life
What are the chances of that like?
― Mike Skinner (Song: On The Edge of a Cliff, Album: Everything is Borrowed. The Streets)
“the entire art of speculation consists of choosing the right moment to invest in a way opposite to that suggested by popular opinion.”
― Carl Futia
“You're going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don't do. You don't get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you're going to take. That's it.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
"There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out" Charles Bukowski
“Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.”
― Hunter S. Thompson
“Heaven is a state of mind, not a location.”
― Wayne W. Dyer
My recommended tune of the week: Amy Winehouse - Stronger Than Me (Reggae Version By Reggaesta)