September 2011
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“I want you to raise your hands if you’ve ever been told by someone that you...”
– Craig Mabbitt (via welcometohell-)
Kid Rock claims to have only read one book…ever. The Hank Williams biography. #kidrock #hankwilliams
(8/31) Lunch: Cheeseburger, Fries, Salad w/ Ranch Dressing, and a Green Apple. #prisonfood
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“Humans are by nature adventurous. Watch a toddler expand his territory a wobbly...”
– Julia Cameron, “The Artist’s Way Every Day: A Year of Creative Living”
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“…the problem with our past and current approaches to penology —...”
– Fleet Maull, “Dharma in Hell: The Prison Writings of Fleet Maull”
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“Wouldn’t it be great to transform America’s prisons so that they...”
– Fleet Maull, “Dharma in Hell: The Prison Writings of Fleet Maull
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SPIN Magazine and each of these musicians'...
Subject: On Axl Rose
Slash: “Axl is super intelligent, yet at the same time, he lives in a place where the logic that governs other people does not apply.”
Duff: ”Axl can be the most tender and thoughtful of friends…he was [also] stubborn, moody, arrogant, and greedy.”
Steven: ”One day he’d be hugging you and the next day kicking you in the...
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“Knowing I was extremely fortunate for the help my family gave me, I never felt...”
– Fleet Maull, “Dharma in Hell: The Prison Writings of Fleet Maull”
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“Because here’s something else that’s weird but true: in the...”
– David Foster Wallace, “This is Water: Some thoughts, delivered on a significant occasion, about living a compassionate life”
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“The capital-T Truth is about life before death. It is about making it to 30, or...”
– Souce: David Foster Wallace, “This is Water: Some thoughts, delivered on a significant occasion, about living a compassionate life”
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“One can get by with no money in prison. The institution provides you with three...”
– Fleet Maull, “Dharma in Hell: The Prison Writings of Fleet Maull”
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“I know from experience that arbitrarily imposing strict discipline on myself...”
– Fleet Maull, “Dharma in Hell: The Prison Writings of Fleet Maull”
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Fleet Maull, "Dharma in Hell: The Prison Writings...
It may be helpful at times to regard prison as a monastery, because this perspective might help you see your imprisonment as a total practice situation and as a potentially beneficial experience. In prison, as in a monastery, one is isolated in a separate community from the world. One’s life is simplified. There are no bills to pay, and few responsibilities beyond doing what one is told...
“Depression is nourished by a lifetime of ungrieved and unforgiven hurts.”
– Penelope Sweet. (via strongerthistime)
