December 2010
Then the Buddha asked Angulimala to cut off a limb from a nearby tree.
When the limb was cut, the Buddha said, “Now put it back.” When Angulimala acknowledged that he was helpless to do so, the Buddha explained, “Your power is so limited, it can only destroy life. What about the power to preserve life?”
Angulimala threw away his sword.
“Overwhelmed by work anxiety lately, until I realized I am not even a speck in...”
November 2010
Constant Flux: LAST NIGHT THE RAIN SPOKE TO ME →
constantflux:
by Mary Oliver
Last night the rain spoke to me slowly, saying what joy to come falling out of the brisk cloud, to be happy again in a new way on the earth! That’s what it said as it dropped, smelling of iron, and vanished like a dream of the ocean into the branches and the grass below.
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances;...”
– Carl Jung (via poussiereux)
“Your death is always with you and it is the most attractive part of you. When...”
– Paul Williams (via itnumberpi) (via septembrist, sex-death-rebirth) (via unrealitycircle)
“Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won’t adhere to any rules. The most any of...”
– Tom Robbins (via dondante)
“The universe does not have laws.
It has habits.
And habits can be broken.”
– Dr. Wiggs Dannyboy in Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins (via sammysnapshot)
“The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly...”
– Tom Robbins (via ultimateoutlaw)
“The unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means...”
– Tom Robbins (via theromanceofsolitude)
“If you lack the iron and the fuzz to take control of your own life, if you...”
– Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins (via thechocolatebrigade)
“At times you sink, you fall
into your hole of silence,
into your abyss of...”
– Pablo Neruda, The Well (via iheartloons)
“Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it’s the cyanide.”
– Tom Robbins (via theragingcelt)
“Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in...”
– Virginia Woolf - Excerpt from Street Haunting, A London Adventure, 1927
So true, Ms. Woolf… there really is something special about secondhand books.
(via deadwriters)
“But all the long speeches, all the interminable days and hours that people had...”
– The Stranger, Albert Camus. (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
