August 2011
July 2011
I don’t sleep, I weep, bleed and forgo important relationships over...
Our own life has to be our message.
– Thich Nhat Hanh (via illuminatedbeing)
There comes a time when the pain of continuing exceeds the pain of stopping. At...
– Gary Zukav (via heartmindspirit)
This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are...
– Gary Provost (via verslibre)
I just drooled on myself a little.
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"Emptiness" by Anthony de Mello
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Emptiness
Sometimes there would be a rush of noisy visitors and the silence of the monastery would be shattered
This would upset the disciples; not the Master who seemed just as content with the noise as with the silence
To his protesting disciples he said one day, “Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self”
Anthony de Mello; “One Minute...
If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free...
– Martin Heidegger (via addicted2creativity)
A man who is awake in the open field at night, or who wanders over silent paths,...
– Walter F. Otto (Homeric Gods)
There’s nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the...
– Charles Bukowski (via litttlesecrets)
Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant...
– Hunter S. Thompson (via raquelochoa)
Belief gets in the way of learning.
– Robert A. Heinlein (via heartmindspirit)
The dream is too often about myself. To correct this; and to forget one’s own...
– Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry dated 22 December 1927 (Thank you, proustitute)
I fucking love this statement. Surprised I have never heard it before.
Anyone who has probed the inner life, who has sat in silence long enough to...
– Kabir Helminski (Thank you, lovespulse)