August 2012
“Do not be concerned with others not appreciating you. Be concerned about you not...”
– Confucius (via brotherofosiris)
“The economic pressures have also turned into intellectual pressures. When humans...”
– One university professor’s poignant meditation on leaving academia.
The above excerpt explains a tragic lot today, well beyond education, including the precarious non-future of space exploration.
(via explore-blog)
July 2012
“But suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is...”
– Joseph Campbell (via nirvikalpa)
“I don’t want to live – I want to love first and live incidentally.”
– Zelda Fitzgerald’s 1919 love letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald, shortly before their wedding, found in Letters of a Nation. (via explore-blog)
“And a softness came from the starlight and filled me
full to the bone.”
– W. B. Yeats, from “The Wanderings of Oisin” (via crashinglybeautiful)
“And no Grand Inquisitor has in readiness such terrible tortures as has anxiety,...”
– Soren Kierkegaard (via psychotherapy)
“To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury; and...”
– William Ellery Channing (via kbbsunnyfl)
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“One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices...”
– The Journey - Mary Oliver
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“There can be no homecoming without first an exile.”
– Disclaimer: I don’t know the source, or if this is the exact wording. It was quoted at a dharma talk. I was struck by it and tried so hard to memorize it, but forgot to do the same for the source.
If you know it, please message me. I would like to know.
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“The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at...”
– Love After Love - Derek Walcott
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Heart | Mind: “I am sorry you are so miserable.... →
heartmindawakening:
“I am sorry you are so miserable. “Depression’” means literally “being forced downwards.” This can happen even when you don’t consciously have any feeling at all of being “on top”! So I wouldn’t dismiss this hypothesis out of hand.
If I had to live in a foreign country, I would seek out one or…
“In the midst of tears, I found there was, within me, an invincible smile. In the...”
– Albert Camus (via nirvikalpa)
“The less I needed, the better I felt.”
– Charles Bukowski (via ufo-club)
“The films that, if I’m in a cinema, and I’m watching a movie that answers all...”
– Michael Haneke on open-ended films (Interview: Michael Haneke)
apoetreflects:
Let me be plain with you, dear reader. I am an old-fashioned man. I like the world of nature despite its mortal dangers. I like the domestic world of humans, so long as it pays its debts to the natural world, and keeps its bounds. I like the promise of Heaven. My purpose is a language that can pay just thanks and honor for those gifts, a tongue set free from fashionable...
“To be ourselves causes us to be exiled by many others, and yet to comply with...”
– Clarissa Pinkola Estes
(via sirene-cryptique)
“I hear the wind blow,
And I feel that it was worth being born just to hear the...”
– Fernando Pessoa, from “Uncollected Poems” (translated by Richard Zenith)
Anonymous asked: "A mind forever voyaging through a strange sea of thoughts, alone." - and your job is to make the stupid thing voyage as little as possible. Mind is a but a speak of dust on infinity don't make too much of it. MIND IS A LIMITER. Nice blog - Love
“Because your existence in time and space is unique, there are lives that only...”
– Harry Palmer (via julie911)
“You who never arrived
in my arms, Beloved, who were lost
from the start,
I...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke (via mycolorbook)
“Let everything happen to you,
Beauty and terror.
Just keep going,
No feeling...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke (via loveyourchaos)
“If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only...”
– C. S. Lewis (via mycolorbook)
apoetreflects:
I would say a few words in your ear. A doubtful man has little faith. Live a long time and it gets dark, and suddenly you know you don’t know yourself. But I’d say them even so. Since my eyes repeat what they take in: your beauty, your name, the river’s sound, the woods, the soul on its own.
—Vicente Aleixandre, opening lines to “A Few Words,” translated from the...
“We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy....”
– Brad Meltzer (via saddest-summer)
“Sitting over words
very late I have heard a kind of whispered sighing
not far...”
– W. S. Merwin, “Utterance” (via litverve)
