November 2009
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“I tell you, the more I think, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly...”
– Vincent van Gogh (via stairwaytocalifornia)
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“I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding,...”
– Richard Feynman, Surely You’re Joking, Mr Feynman! (via stairwaytocalifornia)
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“We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We look for the sermon in the...”
– Joan Didion (Whiskey River)
John Coltrane - Resolution, A Love Supreme (from...
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“To gain your own voice, forget about having it heard. Become a saint of your own...”
– Allen Ginsberg (from A Writer’s Desk)
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Young Man Picking Flowers
All at once he is no longer young with his handful of flowers in the bright morning their fragrance rising from them as though they were still on the stalk where they opened only this morning to the light in which somewhere unseen the thrush goes on singing its perfect song into the day of the flowers and while he stands there holding them the cool dew runs from them onto his hand at this hour of...
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“We all dread the helplessness of losing control; yet real freedom lies in...”
– Bayda. E. (2009). Zen heart: simple advice for living with mindfulness and compassion. Boston: Shambala, p. 155. (from Waking Up)
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“A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and...”
– P. L. Travers (via stairwaytocalifornia)
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“Live at home like a traveler.”
– Henry David Thoreau (via stairwaytocalifornia)
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“We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via stairwaytocalifornia)
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“An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly...”
– Carl Jung (via stairwaytocalifornia)
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Concerto Grosso in G Minor, RV...
“And for just a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to...”
– Jack Kerouac (via fuckyeahthebeatgeneration) (via americansatori)
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“Everything that will happen belongs to the domain of the uncertain. Live now.”
– Seneca (via billyjane)
