Crashingly Beautiful

May 2009

The Only Living Boy In New York Simon & Garfunkel

Luke: “Apparently Paul Simon and Art were both supposed to be in the film adaptation of Joseph Heller’s “Catch 22”. Simon’s part got cut from the film and while Art flew down to Mexico for the filming, Paul sat sad and lonely in a New York Hotel and penned this song. (Thanks to Niall, my coworker for sharing this story)”

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May 29, 200977 notes

#Simon & Garfunkel #Audio #Folk

“You’re on Earth. There’s no cure for that.” —Samuel Beckett

May 29, 2009

#Samuel Beckett

“Regard this fleeting world like this:
Like stars fading and vanishing at dawn,
like bubbles on a fast-moving stream,
like morning dewdrops evaporating on blades of grass,
like a candle flickering in a strong wind…
echoes, mirages, and phantoms, hallucinations,
and like a dream.” —from the Prajna Paramita Sutras

May 29, 2009

#Prajna Paramita Sutras #Wisdom Traditions

May 28, 20094 notes

#Enlightenment #Cartoons

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#Théo Van Rysselberghe #Painting

May 28, 200919 notes

#Rumi #Sufism #Mevlevi #Sacred Dance #Wisdom Traditions

“We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him — if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us” —Peter Brook on Music

May 28, 2009

#Peter Brook #Wisdom Traditions #Music

May 28, 200919 notes

#Aaron Huey #Sufism #Wisdom Traditions #Sacred Places

“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?” —Virginia Woolf, from lepetitmort

May 28, 2009

#Virginia Woolf #Stars

“Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up save in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket—safe, dark, motionless, airless—it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.” —C.S. Lewis, from lepetitmort)

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#C.S. Lewis #Wisdom Traditions #Love

“They told me that the truth of the universe was inscribed into our very bones. That the human skeleton was itself a hieroglyph.” —“Something to Remember Me By” from Collected Stories, Saul Bellow (via lepetitmort)

May 28, 2009

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#C.P. Cavafy #Poetry

“In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.” —Leo Tolstoy, from coffeeandlipstick & tobia

May 27, 2009

#Wisdom Traditions #Leo Tolstoy

May 27, 200913 notes

#John Cage #Wisdom Traditions

May 27, 200932 notes

#Jack Kerouac #Buddha #Illustration

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#Allen Ginsberg #Writers #Portraits

“Our notions about happiness entrap us. We forget that they are just ideas. Our idea of happiness can prevent us from actually being happy. We fail to see the opportunity for joy that is right in front of us when we are caught in a belief that happiness should take a particular form.” —Thich Nhat Hanh

May 22, 2009282 notes

#Thich Nhat Hanh #Happiness #Wisdom Traditions #Buddhism

“The unknown is not measurable by the known. Time cannot measure the timeless, the eternal, that immensity which has no beginning and no end… when we try to measure something which is not measurable, we only get caught in words.” —Jiddu Krishnamurti

May 21, 20091 note

#Jiddu Krishnamurti #Wisdom Traditions #The Unknown #Time