June 2010
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May 2010
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The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it
– Henry David Thoreau (via ohflamingo) (via soul-surfer) (via littleorphanammo) (via findout)
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If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free...
– Martin Heidegger (via fuckyeahexistentialism) (via mikelovesyou) (via lazergazerz) (via heartmindspirit) (via sharanam)
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A flash appears in the midst of love, of sorrow, or joy – a moment of Ah!...
– William Segal (from riskywiver)
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We hunt for joy and we forget that sorrow and joy go together. They cannot be...
– Vimala Thakar (Why Meditation? - Five Talks Delivered at the Blaisdell Institute at Claremont University, Claremont, CA, 1974) (via sharanam)
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Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don’t...
– Rollo May (Man’s Search For Himself) (via heartmindspirit) (via lifeisabstract) (via sharanam)
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As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more...
– John Steinbeck (via its-not-what-you-think)
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Oceans
I have a feeling that my boat has struck, down there in the depths, against a great thing. And nothing happens! Nothing…Silence…Waves… —Nothing happens? Or has everything happened, and are we standing now, quietly, in the new life?
— Juan Ramón Jiménez, translated by Robert Bly
from: theanatomyofmelancholy:
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I have come to drag you out of yourself and take you in my heart. I have come to...
– Rumi (via oceanofmind) (via dreaminginthedeepsouth)
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Alba
As cool as the pale wet leaves of lily-of-the-valley She lay beside me in the dawn.
— Ezra Pound
(from: mirabilevisu)
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A valley and above it forests in autumn colors.
A voyager arrives, a map leads...
– Czeslaw Milosz (via its-not-what-you-think)
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The words ‘I am…’ are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing...
– A. L. Kitselman (via robot-heart) (via underdogvictorious) (via slowlybecoming) (via andeventhis) (via ferrydust)
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Your Miscellaneous Way
Occupying your own skin with joy, I watch you listen to yourself living, discovering each day how much less of everything steadies you into being.
- Terrance Keenan
(from Whiskey River)
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So-shu dreamed, And having dreamed that he was a bird, a bee, and a butterfly, He was uncertain why he should try to feel like anything else, Hence his contentment.
— Ezra Pound
(thank you, mirabilevisu)
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There are two very different ways to meet what arises in experience. One is to...
– Ken McLeod via Musings: Faith and Belief (via sharanam)