There is nothing you need to do first in order to be enlightened.
Thaddeus Golas (via bodhisattvaquotes)
(via gypsji)
Design by Nikola Cernovich. Created to accompany This, a poem by Charles Olson. Black Mountain, NC: Black Mountain College Graphics Workshop, 1952. (From poetsorg)
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I would say the cultivation of silence is indispensable to being human. People sometimes talk as if they were ‘looking for silence,’ as if silence had gone away or they had misplaced it somewhere. But it is hardly something they could have misplaced. Silence is the infinite horizon against which is set every word they have ever spoken, and they can’t find it? Not to worry—it will find them.
How Silence Works: Emailed Conversations With Four Trappist Monks | The Awl (via silencesounds)
Amazing article.
(via silencesounds)
The world was so new that many things still lacked names, and to mention them, one had to point with a finger.
Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Harper & Row, 1970. (via amiquote)
Shirley Baker, Girls swinging on a lamppost, Manchester, 1965. Thank you, luzfosca.
Don’t let yourself feel worthless: often through life you will really be at your worst when you seem to think best of yourself; and don’t worry about losing your “personality,” as you persist in calling it: at fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon, and when you are my age you will give out, as I do, the genial golden warmth of 4 p.m.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise (via larmoyante)
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Humanity, I love you
because you are perpetually
putting the secret of life
in your pants and forgetting
it’s there and sitting down on it.
E.E. Cummings, “Humanity, I Love You” (via larmoyante)
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Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.
Henry Miller (via larmoyante)
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“Most of the thought process is getting rid of thought processes. Culturally, we use language as a source of information. And poetry is not information … Unlearning and getting rid of thought is important to me because I can’t really make a poem unless I discover it, discover what it is I’m writing about or actually conveying, whether it saddens or disgusts or shames me, or whether it presents me with joy or wonder or love. To get to something fundamental in my nature I have to offer up … what I know or think I know. And if in doing that I can touch upon something fundamental about my existence, then I might just make an art object that might just make contact with another human being who I’ll never meet.”
—Ralph Angel, from Writing in Flow: Keys to Enhanced Creativity by Susan K. Perry, Ph.D.
Yes. Thank you, apoetreflects.
