The inner–what is it?
if not intensified sky…
Rainer Maria Rilke
If only you could hear
the sound of snow…
Hakuin Ekaku
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track Bodhisattva Vow
artist Beastie Boys
album Ill Communication

Beastie Boys | “Bodhisattva Vow” from Ill Communication.

R.I.P., MCA

Moods, movements,
Thoughts and feelings
Ever shifting
Inner patterns
Reflect still
Other inner
Chemical-genetic interacts
Present here
At this moment.
Behind the
Series of events
Which I
Call Me

What is my own?

—William Segal, Openings, (Continuum Publishing, New York, 1999)

JK Putnam, “Hikers, Glacier Bay National Park” (National Geographic, 2012). Beautiful. Thank you, tyrenshaw.

JK Putnam, “Hikers, Glacier Bay National Park” (National Geographic, 2012). Beautiful. Thank you, tyrenshaw.

I’ve learned to value failed conversations, missed connections, confusions. What remains is what’s unsaid, what’s underneath. Understanding on another level of being.
Anna Kamienska, from A Nest of Quiet: A Notebook (translated by Clare Cavanagh)

(Source: awritersruminations)

“If there is a soul, it is a mistake to believe that it is given to us fully created.  It is created here, throughout a whole life.  And living is nothing else but that long and painful bringing forth.” —Albert Camus Yes! Thank you, apoetreflects.

“If there is a soul, it is a mistake to believe that it is given to us fully created.  It is created here, throughout a whole life.  And living is nothing else but that long and painful bringing forth.”

—Albert Camus

Yes! Thank you, apoetreflects.

“One summer morning when I was a child I lay on the sand after swimming in the small lake in the park.  The sun beat down … it was almost noon.  The water shone like steel, motionless except for the feathery curl behind a distant swimmer.  From my position I was looking at a rectangle brightly lit, actually glaring at me, with sun, sand, water, a little pavilion, a few solitary people in fixed attitudes, and around it all a border of dark, rounded oak trees, like the engraved thunderclouds surrounding illustrations in the Bible.  Ever since I had begun taking painting lessons, I had made small frames with my fingers, to look out at everything.” —Eudora Welty, from “A Memory” in A Curtain of Green and Other Stories (Mariner Books, 1979) Thank you, apoetreflects.

“One summer morning when I was a child I lay on the sand after swimming in the small lake in the park.  The sun beat down … it was almost noon.  The water shone like steel, motionless except for the feathery curl behind a distant swimmer.  From my position I was looking at a rectangle brightly lit, actually glaring at me, with sun, sand, water, a little pavilion, a few solitary people in fixed attitudes, and around it all a border of dark, rounded oak trees, like the engraved thunderclouds surrounding illustrations in the Bible.  Ever since I had begun taking painting lessons, I had made small frames with my fingers, to look out at everything.”

—Eudora Welty, from “A Memory” in A Curtain of Green and Other Stories (Mariner Books, 1979)

Thank you, apoetreflects.

You are Life passing through your body, passing through your mind, passing through your soul. Once you find that out, not with logic, not with the intellect, but because you can feel that Life, you find out that you are the force that makes the flowers open and close, that makes the hummingbird fly from flower to flower. You find out that you are in every tree, and you are in every animal, vegetable, and rock.

You are that force that moves the wind and breathes through your body. The whole universe is a living being that is moved by that force, and that is what you are. You are Life.
Don Miguel Ruiz (via elige)

(via apoetreflects)

“When we leave ourselves alone, when we’re flowing like we’re supposed to flow … we automatically go into a creative mode.” –Alan Arkin from a conversation with David Ulrich in “Broadening the Arc of Devotion,” PARABOLA, Summer 2012.  From parabola-magazine.

“When we leave ourselves alone, when we’re flowing like we’re supposed to flow … we automatically go into a creative mode.”

–Alan Arkin from a conversation with David Ulrich in “Broadening the Arc of Devotion,” PARABOLA, Summer 2012. 

From parabola-magazine.