September 2011
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Stop and see
mayouy:
Each blade of grass has a story to tell.
The trees become keepers of old wisdom and the sky is the greatest of all protectors. The oceans can heal wounds and the night sky becomes an old familiar friend.
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Do you have one of those infinities that's like a... →
isomorphismes:
When I was in kindergarten, we would argue about whose dad made the most money. I can’t fathom the reason. I guess it’s like arguing about who’s taller? Or who’s older? Or who has a later bedtime. I don’t know why we did it.
Josh Lenaigne: My Dad makes one million dollars a year.
Me: Oh…
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The answer is entropy—how smell works—
little bits of everything—always...
– Sublimation Point, Jason Schneiderman (via call-me-the-sea)
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That's a pretty big trunk on my Lincoln towncar;...
Big enough to take these broken hearts and put ‘em in it.
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On one dark winter day when the wind was blowing violently outside, people were...
– Kitaro Nishida
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Yes, when the drop falls into the ocean, it is certainly dying in one sense, it...
– Osho
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We are the people who affect your life the most
And are often not the ones you choose.
Most of the time the most influential people in you life are the more unique people you meet. Unique people have an incredible tendency to spread their opinions and perspectives in new and radical ways.
Those of us who are not just another face in the crowd are far more important. We touch people’s lives more deeply and proactively than the normal...
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What a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidence is an index into his...
– Bertrand Russell
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People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. If you are...
– Mother Teresa
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Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the...
– Cicero
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Nonduality” means, as the Upanishads put it, “to be freed of the pairs.” That...
– Ken Wilber (via journeytoenlightenment)
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I no longer feel like a person
I don’t feel like a person. Not like I was. I don’t have the same emotions anymore. I have lost me I just have my five senses. I feel like a machine designed to think it was a person.
Every second feels shallow. Empty. Ticking away ad nauseum.
Where have my feelings gone? They left when I left all that I knew.
I haven’t even felt desire to eat once since I got here
I left...
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The bad news: there is no key to the universe. The good news: it was never...
– Swami Beyondananda
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the problems with staying awake this late again
I fucks up my sleep schedule more
I can’t feel sleepy
Circadian rhythm nonsense.
My roommate will wake me up way before I should wake up.
I now feel like making useless posts on tumblr and facebook about every single thing I do as if I were God’s gift to man.
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Then it follows that we should embrace pleasure among other things as a means to...
– Plato
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Tagore says: ‘When the string of the violin was being tuned, it felt the pain of...
– Hazrat Inayat Khan (via journeytoenlightenment)