May 2013
“When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others...”
– Alan Watts, Psychotherapy, East and West (1961)
“If you could get rid of yourself just once, the secret of secrets would open to...”
– Rumi
(via astraeia)
“Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods,...”
– Henry David Thoreau
(via astraeia)
“At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.”
– Frida Kahlo
(via astraeia)
““You shouldn’t ever have to change who you are for the sake of pleasing someone...”
– http://leahweber.tumblr.com/
“The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.”
– e e cummings
(via ashramof1)
“Atheism & Awe:
[These atheists] find the Grand Canyon not just arresting...”
– Ronald Dworkin, quoted in Adam Frank’s Blog entry “Let’s Get Creative And Redefine The Meaning Of Religion” at: http://t.co/UkyhHEtXre (via johnsparker)
“The happiness we seek cannot be found through grasping, trying to hold on to...”
– Pema Chödron
(via yogachocolatelove)
“The only way you will ever awaken is through the silence, not through...”
– Robert Adams
(via ashramof1)
“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you always got,...”
– Unknown
(via elige)
Leave A Trail
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Artwork by George Inness
leahweber:
“When you recognize that there is a voice in your head that pretends to be you...”
– Eckhart Tolle (via elige)
“I thought my problem was to face death with gaiety, now I have learned that it...”
– W. B. Yeats, from a letter to Dorothy Wellesley, November 20, 1937 (via litverve)
“We’ve all had at least a taste of it: the falling away of everything. It can...”
– Jeff Foster
(via ashramof1)
“Not to know what happened before we were born keeps us forever a child.”
– Cicero (106-43 BC)
“Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don’t...”
– Leo Buscaglia (via creatingaquietmind)
““If we can let go for just a moment, if we can relax, if we can fall into the...”
– parkstepp
“Most human relationships consist mainly of minds interacting with each other,...”
– Eckhart Tolle
(via lazyyogi)
““Grace is all around us, if we only have the eyes to see it. The good moments...”
– parkstepp
“The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can...”
– Pema Chodron
(via lovespulse)
A Momentary Flow: Eric Weinstein may have found... →
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Marcus du Sautoy: A physicist has formulated a mathematical theory that purports to explain why the universe works the way it does – and it feels like ‘the answer’
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Two years ago, a mathematician and physicist whom I’ve known for…
wildcat2030:
“What if I told you 10 years from now your life would be exactly the same? Doubt you’d be happy. So, why are you afraid of change?”
-Karen Salmansohn (via theselittlewondersstillremain)
circular-referencez:
“Let me keep my distance, always, from those
who think they have the answers.
...”
– Mary Oliver, from “Mysteries, Yes” in Evidence (via litverve)
“I sit before flowers
hoping they will train me in the art
of opening up.”
– Shane Koyczan, from The Student (via apoetreflects). My God that is beautiful. (via crashinglybeautiful)
“Keep quiet’ means
stop pursuing thoughts.”
– Mooji (via ashramof1)
“True meditation is not a ‘doing’, not a task to accomplish or a process leading...”
– Jeff Foster (via ashramof1)
“Just for half of a second do not think. Do it now! Go no way and you will be in...”
– Papaji (via ashramof1)
“Why doesn’t bottled water turn green? Because it’s pasteurized, it’s sterilized....”
– Daniel Vitalis, Why Wild Water (via elige)
“Friendship is the joy, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person,...”
– George Elliot (via mycolorbook)
“I would like to house my spirit within my body, to nourish my virtue by...”
– T’u Lung (T’u Ch’ihshui) translated by Lin Yutang, The Travels of Mingliaotse. Courtesy of Whiskey River. (via crashinglybeautiful)
Will Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter Stop Meaning... →
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My children have snow anxiety. For the record, this started in the winter of 2011–12 when no snow fell—at all—and sleds, saucers, skis, and snowball makers sat dejectedly on the...
“What’s the impulse behind art? It’s saying in whatever language is the language...”
– Greil Marcus on the essence of art. (via explore-blog)
“Stop trying to ‘get it together’. The biggest lie we’re told when we’re growing...”
– Unknown (via erraticintrovert)
“Being kind isn’t always easy. Or convenient. But it has the potential to change...”
– Cap Watkins (via elige) 