March 2012
“I actually attack the concept of happiness. I don’t mind people being happy -...”
– Hugh Mackay
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“To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or...”
– Thomas Merton
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It is eternity now.
Realising that spirit, recognising my own inner consciousness, the psyche, so clearly, I cannot understand time. It is eternity now. I am in the midst of it. It is about me in the sunshine; I am in it, as the butterfly floats in the light-laden air. Nothing has to come; it is now. Now is eternity; now is the immortal life. Here this moment, by this tumulus, on earth, now; I exist in it. The...
“Before enlightnment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightnment, chop wood,...”
– Zen Proverb
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“Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one...”
– Claude Monet
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“I will remember your small room, the feel of you, the light in the window, your...”
– Charles Bukowski
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The Informed Vegan: Laboratory Dogs Free For First... →
Wow. This is so astonishing and heartbreaking. These animals had never touched grass or felt the sun until they were rescued.
theinformedvegan:
Forty beagles raised since birth in a pharmaceutical testing laboratory have been released and their first steps out into the real world were caught on tape.
Members of the Beagle Freedom Project brought the pups to LA hoping they would be able to...
February 2012
“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension,...”
– Anaïs Nin
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“Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response...”
– whiskey river
“Today is an ephemeral ghost. A strange amazing day that comes only once every...”
– whiskey river
“In the case of loneliness, we’ve often set up a barrier between ourselves and...”
– Larry Rosenberg, “Intimacy with Living and Dying” in Living in the Light of Death: On the art of being truly alive
(Shambhala Publications, 2000)
“Everything you do right now ripples outward and affects everyone. Your posture...”
– David Deida
(via elige)
“Watching Willard Romney and Rick Santorum lay clubs on each other over the past...”
– Charles P. Pierce
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“Now that I know what I want, I don’t have to hold on to it quite so much.”
– Lucian Freud
(via lunch-poems)
“So, friends, every day do something that won’t compute…Give your approval to all...”
– (via journalofanobody)
“”We shall not cease from exploring, and at the end of our exploration we will...”
– -T. S. Eliot
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Water Pipe Study: United States Needs $1 Trillion... →
Plugging the leaks in water pipes and building new ones to keep up with a growing population could cost the United States $1 trillion over the next 25 years, according to an industry study released Monday.
That study unearths a subject few Americans think about: buried drinking-water mains. As with aging highway infrastructure, however, the vast network of pipes built out during the boom years of...
“Souls love. That’s what souls do. Egos don’t, but souls do. Become a soul, look...”
– Ram Dass
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“Sometimes, we just have to let go of someone who matters to us not because we...”
– Anonymous
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“I’m in love with you, and I’m not in the business of denying myself the simple...”
– John Green
(via infinitives)
“I’ve got to admit, it’s been funny to watch some of these folks completely...”
– POTUS at the United Auto Workers conference
today (video)
“In just one year, the expenditure of the U.S.’s military budget is equivalent to...”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson
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“Tenho neste momento tantos pensamentos fundamentais, tantas coisas...”
– Fernando Pessoa - Livro do Desassossego (27.), 64.
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“Nowhere can one find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than one’s own soul”
– Marcus Aurelius
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“How did Jesus market the church? By telling people that if they follow Him they...”
– How to market the church?
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