March 2012
“There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.”
– Gertrude Stein (via hindsightttt)
“Then take off your flesh,
unpick the lock of your bones.”
– Anne Sexton, The Wall (via derschwuleskylar)
“But hurry, let’s entwine ourselves as one,
our mouth broken, our soul bitten...”
– Federico García Lorca, Sonnet of the Garland of Roses, trans. by Scott Tucker (via frenchtwist)
“She’s the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their...”
– C.S. Lewis (The Screwtape Letters)
“To study Buddhism is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self....”
– Dogen (via sweatersandsass)
February 2012
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“My darling, the wind falls in like stones
from the white-hearted water and when...”
– Anne Sexton (via dykasaurusrex)
“I grew up watching your hands arrange space, so I find it very natural that when...”
– Dorothea Grossman (via beryl-azure)
असतोमा सद्गमय। तमसोमा ज्योतिर् गमया। ...
moreofamore:
Asato mā sad gamaya Tamaso mā jyotir gamaya Mṛtyormā amṛtam gamaya Aum śānti śānti śāntiḥ
From ignorance, lead me to truth
From darkness, lead me to light
From death, lead me to immortality
Aum peace, peace, peace
“While practicing mindfulness, don’t be dominated by the distinction between good...”
– Thich Nhat Hanh (via moreofamore)
“There is no truth to seek, just answers to realize. All things reveal themselves...”
– Almine (via moreofamore)
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reading derrida’s “writing and difference” and i’ve decided to brush up on my structuralism and post-structuralism. watching some fabulous lectures…especially those by professor louis markos.
watching some by derrida too..
his lectures are surprisingly more concise than his prose. but it goes without saying that a man who thinks every written word is inherently a...
“The more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to fight back,...”
– Norman Cousins (via ly2me)
“Every minute passing is all at once an unbelievable and doubtful century of...”
– Sylvia Plath (via disulfide)
“Man is not capable of thought in any high degree and even the most spiritual and...”
– Herman Hesse, The Steppenwolf (via angular-momentum)
“Why would one say of such a seminar that it moves stealthy as a wolf? This is,...”
– Derrida (via terrorofexistence)
“As long as space endures,
and living beings remain,
until then, may I, too...”
– Dali Lama (via rainbreaksthrough)
“I cannot promise very much.
I give you the images I know.
Lie still with me...”
– Anne Sexton (via elektra-narcissa-zolnoski)
acid-circus:
Oliver James by Fleet Foxes
Off...
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never been this sick in my life…everything is just going steadily downhill no matter how hard i’m trying to believe in this new treatment. i’m in agonizing pain and i can hardly move.
i haven’t been able to eat more than a handful of almonds in a week.
please please please don’t let this get any worse. :(
“Man is condemned to be free. Condemned because he did not create himself, yet is...”
– Jean-Paul Sartre (via thechopinist)
“If writing is not a tearing of the self toward the other within a confession of...”
– Jacques Derrida (via toadustyshelf)
“To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others....”
– Thich Nhat Hanh, The Art of Power (via jadeddebaser)
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“All that is necessary for any language to exist is an agreement amongst a group...”
– David Crow - Visible Signs (via helenamasterson)
“You’re a different human being to everybody you meet.”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Rant (via floralnymph)
“There might be some hours of loneliness. But there was something wonderful even...”
– L.M. Montgomery (via winterbabywritings)
“Stay close, my heart, to the one who knows your ways;
Come into the shade of...”
– Stay Close, My Heart, Rumi (via floralnymph)
“You grow to heaven. You don’t go to heaven.”
– Edgar Cayce (via elige)
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Montezuma - Fleet Foxes
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“All these people. Ask them and they’ll profess to have standards. But you’ll see...”
– Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans (via vtvo)
“the Czech scientist stands before them, tall, very tall, awkwardly tall, and the...”
– Milan Kundera, Slowness (65)
“I feel the need to swing away from constant explanations. I want to run away...”
– From The Diary of Anais Nin 1934-1939 by Anais Nin (via mirroir)
“If you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool...”
– Ray Bradbury (via selfinspiration)
“Each person who ever was or is or will be has a song. It isn’t a song that...”
– Neil Gaiman (via finio)
“Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great...”
– Thich Nhat Hanh (via moreofamore)
“If you wish for light,
be ready to receive light.”
– Rumi (via shaktilover)
“Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via justinmhancock)