“People say they believe in God. God is a metaphor for a mystery that absolutely transcends all human categories of thought. Even the categories of being and nonbeing. Those are still thought. I mean it’s as simple as that.”
—Joseph Campbell (via theuniverseworks)
November 2011
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“The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one’s mind, is the condition of the normal man. Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal.”
—R.D. Laing (via cultureofresistance)
“Look with innocent eyes, very open. That innocence is always there. It’s a sense of wonder.”
—Adyashanti (via mindfulted)
“How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?”
—Boris Pasternak (via mythologyofblue)
“The world is simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.”
—Henry Miller (via risky wiver)
“The Earth would die, If the sun stopped kissing her.”
—Hafiz (via frederickwoodruff)
The Archangel (Hurray for the Beast)
Giant Skyflower Band
Giant Skyflower Band
The Archangel (Hurray for the Beast)
“It helps people to understand that reality alone counts, and that dreams, expectations and hopes only serve to define a man as a broken dream, aborted hopes, and futile expectations.”
—Jean Paul Sartre (via existential-love)
“Thirteen
Fear has a face that disappears whenever I look into it.
Removed from the center of the world,
I am afraid, and that is the point.
Fear is a hole between two places.
Some might call it a door.” —John FitzGerald, from “The Mind” (via hypocrite-lecteur)
Fear has a face that disappears whenever I look into it.
Removed from the center of the world,
I am afraid, and that is the point.
Fear is a hole between two places.
Some might call it a door.” —John FitzGerald, from “The Mind” (via hypocrite-lecteur)
“We stopped at perfect days
and got out of the car.
The wind glanced at her hair.
It was as simple as that.
I turned to say something—” —
and got out of the car.
The wind glanced at her hair.
It was as simple as that.
I turned to say something—” —
Richard Brautigan
“Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.”
—Kurt Vonnegut (via violent-buddhist)
“It was so gorgeous it almost felt like sadness.”
—Banana Yoshimoto, The Lake (via lavandula)
“At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.”
—Albert Camus (via infinite-contradictions)
“That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.”
—Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 (via harukimurakami)
“Life is not like water. Things in life don’t necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.”
—Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 (via harukimurakami)
