December 2011
31 posts
“We have to abandon the arrogant belief that the world is merely a puzzle to be solved”
—Vaclav Havel’s Critique of the West (via theatlantic)
“to be beautiful means to be yourself.
you don’t need to be accepted by others.
you need to accept yourself.” —Thich Nhat Hahn (via nezartdesign)
you don’t need to be accepted by others.
you need to accept yourself.” —Thich Nhat Hahn (via nezartdesign)
“Inside, we are ageless and when we talk to ourselves, it’s the same age of the person we were talking to when we were little. It’s the body that is changing around that ageless centre.”
—David Lynch (via maryjessica)
“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
—Pablo Neruda (via myquotelibrary)
“What is the mark of liberation? No longer being ashamed in front of oneself.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (via theformofbeauty)
“I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (via wildhorsescouldntdragmeaway)
“Have you ever been kissed by God? Passionately (tongue, lips, etc.)? Or are you one who simply condemns God to the realm of the invisible? When do you feel most comfortable? When do you feel most loved? Perhaps it is in the warm embrace of your lover or in the assuring touch of your mother. Perhaps, like me, you have likened this person to God in your life and realized that God was loving you through them. Or maybe you don’t believe in God. Cool. Here’s a simpler question: Have you ever lost yourself in a kiss? I mean pure psychedelic inebriation. Not just lustful petting but transcendental metamorphosis when you became aware that the greatness of this being was breathing into you. Licking the sides and corners of your mouth, like sealing a thousand fleshy envelopes filled with the essence of your passionate being and then opened by the same mouth and delivered back to you, over and over again–the first kiss of the rest of your life. A kiss that confirms that the universe is aligned, that the world’s greatest resource is love, and maybe even that God is a woman. With or without a belief in God, all kisses are metaphors decipherable by allocations of time, circumstance, and understanding.”
—Saul Williams (via nirvikalpa)
“You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all, just as an intelligence without the possibility of expression is not really an intelligence. Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing.”
—Luis Buñuel
“We have to create. It is the only thing louder than destruction.”
—Andrea Gibson (via winterinwarsaw)
“A beautiful thing is never perfect.”
—Egyptian proverb (via nirvikalpa)
“Each flower on a hillside looks out with its own unique vision of the world, and each consciousness does the same thing, fulfilling a position impossible for any other consciousness to fulfill.”
—Seth, The Unknown Reality, Volume 2 (via plutothecat)
“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten we belong to each other.”
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Mother Teresa
via ginger-ninja (via frenchtwist)
