March 2012
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We take refuge in pride because we are afraid to tell the truth about ourselves
– Kazuko Okakura
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for...
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via thelittlephilosopher)
February 2012
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And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
– Walt Whitman (via empty-the-moon)
That’s what all these tattoos are for! ;)
Crashingly Beautiful: Leonard Cohen on Meditation →
crashinglybeautiful:
“…You run through your top ten erotic fantasies, ambition fantasies, revenge fantasies, global ratification fantasies. You run through them all until you bore yourself to death, basically, and the faculty that produces opinions and snap judgments and unrealistic scenarios for your own…
One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody,...
– Bernard M. Baruch (via moreofamore)
We are the universe pretending to be individuals.
– Deepak Chopra (via moreofamore)
There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
– C. S. Lewis (via classof1969)
Home Last Home →
journalofanobody:
No more,
those dreams of home.
Condemned to rooms
vibrating essence
of other people’s food,
and fucking,
and arguments,
and ennui,
inhaling and sighing,
farting and scratching,
yawning and trembling,
worrying about suspicious moles
and infidelity,
unto…
So, friends, every day do something that won’t compute…Give your approval to all...
– (via journalofanobody)
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to...
– (via breadandbuddha)
Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find...
– John Muir (via which-witch)
As I learned to tolerate rather than hate my pains (physical, emotional, and...
– Noah Levine and The Heart of Revolution (via restoried)
A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to discover, through the detours of...
– (via journalofanobody)
There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal...
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (via jerzee55)
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Buddhism is generally classed as an atheistic religion. This should not be...
– The Zen Humanist
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I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own...
– Thomas Merton
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In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own...
– Thomas Merton
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When we inhale, the air comes into the inner world. When we exhale, the air goes...
– Shunryu Suzuki-roshi (1905 - 1971)
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have discovered that it is necessary, absolutely necessary, to believe in...
– Shunryu Suzuki-roshi (1905 - 1971)
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In the beginner’s mind there is no thought, “I have attained...
– Shunryu Suzuki-roshi (1905 - 1971)
I care not much for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for...
– ~the only Republican I’ve ever liked (via journalofanobody)
William Howard Taft wasn’t too bad either. You have to like a president who was so fat he got stuck in the White House bath tub.
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For Zen students the most important thing is not to be dualistic. Our...
– Shunryu Suzuki-roshi (1905 - 1971)
When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to...
– Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (via bookmania)
As we mature, we become a spectacle for ourselves and, God willing, even for...
– Msgr. Luigi Giussani (via quaerere-deum)
It's like this?: "The Tree of Life" ~ Eknath... →
terreverte:
“Sages speak of the immutable Tree, with its root above and its branches below… . The limbs of this tree spread above and below. Sense objects grow on the limbs as buds; the roots hanging down bind us to action in this world. The true form of this tree – its essence, beginning,…
Amber
mobbleberry:
After thousands of years, of timeline tenderness. I become a jewel for you, somehow better with age. But that mosquito of mistrust, is embedded in the centre. A constant reminder that you are deadly. I am a sap for you, your lava-love trickles like syrup down my tongue. And solidifies, trapping my heart like that poor little insect.
Confession heals, confession justifies, confession grants pardon of sin. All...
– St. Isidore of Seville (via servant-of-the-lord)
Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
– Lance Armstrong (via misswallflower)
Birch and loch.: Eutrapelia →
thewoodenshutters:
Obstinste child, who wears the Parish’ gown of a vicer Willing mind willingly abadoned, a simply childish feint - Yet to a junvenile thought, full of whimsy, he is not Privy - the adult mind is repressed, or ‘quaint’.
Yet man will learn, as no child must That he unknowingly rushed to the…
چه گرميم چه گرميم از اين عشق چو خورشيد
How warm are we from this love, like the...
– Rumi (via sun-hawk)
Rakuli: Birth →
rakuli:
Oh, but the air! Sweet, nourishing oxygen Filling lungs that have known nothing but fluid
Oh, but the smells! The aromatic, consuming scents Entering nostrils that have known no odours
Oh, but the touch! The soft, delicate embrace Cradling bare skin that have known nothing of texture
Oh, but…
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Zazen: How to do seated meditation
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Buddhism and the Brain →
Many of Buddhism’s core tenets significantly overlap with findings from modern neurology and neuroscience. So how did Buddhism come close to getting the brain right? ~From SEED Magazine - 2/21/2012
wrinkles.
thedustdancestoo:
kiss my face,
my fingers,
the palms of my hands.
leave your mark
on my skin; abiding
impressions of the seconds
we shared,
so that i might remember you still,
at the end of time
when my memory has faded,
the sun has dimmed,
and you have fallen asleep.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to...
– Anne Frank (via thelittlephilosopher)
The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.
– Thoreau <3 (via assingmylaughoff)