February 2012
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“i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without...”
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January 2012
14 posts
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“Your task is not to seek love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers...”
– Rumi (via nirvikalpa)
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“If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you...”
– Socrates
“In my body and in my soul I realized that I greatly need sin, I needed lust,...”
– Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha (via dirtcrumbgoddess)
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“Could there be a solitude that had no value to it? There is only one solitude;...”
– Rilke
“In most of his Socratic dialogues, what happens is, some guy is walking along...”
– Kazuo Ishiguro
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December 2011
11 posts
“Does it break my heart, of course, every moment of every day, into more pieces...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via black-wolves)
"My name
“I guess you are kind of curious as to who I am, but I am one of those who do not have a regular name. My name depends on you. Just call me whatever is in your mind. If you are thinking about something that happened a long time ago: Somebody asked you a question and you did not know the answer. That is my name. Perhaps it was raining very hard. That is my name. Or somebody wanted you to do...
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“Because children grow up, we think its a child’s purpose to grow up. But a...”
– Tom Stoppard (via liketheopensea)
“You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place. Like you’ll not...”
– Azar Nafisi (via liketheopensea)
This is written by a three-years-ago Brieanna...
What does God look like?
God is an angel with goldleaf eyelids. It oversees the circulation of things. God is driving alone at four in the morning and driving very fast toward a dark horizon with a spanish radio station blasting on a very shitty stereo and you are sixteen forever and you are stretching out into the dark like it birthed you. God is the way you feel after sex, when your knees...
November 2011
9 posts
〇: “If you need to visualize the soul, think of it... →
nirvikalpa:
“If you need to visualize the soul, think of it as a cross between a wolf howl, a photon, and a dribble of dark molasses. But what it really is, as near as I can tell, is a packet of information. It’s a program, a piece of hyperspatial software designed explicitly to interface with the…
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“I am not a well educated man except that I have educated myself, and,
because I...”
– Mark Helprin
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“Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not...”
– Kahlil Gibran (via nirvikalpa)
Karen Armstrong →
A co-worker sent this to me, which is a great summary and insight into Karen’s work. She is my absolute favorite religion scholar, and I highly recommend listening to this interview or reading her books.
“How far it is between the stars, how much farther
is what’s right here....”
– Rilke Sonnets to Orpheus II, 10
October 2011
18 posts
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Urban Zoologist: When the mystery of the... →
urban-zoologist:
When the mystery of the connection goes, love goes. It’s that simple. This suggests that it isn’t love that is important to us but the mystery itself. The love connection may be merely a device to put us in contact with the mystery, and we long for love to last so that the ecstasy of being near…
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