January 2012
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“Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in...
December 2011
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In this passing moment karma ripens and all things come to be. I vow to choose what is: … If there is cost, I choose to pay. If there is need, I choose to give. If there is pain, I choose to feel. If there is sorrow, I choose to grieve. When burning — I choose heat. When calm — I choose peace. When starving — I choose hunger. When happy — I choose joy. Whom I...
November 2011
4 posts
“I am love with you.”
“For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes...”
– Vincent Van Gogh (via julie911)
October 2011
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“What the warrior renounces is anything in his experience that is a barrier between himself and others.” Chogyam Trungpa
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To be the thing
by Dorothea Lasky
To be the name uttered, but not to have the burden to be To be the name said, but not heard To not breathe anymore, to be the thing To be the thing being breathed To not be about to die, to be already dead To not have to disappoint To not have the burden of being late Or punctual To not eat, to not have to eat To not feel anything To not be the one whose affect is criticized To...
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September 2011
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h a i k u
two cool hands, my face
i gulp the air through your mouth
moonlight lemonade
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Watch
August 2011
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Dusting by Marilyn Nelson
Thank you for these tiny particles of ocean salt, pearl-necklace viruses, winged protozoans: for the infinite, intricate shapes of submicroscopic living things. For algae spores and fungus spores, bonded by vital mutual genetic cooperation, spreading their inseparable lives from equator to pole. My hand, my arm, make sweeping circles. Dust climbs the ladder of light. For...
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Daniel Tammet & Perception
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Live.
Deliberately.
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Litany
by Billy Collins
You are the bread and the knife, The crystal goblet and the wine… -Jacques Crickillon You are the bread and the knife, the crystal goblet and the wine. You are the dew on the morning grass and the burning wheel of the sun. You are the white apron of the baker, and the marsh birds suddenly in flight. However, you are not the wind in the orchard, the plums on the counter, or...
“Science can teach us, and I think our hearts can teach us, no longer to look...”
– Bertrand Russell (via anandadeltoro)
July 2011
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we are muted, resting deer still as a pair of discarded logs deemed too wet for kindling, nestled close under cover of a swaying bedroom forest where two heads of windy gold-flecked hair, tossed by the current of dreams, spill across plum pillows. they are tree limbs craning inward they reach motionlessly toward a field of filmy light: the warmth that links our forms. swan necks crane as lips quel...
“All disquiet springs from the search for quiet; All disappointments spring from...”
– Rumi (via anandadeltoro)
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When You Haven’t Made Love in a Long Time Whatever first summons back her mouth to yours - gin or lies or the massive electric wreck of a dying man’s heart Whatever rouse your chest’s cadence to its own hectic footstomp charge Whatever villain or halo or headlock you mimic or thoracic harbor your passions thrill in Whatever ash and lye Whatever fragrant muck let your tongue be...
“A man discovered that his ax was missing, and he suspected his neighbor’s son....”
– Little story by Lao Tzu (via anandadeltoro)
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this is my biggest question
“It happens all the time in heaven, And some day It will begin to happen Again on earth - That men and women who are married, And men and men who are Lovers, And women and women Who give each other Light, Often will get down on their knees And while so tenderly Holding their lover’s hand, With tears in their eyes, Will sincerely speak, saying, My dear, How can I be more loving...
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“When you are frightened by something, you have to relate with fear, explore why you are frightened, and develop some sense of conviction. You can actually look at fear. Then fear ceases to be the dominant situation that is going to defeat you. Fear can be conquered. You can be free from fear if you realize that fear is not the ogre. You can step on fear, and therefore, you can attain what is...
“Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me...”
– Sylvia Plath (via lostinthesounds)
“My brother and I used to play a game. I’d point to a chair. “THIS IS NOT A...”
– Nicole Krauss (via donleee)
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“I am circling around God, around the ancient tower, and I have been circling...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke (via formlessbreather)
“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts...”
– Buddha (via light-essence)
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shimmering sadness sorrow’s gentle mother rocks him slowly in a cradle of arms and hands and sweet warm tears she is the seed wrapped in the dying leaf beneath a pile of dry limbs sealing purple wounds with kisses never fearful of the rotting flesh. in the shadow of infinite stillness unswayed by changing winds, the sun melts to become nectar drips down over the thirsty soil and all the...