February 2013
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XVII (I do not love you…)
I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz, or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off. I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul. I love you as the plant that never blooms but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers; thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance, risen from the earth, lives...
January 2013
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“In the end it’s all very simple.
Either we give ourselves to Silence or we...”
– Adyashanti (via ashramof1)
January 2012
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“Here is an amazement — once I was twenty years old and in
every motion of...”
– ~ Mary Oliver, Am I Not Among the Early Risers (excerpt) (West Wind)
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December 2011
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Owl Eyes/ Devendra Banhart
Send me up owl eyes...
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“It’s coming to grips with the fact that the only person who can cause us to...”
– Adyashanti (2004-12-01). End of Your World, The (Kindle Locations 496-497). Sounds True. Kindle Edition. (via parkstepp)
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“Advice? I don’t have advice. Stop aspiring and start writing. If...”
– Alan Watts
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There is nothing ‘wrong’ with the way the world is. Wrong and Right are creations of a dull consciousness, searching to keep itself busy with trivialities.
Busy busy, getting through life like passing by in a train. Getting a glimpse here, capturing a frame there.
So the irony here is that although deep inside, the ‘know-er’ knows he is playing the game of good vs. bad,...
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November 2011
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Japanese aesthetics
I had no idea about Japanese aesthetics before. After reading this article, i was amazed by the sensitivity and the life perspective revealed to me.
Yugen [ an important concept in traditional Japanese aesthetics] suggests that beyond what can be said but is not an allusion to another world.[12] It is about this world, this experience. All of these are portals to yugen:
“To watch the sun...
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“truth is too simple for words
before thought gets tangled up in nouns and...”
– Nirmala
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“A wine bottle fell from a wagon and
broke open in a field.
That night one...”
– Hafiz
“I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.”
– J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
October 2011
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“There is no such thing as a person. There are only restrictions and limitations....”
– Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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“Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the...”
– The Summer Day by Mary Oliver
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August 2011
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“Not soon, as late as the approach of my ninetieth year,
I felt a door opening...”
– Czeslaw Milosz, Late Ripness
June 2011
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“Here is a story
to break your heart.
Are you willing?
This winter
the loons...”
– Mary Oliver, Lead
May 2011
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“Be kind to yourself, dear – to our innocent follies.
Forget any sounds or touch...”
– ~ Rumi ~ THAT LIVES IN US
numinousdreams-deactivated20110 asked: If you could live in any era of history, what would it be and why?
(the future counts too, but only if you describe it)
(the future counts too, but only if you describe it)
April 2011
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“I first saw God when I was a child, six years of age’
The cheeks of the...”
– Catherine of Siena,Consumed in Grace
March 2011
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“The craving to become causes fears; to be, to achieve, and so to depend...”
– J.Krisnamurti, The Book of Life
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“Self-education is vitally necessary in order to enable the cerebral organ to...”
– Vimala Thakar, an excerpt from Growing Into Silence
Thank you, Noornalini , for sending this article.
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“Within your heart in a space no bigger than an atom,
God has placed the 18,000...”
– Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, an excerpt from the poem The things that change are not our real life
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“There’s a sacredness to everyone’s life. In order to relate to it, you have to...”
– Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, “A New Place, A New Time”
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Anonymous asked: do you think wars happen due to make us remember that we need to cherish mindfulness and love?
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“How does one forget the self? Certainly not by trying. That would be like trying...”
– Andrew Cooper, “The Transcendent Imperative”
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“It may be the rock in the field is also a song.
And it may be the ears of...”
– Mary Oliver,from The Leaf and the Cloud (via singingbowls)
entropy-entropy asked: :))...i meant to say....you know exactly what to post...not like me...i just keep on wandering here and there...bewildered....
entropy-entropy asked: :))...thank you...it seems you are a pure, pious soul...i appreciate your patience and your beautiful words....
