February 2012
54 posts
“There’s something messed up about the way Westerner’s view emotions. We glorify...”
– Sam (via buddhababble)
I can't buy drugs because Animal Collective is...
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There were two very peculiar things about her. The first was that she refused to type. At first I presumed it had something to do with a distrust of technology or nostalgia for the satisfying scratch of pen reuniting with paper, but if there is anything I have learned from life, it is that I am usually wrong.
She would tape illegible handwritten notes all over my house, most of them appearing on...
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You do it to yourself, Just you, You and no one...
“Socializing is as exhausting as giving blood. People assume we are loners or...”
– Anneli Rufus (via thenocturnals)
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“He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long...”
“To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.”
– Paul Vaulery
“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
– Simone Weil (via shaktilover)
“Muddy water,
let stand,
becomes clear.”
– Lao Tzu (via ninefoldpath)
“Another error is an impatience of doubt and haste to assertion without due and...”
– Francis Bacon (via her0inchic)
“This accidental
meeting of possibilities
calls itself I.
I ask: what am I...”
– Dag Hammarskjöld (via shaktilover)
“… the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our...”
– Umberto Eco (via nevver)
Along the Ouroboros: Genesis →
jgavs:
Maybe it just wants me to create—that pounding in my temple.
And what if I indulge it?
It’s a pleasure in and of itself. It requires work, sure, and focus, definitely, yet I get to sit on my ass and smile at what’s on paper. I love writing, no, yes, realizing. Being realized. It flows, it’s…
Reality is an illusion.: Understanding the Ego. →
wakeupandbefree:
What I am about to tell you, is something many may wish not want to hear. You may choose to ignore it, you may even disagree with me. But it is THE absolute truth. There is no way around it. Unbiased and not an opinion. This may be a terrifying concept to try and conceive at first, but once it…
Self-deception relies on reinterpretation of...
“Never trust someone who can’t eat a meal alone at their own kitchen table.”
– Ellen Barkin
“Don’t be afraid to be a fool. Remember, you cannot be both young and wise....”
– Stephen Colbert
“I just did shrooms for the first time after 19 years of being completely sober,...”
– Taken from Coke Talk
Dear Coke Talk: On greatness and killing your ego. →
dearcoketalk:
Dear Coquette,
How do I accept that I won’t ever be great or outstanding? I always thought I had talent, and maybe I’m not bad, but a great many people are far better. I can’t stop thinking this and it’s causing me great anxiety.
Kill your ego, because nothing you do will ever matter….
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“It does not do well to dwell on dreams and forget to live. Remember that.”
– Albus Dumbledore