January 2012
1 post
“Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is...”
– Leonard Cohen (found at Writing Our Way Home)
November 2011
1 post
September 2011
4 posts
“There is a voice inside of you That whispers all day long, “I feel this is...”
– Shel Silverstein
“If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.”
– Leonard Cohen (via heartmindspirit)
Seeking →
Joan Tucker’s words are always beautiful.
July 2011
9 posts
“Perhaps we don’t like what we see: our hips, our loss of hair, our shoe size,...”
– Sufjan Stevens (via poisoned-honey)
“Push yourself outside of the daily routine you never know what you’ll find”
– Cheryl nordyke (via dailyinspiredthoughts)
“trees are sanctuaries. whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to...”
– Hermann Hesse (via dirtworshipingypsy)
“And from the fruit of the date-palm and the vine, ye get out wholesome drink and...”
– The Qu’ran
“It only takes the tiniest of fires sometimes
to light the way you knew was...”
– From lyrics by S J Tucker
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that...”
– Albert Camus
“When our platform becomes too narrow for people of all creeds and of no creeds,...”
– Susan B Anthony
June 2011
28 posts
“Judaism is not in the knowing; it is in the physicality of doing.
…Friday...”
“As we lay the foundations of a post-industrial moral order, it is essential for...”
– Theodore Roszak
“Each of us has to look into our dark world, recognize the forces that bind us,...”
– Ruth Burrows, Guidelines for Mystical Prayer. Thanks to louie, louie and Gerry Straub. (via crashinglybeautiful)
“Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we’re still...”
– Margaret Atwood
(via meanderingwind)
“A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is...”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery (via thingssheloves)
“The most common way people give up their power is thinking they don’t have...”
– Alice Walker
“I meet all sorts of people who’ve had all sorts of experiences and they’re still...”
– Charlotte Joko Beck.
From acorda, who wrote: “Thank you for the link Luke, the interview is wonderful!” You are most welcome, acorda.
(via crashinglybeautiful)
“With each new day it becomes more apparent to me that everything and everyone in...”
– Andrew McMahon (via starsinhereyes)
“When we create something, we always create it first in a thought form. If we are...”
– Shakti Gawain
(via thelittlesea)
“Take hold of your own life.
See that the whole existence is celebrating.
These...”
– Osho (via lucifelle)
“I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (thank you Kathy)
“Wow, what a strange and amazing thing I am. What a bizarre living being I am....”
– Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D. (via falcore)
“We need to radically increase the ratio of grunts to visionaries, with fewer...”
– Auden Schendler
“Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via psychotherapy)
“If we are bound to the concept of letting go, then we are not free.”
– Thynn Thynn, in Living Insight, Living Meditation
(via sharanam)
Daily life as practice
dhammanovice:
Student: “Would you please comment on our daily work as part of the practice?”
Joko: “Work is the best part of Zen practice and training. No matter what the work is,it should be done with effort and total attention ……When we practice patiently, eventually work begins to flow. We just do whatever needs to be done. No matter what your life is, I encourage you to make it your...
“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in...”
– Flaubert
“Don’t surrender your loneliness so quickly.
Let it cut more deep.
Let it...”
– Hafiz
“I think that we all take the images of our life and we try to make sense of...”
– Errol Morris (via austinkleon)
“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension,...”
– Anaïs Nin (via heartmindspirit)
“When a woman can trust her instinctive sensuality and sexuality, balance her...”
– Anita Johnston, Eating in the Light of the Moon
Found at Brave Harvest Holistic Promotions Facebook page
“When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he...”
– Chinua Achebe (via heartmindspirit)
“Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that...”
– Derek Walcott (via poetbabble)
May 2011
17 posts
“I don’t believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It...”
– Maya Angelou
There are things to be said
crashinglybeautiful:
There are things to be said. No doubt. And in one way or another they will be said. But to whom tell the silences? With whom share them now? For a moment the sky is empty and then there was a bird. —Cid Corman
Thank you, silencesounds, and welcome back!
“The most important aspect of love is not in giving or the receiving: it’s in the...”
– Ram Dass (via moonsiren)
“We are trying to tell ourselves what we have long known but ever refuse to...”
– Henry Miller
(via tinytruths)
“O wind that blows when and where it will,
teach me to reverence the Wind of...”
– from Prayers for a Planetary Pilgrim, by Edward Hays
“The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is,...”
– Michel Foucault
(via wardasahra)