January 2011
57 posts
“Every human on this earth, regardless of age, race, or nationality, is a...”
– Dr. Robert C. Fulford (via bodymindandsoul)
“Religious liberty is the proverbial canary in the mine. If a state won’t respect...”
– From this article
“Instructions for living a life.
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.”
– Mary Oliver
(via biitumen)
“Everyone in me is a bird.
I am beating all my wings.”
– Anne Sexton (via liquidnight)
“Someone else lifted one large pink blossom
from the pavement beyond the fence,...”
– Naomi Shihab Nye
“He who binds to himself a Joy,
Does the winged life destroy,
He who kisses the...”
– The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying (via soul-surfer)
“When I watch you
wrapped up like garbage
sitting, surrounded by the smell
of...”
– Lucille Clifton
“What an astonishing thing a book is. Across the millennia, an author is speaking...”
– Carl Sagan (via yogaprivatelessons)
“Let nothing remain but a love
as vast as all the oceans,
pouring like a...”
– Vidal de Nicolas
“Poetry is an ethic. By ethic I mean a secret code of behavior, a discipline...”
– jean cocteau.
(via heksenhaus)
“Anna regarded her with grandmotherly concern. “I hope you’re feeling...”
– Dialogue from Mary Ann in Autumn, by Armistead Maupin
Nothing isn't: On inner beauty by Thomas Merton →
dhammanovice:
“Then it was as if I suddenly saw the secret beauty of their hearts, the depths of their hearts where neither sin nor desire nor self-knowledge can reach, the core of their reality, the person that each one is in God’s eyes. If only they could see themselves as they really are. If only we could…
“Be kind to your sleeping heart
Take it out in the vast field of light
and let...”
– Hafiz (thanks Claire)
“Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“At a discussion on the God
experience, the Master said,
“When God is...”
– Anthony de Mello
“Eternity is not infinity.
It is not a long time.
It does not begin at the end...”
– Wendell Berry. From The Beauty We Love. (via crashinglybeautiful)
“Eternity is not infinity.
It is not a long time.
It does not begin at the end...”
– Wendell Berry. From The Beauty We Love. (via crashinglybeautiful)
“The more fully we live, the easier it is to let go, to die. Monks are taught to...”
– David Steindl-Rast, OSB
“The more fully we live, the easier it is to let go, to die. Monks are taught to...”
– David Steindl-Rast, OSB
“There is a wolf in me…I keep the wolf because the wilderness gave it to me, and...”
– Carl Sandburg (via theantidote & metaconscious)
“There is a wolf in me…I keep the wolf because the wilderness gave it to me, and...”
– Carl Sandburg (via theantidote & metaconscious)
“The Master ordinarily
dissuaded people from
living in a monastery.
“To...”
– Anthony de Mello
“The Master ordinarily
dissuaded people from
living in a monastery.
“To...”
– Anthony de Mello
Tested by falling
And then he allows some of us to fall more severely and distressingly than before - at least that is how we see it. And then it seems to us, who are not always wise, that all we set our hands to is lost. But it is not so. We need to fall, and we need to see that we have done so. For if we never fell we should not know how weak and pitiable we are in ourselves. Nor should we fully know the...
Tested by falling
And then he allows some of us to fall more severely and distressingly than before - at least that is how we see it. And then it seems to us, who are not always wise, that all we set our hands to is lost. But it is not so. We need to fall, and we need to see that we have done so. For if we never fell we should not know how weak and pitiable we are in ourselves. Nor should we fully know the...
“I think when one sees something true and beautiful, one wants to tell people...”
– Jiddu Krishnamurti on why he kept on teaching, what motivated him after all these decades.
It seems to me, that it is for the same reason that some bloggers kindly blog. Gratitude to them.
(via dhammanovice)
“I think when one sees something true and beautiful, one wants to tell people...”
– Jiddu Krishnamurti on why he kept on teaching, what motivated him after all these decades.
It seems to me, that it is for the same reason that some bloggers kindly blog. Gratitude to them.
(via dhammanovice)
“Praying for peace entails believing that peace begins with you, and aligning...”
– David Steindl-Rast, OSB
“Praying for peace entails believing that peace begins with you, and aligning...”
– David Steindl-Rast, OSB
“If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they...”
– Barry Lopez
(via artpropelled)
“If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they...”
– Barry Lopez
(via artpropelled)
“To sit patiently with a yearning that has not yet been fulfilled, and to trust...”
– Elizabeth Gilbert, found at Magpie Girl
“To sit patiently with a yearning that has not yet been fulfilled, and to trust...”
– Elizabeth Gilbert, found at Magpie Girl
My Time
allomelo:
by Leonard Cohen
My time is running out and still I have not sung the true song the great song
I admit that I seem to have lost my courage
a glance at the mirror a glimpse into my heart makes me want to shut up forever
so why do you lean me here Lord of my life lean me at this table in the middle of the night wondering how to be beautiful
my thanks to rinabeana’s...
My Time
allomelo:
by Leonard Cohen
My time is running out and still I have not sung the true song the great song
I admit that I seem to have lost my courage
a glance at the mirror a glimpse into my heart makes me want to shut up forever
so why do you lean me here Lord of my life lean me at this table in the middle of the night wondering how to be beautiful
my thanks to rinabeana’s...
“Be not ever pondering
Over what the morn may bring;
Whether it be joy or pain,...”
– Branwell Bronte
“Be not ever pondering
Over what the morn may bring;
Whether it be joy or pain,...”
– Branwell Bronte
“We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece...”
– T.S. Eliot