October 2010
2 posts
“Persistence is your greatest weapon. It is in the nature of barriers that they...”
– Quentin Crisp (An Englishman in New York)
September 2010
13 posts
crashinglybeautiful:
“If you are really serious, to find out the implications of death, then you have to come into contact with that fact of death, actually come into contact with it - not theoretically, not as something which you have got to face, therefore let’s face it, but rather by coming directly into contact with it, by dying. Dying - I mean by that word, coming to the end of all the...
“I thought, on the train, how utterly we have forsaken the Earth, in the sense of...”
– Wallace Stevens, 1904 (via nevver)
“It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to...”
– Narcissus and Goldmund(1930) Hermann Hesse (via quote-book)
“…you must realize that in this life it will be impossible to continue in this...”
– Anamchara • The Website of Unknowing (via dreaminginthedeepsouth)
Rumi
crashinglybeautiful:
If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it
All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing? I have no idea. My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
Your task is not to seek for love, but...
“Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words…By...”
– Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
submitted by paimar
(via quote-book)
August 2010
9 posts
“The heaviest of burdens is simultaneously an image of life’s most intense...”
– Milan Kundera (from Whiskey River) (via crashinglybeautiful)
Transformation Through Awareness: Yoga: the Growth... →
The evolution of life is to become more and more conscious, but the consciousness is always other oriented: you are conscious of some thing, some object. Yoga means to be evolving in the dimension where there is no object and only consciousness remains. Yoga is the method of evolving…
“He wanted to drift on the river not so much to see where it went
as to be one...”
– Wendell Berry from “Harlan Hubbard - Life and Work” via the beauty we love: He wanted to drift
so personally relevant, so beautiful (thank you)
(via sharanam)
“We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed,...”
– Michael Ondaatje (The English Patient) (via therealkatiewest) (via neonmedusa)
neonmedusa:
‘We shall by morning Inherit the earth.
Our foot’s in the door.’
July 2010
18 posts
“Those who refuse to look at or give expression to the dark side of life are in...”
– Laurence Overmire (via heartmindspirit, necrotine) (via metaconscious)
“There is a language older by far and deeper than words. It is the language of...”
– Derrick Jensen (via aperfectcommotion) (via crashinglybeautiful)
“You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is...”
– J. Krishnamurti, Indian Philosopher (via julie911) (via quote-book)
“Self-surrender is the surrender of all self-concern.
It cannot be done, it...”
– Nisargadatta Maharaj
(via paynehollow)
“The truths we have come to understand need to find their visible expression in...”
– Jack Kornfield (from Whiskey River) (via crashinglybeautiful)
“I will walk home alone with the deep alone, a disciple of shadows, in praise of...”
– Edward Hirsch (from riskywiver) (via crashinglybeautiful) (via dreaminginthedeepsouth)
“The “practice” at the Zen Center of Syracuse is a lay practice. It is founded on...”
– Terrance Keenan’s “St. Nadie in Winter” (also from Slow Muse, more excerpts from that book here) (via crashinglybeautiful) (via dreaminginthedeepsouth)
A Better Zennist « Wake Up and Laugh! →
sharanam:
“In a funny way, it’s like The Force, in Star Wars. All life is bound and penetrated with this oneness, and its energy emanates from all things as well. To me God is like this; in everything and everywhere, and so what you call him doesn’t matter.
[…]
To me, Zen meditation can be utilized by anyone at any time, regardless of his or her religious practice. It is a tool for peace,...
“And when wisdom grows, it leads you by the nose. You can’t stop. That’s why I...”
– Sayadaw U Tejaniya, from “The Wise Investigator” (PDF)
I always hesitate to publish quotes like these (esp. from my own teacher), in fear that they will be lost to the reader when taken out of context, so please take the time to read the full interview if you haven’t already!
(Photo taken by S....
“Contemplation is the highest expression of man’s intellectual and spiritual...”
– Thomas Merton (via oceanofmind) (via crashinglybeautiful)
“‘We cannot avoid
Using power,
…Cannot escape the compulsion
To afflict the...”
– Martin Buber (via wellhelloroe)
“The ego is a monkey catapulting through the jungle: Totally fascinated by the...”
– Lao Tzu, from Hua Hu Ching, translated by Brian Walker (via paynehollow) (via sharanam)
June 2010
40 posts
“Christianity is one way of putting words together and Hinduism is another.
The...”
– Nisargadatta Maharaj (via paynehollow) (via crashinglybeautiful)
“My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience,
extracting itself from the...”
– Saint Augustine (via paynehollow) (via crashinglybeautiful)
“Each man has only one genuine vocation: to find the way to himself.”
– Hermann Hesse (via suchness) (via crashinglybeautiful)
“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”
– Henry David Thoreau | Submitted by: bornonthe17th (via quote-book)
“It must be those brief moments, tiny moments, like islands in the ocean beyond...”
– Hans Børli (from melancholy notes) (via crashinglybeautiful)
“In the words of the ancients, one should make his decision within the space of...”
– Ghost Dog (Jim Jarmusch) (via fuckyeahexistentialism)