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
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