February 2012
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A Rose
“When we plant a rose seed in the earth, we notice it is small, but we do not criticize it as “rootless and stemless.” ‘We treat it as a seed, giving it the water and nourishment required of a seed. “When it first shoots up out of the earth, we don’t condemn it as immature and underdeveloped, nor do we criticize the buds for not being open when they appear. ‘We stand in wonder at the process...
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The most important letter you will read →
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January 2012
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God uses loneliness to teach us about living together. Sometimes he uses anger so that we can understand the infinite value of peace. At other times he uses tedium, when he wants to show us the importance of adventure and leaving things behind. God uses silence to teach us about the responsibility of what we say. At times he uses fatigue so that we can understand the value of waking up. At other...
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When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.
– Ralph Ellison (via misswallflower)
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What can I do with my happiness? How can I keep it, conceal it, bury it where I...
– Anaïs Nin (via light-essence)
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I want a trouble-maker for a lover,
Blood spiller, blood drinker, a heart of...
– From Rumi’s Kolliyaat-e Shams-e Tabrizi
Edited by Badiozzaman Forouzanfar (Tehran, Amir Kabir, 1988).
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There is no beauty in sadness. No honor in suffering. No growth in fear. No...
– Katerina Stoykova Klemer (via misswallflower)
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December 2011
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And clenching your fist for the ones like us,
who are oppressed by the figures...
– From ‘Chelsea Hotel’ Meshell Ndegeocello
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To powerful,deep voices,and long legs. To committed hearts,fierce fighters,and...
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Of everything I’ve seen, it’s you I want to go on seeing. Of everything I’ve...
– Pablo Neruda (via mcqueenadillo)
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When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements of which...
– Alice Hoffman (via ohmuffins)
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“You know yesterday I stood outside in the rain in an attempt to dissolve away or just disappear.. or be gone.. be back or… be just”
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The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling...
– James Baldwin (via black-culture)
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An Existential Life: →
fuckyeahexistentialism:
“Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs. The threads can always be traced back to some earlier tale, and to the tales that preceeded that; though as the narrator’s voice receeds the connections will grow more tenuous, for…
November 2011
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When the Unwanted arrives
Maybe I will be afraid
But maybe I will smile, and say:
-Hello, inescapable!
My day was good, the night may fall.
It will find a plowed field, the house clean,
The table set,
With everything in its place
—Manuel Bandeira
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It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishment the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
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Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
Dance me through the panic ‘til I’m gathered safely in
Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
Oh let me see your beauty when the witnesses are gone
Let me feel you moving like they do in Babylon
Show me slowly what I only know the limits of
Dance me to...
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Death is extraordinarily like life when we know how to live. You cannot live...
– J. Krishnamurti, Freedom from the Known (via universoul)
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Adele gets me upset at a relationship I AIN'T EVEN...
brain-food:
Mass text messaging random guys numbers like, “WE ALMOST HAD IT ALL!”
Swaying your hand around your room to each one of her songs like, I KNOW GORL I KNOW. YOU PREACHING TO THE CHOIR NOW GORL. HE IS NO GOOD FOR US.
All of a sudden I don’t even know who I am anymore. I have to remind myself that i’m single and I am not rolling in the deep.
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
– Johann Von Goethe (via oceanofmind)
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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed...
– Aldous Huxley (via imfantasyparade)