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...
Feb 9th
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Feb 9th
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The most important letter you will read  →
Feb 5th
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January 2012
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Jan 30th
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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...
Jan 30th
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Jan 22nd
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Jan 20th
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“When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.”
– Ralph Ellison (via misswallflower)
Jan 20th
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Jan 20th
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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)
Jan 17th
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Jan 15th
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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).
Jan 15th
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Jan 11th
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“There is no beauty in sadness. No honor in suffering. No growth in fear. No...”
– Katerina Stoykova Klemer (via misswallflower)
Jan 7th
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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
Dec 29th
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Dec 29th
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Dec 28th
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“To powerful,deep voices,and long legs. To committed hearts,fierce fighters,and...”
Dec 26th
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Dec 25th
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Dec 25th
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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)
Dec 25th
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Dec 25th
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“When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements of which...”
– Alice Hoffman (via ohmuffins)
Dec 25th
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Dec 23rd
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Dec 23rd
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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”
Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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“The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling...”
– James Baldwin (via black-culture)
Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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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…
Dec 5th
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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
Nov 29th
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Nov 29th
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Nov 24th
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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.
Nov 17th
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Nov 15th
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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...
Nov 14th
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Nov 13th
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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)
Nov 11th
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Nov 11th
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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. 
Nov 10th
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ListenRaheem Devaughn ‘I Wanna Love You’
Nov 10th
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“A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.”
– Johann Von Goethe  (via oceanofmind)
Nov 9th
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Nov 8th
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“The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed...”
– Aldous Huxley (via imfantasyparade)
Nov 8th
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