July 2012
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Of dragons and princesses →
We have no reason to harbor any mistrust against our world, for it is not against us. If it has terrors, they are our terrors; if it has abysses, these abysses belong to us; if there are dangers, we must try to love them. And if only we arrange our life in accordance with the principle which tells us that we must always trust in the difficult, then what now appears to us as the most alien will...
“At the center of your being you have the answer;
you know who you are and you...”
– Lao Tzu (via shaktilover)
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“The only devils in this world are those running around in our own hearts, and...”
– Mahatma Gandhi
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“Don’t take anything personally. Even when a situation seems so personal, even if...”
– Don Miguel Ruiz
(via myrealityofdragonflies)
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“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant...”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
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The Examined Life: Anonymity →
Gregorian chant, Romanesque architecture, the Iliad, the invention of geometry were not, for the people through whom they were brought into being and made available to us, occasions for the manifestation of personality. When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation…
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“Everyone must know that within them burns a candle and no one’s candle is...”
– - Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook
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“All the Buddhas of all the ages have been telling you a very simple fact: Be —...”
– Osho (via yogachocolatelove)
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“The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation...”
– Aristotle
How To Be a Poet →
How To Be a Poet
BY WENDELL BERRY
(to remind myself)
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Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet.
You must depend upon
affection, reading, knowledge,
skill—more of each
than you have—inspiration,
work, growing older, patience,
for patience joins time
to eternity. Any readers
who like your poems,
doubt their judgment.
ii
Breathe with unconditional...
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“To live in the present moment is a miracle.
Peace is all around us
in the...”
– Thich Nhat Hanh
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“How To Be a Poet
(to remind myself)
i
Make a place to sit down.
Sit...”
– Wendell Berry
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“Meditation is about seeing clearly the body that we have, the mind that we have,...”
– Pema Chodron (via yogachocolatelove)
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“Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my...”
– Henry David Thoreau
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“Pour yourself out like a fountain.
Flow into the knowledge that what you are...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
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“The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.”
– ~ Harriett Beecher Stowe
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“What locks itself in sameness has congealed.
Is it safer to be gray and numb?...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
“Outside of rightdoing and wrongdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you...”
– Rumi
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“We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.”
– ― Thich Nhat Hanh
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“You have to realize that one thinks one sees with one’s eyes, but the reality of...”
– Artist Alex Katz on the Callie Crossley Show, 6/11/12. Listen. (via wgbhnews)
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The Science of Illusion →
Reality and our perception of it are incommensurate to a far greater degree than is commonly believed. . For all its apparent fidelity, the movie in our heads is a “Rashomon” narrative pieced together from inconsistent and unreliable bits of information. It is, to a certain extent, an illusion.
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“We thought we could cure everything, but it turns out that we can cure only a...”
– - Rachel Naomi Remen
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“Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow...”
– Katherine Dunham
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“You must unlearn, what you have learned…”
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Yoda 