March 2012
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“Avoid hurting the hearts of others, the poison of your pain will return to you.”
Native American Code of Ethics
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“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
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“Curiosity…I like the word…It evokes “care”; it evokes the care one takes of what exists and what might exist; a sharpened sense of reality, but one that is never immobilized before it; a readiness to find what surrounds us strange and odd; a certain determination to throw off familiar ways of thought and look at the same things in a different way.”
February 2012
89 posts
Anonymous asked: I would really love to watch the video you just posted about, but it says it's private! :(
nightlighting wrote me:
“thought of you / wondered what your thoughts would be: “Artists are very lucky, because we are assigned a forum to express ourselves, or we claim it. Especially performers- you’re sort of doing in public the things which no one else is allowed to do, you’re basically having what in another context would be a fit of insanity. You know, squirming around, making strange...
“I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it.” Bukowski
“Light the incense! You have to burn to be fragrant.”
— Rumi
“The confrontation with the demons does not necessarily lead to the creation of great art (or any art at all). You can write in the darkest pit and filth of yourself and come up with some dull fragment of vers libre, indistinguishable from that of a hundred contemporaries. Thus pain does not guarantee anything. Art, you see, is not interested in your suffering.”
— Gilbert Sorrentino
“The grass isnt greener on the other side, its greener where you water it. Don’t lust after something that isnt yours and invest in what is.”
— Jefferson Bethke
you are the type of lover i would marry. and roll out of bed with soft eyes and sigh at in the calmness you bring me. you would match the sun through the window and the early chillness all making me appreciate my insignificant tasks to see you after you wake up. let all your truth out on me in its violence, just penetrate me, over and over, break me down the earth i came from.
“The European continent’s landscape changed dramatically between ad 500, when it...”
Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others…By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves. — Gordon B. Hinckle
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“There is nothing permanent except change. Nothing is permanent except change. The only constant is change. Change is the only constant. Change alone is unchanging.”
Susan: “You’re saying that humans need fantasy to make life bearable.” Death (her Grandfather): “No. Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.” From the movie: “Hogfather”
“I shall not speak, I shall think about nothing: But endless love will mount in my soul; And I shall travel far, very far, like a gipsy, Through the countryside - as happy as if I were with a woman.” Rimbaud
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“It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a ‘dismal science.’ But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance.” ― Murray N. Rothbard
“Sometimes we can choose the paths we follow. Sometimes our choices are made for us. And sometimes we have no choice at all.”
— ’”The Sandman” by Neil Gaiman
“Don’t live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.”
— Wendy Wasserstein
Happy Birthday my love, Anais.
lainial asked: <3
when you walked in
i thought, “you are so beautiful
i feel like im at a festival”,
i felt like it was going to be spring
and you were also going to bring rain,
lainial asked: I'm starting a container garden, I live in an apartment. I just want to prove to people you can be self sustaining even in a limited about of space.
“Don’t pay much attention to fear, because that is dangerous. If you pay much attention to fear you are feeding it, and it will grow. Turn your back to the fear and move towards love.”
—Osho
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“I want to live a quiet bourgeois life, so that I may have the freedom to let out the violence in my daily life.” Quote given by Michelle Williams on NPR Tonight
You’re afraid of making mistakes. Don’t be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was young I shoved my ignorance in people’s faces. They beat me with sticks. By the time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me. If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you’ll never learn.
— Ray Bradbury
“The sceince of linguistics has no way of apprehending anything in language which belongs not with the social contract but with play, pleasure or desire” Kristeva
“The world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it.”
— Helen Keller
For those who search, through reading and being… You cannot simply just read a book and know, you read books you already partially know in some way… One lives in a constant process of testing their theories through experience or vice-versa.
Anonymous asked: The only remnant of hope is that true happiness is not about making yourself happy but finding ways to make others happy, and not in a self-directed manner where their happiness results in immediate rewards in my life. I need to turn the entire equation, which seems to be accepted by most people, upside down. It is not my happiness I should seek, but feeling compassion and love for others, to...
“Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. Between the two my life flows.”
— Nisargadatta Maharaj
”Communism as the positive transcendence of private property as human self-estrangement, and therefore as the real appropriation of the human essence by and for man; communism therefore as the complete return of man to himself as a social …(i.e., human) being – a return accomplished consciously and embracing the entire wealth of previous development. This communism, as fully...
“Yes, I am interested in anthropology because I am interested in even possibilities… I mean anthropology is I think is the only dicipline which is really about trying to understanding the full range of what has been possible politically, economically, socially, and so forth…and in a way there has always been an affinity between anthroplogy and anarchism simply because...
“happy Valentine’s day - may you feel treasured today- may my heart ever open. look tonight at the sky to see Jupiter, the moon and Venus in perfect alignment” Noelle King, written today on facebook
If other people do not understand our behavior—so what? Their request that we must only do what they understand is an attempt to dictate to us. If this is being “asocial” or “irrational” in their eyes, so be it. Mostly they resent our freedom and our courage to be ourselves. We owe nobody an explanation or an accounting, as long as our acts do not hurt or infringe on them.
— Erich Fromm