January 2012
2 posts
4 tags
“Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to...”
– Elizabeth Stone
October 2011
18 posts
“It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.”
– Wallace Stevens
“Make it a point: whatsoever — sadness, anger — whatsoever —...”
– osho
1 tag
“Who can free himself of achievement and fame
Then descend and be lost
Amidst...”
– Chuang Tzu, The Empty Boat
“Misery is a by-product, so is bliss. Misery is a by-product of being asleep,...”
– Osho
6 tags
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled...”
– Carl Sagan
7 tags
“This is the threat to our lives. We all face it. We all operate in our society...”
– Joseph Campbell, 2001
5 tags
“In the gap between thoughts
nonconceptual wisdom shines continuously.”
– Milarepa
9 tags
“When we let our heart break open, a sweetness starts to flow from us like...”
– John Welwood
6 tags
“The temple of love is not love itself;
True love is the treasure,
Not the...”
– Rumi
September 2011
40 posts
4 tags
“There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most...”
– Peyton Conway March
10 tags
5 tags
“There is a pain so utter
It swallows Being up.
Then covers the abyss with...”
– Emily Dickinson
8 tags
“Intimate relationship is a dynamic, often dizzying dance of contradictions that...”
– John Welwood
7 tags
“God has given us a dark wine so potent that,
drinking it, we leave the two...”
– Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks
“Playfully, you hid from me.
All day I looked.
Then I discovered
I was you,
...”
– Lalleshwari (via singingbowls)
7 tags
“Don’t surrender your loneliness
So quickly.
Let it cut more deeply.
Let...”
– Hafiz
7 tags
“Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others....”
– Eric Hoffer
3 tags
“We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is...”
– Joseph Campbell
7 tags
“Our institutions, our epistemologies are bankrupt and exhausted; we must start...”
– Terrence McKenna
“Ask the world to reveal its quietude —
not the silence of machines when they...”
– Wendell Berry
“Perhaps we, as a civilization and a species, are undergoing a rite of passage of...”
– Richard Tarnas
“Space flights are merely an escape, a fleeing away from oneself, because it is...”
– Carl Gustav Jung. (via -postlapsaria)
8 tags
“I teach you to be selfish. I teach you self-love because it is only through...”
– Osho
8 tags
“For ever we come, for ever we go;
For ever, day and night, we are on the move....”
– Lalla
“Fiction deals in truths, not facts, and truths are, of course, ever so much more...”
– Tom Robbins