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May 29, 2012
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"First I was dying to finish high school and start college.
Then I was dying to finish college and start working.
Then I was dying to marry and have children.
Then I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school so I could return to work.
And then I was dying to retire.
And now, I am dying – and suddenly I realize that I forgot to live."

— Unknown (via o-dessa)

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May 29, 2012
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Lovely.

Lovely.

(Source: hearteyes, via glittertomb)

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May 29, 2012
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"I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I just wanted to be a poem."

— Jaime Gil de Bieda (via llenalena)

(Source: light-essence, via ver2go)

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May 12, 2012
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"The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step out of the frame."

— Salman Rushdie (via kari-shma)

(via quote-book)

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April 28, 2012
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"There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live."

— Alexandre Dumas (via moreofamore)

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April 21, 2012
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"An integral being knows without knowing, sees without looking, and accomplishes without doing."

—

Lao Tzu

this state is known as Unconscious Assimilation

(via heartmindawakening)

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April 04, 2012
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aqueminililly: I would sit there for hours

aqueminililly:

I would sit there for hours

(Source: fungi, via freshvibes)

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April 04, 2012
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"The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking."

—

Murray Bookchin

*cough* capitalism money imperialism *cough*

(via agoodwomanis)

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April 04, 2012
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"Now I am thirty-six and I am in Nepal and I am finally remembering what I was told I would forget.
The voice inside the mountain speaks to me, tells me again not to be afraid, tells me that there is only love in this world. Our choice is to be in love or to be in fear. But to choose to be in love means to have a mountain inside of you, means to have the heart of the world inside you, means you will feel another’s suffering inside your own body and you will weep… . You will under­stand that this pain is your own because you are not separate, from life, or from anyone or anything else. But you will fall into a forgetting. You may die before you remember. You will forget that you know this, again and again. Do not be afraid. The body remembers, it never forgets. It is your own knowing that you hide from and do not know."

— China Galland, with thanks to the Sun Magazine (via crashinglybeautiful)

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March 23, 2012
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"

But there is a tendency among some in the excluded middle to throw up one’s hands and take the easy way out and fall in line with either side of the dichotomy. I see that as nothing short of treason, if not suicide.

Those people will never accept you, no matter how many of your old friends you turn against, or how many of your old beliefs you disavow. They’ll always laugh at you behind your back. They’ll always see you as stained, defective, stupid, no matter how far you bend over for them.

Keep fighting, because it’s the weirdos and the outcasts who have made things happen, who have moved things forward. Sure, the System loves to appropriate countercultures and subcultures, and now they’re doing it with the Geeks. But they do at their own peril. True creativity can’t abide by all of that, ultimately it will stop negotiating. And the Golden Goose will be cooked. And we’re seeing just how catastrophic that can be, as creativity withers away in the cultural conversation.

But the means to create viable art and culture have never been more available and the means to distribute it have never been more democratized. The question is the will to create it, and yes, to appreciate it.

Breaking through the endless static of 2012 will be the challenge. Having something meaningful and compelling to say and the talent to say it in an interesting way will be the way to meet that challenge.

"

— Christoper Knowles, excerpt from “Pop (culture) Has Eaten Itself” (via heartmindspirit)

(Source: heartmindawakening)

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March 22, 2012
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thelushbunny: #320 - “Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money in order to do more of what they want so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do in order to have what you want.” — Margaret Young

thelushbunny:

#320 - “Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money in order to do more of what they want so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do in order to have what you want.” — Margaret Young

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March 22, 2012
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"I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me."

— Hermann Hesse,  ”Demian” (via heartmindspirit)

(Source: heartmindawakening)

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March 17, 2012
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"The art of living is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive."

— Alan Watts (via heartmindspirit)

(Source: heartmindawakening)

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March 12, 2012
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"I have noticed that as soon as you have soldiers the story is called history. Before their arrival it is called myth, legend, fairy tale, oral poetry, ethnography. After the soldiers arrive, it is called history."

— Paula Gunn Allen (via ver2go)

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March 12, 2012
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nevver: Six Tips on Writing from John Steinbeck Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page for each day, it helps. Then when it gets finished, you are always surprised. Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewrite in process is usually found to be an excuse for not going on. It also interferes with flow and rhythm which can only come from a kind of unconscious association with the material. Forget your generalized audience. In the first place, the nameless, faceless audience will scare you to death and in the second place, unlike the theater, it doesn’t exist. In writing, your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person—a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one. If a scene or a section gets the better of you and you still think you want it—bypass it and go on. When you have finished the whole you can come back to it and then you may find that the reason it gave trouble is because it didn’t belong there. Beware of a scene that becomes too dear to you, dearer than the rest. It will usually be found that it is out of drawing. If you are using dialogue—say it aloud as you write it. Only then will it have the sound of speech.

nevver:

Six Tips on Writing from John Steinbeck

  1. Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page for each day, it helps. Then when it gets finished, you are always surprised.
  2. Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewrite in process is usually found to be an excuse for not going on. It also interferes with flow and rhythm which can only come from a kind of unconscious association with the material.
  3. Forget your generalized audience. In the first place, the nameless, faceless audience will scare you to death and in the second place, unlike the theater, it doesn’t exist. In writing, your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person—a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.
  4. If a scene or a section gets the better of you and you still think you want it—bypass it and go on. When you have finished the whole you can come back to it and then you may find that the reason it gave trouble is because it didn’t belong there.
  5. Beware of a scene that becomes too dear to you, dearer than the rest. It will usually be found that it is out of drawing.
  6. If you are using dialogue—say it aloud as you write it. Only then will it have the sound of speech.