May 2012
19 posts
theohpioneer:
“We must be our own before we can be another’s.”
—
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.”
– Oscar Wilde
without the doing, the dreaming is useless. ~ r.a.
Holy Abandon
God is the most madly alive, creative, uninhibited, wisely passionate being in the universe. And we were created in His image. Born to live in His wild flow. The call to live—to be holy—is a call to abandon ourselves, holding absolutely nothing back. It is to surrender to the wildness of God—and to the wonder of life.
A life pursuing holiness, says Peter, is a life that is sprinting away from...
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kari-shma:
“My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.”
—
Anais Nin
nathanielstuart:
“Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.”
—
John Burroughs
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ee cummings
touching you i say (it being Spring and night) “let us go a very little beyond
the last road – there’s something to be found” and smiling you answer “everything turns into something else, and slips away … . (these leaves are Thingish with moondrool and i’m ever so very little afraid”)
i say “along this particular road the moon if you’ll notice follows us like a big yellow dog. You ...
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Steve Jobs, 1996 Wired Interview
Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while.
“All things seem possible in May.”
– Edwin Way Teale
The days that I long for
This speaks to me so much…
When did following systems and processes become more important than following trails and blazing new ones?
I want to build fortresses. I want to expand into uncharted territory. I want to implement my own tools of survival. I want to read the land. I don’t want to be clinging tight to the few things in life that I think are worthwhile; I want to open my arms to...
April 2012
18 posts
“Desire is a beautiful thing.”
– TUT
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When you are at Baja Bean Company...
wheninrva:
On the patio:
In the bathroom:
besttt!
thedaniellepage:
“This is the beauty I want. Beauty has got to be astonishing, astounding - it’s got to burst in on you like a dream, like the exquisite eyes of a girl.”
—
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Flappers and Philosophers
“Some people look for a beautiful place. Others make a place beautiful.”
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― James Joyce
He was alone. He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and wilful and wildhearted, alone amid a waste of wild air and brackish waters and the seaharvest of shells and tangle and veiled grey sunlight.
“You’ve got my feet on the life-path,
with your face shining sun-joy...”
– Acts 2:28 MSG
Joseph Campbell
The world without spirit is a wasteland. People have the notion of saving the world by shifting things around, changing the rules, and who’s on top, and so forth. No, no! Any world is a valid world if it’s alive. The thing to do is to bring life to it, and the only way to do that is to find in your own case where the life is and become alive yourself.
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March 2012
18 posts
“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim”
– Nora Ephron
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(looking back) I’ll never say I took too many pictures or I made too many MEMORIES because I extended my hand to this NEW person who lives and breathes and smiles TOO MUCH, just like me (So I shared a small chunk of my time with them living and breathing and smiling Too Much)
Nobody has ever said I had too many SPONTANEOUS HAPPY TIMES with OLD FRIENDS So, I and you and we were built to...
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Your Brain on Fiction →
“The brain, it seems, does not make much of a distinction between reading about an experience and encountering it in real life; in each case, the same neurological regions are stimulated.
Reading great literature, it has long been averred, enlarges and improves us as human beings. Brain science shows this claim is truer than we imagined.”
just what I needed to read this day.
[ Something in me thought there should be something more, apparently, than the expressions of love, community, and creativity already in my life. A manicure? Tap dance lessons? A vacation? A new pair of jeans? Next, next, next.
My yoga teacher’s reminder to get back to basics felt like a call to forget next and remember now. This cup of coffee. This dinner...
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Creating Organic Perfume, One Memory at a Time →
“It’s a simple equation that seems to add up: humans, are natural beings craving the primitive and organic. Ayala Moriel, whose eponymous line of perfumes was originally inspired by Aftel’s book Essence & Alchemy, describes the attraction of scent and our ties to it.
It’s no wonder that intrinsically, the journey lived by natural essences is entwined with our own. Aftel and Moriel agree...
