January 2011
12 posts
thegirlwiththemessyhair:
“So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won’t do in your essays.”
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- John Keating, Dead Poet’s Society
“I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all...”
– Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh (via melancholynotes)
beauty of their hearts
Then it was as if I suddenly saw the secret beauty of their hearts, the depths where neither sin nor desire can reach, the person that each one is in God’s eyes. If only they could see themselves as they really are. If only we could see each other that way, there would be no reason for war, for hatred, for cruelty… I suppose the big problem would be that we would fall down and worship each other.
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“how monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how...”
– C.S Lewis
“According to Vedanta, there are only two symptoms of enlightenment, just two...”
– Deepak Chopra (Synchrodestiny: Harnessing the infinite power of coincidence to create miracles)
Pisces
love my horoscope today.
~You can call it whatever you wish, but you have grown spiritually in ways that will continue enriching your life for years to come. Today, however, your more sensible side encourages you to question the value of any impractical endeavors. Don’t panic; the answers to your questions will appear just in time for you to start your next important journey.
coincedence?
iamsunshine78:
physicist roger penrose has said that the chance of an organized universe (such as ours) happening at random is NIL:
one in 10 to the 10th to the 30th, a number so large that if you programmed a computer to write a million zeros per second, it would take a MILLION times the age of the universe (13.7 billion years) just to write that number down.
meaning that the physical laws of...
“Anyone who is not on your same evolutionary and spiritual frequency will...”
– singer Ricky Martin, from his new book “Me” (via iamsunshine78)
“ I don’t want to pass through life like a smooth plane ride. All you do is get to breathe and copulate and finally die. I don’t want to go with the smooth skin and the calm brow. I hope I end up a blithering idiot cursing the sun - hallucinating, screaming, giving obscene and inane lectures on street corners and public parks. People will walk by and say, “Look at that drooling idiot. What a...
Be Here Now - Ram Dass →
teacupofmoons:
lysergicacidiethylamide:
If any of you are interested in Be Here Now (the illustrated version) I found this link which lets you read the entire book for free. Enjoy!
loveu!
