April 2012
The emotionally sound person should be able to take risks, to ask himself what...
– Albert Ellis (via commondense)
Your head’s like mine, like all our heads; big enough to contain every god and...
– Grant Morrison, The Invisibles (via hiphopcomics)
March 2012
… “My thoughts,” said the wanderer to his shadow, “should show me where I stand;...
– Friedrich Nietzsche. Delight in blindness. 287. Book Four. The Gay Science. (via seeyoulateraggregator)
The more words you know, the wider variety of thoughts you can think. Learn new...
– Twitter / Wolven (via wesunruh)
A threat does not lengthen your sword.
– Kurdish Proverb (via erosboros)
He who knows others is learned.
He who knows himself is wise.
– Lao Tzu
If you don’t know where you are going, any path will get you there.
– Lewis Carroll
Insecurity is the lifeblood of consumer culture
anti-teachings:
Insecurity is the lifeblood of consumer culture and predatory ideologies at large. People are encouraged to feel fundamentally wrong, never complete. Never sexy enough, rich enough, funny enough, smart enough, wild enough—or whatever else can be muscled into the psyche of an individual. Marketing delivers the sensation, the experience, of a particular lack (the most common...
The modern vampire sucks media.
– I tend to think the vampirism goes the other way around.
Perception and action is the only real choice.
Quit trying. Quit trying not to try. Quit quitting.
– Zen Teaching (via nirvikalpa)
In reality time and space exist in you; you do not exist in them. They are modes...
– Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The wise spags have learned not to trust absolutes.
Even in the darkest night,...
– Chao Te Ching, 65 (via heartmindspirit)
If nature is your teacher, your soul will awaken.
– Goethe, Faust (via elige)
To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.
– Lao Tzu (via we-are-meant-to-thrive)
日本語
I had forgotten just how much I love Japanese; both the language and culture. I am spending almost no to little time on the internet, I am also feeling more focused and intentional. I have rediscovered a passion I have not felt in years. I know this is what I am meant to do.
The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude...
– Meridjet
…Existentialism: the responsibility of the individual to take hold of his or...
– Steven Earnshaw (via buynewsoul)
The big thieves hang the little ones.
– Czech Proverb (via heartmindspirit)