March 2013
2 posts
“The power of your own psyche, the authority of your own psyche, has brought you...”
– Seth, The Seth Audio Collection (via nirvikalpa)
“When two people are ‘in love,’ people commonly say that they are...”
– Robert A. Johnson, “We: Understanding the Psychology of Romantic Love”
February 2013
9 posts
“Ultimately, happiness comes down to choosing between the discomfort of becoming...”
– ~ Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
“Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heart-ache when...”
– Henry Miller
2 tags
“You have a choice in life: You can either strive to be perfect or you can strive...”
– Reggie Ray
1 tag
“We waste so much energy trying to cover up who we are
When beneath every...”
– ~Mark Nepo
November 2012
2 posts
“Stop trying to leave,
and you will arrive.”
– Lao Tzu
October 2012
8 posts
“Respond to every call that excites your spirit.”
– Rumi
“Indeterminacy means, literally: not fixed, not settled, uncertain, indefinite....”
– Kay Larson, Where the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists, The Penguin Press, New York, 2012, p. 19-20 (via crashinglybeautiful)
“Courage is a love affair with the Unknown.”
– Osho
September 2012
5 posts
“People inspire you, or they drain you — pick them wisely.”
– Hans F. Hansen
“I’m a fountain of blood in the shape of a girl.”
– Björk
“The habit of despair is worse than despair itself.”
– Albert Camus, The Plague
June 2012
2 posts
“No one lives his life.
Disguised since childhood,
haphazardly assembled
from...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
May 2012
10 posts
“Close your eyes & imagine the best version of you possible. That’s who you...”
– C. Assaad (via nirvikalpa)
“I must also have a dark side if I am to be whole.”
– Carl Jung
“Above all else, we need to nourish our true self—what we can call our buddha...”
– Sogyal Rinpoche. Thank you, Rigpa: Glimpse of the Day.
“I Am Much Too Alone in This World, Yet Not Alone
I am much too alone in this...”
– ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes...”
– Anaïs Nin (via terramantra)
“a woman can’t survive
by her own breath
alone
she must know
the voices of...”
– Joy Harjo (via fernsandmoss)
“Crisis is opportunity riding a dangerous wind.”
– Chinese Proverb
April 2012
14 posts
Fear of the Inexplicable
But fear of the inexplicable has not alone impoverished the existence of the individual; the relationship between one human being and another has also been cramped by it, as though it had been lifted out of the riverbed of endless possibilities and set down in a fallow spot on the bank, to which nothing happens. For it is not inertia alone that is responsible for human relationships repeating...
“Most of us stand poised at the edge of brilliance, haunted by the knowledge of...”
– Alain de Botton
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
3 tags
“There is a vitality, a life force,
a quickening that is translated through you...”
– Martha Graham
“clear boundaries
clear containers
which means not just agreed upon rules
but...”
– J
“Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.”
– Alan Watts (via mindfulmantras)
“Love just happens. Nobody thinks about how to love, or when and where to love....”
– Amma (via nirvikalpa)
“That’s what happens in every relationship. Rather than giving you contentment,...”
– Osho
“The primordial sexuality
Of the infinite cosmos
Is the intercourse eternal
Of...”
– Richard Shannon, The Book of Peace (via fernsandmoss)
“To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown...”
– Pema Chödrön (via nirvikalpa) 