March 2012
“Do not be afraid; our fate
Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift”
– Dante (via lucifelle)
“If I have any agency, it is opened up by the fact that I am constituted by a...”
– Judith Butler, Undoing Gender (via samljbowman)
“A case of contradictories, both of them true. There is a God. There is no God....”
– Simone Weil, as quoted in the introduction to Waiting for God (via sharanam)
“Truthfulness alone is the spiritual discipline in the Kaliyuga.”
– Sri Ramakrishna (via lucifelle)
“Envying others their life of ease is to mistake complacency for comfort. Comfort...”
– Ram Dass (via lucifelle)
“A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards,...”
– John Steinbeck (via lucifelle)
“Thus we see already that we can never arrive at the real nature of things from...”
– arthur schopenhauer, from the second book of ‘the world as will and representation.’ (via heksenhaus)
“Do you have the patience to wait till your mud settles and the water is clear?...”
– Lao Tzu (via lucifelle)
“Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.”
– Voltaire (via lucifelle)
“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old...”
– Strider, J.R.R Tolkien (via lucifelle)
“In college, I used to underline sentences that struck me, that made me look up...”
– Jhumpa Lahiri, My Life’s Sentences (Yes. Thank you, apoetreflects & azspot)
“The most important thing is not to get trapped in what I see everywhere in the...”
– Sogyal Rinpoche, courtesy of Rigpa Glimpse of the Day. (via crashinglybeautiful)
“Look at hopelessness in the face and say: “We are simply not meant to be...”
– Dodinsky (via lucifelle)
“All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things as...”
– Eckhart Tolle (via lucifelle)
“A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and...”
– Mark Twain (via lucifelle)
“Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts...”
– Shakespeare, from Macbeth (via absurdreasoning)
“Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination...”
– August Wilson (via lucifelle)
“But one must remember that they were all men with systems. Freud, monumentally...”
– Robertson Davies, “The Manticore” (via heartmindspirit)
“Life only demands from you the strength you possess.”
– Dag Hammarskjöld (via heartmindspirit)
“In the kingdom of heaven there is no difference between having and being.”
– A Course in Miracles (via lazyyogi)
“Please torture me in the old way … Here they destroy people mentally and...”
– Letters From Guantanamo. (via lukehackney)
“Theory becomes a material force when it grips the masses.”
– Karl Marx (First Critique of Hegel)
