February 2012
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January 2012
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zveneczi:
Franz Schubert (1797-1828): Allegro in...
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“Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.”
– Mary Oliver (via artpropelled)
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“I carry silence with me
the way others carry snapshots
of loved ones.”
– Stephen Dunn, from “The Silence” (via ontheedgeofdarkness)
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“You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are...”
– Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
(via sunrec)
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“…..the original reason for art — to be a portal, an access point for the sacred...”
– Eckhart Tolle (via artpropelled)
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Inside a Russian rocket plant →
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Why we Travel →
For if every true love affair can feel like a journey to a foreign country, where you can’t quite speak the language, and you don’t know where you’re going, and you’re pulled ever deeper into the inviting darkness, every trip to a foreign country can be a love affair, where you’re left puzzling over who you are and whom you’ve fallen in love with. All the great travel books are love stories, by...
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A wealth you cannot imagine
A wealth you cannot imagine flows through you. Do not consider what strangers say. Be secluded in your secret heart-house, that bowl of silence. Talking, no matter how humble-seeming, is really a kind of bragging. Let silence be the art you practice. —Rumi, translation by Coleman Barks from Rumi: Bridge to the Soul. Thank you The Beauty We Love.
crashinglybeautiful
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“I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.”
– Rita Mae Brown (via cultureofresistance)
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“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control...”
– John Steinbeck (via the100rabh)
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“I’m only interested in my sitters as animals”
– Lucian Freud
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“Lady, lady, never start
Conversation toward your heart;
Keep your pretty words...”
– Dorothy Parker, “The Lady’s Reward” (via liquidnight)
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sheeper:
Agnus Dei
J.S. Bach: Mass In B Minor,...
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The Joy of Quiet →
The urgency of slowing down — to find the time and space to think — is nothing new, of course, and wiser souls have always reminded us that the more attention we pay to the moment, the less time and energy we have to place it in some larger context. “Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries,” the French philosopher Blaise Pascal wrote in the 17th century, “and yet it is...