August 2012
45 posts
“How do you let go of attachment to things? Don’t even try. It’s impossible....”
– Alan Watts (via samsaranmusing)
You Have to Be Careful →
fluttering-slips:
You Have to Be Careful
You have to be careful telling things. Some ears are tunnels. Your words will go in and get lost in the dark. Some ears are flat pans like the miners used looking for gold.
What you say will be washed out with the stones. You look for a long time…
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“Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky (via ghostsnghouls)
Amen to this. People will seek you out asking for help to escape their troubles and within five minute’s time you realize that these troubles are their reason for living.
(via samsaranmusing)
n 1: On Jeanette Winterson →
“We can reject everything else: religion, ideology, all received wisdom. But we...”
– His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama (via samsaranmusing)
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“We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.”
– Pablo Picasso
“If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a...”
– Henry David Thoreau, Walden (via sunrec)
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“It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.”
– Gore Vidal
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“Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of...”
– Gore Vidal
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“Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn”
– Gore Vidal 26 of his best quotes.
July 2012
60 posts
