February 2012
49 posts
“I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone...”
– Oscar Wilde (via areyouhighenough)
“What one single person initiates, eventually can affect millions of people.”
– Dalai Lama (via dirtcrumbgoddess)
“I’ll tell you a secret. Something they don’t teach you in your temple. The Gods...”
– Achilles, Troy (2004)
Words Less Spoken: 10 Practices of a Peacemaker →
wordslessspoken:
Recognizing that I am not separate from all that is.
Being satisfied with what I have.
Encountering all creations with respect and dignity.
Listening and speaking from the heart.
Cultivating a mind that sees clearly.
Unconditionally accepting what each moment has to offer.
Speaking what I perceive to be the truth without guilt or blame.
Using all of the...
“Everything with me is either worship and passion or pity and understanding. I...”
– Anaïs Nin, Henry and June: From “A Journal of Love”—The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin (via breathemystardust)
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Improve Every Moment
Post written by Leo Babauta.
I’m a big proponent of slowing down, simplifying, doing less, and being less busy … but what if you can’t?
What if your life can’t be made less busy — are you doomed to a life of anxiety and unhappiness?
No. I’m going to share with you a very simple tool that might just transform your life. It’s something I’ve been trying in the last few months, and I can attest...
“You are here to create reality, not to continue status quo. You are here to grow...”
– (via mysticmementos)
“By my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via sunflowa)
“The first question I ask myself when something doesn’t seem to be beautiful is...”
– John Cage (via nirvikalpa)
nirvikalpa:
“Master your senses, What you taste and smell, What you see, what you hear.
In all things be a master Of what you do and say and think. Be free.
Are you quiet? Quieten your body. Quieten your mind.
By your own efforts Waken yourself, watch yourself, And live joyfully.
Follow the truth of the way. Reflect upon it. Make it your own. Live it. It will always sustain you.” — Buddha
“One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience...”
– Chinese Proverb (via nirvikalpa)
“What we speak becomes the house we live in.”
– Hafiz (via dirtcrumbgoddess)
“When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within...”
– Thich Nhat Hanh (via lucifelle)
revenge-of-the-fallen asked: Your quotes and entire blog is just beautiful.
“Karma is not something complicated or philosophical. Karma means watching your...”
– Lama Thubten Yeshe, The Bliss of Inner Fire (via nirvikalpa)
January 2012
58 posts
