December 2009
54 posts
Romare Bearden →
Study: Experiences make us happier than... →
psychotherapy:
…Another reason for increased happiness in experiences, the researchers found, was that people felt a greater sense of vitality or “being alive” during the experience and in reflection, Howell said.
“As nice as your new computer is, it’s not going to make you feel alive,” he said.
Most psychologists who study the phenomenon say people adapt to a new purchase in six to eight...
“I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the...”
– Saul Bellow (via crashinglybeautiful)
Gustavo Santaolalla
“And so this brings us to the final formula of the Bodhisattava way, the way of...”
– Joseph Campbell
“… Down deep in every human heart there is mercy and generosity. No one is born...”
– Nelson Mandela from the documentary; Madiba: The Life and Times of Nelson Mandela (via alinasmith) (via stewf) (via crashinglybeautiful)
“Twelve Rules for being Human
1. You will receive a body.
You may like it or...”
– (via oceanofmind)
Whence Navajo Beauty Comes
crashinglybeautiful:
“For the Navajo, beauty is not so much in the eye of the beholder as it is in the mind of the creator and the creator’s relationship to the created (that is, the transformed or the organized.) The Navajo does not look for beauty; he generates it within himself and projects it onto the universe… Beauty is not ‘out there’ to be perceived by the perceptive and appreciative...
“If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are...”
– Lao Tzut (via oceanofmind)
chi and life
i-peach-feng-shui:
Its like a domino effect: the bad energy seeps from one source and spoils the room like a rotten apple in a barrel, subtly toppling everything as it stretches from its source. It can be a broken lamp, the crack in your wall that you’d rather not deal with, the fish bowl thats a bit too dirty…even people that are severely negative.
Its all energy, and like a plague, it spreads...
“Don’t you feel the same way? When I cannot see myself, even though I touch...”
– Jean-Paul Sartre (via myserendipities) (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
The Word by Pablo Neruda
“……… You can say anything you want, yessir but it’s the words that sing, they soar and descend…….. I bow to them…. I love them, I cling to them, I run them down, I bite into them, I melt them down …..
I love words so much…. The unexpected ones… The ones I wait for greedily or stalk until, suddenly, they drop…..
Vowels I...
“Destructive means cannot bring constructive ends, because the means represent...”
– Martin Luther King (via azspot)
“All the joy the world contains has come through wishing happiness for others
...”
– Shantideva in A Guide to a Bodhisattva’s Way of Life (via oceanofmind)
“Pain is important; how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it,...”
– Audre Lorde (via therestisbullshit) (via samsaramotel)