January 2010
61 posts
“The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not...”
– Thomas Merton (via bitchville)
“The lesson of that history is that you must not despair, that if you are right,...”
– Howard Zinn (via sometimesagreatnotion) (via petersantiago)
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Yann Tiersen - Naval...
“All I ask of you is one thing: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism, it’s my...”
– Conan O’Brien (via theotherniraj) (via mundy)
I almost teared up at this last night. I think I’m making this my mantra.
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“Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief...”
– Saint Bartholomew, was one of the Twelve Apolstles of Jesus Christ. (via oceanofmind)
“If you could only keep quiet, clear of memories and expectations, you would be...”
– Nisargadatta Maharaj (via crashinglybeautiful)
“You may have the gift of prophecy and understanding all mysteries. You may be...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr. (via azspot) (via enormousair)
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Lhasa de Sela - De cara a...
“When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire...”
– Abraham Joshua Hescel (via: smilemelove) (via quote-book) (via americansatori) (via oceanofmind)
“The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness...”
– Thich Nhat Hanh (via reluctantbuddha) (via sarnath) (via fuckyeahdukkha) (via oceanofmind)
“Still, would it be totally annoying to point out that the whole White Messiah...”
– David Brooks (via azspot)
The Creative Process
+ The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. It is not like a drug; it is a particular state when everything happens very quickly, a mixture of consciousness and unconsciousness, of fear and pleasure; it’s a little like making love, the physical act of love.
+Francis Bacon
TV’s Unintended Consequences →
azspot:
But there may be more tangible benefits to TV, especially in developing nations. Daniel Hawes, a PhD candidate in applied at the University of Minnesota, discusses a study of a thousand villages in Tamil Nadu, India. The researchers found that shortly after the introduction of TV into a village, the standing of women improved dramatically. Villagers were more likely to say it was wrong...
“When I’m not in my right mind, my left mind gets pretty crowded.”
– Steven Wright (via crashinglybeautiful)
“I was a prophet sent to myself from Myself,
And it is myself who, by my own...”
– Ibn al-Farid (via touba) (via americansatori)
“I’m not entirely sure what I’m going to do in the future, but I know that in the...”
– Mark Sicignano (via kari-shma)
“Afinal, a melhor maneira de viajar é sentir.
Sentir tudo ele todas as maneiras....”
– Fernando Pessoa, Poesia de Álvaro de Campos. Afinal, a melhor maneira de viajar é sentir, (first stanza of the poem).
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“The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another...”
– Hugh Walpole (via theswashbucklingconductor) (via americansatori)