things that change your life

lol

Sun, 19 May 2013 12:36:11 -0400

lol

realhumanbaby: I’m really sad

Sun, 19 May 2013 07:46:11 -0400

realhumanbaby:

I’m really sad

"If only these people around us could be convinced. But most of them believe they get nothing good..."

Sat, 18 May 2013 14:13:05 -0400

““If only these people around us could be convinced. But most of them believe they get nothing good out of themselves except by constraint; they’re only pleased with themselves when they’re under duress. If there’s one thing each of them claims not to resemble it’s…himself. Instead he sets up a model, then imitates it; he doesn’t even choose the model—he accepts it ready-made. Yet I’m sure there’s something more to be read in a man. People dare not—they dare not turn the page. The laws of mimicry—I call them the laws of fear. People are afraid to find themselves alone, and don’t find themselves at all. I hate all this moral agoraphobia—it’s the worst kind of cowardice. You can’t create something without being alone. But who’s trying to create here? What seems different in yourself: that’s the one rare thing you possess, the one thing which gives each of us his worth; and that’s just what we try to suppress. We imitate. And we claim to love life.””

- André Gide, The Immoralists (via sunrec)

"Let us shut off the wireless and listen to the past."

Fri, 17 May 2013 23:03:22 -0400

“Let us shut off the wireless and listen to the past.”

- Virginia Woolf, Three Guineas (via proustitute)

Photo

Fri, 17 May 2013 23:02:20 -0400

earth-song: No words to describe this Walrus reaction after...

Thu, 16 May 2013 23:08:02 -0400

earth-song:

No words to describe this Walrus reaction after winning a fish cake, since it was his birthday!

"Another morning and I wake with thirst for the goodness I do not have. I walk out to the pond and..."

Thu, 16 May 2013 20:33:47 -0400

“Another morning and I wake with thirst for the goodness I do not have. I walk out to the pond and all the way God has given us such beautiful lessons. Oh Lord, I was never a quick scholar but sulked and hunched over my books past the hour and the bell; grant me, in your mercy, a little more time. Love for the earth and love for you are having such a long conversation in my heart. Who knows what will finally happen or where I will be sent, yet already I have given a great many things away, expecting to be told to pack nothing, except the prayers which, with this thirst, I am slowly learning.”

- Mary Oliver, Thirst. And the river flows… (via crashinglybeautiful)

asctx: The World (Jia Zhangke, 2004)

Thu, 16 May 2013 15:56:09 -0400

asctx:

The World (Jia Zhangke, 2004)

"It is one of the evils of rapid diffusion of news that the sorrows of all the world come to us every..."

Thu, 16 May 2013 15:47:43 -0400

“It is one of the evils of rapid diffusion of news that the sorrows of all the world come to us every morning. I think each village was meant to feel pity for its own sick and poor whom it can help and I doubt if it is the duty of any private person to fix his mind on ills which he cannot help. This may even become an escape from the works of charity we really can do to those we know. A great many people do now seem to think that the mere state of being worried is in itself meritorious. I don’t think it is. We must, if it so happens, give our lives for others; but even while we’re doing it, I think we’re meant to enjoy Our Lord and, in Him, our friends, our food, our sleep, our jokes, and the birds song and the frosty sunrise.”

- Yours, Jack - C. S. Lewis - Google Books (via mythsofmodernity)

!

"Neuroscientists often claim to have made great progress in providing a scientific account of..."

Thu, 16 May 2013 15:45:33 -0400

“Neuroscientists often claim to have made great progress in providing a scientific account of consciousness. But they have never done anything more than specify more precisely the correlations between brain events and mental events. For their part, philosophers have repeatedly proposed ways to describe the mental in entirely physical terms. But, as Nagel notes, “such strategies…leave out just what was deliberately left out…by Descartes and Galileo in order to form the modern concept of the physical, namely, subjective appearances.” The fact is we still don’t know how to fit subjective experience into an entirely materialist world.”

- Nagel’s Untimely Idea | Commonweal magazine (via mythsofmodernity)

"The lonely assassins they used to be called. No one quite knows where they came from but they’re as..."

Thu, 16 May 2013 09:00:04 -0400

“The lonely assassins they used to be called. No one quite knows where they came from but they’re as old as the universe or very nearly and they have survived this long because they have the most perfect defense system ever evolved. They are quantum locked. They don’t exist when they’re being observed. The moment they are seen by any other living creature they freeze into rock. No choice, it’s a fact of their biology. In the sight of any living thing they literally turn to stone, and you cant kill a stone. ‘Course, a stone cant kill you either but then you turn your head away, then you blink and oh yes it can.”

- Doctor Who Blink Easter Egg w/ Transcript (via klaatu)

Photo

Thu, 16 May 2013 08:57:08 -0400

doctors are jocks, not nerds. you can't give people health if you don't have health. i mean???

Tue, 14 May 2013 09:31:59 -0400

itsjohnsen: A girl emerges from a bomb shelter surounded by the...

Sat, 11 May 2013 17:51:41 -0400

itsjohnsen:

A girl emerges from a bomb shelter surounded by the ruins of Nagasaki. August 10, 1945.
Yōsuke Yamahata

"It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed ‘Wisdom.’ And then I know..."

Fri, 10 May 2013 17:56:06 -0400

“It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed ‘Wisdom.’ And then I know exactly what is going to follow: ‘Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.’”

- Ludwig Wittgenstein (via sisyphean-revolt)

Published on Apr 30, 2012Do not believe the rumors that I removed the ribs. This is my true waist....

Fri, 10 May 2013 07:16:00 -0400

Published on Apr 30, 2012
Do not believe the rumors that I removed the ribs. This is my true waist. I am a raw-foodists. I am very, very little eating, and often hungry.

Category People & Blogs

Photo

Thu, 09 May 2013 21:17:11 -0400

crashinglybeautiful: Everything in existence is crying out for...

Wed, 08 May 2013 15:24:14 -0400

crashinglybeautiful:

Everything in existence is crying out for a particular quality of consciousness that only humans can give. This doesn’t mean we are superior to nature, only that there’s an incredible need for a certain cooperation. The famous mystic Rudolph Steiner has said that for the agricultural process to happen, for seeds and plants, and trees to grow, birdsong is absolutely essential. This is a beautiful truth that very few people know. But we also need to take what he said one stage further, because birds call and sing not only to quicken plants: they also call to awaken the human seed that we are. They are actually singing for our sake as well. If we can start to listen to them, really listen, they will draw us into this greater consciousness I have been talking about. They will be our teachers, because nature is able to point us to our inner nature. …We are called to be there. When we can listen to what the birds have to say, to what nature has to say, and when we perceive the beauty of nature, then we are completing the circle and returning this physical world to its source through our own consciousness.

–Peter Kingsley in an interview with PARABOLA, Spring 2006 from the issue “Coming To Our Senses.”

Photograph: Edward Steichen, Blue Sky, 1923

via: parabola-magazine.

sullenmoons: The Finding of Moses - Lawrence Alma Tadema

Wed, 08 May 2013 15:17:09 -0400

sullenmoons:

The Finding of Moses - Lawrence Alma Tadema

Photo

Wed, 01 May 2013 09:03:09 -0400