A few times in my life I’ve had moments of absolute clarity, when for a few brief seconds the silence drowns out the noise and I can feel rather than think, and things seem so sharp. And the world seems so fresh as though it had all just come into existence. I can never make these moments last. I cling to them, but like everything, they fade. I have lived my life on these moments. They pull me back to the present, and I realize that everything is exactly the way it was meant to be.
— George, A Single Man (via colouredsound)
My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
— Rumi
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
— Rumi
What if oxygen is poisonous and it just takes 75-100 years to kill us?
My science teacher said he thinks that’s true actually
Being alone is better than sitting next to a lover and feeling lonely.
I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent.
You don’t have to let go of anything. You have to realize that everything has let go of you. You are not attached to anything in reality. Everything will die and change regardless of your love and attachment.
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.
— Dr Wayne Dyer (via mishaboom)
I’d woken up early and I took a long time getting ready to exist.
—
The Book of Disquiet, Fernando Pessoa
via fuckyeahexistentialism * delicateswans (via frenchtwist)
Ya filastiniyya…
Do not chase people. Be you and do your own thing and work hard. The right people who belong in your life will come to you, and stay.
— Wu Tang (via ancient-serpent)
(Source: stxxz.us)
Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.”
― Hermann Hesse
― Hermann Hesse
— (via journalofanobody)
Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift
— Mary Oliver (via loveage-moondream)
(Source: lordbyronsbloomers)
Don’t fool yourself. English isn’t inherently superior, or easier to learn, or more sonically pleasing. Its international usage comes from forceful assimilation and legacy of colonialistic injection. It isn’t a deed that one should take pride in.
— my uncle left this comment on his friend’s Facebook status, a white British man who was bragging about how easy it is to be a native English speaker when trekking to different nations. (via maarnayeri)
The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately, it is not so much that you use your mind wrongly—you usually don’t use it at all. It uses you. This is the disease. You believe that you are your mind. This is the delusion. The instrument has taken you over.
— Eckhart Tolle (via lazyyogi)
