January 2011
“When you say, I enjoy doing this or that, it is really a misperception. It makes...”
– Eckhart Tolle (via bodymindandsoul)
“Since we remember that we are really all part of one great soul, we can see our...”
– Daphne Rose Kingma (via bodymindandsoul)
Depressive realism →
slychedelic:
Depressive realism is the proposition that people with depression actually have a more accurate perception of reality, specifically that they are less affected by positive illusions of illusory superiority, the illusion of control and optimism bias. The concept refers to people with borderline or moderate depression, suggesting that while non-depressed people see things in an overly...
“There are no accidents in Nature. Every motion of the constantly shifting bodies...”
– John Muir (via bodymindandsoul)
“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of...”
– John Muir (via bodymindandsoul)
Fuck Yeah Existentialism: “In the midst of the... →
fuckyeahexistentialism:
“In the midst of the broken consciousness of mid twentieth century suffering anguish of separation from my own body and its natural infinity of feeling its own self one with all self, I instinctively seeking to reconstitute that blissful union which I experienced so rarely i took it to be supernatural and gave it holy Name thus made hymn laments of longing and...
“We live our lives in anticipation of the next hit of experience as if the one...”
– Joseph Goldstein (via politefight)
“Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you...”
– Janet Fitch, White Oleander (via libraryland)
“Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you...”
– Janet Fitch, White Oleander (via libraryland)
Libraryland: "Immortality" by Lisel Mueller →
libraryland:
In Sleeping Beauty’s castle the clock strikes one hundred years and the girl in the tower returns to the world. So do the servants in the kitchen, who don’t even rub their eyes. The cook’s right hand, lifted an exact century ago, completes its downward arc to the kitchen boy’s left ear; the boy’s…
felts:
Everything’s Happening So Fast by MGMT
a dreamer's conversation
Dreamer: I'm out of time. I tell myself it will change, in my subconscious, where everything feels so strange.
Subconscious: You have time.
Dreamer: I'm losing this race; I feel like this place, it doesn't feel like mine.
Subconscious: Everything is yours. Nothing is foreign.
Dreamer: I feel as if I'm living inside a dream not made for me.
Subconscious: Everything is made for you here.
Dreamer: The faces stare at me like I'm foreign.
Subconscious: They won't hurt you.
Dreamer: It's my place of comfort, but, it doesn't feel like mine.
Subconscious: Everything is yours.
Dreamer: I used to come here for many years that have past, a refuge, and a safe place away from those who are awake.
Subconscious: No one is awake here.
“Love lies hidden even in the quietness of the rocks. And on beaches where no one...”
– Bill McDonald (via bodymindandsoul)
“Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in...”
– Joseph Conrad (via quote-book)
Destroyed.
You make one wrong turn, and because of that, after it all the turns are wrong. And then you are so far off of where you wanted to be and then you’re lost.
“May you find serenity and tranquility in a world you may not always understand....”
– Sandra Sturtz Hauss (via bodymindandsoul)
“People universally tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something...”
– Eat Pray Love (via perfectbymistake)
“Freedom is not a gift received from a State or a leader but a possession to be...”
– Albert Camus (via azspot)
“When my husband died, because he was so famous and known for not being a...”
– Ann Druyan, talking about her dead husband Carl Sagan (via fuckyeahexistentialism, savagemike)
“The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyond reach; it...”
– Edward Abbey (via slychedelic, knotformation)
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung...”
– C.S. Lewis (The Four Loves)
“Our ‘minds’, ‘souls’, ‘spirit’ and consciousness are all physical in nature....”
– “Souls do not Exist: Evidence from Science & Philosophy Against Mind-Body Dualism” by Vexen Crabtree (2007).
Consciousness is a product of the Universe, and not the other way round. Biology as the cause of life is also the cause of consciousness. There is simply no reason to presume that simply...
“We’ve pretended for so long that something would simply appear when we needed it...”
– Gregory Frost (Shadow Bridge)
“While you can’t leave it behind, you can look at the events of your past from a...”
– Jill A. Davis (via kari-shma)
Some stories are just never meant to be told.
“Look, in my opinion, the best thing you can do is find a person who loves you...”
– Juno (via quote-book)
