January 2010
“Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It...”
– whisperingwillow > onceuponathought > Sylvia Boorstein
It never gets old.
whisperingwillow > ♥ GNR ...
“People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they...”
– samsaramotel > devilduck > Søren Kierkegaard
I didn't like this book when I read it years ago. ...
“Among other things, you’ll find that you’re not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You’re by no means alone on that score, you’ll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You’ll learn from them—if you want...
“what lives in words is what words were needed to learn.”
– Jane Hirshfield, To Speech.
“Emptiness is not something sacred in which to believe. It is an emptying: a...”
– Stephen Batchelor, Living With the Devil
Must. Read. More. Merton.
“The danger of education, I have found, is that it so easily confuses means with ends. Worse than that, it quite easily forgets both and devotes itself merely to mass production of uneducated graduates — people literally unfit for anything except to take part in an elaborate and completely artificial charade which they and their contemporaries have conspired to call “life.” “A few years ago a...
“There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you...”
– samsaramotel > constantflux and feralnostalgia > Tennessee Williams
“Of all the liars in the world sometimes the worst are our own fears.”
– Rudyard Kipling, was an amazing British author and poet. crashinglybeautiful > oceanofmind
Indeed.
