December 2010
39 posts
“Literature is news that STAYS news.”
– Ezra Pound (via excessivebookshelf)
“It was my fault, she sobbed, and it was true, no one could deny it, but it is...”
– Blindness by Jose Saramago (via thechocolatebrigade)
“I have no advice for anybody; except to, you know, be awake enough to see where...”
– Jeff Buckley (via jeffbuckleyforever) (via elaina-marie)(via delacroix)
“I am not eccentric. It’s just that I am more alive than most people. I am an...”
– Edith Sitwell (via storminflashgorman)
“A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it...”
– Buddha (via oceanofmind)
“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the...”
– Eckhart Tolle (via peacekarmalove)
oceanofmind:
“It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we’re alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.”
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
“Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who...”
– Zig Ziglar (via oceanofmind)
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“When Ginsberg was in his twenties, I think I only saw him high on pot or benny....”
– Carolyn Cassady on Allen Ginsberg (via fuckyeahbeatgeneration)
“Ginsberg’s stay in the mental ward was not intended to help him realize his...”
– A brief excerpt from David Burner’s Making Peace with the Sixties (Princeton University Press, 1996)
“There is no escape. You can’t be a vagabond and an artist and still be a solid...”
– Hermann Hesse (via existwithinyourmind)
“Even without such formal proceedings you can treat your urges and so-called evil...”
– Hermann Hesse, Demian (via moonplum)
“When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.”
– Hermann Hesse (via nonsenseprime)
it's a lovely universe in us all: “Your pain is... →
oceanofmind:
“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain. And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than…
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“God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel...”
– Sylvia Plath (via thechocolatebrigade)
“I have lived through much, and now I think I have found what is needed for...”
– Family Happiness and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy (via thechocolatebrigade)
November 2010
174 posts
