December 2011
88 posts
darkmindbrightfuture:
Röyksopp - Sparks
patienceunlikedew:
Taught by suffering. Drop by drop, wisdom is distilled from pain. -Aeschylus Agamemnon
From The Presocratics, Philip Wheelwright.
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Learn about your inner self from those who know such things
When one is united to the core of another
To speak of,
That is to breathe the name…
How empty of self and filled with love.
As the saying goes,
“The pot drips what is in it”
The saffron spice of connecting, laughter.
The onion smell of separation, crying…
Others have many things and people they love,
...
“The obstacle is the path.”
– Zen Proverb (via missfolly)
Watchfyeahafrica:
Bamako Chic: Threads of Power, Color and Culture Synopsis
“Bamako Chic: Threads of Power, Color and Culture,” a one hour documentary, tells the story of women from Bamako, Mali, whose artistic creativity became a force for alleviating poverty and affirming identity in West Africa.
In the 1960s, a small group of impoverished and resourceful Malian women cloth dyers reinvigorated the...
“Only a man who knows the beauties of solitude can love.”
– Osho (via youngdestroyers)
classicalliterature:
Piazzolla - Etude No. 2 for...
“Why must one talk? Often one shouldn’t talk, but live in silence. The more one...”
– (via journalofanobody)
“It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.”
– Lou Holtz (via creatingaquietmind)
“[He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle,
And away they all flew...”
– Clement Clarke Moore, from “A Visit from St. Nicholas” (via the-final-sentence)
“One who bathes willingly with cold water doesn’t feel the cold.”
– Tanzanian Proverb (via warriorsrise)
paperimages:
Dave Brubeck - Winter Wonderland
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“Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven,
Whiles,
like a puff’d and reckless libertine,
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads.
And recks not his own rede.”
Ophelia ~
“Sometimes I find it too hot to run, and sometimes too cold. Or too cloudy. But I...”
– Haruki Murakami (via murakamistuff)
