Cham cham cham
“You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage - pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically - to say ‘no’ to other things. And the way to do that is by having a bigger ‘yes’ burning inside. The enemy of the ‘best’ is often the ‘good’.”
—Stephen Cove (via kari-shma)
August 2011
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“Intoxicated by the Wine of Love.
From each a mystic silence Love demands.
What do all seek so earnestly? ‘Tis Love.
What do they whisper to each other? Love.
Love is the subject of their inmost thoughts.
In Love no longer ‘thou’ and ‘I’ exist,
For Self has passed away in the Beloved.
Now will I draw aside the veil from Love,
And in the temple of mine inmost soul,
Behold the Friend; Incomparable Love.
He who would know the secret of both worlds,
Will find the secret of them both, is Love.” —Attar of Nishapur (via katiekashmir)
From each a mystic silence Love demands.
What do all seek so earnestly? ‘Tis Love.
What do they whisper to each other? Love.
Love is the subject of their inmost thoughts.
In Love no longer ‘thou’ and ‘I’ exist,
For Self has passed away in the Beloved.
Now will I draw aside the veil from Love,
And in the temple of mine inmost soul,
Behold the Friend; Incomparable Love.
He who would know the secret of both worlds,
Will find the secret of them both, is Love.” —Attar of Nishapur (via katiekashmir)
“Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it’s a feather bed.”
—Terrence McKenna (via rabbitinthemoon)
“Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to fill that space. An intelligent, sensitive person is the exception, the very great exception. If you expect to find people who will understand you, you will grow murderous with disappointment. The best you’ll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way.”
—Janet Fitch, White Oleander (via libraryland)
“Whenever we encounter beauty that fills us with joy, we have just caught a glimpse of the perfection of indwelling life peeping through the mirrors of material life - this is art.”
—Almine (via lucifelle)
“It is not the language but the speaker that we want to understand.”
—Upanishads (via lucifelle)
“What I hate is ignorance, smallness of imagination, the eye that sees no farther than its own lashes. All things are possible… Who you are is limited only by who you think you are.”
—Egyptian Book of the Dead (via pax-caelestis)
“‘Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.’”
—Hafiz (via artemisdreaming)
Even if I now saw you
Only once,
I would long for you
Through worlds,
Worlds.Izumi Shikibu
“
All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.
J.R.R. Tolkien (via ineffablythoughtless)
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“What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life.”
—
Walt Whitman
“Deafened by the voice of desire you are unaware the Beloved lives in the core of your heart.
Stop the noise and you will hear His voice in the silence.” —Rumi (via redblackbeerback)
Stop the noise and you will hear His voice in the silence.” —Rumi (via redblackbeerback)
“If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished?”
—Rumi (via oceanofmind)
“If you do follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while waiting for you, and the life you ought to be living is the one you are living. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you. I say, follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be. If you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldn’t have opened for anyone else.”
—
Joseph Campbell
(via oceanofmind)
“Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too,can become great.”
—Mark Twain (via thespaghettibrain)
Though I go to you
ceaselessly along dream paths,
the sum of those trysts
is less than a single glimpse
granted in the waking world.
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Ono no Komachi
