December 2011
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still awake trying to get my prescreening recordings submitted by the december 1st deadline. meaning i have about 10 minutes. i don’t think my transcripts got anywhere yet and i’m still waiting on instructors to submit recommendations…applying to grad school is possibly the most stressful thing i’ve ever done.
November 2011
“Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of...”
– Hermann Hesse (via human-voices)
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all that is glorious around us | barbara crooker
is not, for me, these grand vistas, sublime peaks, mist-filled overlooks, towering clouds, but doing errands on a day of driving rain, staying dry inside the silver skin of the car, 160,000 miles, still running just fine. or later, sitting in a café warmed by the steam from white chicken chili, two cups of dark coffee, watching the red and gold leaves race down the street, confetti from autumn’s...
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“Here is a letter to everyone. You open it. It says, Live.”
– Rumi (via thelittlephilosopher)
“It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself...”
– E.M. Cioran (via ratak-monodosico)
““Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments....”
– Jerry Spinelli, Love, Stargirl (via creatingaquietmind)
“Please don’t let me stop thinking and start blindly frightenedly accepting! I...”
– Sylvia Plath, Journals of (via casimirpulaskiday)
“Please don’t let me stop thinking and start blindly frightenedly accepting! I...”
– Sylvia Plath, Journals of (via casimirpulaskiday)
“To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.”
– Joseph Chilton Pearce (via thelittlephilosopher)
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i made coffee but now i’m on the couch with a kitty all curled up at my feet and she’s warm and sleeping and if i get up to get a cup of coffee she’ll wake up. dilemma.
“Can you leave the country - or even town - for a week? Two weeks? A month? Three...”
– Abroad: A Travel Organizer and Journal, Julianne Balmain (via samcnitt)
“If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years, how man would...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via clavicola)
“As if you were on fire from within. The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”
– Pablo Neruda (via dirtcrumbgoddess)
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Lines for Winter
For Ros Kraus
Tell yourself as it gets cold and gray falls from the air that you will go on walking, hearing the same tune no matter where you find yourself— inside the dome of dark or under the cracking white of the moon’s gaze in a valley of snow. Tonight as it gets cold tell yourself what you know which is nothing but the tune your bones play as you keep going. And you will be able for once...
“Be in love with your life. Every detail of it.”
– Jack Kerouac (via thelittlesea)
“So one fundamental attitude shared by Buddhism and science is the commitment to...”
– The Dalai Lama — The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality (via cwnl)
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The Greatest Brightness Acts Near the Greatest...
lunch-poems:
BY EMILY KENDAL FREY
We can be free in degrees. The dream, for example, tries to do its part: a stack of cards from other lovers and a red shawl. You don’t belong to me. Now I’m awake and things down the street are loud and mine. No birds. Trucks. A dull wind moves us between seasons. There is no reason. There are people praying on mountains so we don’t have to.
“Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any...”
– Hermann Hesse (via paperlover)
“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so...”
– Alan Watts (via yoginiyoda)
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“The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via troubled)
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“There are so many things we’ve been brought up to believe that it takes you an...”
– Edward Gorey (via cassket)
“We are the only animals that tell stories to understand the world we live in.”
– Salman Rushdie (via hinapansari)
“In your life, you meet people. Some you never think about again. Some, you...”
– C.S. Lewis, The Wonder Years (via bbbeast) 