“In solitude I get rid of my scaffolding: no friends to talk with, no telephone calls to make, no meetings to attend, no music to entertain, no books to distract, just me–naked, vulnerable, weak, sinful, deprived, broken–nothing. It is this nothingness that I have to face in my solitude, a nothingness so dreadful that everything in me wants to run to my friends, my work, and my distractions so that I can forget my nothingness and make myself believe I am worth something.”
—Henri Nouwen (via azspot)
July 2012
118 posts
“To all our listeners, this is what I have to say - God bless you all. And as for you bastards in charge, don’t dream it’s over.
Years will come, years will go, and politicians will do fuck all to make the world a better place. But all over the world, young men and young women will always dream dreams and put those dreams into song. Nothing important dies tonight, just a few ugly guys on a crappy ship. The only sadness tonight is that, in future years, there’ll be so many fantastic songs that it will not be our privilege to play. But, believe you me, they will still be written, they will still be sung and they will be the wonder of the world.” — The Count, The Boat that Rocked (via rocknrollpornography)
Years will come, years will go, and politicians will do fuck all to make the world a better place. But all over the world, young men and young women will always dream dreams and put those dreams into song. Nothing important dies tonight, just a few ugly guys on a crappy ship. The only sadness tonight is that, in future years, there’ll be so many fantastic songs that it will not be our privilege to play. But, believe you me, they will still be written, they will still be sung and they will be the wonder of the world.” — The Count, The Boat that Rocked (via rocknrollpornography)
“That’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”
—Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner (via bookmania)
“To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.”
—A.C. Grayling (via usgroovykids)
“The saint is awake when the world sleeps and he ignores that for which the world lives.”
—Bhagavad Gita (via lazyyogi)
June 2012
132 posts
“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.”
—Stephen R. Covey (via wethinkwedream)
“Your freedom is a supreme value. Nothing is higher than that. But your freedom is possible only if you are not encaged in your habits, unconscious patterns of living. Change your gestalt from unconsciousness to consciousness.”
—Osho (via commondense)
“People who think dying is the worst thing don’t know a thing about life.”
—The Secret Life of Bees (via opposite-of-adultss)
“There is nothing to do. Just be. Do nothing. Be. No climbing mountains and sitting in caves. I do not even say: ‘be yourself’, since you do not know yourself. Just be. Having seen that you are neither the ‘outer’ world of perceivables, not the ‘inner’ world of thinkables, that you are neither body nor mind, just be.”
—Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj (via lazyyogi)
