December 2010
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Your head, your nervous system, your eyes, your senses and your body - these do...
– Alan Watts
Seek the Self through meditation in this manner, trace every thought back to its...
– Ramana Maharshi
Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions....
– Upanishads (via one-of-these-days)
The outer world becomes the inner journey. If you know what you are looking for,...
– Ram Dass
Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is...
– Herman Hesse (via commondense)
Mount the stallion of love and do not fear the path, love’s stallion knows the...
– Rumi (via oceanofmind)
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, and the rational mind is a faithful...
– Albert Einstein (via slychedelic)
Look round and round upon this bare bleak plain, and see even here, upon a...
– Charles Dickens (via modemminds)
The books which we once valued more than the apple of the eye, we have quite...
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
An empty mirror and your worst destructive habits,
when they are held up to...
– Rumi
All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.
– ~Kahlil Gibran (via one-of-these-days)
This heart tumult is my signal
to you igniting in the tomb.
So don’t...
– Rumi
I must have been incredibly simple or drunk or insane
to sneak into my own...
– Rumi
Don’t torture your body with thirst and starvation
When the body in...
– Lalla
When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within...
– Thich Nhat Hanh (via iheartloons)
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The central Unity is still more conspicuous in actions. Words are finite organs...
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time, is related to the whole, and...
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Space, time, society, labour, climate, food, locomotion, the animals, the...
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Listening to the Heart with Paula Underwood →
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In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions...
– The Buddha
A warrior chooses a path with heart, any path with heart, and follows it; and...
– Carlos Castaneda (via singingbowls)
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so let us rejoice in all this pink noise, an oscillation we can pinpoint.
The ego is based on fear, but the soul is based on love.
– Ram Dass
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I have confidence in the laws of morals as of botany. I have planted maize in my...
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A Dialogue on Pacifism with Joan Baez →
Rumi has a whole theory of language based on the reed flute (ney). Beneath...
– Coleman Barks
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Do you think I know what I’m doing?
That for one breath or half-breath I...
– Rumi
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I was sleeping, and being comforted
by a cool breeze, when suddenly a gray dove...
– Adi al-Riga
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The freer I get, the higher I go
The higher I go, the more I see
The more I...
– Ram Dass
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If we consider what happens in conversation, in reveries, in remorse, in times...
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars;
you have...
– Max Ehrmann
Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
– Hermann Hesse (via commondense)
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My would took me to task and told me: “Do not rejoice at praise and do not...
– Kahlil Gibran
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Life is weaker than Death, and Death is weaker than Truth.
– Kahlil Gibran
Tell everyone you know: “My happiness depends on me, so you’re off the hook.”...
– Abraham Hicks (via oceanofmind)