May 2013
7 posts
fuckyeahyoga:
What If Money Was No Object - Alan Watts
So I always ask the question: What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life? Well it’s so amazing as the result of our kind of educational system, crowds of students say ‘Well, we’d like to be painters, we’d like to be poets, we’d like to be writers’ But as everybody knows you can’t earn...
zenmind-nomind:
Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.
~Mary Oliver
April 2013
10 posts
“I remember one morning getting up at dawn, there was such a sense of...”
– Clarissa Vaughan, The Hours (2002)
Chogyam Trungpa
livetrue-2u:
There is an analogy of two people walking barefoot along a very rough road, and one thought it would be very good to cover the whole road with leather so it would be very soft, but the other one, who was wiser, said, “No, I think if we covered our feet with leather that would be the same”.
“The world is not a burden; we make it a burden by our desires. When the desires...”
– Baba Hari Dass (via modernmonkeymiscellany)
March 2013
23 posts
11 Bits of Wisdom from Eckhart Tolle →
cosmofilius:
1. Doing is never enough if you neglect Being.
2. What you react to in others, you strengthen in yourself.
3. Attachment to things drops away when you no longer seek to find yourself in them.
4. The past has no power over the present moment. When you surrender to what is and so become fully present, the past ceases to exist. You do not need it any more.
5. Worry pretends to...
“Cause and effect are one thing. And what is that one thing? You. That’s why what...”
– John Daido Loori (via starblossum)
“As long as our orientation is toward perfection or success, we will never learn...”
– Pema Chodron (via lazyyogi)
“Poetry is an echo asking a shadow to dance.”
– Carl Sandburg (via residualrandomtarian)
February 2013
20 posts
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that...”
– Lao Tzu (via lazyyogi)
“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to...”
– Mary Oliver (via bornreadygeneration)
“Every day is just perfect for love.”
– Rumi (via shaktilover)
“There are some people who could hear you speak a thousand words and still not...”
– Yasmin Mogahed (via misantropoide)
