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When you learn about yourself, watch yourself, watch the way you walk, how you eat, what you say, the gossip, the hate, the jealousy - if you are aware of all that in yourself, without any choice, that is part of meditation. So meditation can take place when you are sitting in a bus or walking in the woods full of light and shadows, or listening to the singing of birds or looking at the face of your wife or child.
Jiddu Krishnamurti (via heartmindspirit)
1 month ago on April 14, 2012 at 01:01pm
But if you cannot find
a good companion
of integrity and wisdom,
then, like a king departing
a conquered land,
or an elephant wandering
alone in the forest,
walk alone.
Dhammapada 329
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1 month ago on April 09, 2012 at 05:41pm
The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency. Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. Act singly, and what you have already done singly will justify you now. Greatness appeals to the future. If I can be firm enough to-day to do right, and scorn eyes, I must have done so much right before as to defend me now.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance”
1 month ago on March 24, 2012 at 01:00pm
Your goodness must have some edge to it — else it is none.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance”
1 month ago on March 24, 2012 at 07:06am
And it occurs to me that evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice always has a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.
John Steinbeck, East Of Eden (via crossfirehurricane)
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2 months ago on March 05, 2012 at 11:22am
The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people in life recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation.
For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.
Neil Degrasse Tyson, in an AMA on reddit, responding to a young man who asked how to find motivation in life (via princesmythe)
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2 months ago on March 02, 2012 at 02:36pm
You’ll have to work it out yourself. What’s good for one is bad for another, and you won’t know till after.
John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent (via hellyesjohnsteinbeck)
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4 months ago on January 03, 2012 at 12:51pm
The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries; on the contrary, a good marriage is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude, and thus they show each other the greatest possible trust. A merging of two people is an impossibility, and where it seems to exist, it is a hemming-in, a mutual consent that robs one party or both parties of their fullest freedom and development. But once the realization is accepted that even between the closest people infinite distances exist, a marvelous living side-by-side can grow up for them, if they succeed in loving the expanse between them, which gives them the possibility of always seeing each other as a whole and before an immense sky.
Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (via bricksandmortarandchewinggum) (via msavignon) (via isabelthespy)
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4 months ago on January 01, 2012 at 11:38am
There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.
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6 months ago on November 19, 2011 at 01:16pm
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Frank Herbert, Dune (via wilwheaton)
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6 months ago on November 19, 2011 at 10:17am
No one is useless in this world, who lightens the burdens of it for any one else.
Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend (via liquidnight)
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6 months ago on November 12, 2011 at 10:10am
Honesty. (by redgeckoTO)
7 months ago on October 12, 2011 at 03:02pm
