February 2012
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Ignorance will carry me through the last days,
the blistering cities, over...
– D. Nurkse, Psalm to Be Read with Closed Eyes (via astroisgoodforyou)
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The heart that
breaks open can
contain the
whole universe.
– Joanna Macy
via crashinglybeautiful (via frenchtwist)
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The Wilderness Way
By Lawrence Kushner
The wilderness is not just a desert through which we wandered for forty years. It is a way of being. A place that demands being open to the flow of life around you. A place that demands being honest with yourself without regard to the cost in personal anxiety. A place that demands being present with all of yourself.
In the wilderness your...
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Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.
– Dorothy Allison (via iguia)
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Like wind - In it, with it, of it. Of it just like a sail, so light and strong...
– whiskey river (via parkstepp)
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Yet genius of a sort must have existed among women as it must have existed among...
– Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own (via awritersruminations)
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تعال عش في قلبي ولا تدفع الايجار
Come, live in my heart, and pay no rent.
– Arabic proverb (via hip-)
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YOUR IMAGE OF GOD CREATES YOU
Thomas Merton said it was actually dangerous to put the scriptures in the hands of people whose inner self is not yet sufficiently awakened to encounter the Spirit, because they will try to use God for their own egocentric purposes (This is why religion is so subject to corruption!). Now, if we are going to talk about Lent being a time of conversion and penance, let...
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Love between others,
once somehow charming to me,
only leaves me cold—
I turn my eyes from
the held hands of passersby.
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Where my heart once was
is something new I don’t know,
a place of ruin.
And this is how it must stay—
a cold, forgotten graveyard.
—Michael Boiano
journalofanobody
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Let the waves of the universe rise and fall as they will. You have nothing to...
– Ashtavakra Gita (via elige)
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There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal...
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (via jerzee55)
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