“It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last”
—Willie Morris
(via npr)
May 27th
“ Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve. ”
20120527 @ 1231
— Erich Fromm (via naturae-filius)
(Source: psychonautical, via zenmystic)
May 26th
“ Love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you. For those who are near you are far away… and this shows that the space around you is beginning to grow vast…. be happy about your growth, in which of course you can’t take anyone with you, and be gentle with those who stay behind; be confident and calm in front of them and don’t torment them with your doubts and don’t frighten them with your faith or joy, which they wouldn’t be able to comprehend. Seek out some simple and true feeling of what you have in common with them, which doesn’t necessarily have to alter when you yourself change again and again; when you see them, love life in a form that is not your own and be indulgent toward those who are growing old, who are afraid of the aloneness that you trust…. and don’t expect any understanding; but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it. ”
20120526 @ 1720
— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (via revolutioneyes)
(Source: creatingaquietmind, via revolutioneyes)
“ In order to swim one takes off all one’s clothes—in order to aspire to the truth one must undress in a far more inward sense, divest oneself of all one’s inward clothes, of thoughts, conceptions, selfishness etc., before one is sufficiently naked. ”
20120526 @ 1235
“Life has many ways of testing a person’s will, …”
May 25th
“Separator”, by Radiohead
What a brilliant, brilliant song.
“Melancholy Hill”, by Gorillaz
