January 2012
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“It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we...”
– Anais Nin (via reluctantbuddha)
December 2011
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November 2011
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"Tectonics" - Ted Kooser
In only a few months there begin to be fissures at what we remember, and within a year or two, the facts break apart one from another and slowly begin to shift and turn, grinding, pushing up over each other until their shapes have been changed and the past has become a new world. And after many years, even a love affair, one lush green island all to itself, perfectly detailed with even a candle...
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Josh Garrels - White Owl
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October 2011
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Caffeine makes me about 100x more likely to post on social media sites.
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If the Stars Were Mine - Melody Gardot
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“The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their...”
– Wittenstein, Philosophical Investigations §129
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September 2011
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“Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.
But if you love and must needs...”
– Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
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August 2011
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“There is a distinction to be made between the anxiety of daily existence, which...”
– Christian Wiman (via wesleyhill)
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“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply,...”
– Pablo Neruda (100 Love Sonnets: Cien sonetos de amor)
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July 2011
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I have always thought that I am at my most creative when I am sad. I guess this is because it is in sadness that I feel the urgent need to bring the pressures of my internal reality into the external, to equalize the intensity and acuteness of feeling with the vagueness of being.
What I never considered is that I could also feel this need in times of intense joy. I never considered this because I...
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Ten Things that Quicken the Heart
1. Learning something new and mind-boggling 2. Moments of unplanned physical or mental synchrony 3. Moments of sincere appreciation (both felt and received) 4. Beauty in unexpected places 5. Escaping unscathed from a dangerous situation (physical, mental, or emotional) 6. Experiencing something that makes you feel that you can extend beyond yourself 7. Suspending disbelief (especially in the...
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Lose It - Austra
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Summer goal: make own flying paper lanterns. Release.
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“Wean Yourself” - Rumi
Little by little, wean yourself. This is the gist of what I have to say.
From an embryo, whose nourishment comes in blood, move to an infant drinking milk, to a child on solid food, to a searcher after wisdom, to a hunter of more invisible game.
Think how is it to have a conversation with an embryo. You might say, The world outside is vast and intricate. There are wheat...
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June 2011
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“More and more my language appears to me like a veil which one has to tear apart...”
– Samuel Beckett
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“I know you probably get this a lot, but you look EXACTLY like Emma Watson.” -girl at a coffee shop
This is pretty much the best compliment that I could ever be given…
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May 2011
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