juillet 2012
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“We don’t even ask for happiness, just a little less pain.”
– Charles Bukowski (via myheadisweak)
To the 3,000 re-bloggers that comprise this “we,” may I give my sympathies to you all. I cannot feel your pain, but I am sorry you have it.
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“Comes the morning
when I can feel
That there’s nothing left be...”
– Eddie Veder, “No Ceiling”
“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.”
– Vincent Van Gogh (via northwestgem)
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The Physical Regimen of "Sisi" of Austria:
Empress Elisabeth “Sisi” of Austria married at the age of 15 into royalty and felt the only thing she was left to control was her looks. This — in conjunction with her achievement-oriented obsessiveness and perfectionism — caused her to place all her focus on her looks. At 5 feet 8 inches, Elisabeth was unusually tall, yet even after four pregnancies she kept her weight...
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“Humans live on one-quarter of what they eat; on the other three-quarters lives...”
– Egyptian pyramid inscription, 3800 B.C.
“They are fools who are without Self-knowledge; as captives in hell, they are...”
– Adi Shankara, Bhaja Govindam
New York Times openly admits mainstream media... →
anarcho-queer:
The quotations come back redacted, stripped of colorful metaphors, colloquial language and anything even mildly provocative.
They are sent by e-mail from the Obama headquarters in Chicago to reporters who have interviewed campaign officials under one major condition: the press office has veto power over what statements can be quoted and attributed by name.
Most reporters,...
“I am neither the mind, intellect, ego nor memory,
neither the ears nor the...”
– Atma-Shatakam / Nirvana Shatakam The Song of the Self by Adi Shankara 788-820 CE
It feels good to finally read a work by the man you’ve been studying and being able to understand it. Perhaps this scholarship essay on Hinduism is not impossible.
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