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"Rievoca nella memoria quando sei stato saldo nei tuoi propositi, quanto pochi giorni hanno avuto..."

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:18:32 +0000

“Rievoca nella memoria quando sei stato saldo nei tuoi propositi, quanto pochi giorni hanno avuto l’esito che volevi, quando hai avuto la disponibilità di te stesso, quando il tuo volto non ha battuto ciglio, quando non ha tremato il tuo cuore, che cosa hai realizzato in un periodo così lungo, quanti hanno saccheggiato la tua vita senza che ti accorgessi di quel che perdevi, quanto ne ha sottratto un vano dolore, una stolta gioia, un’avida passione, un’allegra compagnia, quanto poco ti è rimasto del tuo: comprenderai che la tua morte è prematura. Quale la causa? Vivete come destinati a vivere sempre, mai vi viene in mente la vostra precarietà, non fate caso di quanto tempo è trascorso: continuate a perderne come da una provvista colma e copiosa, mentre forse proprio quel giorno che si regala a una persona o a un’attività qualunque è l’ultimo.”

- La brevità della vita (Seneca) (via philapple)

(via nerviosismo)

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:16:50 +0000

(via nerviosismo)

"Before enlightenment, chop wood and carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood and carry water."

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:30:10 +0000

“Before enlightenment, chop wood and carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood and carry water.”

- Wu Li (via hellodalai)

Jack Kerouac's Letter to his Ex-Wife

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:29:00 +0100

oceanofmind:

I have lots of things to teach you now,
in case we ever meet,
concerning the message that was transmitted to me
under a pine tree in North Carolina
on a cold winter moonlit night.

It said that Nothing Ever Happened, so don’t worry.
It’s all like a dream.
Everything is ecstasy, inside.
We just don’t know it because of our thinking-minds.
But in our true blissful essence of mind is known
that everything is alright forever and forever and forever.
Close your eyes,
let your hands and nerve-ends drop,
stop breathing for 3 seconds,
listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world,
and you will remember the lesson you forgot,
which was taught in immense milky ways
of cloudy innumerable worlds
long ago and not even at all.
It is all one vast awakened thing.
I call it the golden eternity.
It is perfect.
We were never really born,
we will never really die.
It has nothing to do with the imaginary idea
of a personal self,
other selves,
many selves everywhere,
or one universal self.
Self is only an idea, a mortal idea.
That which passes through everything, is one thing.
It’s a dream already ended.
There’s nothing from staring at mountains months on end.
They never show any expression,
they are like empty space.
Do you think the emptiness of space will ever crumble away.
Mountains will crumble, but the emptiness of space,
which is the one universal essence of mind,
the one vast awakenerhood,
empty and awake,
will never crumble away because it was never born.

The world you see is just a movie in your mind.

(via strange-eyes)

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:58:24 +0100

(via strange-eyes)

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the..."

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:04:19 +0100

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

- George Bernard Shaw (via creativelymaladjusted)

isawgirl:(via littlemissval)

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:52:52 +0100

isawgirl:(via littlemissval)

Ten Rules for Being Human

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:48:33 +0100

isawgirl:

by Cherie Carter-Scott

1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it’s yours to keep for the entire period.

2. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called “LIFE.”

3. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial, error, and experimentation. The “failed” experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiments that ultimately “work.”

4. Lessons are repeated until they are learned. A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can go on to the next lesson.

5. Learning lessons does not end. There’s no part of life that doesn’t contain its lessons. If you’re alive, that means there are still lessons to be learned.

6. “There” is no better a place than “here.” When your “there” has become a “here”, you will simply obtain another “there” that will again look better than “here.”

7. Other people are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.

8. What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours.

9. Your answers lie within you. The answers to life’s questions lie within you. All you need to do is look, listen, and trust.

10. You will forget all this.