"There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic." ~ Anais Nin
Welcome to this scrapbook of fragments, found, and shared.
Welcome to this scrapbook of fragments, found, and shared.
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Frida Kahlo (1907-1954)
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I don’t know what I’m doing most of the time. There’s a certain humor in realizing that. I can never figure out the kind of tie to put on in the morning. I don’t have any strategy or plan to get through the day. It is literally a problem for me to decide which side of the bed to get out on. These are staggering problems. I remember talking to this Trappist monk in a monastery. He’s been there twelve years. A pretty severe regime. I expressed my admiration for him and he said ‘Leonard, I’ve been here twelve years and every morning, I have to decide whether I’m going to stay or not.’ I knew exactly what he was talking about.”
“The creative artist and poet and saint must fight the actual (as opposed to ideal) gods of our society—the gods of conformism as well as the gods of apathy, material success, and exploitative power. These are the “idols” of our society that are worshiped by multitudes of people.”
—Rollo May
may my heart always be open to little
birds who are the secrets of living
whatever they sing is better than to know
and if men should not hear them men are old
may my mind stroll about hungry
and fearless and thirsty and supple
for even if it’s sunday may i be wrong
for whenever men are right they are not young
and may myself do nothing usefully
and love yourself so more than truly
there’s never been quite such a fool who could fail
pulling all the sky over him with one smile
“53” by E. E. Cummings (via growing-orbits)
Every person is a half-open door / leading to a room for everyone.
Tomas Tranströmer, from “The Half-Finished Heaven” (via crashinglybeautiful)
It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (via sol-psych)
(Source: nirvikalpa)
This is the world. Have faith.
Dylan Thomas, “Our eunuch dreams” (from Collected Poems)
(Source: leopoldgursky)
The important thing is not to think much, but to love much; and so, do that which best stirs you to love.
~Saint Teresa of Avila
Belief isn’t always easy.
But this much I have learned —
if not enough else —
to live with my eyes open.
I know what everyone wants
is a miracle.
This wasn’t a miracle.
Unless, of course, kindness —
as now and again
some rare person has suggested —
is a miracle.
As surely it is.
You know what I believe? I remember in college I was taking this math class, this really great math class taught by this tiny old woman. She was talking about fast Fourier transforms and she stopped midsentence and said, ‘Sometimes it seems the universe wants to be noticed.’ That’s what I believe. I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is improbably biased toward consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed. And who am I, living in the middle of history, to tell the universe that it - or my observation of it - is temporary?
- John Green
Found at Whiskey River
