December 2011
“After a while you learn the subtle difference
Between holding a hand and...”
– Jorge Luis Borges, “You Learn”, trans. Veronica A. Shoffstall (via bookoasis)
“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via girlwithoutwings)
A holiday whisper. →
After a weekend of baking, wrapping, prepping and decorating - this morning brought the part of this holiday flutter I loathe the most - the shipping.
No matter how you plan, schedule and…
Second UT College Republican President Fails at... →
Her tweet?
My president is black, he snorts a lot of crack. Holla. #2012 #Obama.
She fails at a lot more than twitter. Asshat.
“There are the language nerds, who just find grammar interesting, and the Na’vi...”
– In ‘Game of Thrones,’ a Language to Make the World Feel Real - NYTimes.com
This might be my favorite article this week. Just because it’s nerdy fun. Not that I’m a linguist or anything like that but I found this article so fascinating.
(via lostbetweenthepages)
Koan 145
By deliberately going the wrong way, you find the places you didn’t know you were supposed to be.
- ไปทางผิดเพื่อหาสถานที่ที่คุณไม่ได้รู้คุณควรจะอยู่
“Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.”
– Chuck Palahniuk (via julievmarshall)
“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via decrepito)
“Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger...”
– A.A. Milne, Winnie The Pooh (via infinitives)
Glazin' →
Glazing for the holidays means breaking my rule of end of session glazing.
Spiritual Practice of the Day: Andrew Harvey on...
psdlund:
So many people don’t know how to inspire themselves. Use everything that moves you: music, walking by water, flowers, photographs of the enlightened ones. Inspiration helps so deeply in overcoming laziness, summons what the Sufis call the fragrance of the Beloved into everything. — Andrew Harvey in Dialogues with a Modern Mystic
To Practice This Thought: Compile a list of sources of...
“The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come...”
– Victor Hugo, Les Misérables (via pavorst)
“It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some...”
– Hunter S. Thompson, Hell’s Angels (via pavorst)
“There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.”
– Mae West (via insaneisonlyanidea)
“Somewhere someone is thinking of you. Someone is calling you an angel. This...”
– Henry Rollins (via slekes)
“In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.”
– Janos Arany (via pavorst)
“I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone...”
– Oscar Wilde (via hookahsmoke)
“When you relate to thoughts obsessively, you are actually feeding them because...”
– ― Chögyam Trungpa, The Myth of Freedom and the Way of Meditation (via 2manytrinkets)
