July 2012
61 posts
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”
—Albert Einstein (via youarehereinmyheart)
The Moon and the Stars: study for 'The Morning Star' - Browse Works - Gallery - Mucha Foundation →
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Happy birthday Alphonse Mucha!! (24 July 1860)
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i am somewhere between 1993-1997 tonight
“Life is too small a container for certain individuals. Some of them, such as Alobar, huff and puff and try to expand the container. Others, such as Kudra, seek to pry the lid off and hop out.”
― Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
in the scent of Jitterbug Perfume
“To diminish the worth of women, men had to diminish the worth of the moon. They had to drive a wedge between human beings and the trees and the beasts and the waters, because trees and beasts and waters are as loyal to the moon as to the sun. They had to drive a wedge between thought and feeling…At first they used Apollo as the wedge, and the abstract logic of Apollo made a mighty wedge, indeed, but Apollo the artist maintained a love for women, not the open, unrestrained lust that Pan has, but a controlled longing that undermined the patriarchal ambition. When Christ came along, Christ, who slept with no female…Christ, who played no musical instrument, recited no poetry, and never kicked up his heels by moonlight, this Christ was the perfect wedge. Christianity is merely a system for turning priestesses into handmaidens, queens into concubines, and goddesses into muses.” ~Jitterbug Perfume
“I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
—
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“My greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings. I’m a long way from the human being I’d liked to be, but I’ve decided I’m not so bad after all.”
—Audrey Hepburn (via knownotreally)
“In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.”
—Deepak Chopra (via meadowsablaze)
“Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.”
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Hunter S. Thompson (via ciao-sole)
my son and i rode Skyrush at Hershey Park today, it was worth doing.
Tangled Up In Blue
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan — Tangled Up In Blue - 1975
raw with love. [i remember, always.]
“I will remember the kisses
our lips raw with love
and how you gave me
everything you had
and how I
offered you what was left of
me,
and I will remember your small room
the feel of you
the light in the window
your records
your books
our morning coffee
our noons our nights
our bodies spilled together
sleeping
the tiny flowing currents
immediate and forever
your leg my leg
your arm my arm
your smile and the warmth
of you
who made me laugh
again.”
[summer climes at the turn of the century. 1226 st. paul street, 3rd floor row house.]
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” … she was wild and dark and strange … ” the earthy & ancient stories of women. the gathering of long skirts, smooth stones; the tangle of spanish moss. the wild, humid sway of hips. me with my red heart in the dark earth, and the step of my own bare feet.
* (by request{!}; the creatures i’ve bellydanced to.) #\m/
“You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting—
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.” —
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting—
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.” —
Wild Geese
By Mary Oliver from Dream Work
(via mymindfulpractice)
“a dAy wiThoUt LaUgHter is a DaY WaStEd!”
—chuck chaplin
