June 2013
7 posts
“Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn’t have to be a romantic walk in the park, spring at its most spectacular moment, flowers and smells and outstanding poetical imagery smoothly transferring you into another world. It doesn’t have to be a walk during which you’ll have multiple life epiphanies and discover meanings no other brain ever managed to encounter. Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but ‘steal’ some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn’t make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.”
—Albert Camus, from Notebooks, 1951-1959 (via brandipal)
“Look. This little finger covers the eye and prevents the whole world from being seen. In the same way this small mind covers the whole universe and prevents Reality from being seen.”
—Ramana Maharshi (via ashramof1)
May 2013
37 posts
“One finds that what makes something secular or profane is precisely whether one lives on the surface of it. It’s not that the sacred is here and the profane is over there. Everything is profane if you live on the surface of it, and everything is sacred if you go into the depths of it—even your sin. To go inside your own mistakenness is to find God. To stay on the surface of very good things, like Bible, sacrament, priesthood, or church, is to often do very unkind and evil things, while calling them good.”
—Richard Rohr (via wordslessspoken)
“Let yourself become that space that welcomes any experience
without judgment.” —Tsokuyi Rinpoche (via yogachocolatelove)
without judgment.” —Tsokuyi Rinpoche (via yogachocolatelove)
“Only two kinds of people can attain to self-knowledge: those whose minds are not encumbered at all with learning — that is to say, not overcrowded with thoughts borrowed from others — and those who, after studying all the scriptures and sciences, have come to realize that they know nothing.”
—
Ramakrishna
(from Paths to God by Ram Dass)
