May 2012
224 posts
April 2012
143 posts
Exhale.
Sometimes I just want to cry. It’s nonsensical, I know, but I’m sad. I enjoy being here and observing, but the weaknesses of humanity lean against my back. I crack. Not always.. no not always. Laughter is the key to life, so I live young and free. But deep in the pit of me it hurts.
Maybe I miss Donna. I think about her all the time. She enjoyed the simple things in life, and taught...
“On the spiritual path, there’s nothing to get, and everything to get rid of....”
– Ayya Khema (via wordslessspoken)
“Where would I go, if I could go, who would I be, if I could be, what would I...”
– Samuel Beckett, Texts for Nothing #4 (via frenchtwist)
“You send me all these roses.
Every time I think the last bouquet has arrived,...”
– E. Morgenstern
via ginger-ninja (via frenchtwist)
Morning Insights
wordslessspoken:
I have been very conscious of the impermanent nature of all things and the presence of suffering, but have forgotten the third characteristic of non-self. The ego has been wrapped up in the narrative melodrama clinging to everything, which causes suffering which feels like it never ends. This is why we should see the three characteristics in all things in balance: impermanence,...
“The point of meditation is to disidentify with the contents of your mind, not to...”
– Lazyyogi (via flow-like-the-wind)
“Then the woman with the strawberry mouth,
Squirming like a snake upon the...”
– Charles Baudelaire, from The Metamorphoses of the Vampire, translation by Geoffrey Wagner (via frenchtwist)
“Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from...”
– Anais Nin (via kari-shma)
Didn't win the poetry contest...
but I never won anything so it doesn’t matter…. like my Dad always says… “don’t expect anything, then you’ll never be disappointed”
Home
Sparking a jigga, reflecting….
the next time you need someone to talk to
seasfirereign:
i’ll remember not to be there
I’m free when I’m alone.
