Nourish your body! Don’t ever neglect it. For it will speak against you during the Day of Judgement.
May 7, 2012
May 2, 2012
On the Mona Lisa | Anne Carson
Every day he poured his question into her, as you pour water from one vessel into another, and it poured back. Don’t tell me he was painting his mother, lust, et cetera. There is a moment when the water is not in one vessel nor in the other - what a thirst it was, and he supposed that when the canvas became completely empty he would stop. But women are strong. She knew vessels, she knew water, she knew mortal thirst.
April 26, 2012
"Suzuki Roshi used to say that what was needed most in the monastery were people who were good at cleaning out the corners. The most perverting ideas are the ones that lie for years and years in the dark corners of our mind. Like spiders, they creep out while we are sleeping and spin their webs of illusion. Only when the mind is clean, in order, and uncluttered can the present moment be fully realized. If we hang onto past memories, trophies of our good-old-days, in time our mind and our home will be a museum instead of a place to encounter the present reality. The relationship between house cleaning, garden cleaning, and mental caretaking is not just symbolic. It is very direct."
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—Marian Mountain, The Zen Environment
(h/t Joan Halifax)
(Source: beingblog)
April 25, 2012
"She always had that about her, that look of otherness, of eyes that see things much too far and of thoughts that wander off the edge of the world."
— Joanne Harris (via moonhymns)
(Source: daylight-dreams, via thedame)
April 20, 2012
"We should all turn off our televisions and close our laptops and go outside and move our limbs and play with each other and laugh and smooch and wrestle, because we are all going to be dead in what will seem like 45 minutes and we are going to stay that way until the end of an infinite number of forevers.
Have a great weekend!"
Have a great weekend!"
— Dave Holmes (via suburbanmike)
(via gracielalala)
April 18, 2012
"
Cover your arms.
Don’t let your elbows
show.
That’s what my neighbors
down in Alabama tell
their daughters
so no elbow
plump or thin
tan or pink
will entice others
to passion.
But if I thought
my scrawny, two-toned
elbows would lure you
if I thought
my skinny, sharp-boned
elbows could secure you
I’d flap my arms
like a chicken
like a pea-fowl
like a guinea hen
when next I saw you
honey
I’d roll
up my sleeves and
sin
sin
sin.
— Minnie Bruce Pratt, “Elbows” (via grammatolatry)
(via fleurishes)
April 18, 2012
April 16, 2012
"What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home. I want to be held. I don’t want you to come too close. I want you to scoop me up and bring me home at nights. I don’t want to tell you where I am. I want to keep a place among the rocks where no one can find me. I want to be with you."
— Jeanette Winterson. (via champagnecandy)
(via sweetsighs)
April 16, 2012
"Lie down, lie easy.
Let me shipwreck in your thighs."
Let me shipwreck in your thighs."
— Dylan Thomas, Under Milk Wood (via milkwoods)
April 8, 2012
"Hallo, Rabbit,” he said, “is that you?”
“Let’s pretend it isn’t,” said Rabbit, “and see what happens."
“Let’s pretend it isn’t,” said Rabbit, “and see what happens."
— A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh (via frenchtwist)
(via allthenight-tide)
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