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December  22nd.  2009
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“ If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.
• John Irving (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
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“ No matter how careful you are, there’s going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn’t experience it all. There’s that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should’ve been paying attention. Well, get used to that feeling. That’s how your whole life will feel some day. This is all practice. None of this matters. We’re just warming up.
• Chuck Palahnuik, Invisible Monsters (via dirtyhumans)
December  20th.  2009
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“ My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.
• Maya Angelou (via quotewhore)
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October  25th.  2009
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awktopus: (via youhaveabeautifulmind)

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October  21st.  2009
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thresca: words by Brian Krans

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words by Brian Krans


3:58  am
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“ …to really live is to accept that you live “for the time being,” and to fully enter that moment of time. Living is that, not building up an identity or a set of accomplishments or relationships, though of course we do that too. But primarily, fundamentally, to live is to embrace each moment as if it were the first, last, and all moments of time. Whether you like this moment or not is not the point: in fact liking it or not liking it, being willing or unwilling to accept it, depending on whether or not you like it, is to sit on the fence of your life, waiting to decide whether or not to live, and so never actually living. I find it impressive how thoroughly normal it is be so tentative about the time of our lives, or so asleep within it, that we miss it entirely. Most of us don’t know what it actually feels like to be alive. We know about our problems, our desires, our goals and accomplishments, but we don’t know much about our lives. It generally takes a huge event, the equivalent or a birth or a death, to wake up our sense of living this moment we are given – this moment that is just for the time being, because it passes even as it arrives. Meditation is feeling the feeling of being alive for the time being. Life is more poignant than we know…
• Norman Fischer (via dirtyhumans)
October  19th.  2009
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“ A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.
• Lois Wyse (via brokenmachine)
October  18th.  2009
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4:40  pm
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rainonthepane: springlikethis: booklover: (via suzywire)  Amen!

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springlikethis:

booklover:

(via suzywire)

 Amen!


October  17th.  2009
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The Invitation by Oriah Mountain Dreamer

posted 2 years ago

It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living.
I want to know what you ache for
and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.

It doesn’t interest me how old you are.
I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool
for love
for your dream
for the adventure of being alive.

It doesn’t interest me what planets are squaring your moon…
I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow
if you have been opened by life’s betrayals
or have become shriveled and closed
from fear of further pain.

I want to know if you can sit with pain
mine or your own
without moving to hide it
or fade it
or fix it.

I want to know if you can be with joy
mine or your own
if you can dance with wildness
and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes
without cautioning us
to be careful
to be realistic
to remember the limitations of being human.

It doesn’t interest me if the story you are telling me
is true.
I want to know if you can
disappoint another
to be true to yourself.
If you can bear the accusation of betrayal
and not betray your own soul.
If you can be faithless
and therefore trustworthy.

I want to know if you can see beauty
even when it is not pretty
every day.
And if you can source your own life
from its presence.

I want to know if you can live with failure
yours and mine
and still stand at the edge of the lake
and shout to the silver of the full moon,
“Yes.”

It doesn’t interest me
to know where you live or how much money you have.
I want to know if you can get up
after the night of grief and despair
weary and bruised to the bone
and do what needs to be done
to feed the children.

It doesn’t interest me who you know
or how you came to be here.
I want to know if you will stand
in the center of the fire
with me
and not shrink back.

It doesn’t interest me where or what or with whom
you have studied.
I want to know what sustains you
from the inside
when all else falls away.

I want to know if you can be alone
with yourself
and if you truly like the company you keep
in the empty moments.

12:28  pm
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September  9th.  2009
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“ We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
• Joseph Campbell (via hrrrthrrr)