May 2012
4 posts
“Tears are far more beautiful than anything that you have with you, because tears...”
– Osho (via nirvikalpa)
“Your DNA structure is designed so the choice to function in love is the only...”
– Sara Paddison, The Hidden Power of the Heart (via nirvikalpa)
“In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the...”
– Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion (via uponswallows)
April 2012
9 posts
clavicola:
If I was a piece of bread I’d be a seventeen year old piece of bread that’s so strange I’m growing mold just thinking about it
“Once I was on a journey and someone asked me which word in a man’s vocabulary...”
– Osho (via nirvikalpa)
“Everybody can use more love. Do not take offense if people are rude or unkind or...”
– Orin (via nirvikalpa)
“They’ve promised us that dreams come true - but forgot that nightmares are...”
– Oscar Wilde (via weepling)
“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
– Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing
March 2012
157 posts
oliverandmilk:
I say I need a few moments to collect my thoughts but they usually just slip through my hands and fall into puddles. They turn into fossils overtime and I know this because my hair greys more each day and my chest feels heavier as if I’ve locked away a dozen million pennies inside of me. But I’m not rich and the sun only shines so bright when it hasn’t split in half....
“A. the languor of confined songbirds
B. also called the hypothalamus
C....”
– “Multiple Choice,” Howie Good (via clavicola)
“Sorrow comes in great waves—no one can know that better than you—but it rolls...”
– Henry James, from a letter to Grace Norton, dated 28 July 1883 (via litverv and Letters of Note)
“A man of love is never angry with the other, because he is not really dependent...”
– Osho (via lucifelle)
why poetry →
emmacherry:
“And your very flesh shall be a great poem.”
― Walt Whitman
“Do you remember when we met
in Gomorrah? When you were still beardless,
and I...”
– “What Lot’s Wife Would Have Said (If She Wasn’t A Pillar of Salt),” Karen Finneyfrock (via clavicola)
“You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh (via ethereally)
“Whenever you hear that someone else has been successful, rejoice. Always...”
– Lama Zopa Rinpoche (via nirvikalpa)
“You go into your apartment and lie down on the floor in your room.
Clothes,...”
– Sam Pink, The No Hellos Diet (via faisceau)
“i don’t ask you to love me always like this,
but i ask you to remember....”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night (via tallskinnyasian)
“So, if you do find out, by any chance, who you really are, instead of becoming...”
– Alan Watts, The Philosophies of Asia (via nirvikalpa)
“In the house of lovers, the music never stops, the walls are made of songs and...”
– Rumi (via floralnymph)
“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together...”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (via pavorst)
I love this.
(via lettersinblackandblue)
“But the famous night
we first made love, I think I remember
stars, that the...”
– “Santa Lucia II,” Robert Hass (via clavicola)
emmacherry:
“Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of tender passion.”
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
emmacherry: There is a woman baking and you watch... →
emmacherry:
There is a woman baking and you watch the back of her head. The house is empty and the color of porcelain. She folds quiet into pies; she burns quiet in the way her small body curves and bends, in the soft flaps of wrinkled skin that extend from her neck to her tanned wrist. The house is quiet. It…
“Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in...”
– Deepak Chopra (via nirvikalpa)