”In wildness is the preservation of the world.”
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Anyone who has had any dealings with children knows that they’re curious and creative. They want to explore things and figure out what’s happening. A good bit of schooling is an effort to drive this out of them and to fit them into a mold, make them behave, stop thinking, not cause any trouble. It goes right from kindergarten up … People are supposed to be obedient producers, do what they’re told, and the rest of your life is supposed to be passive consuming. Don’t think about things. Don’t know about things … Just do what you’re told, pay attention to something else and maximize your consumption. That’s the role of the public.
Noam Chomsky (via cavesoflilith)
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Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.
Hermann Hesse (via cavesoflilith)
(Source: libraryland)
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Forgiving others does not mean that you need to do anything or take any action. It is an attitude of love that does not judge or condemn. Forgiving others does not mean condoning or approving of their behavior, nor does it mean that you feel superior. Forgiving others releases the negative energy within you, and frees you to love as your soul. Every time you choose love, you are the winner. As you forgive others, your body grows healthier, you feel better about yourself, and you have more energy to put into yourself and your life.
Orin (via cavesoflilith)
(Source: nirvikalpa)
Hermann Hesse, Demian
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With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?
Oscar Wilde (via dustoncrowns)
(Source: nirvikalpa)
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Who hasn’t asked [oneself], am I a monster or is this what it means to be human?
Clarice Lispector (via portionsofeternity)
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(Deliberately:) Imagination and emotions are the most concentrated forms of energy that you possess as physical creatures. Any strong emotion carries within it far more energy than, say, that required to send a rocket to the moon.
Emotions, instead of propelling a physical rocket, for example, send thoughts from this interior reality through the barrier between nonphysical and physical into the ‘objective’ world — no small feat, and one that is constantly repeated.
Seth +
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The universe is like a dome; it vibrates to that which you say in it, and answers the same back to you; so also is the law of action; we reap what we sow.
Hazrat Inayat Khan (via cavesoflilith)
(Source: lucifelle)
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Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors.
Andrew Boyd (via suzywire)
(Source: goldenfools)
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Speaking frightens me because, by never saying enough, I also say too much.
Jacques Derrida (via cavesoflilith)
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““All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.””
Susan Sontag
(Source: wearebarebones)
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Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
Sarah Williams — The Old Astronomer to His Pupil (via clinicalfool)
