October 2011
1 post
“My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually...”
– (via ellenwillis)
September 2011
17 posts
“Feeling bad” is just a distraction. Stop distracting yourself and make a plan.”
– (via strongandbendy)
“That is why it is so important to let certain things go. To release them. To cut...”
– Paulo Coelho, The Zahir (via heartmindspirit)
“That wave
Pulled me into your eyes
Through the greeny grey pebbles
And...”
– Andy Partridge - That Wave (via billellsworth)
Weaken a bad habit
forcedistancetime:
“Habits of thought are mental magnets that draw to you certain things, people, and conditions. Weaken a bad habit by avoiding everything that occasioned it or stimulated it, without concentrating upon it in your zeal to avoid it. Then divert your mind to some good habit and steadily cultivate it until it becomes a dependable part of you.”
- Paramahansa Yogananda
One's primary concern
forcedistancetime:
“One’s primary concern when entering a strength competition is winning. As such, you should be focused entirely on what it takes to win. If you’re already focused on what it would take to win, you should be focused on what you can do to fucking embarrass everyone around you for even showing up.”
via Chaos and Pain
Framework Matters →
“When I am with you, we stay up all night.
When you’re not here, I can’t go to...”
– Rumi (via billellsworth)
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“But there it is, and there we are
And all I ever want to be is far from the...”
– Prefab Sprout - Desire As (via billellsworth)
“All of us have a cubic centimeter of chance that pops out in front of our eyes...”
– Carlos Castaneda (via billellsworth)
“Death is utterly acceptable to consciousness and life. There has been endless...”
– Franklin Jones (via billellsworth)
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“When we concentrate on a material object, whatever its situation, the very act...”
– Vladimir Nabokov - Transparent Things, 1972 (via billellsworth)
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“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a...”
– Lazarus Long (as recorded by Robert A. Heinlein)… read this at 14 or so and have been pushing toward the stars ever since. (via gone2croatan)
Will never get sick of this quote. EVER.
August 2011
17 posts
“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t...”
– Louise Erdrich (via anuglybeauty)
“I suppose if it was all easy and and endless PRs and magical fucking unicorns...”
– coffeeandchalkdust.tumblr.com (via baconandboobs)
Tyler Durden: The pain of staying the same, or the... →
forcedistancetime:
“Our aim should be to train our minds to be strong like strong muscles, so that we can apply an empowering meaning to tough times. As we walk The Path we must become the person it takes to manifest our dreams, otherwise we are simply wishing, hoping and dreaming. We must act. Going to…
Tyler Durden: The key is to trust →
forcedistancetime:
“Anything that looks like chaos and calamity in your life is just the Universe’s way of saying “Trust me and we’ll make a life together than is beyond your wildest dreams”. The key is to trust. There’s a bigger vision and purpose inside you that your small brain or Ego can imagine. The…
Misperception
forcedistancetime:
“As you inquire into issues and turn judgments around, you come to see that every perceived problem appearing “out there” is really nothing more than a misperception within your own thinking.”
- Byron Katie
Love is a warrior's sword
forcedistancetime:
“The peaceful warrior’s way is not about invulnerability, but absolute vulnerability—to the world, to life, and to the Presence you felt. All along I’ve shown you by example that a warrior’s life is not about imagined perfection or victory; it is about love. Love is a warrior’s sword; wherever it cuts, it gives life, not death.”
- Dan Millman
Fruition
forcedistancetime:
“Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn’t do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.”
- Florida Scott-Maxwell
The Abyss
forcedistancetime:
“It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.”
“Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.”
- Joseph Campbell
The truth you believe
forcedistancetime:
“The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.”
- Pema Chodron
All blame is a waste of time.
forcedistancetime:
“All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you...
What we say to ourselves
forcedistancetime:
“It isn’t the things that are happening to us that cause us to suffer, it’s what we say to ourselves about the things that are happening.”
- Pema Chodron
Cruelty, Lucille Clifton
kathleenjoy:
cruelty. don’t talk to me about cruelty or what i am capable of. and i killed them. i took a broom to their country and smashed and sliced without warning without stopping and i smiled all the time i was doing it. it was a holocaust of roaches, bodies, parts of bodies, red all over the ground. i didn’t ask their names. they had no names worth knowing. now i watch myself...
He who angers you conquers you.
forcedistancetime:
“He who angers you conquers you.”
- Elizabeth Kenny
Changed for good.
forcedistancetime:
“So much of me is made from what I learned from you. You’ll be with me, like a handprint on my heart. And now whatever way our stories end, I know you have re-written mine by being my friend… Because I knew you, i have been changed for good.”
-Stephen Swartz
July 2011
14 posts
“There is no final revolution. Revolutions are infinite.”
– Yevgeny Zamyatin (via sketchyjoe)
Bodytribe: Are you Useful? →
bodytribal:
I repost this old blog from my bodytribe.com website as not only general groovy info, but a plea to the subculture amongst the hundreds of folks following my tumblr who worship an aesthetic ideal and focus their entire online being into looking a certain way. Ask yourself, the thinspiration…
Go read the whole thing!
“It is not our abilities that show what we truly are. It is our choices. - Albus...”
– (via chalkup)
Female soldiers more likely to be raped by their... →
motherjones:
This and other intriguing, outrage-makey facts about women in the military, in an infographic from Good.
June 2011
32 posts
