vajraGrrrl

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Khalil Gibran

There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you are so enthralled you cannot move, they pierce your skin, enter your blood, numb your thoughts. Inside you they work their magic.

Diane Setterfield (via explaterate)

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In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

Albert Camus 

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The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment

Pema Chödrön (Zen Moments on Twitter)

As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself. ~

Shunryu Suzuki

Zen Moments (Zen_Moments) on Twitter

Just as the highest and the lowest notes are equally inaudible, so perhaps, is the greatest sense and the greatest nonsense equally unintelligible.

Alan Watts (via yosifbrosif)

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Love to throw yourself on the earth and kiss it. Kiss the earth and love it with an unceasing, consuming love. Love all men, love everything. Seek that rapture and ecstasy. Water the earth with the tears of your joy and love those tears. … ‘What is hell?’ I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, 1880, trans. Constance Garnett (via proustitute)

I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos.

Saul Bellow, from a 1965 interview in The Paris Review (via semperaugustus)

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Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.

E. M. Cioran (via anticipatedstranger)

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