“ Ultimately as human actions or human thought or human emotions come, it is only individual responsibility which can permeate into social action or into international action. Now when you have the power to impact millions of people, every thought that you generate, every emotion that you generate, every word that you utter, every action that you perform becomes of profound importance. So what I am saying is if you were an ant you could walk upon everybody; if you become an elephant, then you have to walk carefully. So as you get into positions of power and responsibility, your individual responsibility become of paramount importance. ”
— Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
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she lit a burner on the stove and offered me a pipe
“thought you’d never say hello”, she said
“you look like the silent type”
“ In the motion picture of life you may cry, you may laugh, you may play many parts; but inwardly you should ever say, “I am Spirit.” Great consolation comes from realization of that wisdom… Each human being is contributing to the enactment of the motion picture of the cosmos. If you want to be happy you should play out your part with dignity, assurance, and happiness. ”
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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“ I alternate between thinking of the planet as home - dear and familiar stone hearth and garden - and as a hard land of exile in which we are all sojourners. ”
— Annie Dillard
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“ For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can’t readily accept the God formula, the big answers don’t remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us. ”
— Charles Bukowski
“ And what he yearned for at that moment, vaguely, but with all his might, was unbounded music, absolute sound, a pleasant and happy all-encompassing, over-powering, window-rattling din to engulf, once and for all, the pain, the futility, the vanity of words. Music was the negation of sentences, music was the anti-word! ”
— Milan Kundera
“ It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream—making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of absurdity, surprise, and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt, that notion of being captured by the incredible which is of the very essence of dreams…No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one’s existence—that which makes its truth, its meaning—its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream-alone… ”
— Joseph Conrad
The Language
Locate I
love you some-
where in
teeth and
eyes, bite
it but
take care not
to hurt, you
want so
much so
little. Words
say everything.
I
love you
again,
then what
is emptiness
for. To
fill, fill.
I heard words
and words full
of holes
aching. Speech
is a mouth.
— Robert Creeley
“ When I say that she was the greatest,
I mean that she resembled a circus.
She was not brightly colored,
nor was she composed
of three rings, but
under a tent in the middle of
a starlit field
on a summer night,
you could see her
in just a t-shirt
and forget how unhappy
the elephants were. ”
I mean that she resembled a circus.
She was not brightly colored,
nor was she composed
of three rings, but
under a tent in the middle of
a starlit field
on a summer night,
you could see her
in just a t-shirt
and forget how unhappy
the elephants were. ”
— “The First Girl,” Rob MacDonald
“ The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“ How terribly sad it is that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as extraordinary as living. ”
— Jostein Gaarder
“ The purpose of relationship is not to have another who might complete you, but to have another with whom you might share your completeness. ”
— Neale Donald Walsch
