Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
“
| — | Carl Jung |
“What is truly holy is a Whole Being, is perceiving from Wholeness. Which means that we as a human being are not divided inside.” — Adyashanti
Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
“
| — | Mark Twain |
I first believed without any hesitation in the existence of the soul, and then I wondered about the secret of its nature. I persevered and strove in search of the soul, and found at last that I myself was the cover over my own soul. I realized that that in me which believed and that in me that wondered, that which was found at last, was no other than my soul. I thanked the darkness that brought me to the light, and I valued this veil that prepared for me the vision in which I saw myself reflected, the vision produced in the mirror of my soul. Since then, I have seen all souls as my soul, and realized my soul as the soul of all. And what bewilderment it was when I realized that I alone was, if there were anyone, that I am whatever and whoever exists, and that I shall be whoever there will be in the future.
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| — | Hazrat Inayat Khan (via dewdropsoflove) |
I exist as I am, that is enough, if no other in the world be aware I sit content, and if each and all be aware I sit content.
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| — | Walt Whitman (via lucifelle) |
I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.
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| — | Oscar Wilde (via areyouhighenough) |
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
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| — | Albert Camus (via mirroir) |
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
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| — | E.E. Cummings, 1955 (via overmyshoulderhedigsme) |
I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature.
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| — | J. J. Rousseau (via heartmindspirit) |
“Notes From a Pioneer on a Speck in Space” By Lew Welch
“Notes From a Pioneer on a Speck in Space” by Lew Welch
Few things that grow here poison us.
Most of the animals are small.
Those big enough to kill us do it in a way
Easy to understand, easy to defend against.
The air, here, is just what the blood needs.
We don’t use helmets or special suits.
The Star, here, doesn’t burn you if you
Stay outside as much as you should.
The worst of our winters is bearable.
Water, both salt and sweet, is everywhere.
The things that live in it are easily gathered.
Mostly, you eat them raw with safety and pleasure.
Yesterday my wife and I brought back
Shells, driftwood, stones, and other curiosities
Found on the beach of the immense
Fresh-water Sea we live by.
She was all excited by a slender white stone which:
“Exactly fits the hand!”
I couldn’t share her wonder;
Here, almost everything does.
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A Poem From Mark Strand - Keeping Things Whole - Magpie Daily - Arthur Magazine
Keeping Things Whole
by Mark StrandIn a field
I am the absence
of field.
This is
always the case.
Wherever I am
I am what is missing.When I walk
I part the air
and always
the air moves in
to fill the spaces
where my body’s been.We all have reasons
for moving.
I move
to keep things whole.Previously on Arthurmag.com:
Beautiful.
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