March 2011
20 posts
“Question: How long does it take a man to be reborn after death? Is it...”
– via Parabola via Ramana Maharshi on Facebook (via sharanam) (via crashinglybeautiful) (via ferrydust)
You know those scenes in movies/tv shows where two characters are usually in the middle of a fight and one walks out the door and slams it or something, and then neither can see the other but both of them hover at the door and usually inch toward the doorknob or else watch for it to turn, and they lean on either side of the door, not knowing that the other one is right there with them…
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beautifulordinaire:
“Such journeys have convinced me that it is not always possible to restore one’s boundaries after they have been blurred and made permeable by a relationship: try as we might, we cannot reconstitute ourselves as the autonomous beings we previously imagined ourselves to be. Something of us is now outside, and something of the outside is now within us.”
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Mohsin Hamid, The...
beautifulordinaire:
“Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee…to music and warm bodies…and to the “good life,” whatever it is and wherever it happens to be.”
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Hunter S. Thompson declaring a credo in a personal letter to Sally Williams
