June 2013
I don’t want to just create constellations on your skin;
I want to create maps,
a work of art,
a puzzle,
a story,
something that shows you,
you are the one I want to explore,
constantly see, read,
and as frustrating as some puzzles can be,
I don’t want to drop the pieces and leave.
I want to figure you out one step at a time,
and fall in love with the pieces that don’t fit.
“The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance of a snake or two, a pool that nobody’s fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with flowers planted by the mind.”
—Katherine Mansfield (via mycolorbook)
Ran two and a half miles earlier today, went climbing, and now a hike to chase the sunset. My body and mind are getting back on the right path, getting stronger and growing in unison.
“From the Hindu point of view each soul is divine. All religions are branches of one big tree. It doesn’t matter what you call Him just as long as you call. Just as cinematic images appear to be real but are only combinations of light and shade, so is the universal variety a delusion. The planetary spheres, with their countless forms of life, are naught but figures in a cosmic motion picture. One’s values are profoundly changed when he is finally convinced that creation is only a vast motion picture and that not in, but beyond, lies his own ultimate reality.”
—George Harrison (via lovely-moonchild)
“Let the waves of the universe rise and fall as they will. You have nothing to gain or lose. You are the ocean.”
—Ashtavakra Gita (via samsaranmusing)
“You’re going to discover that conversations are best at 4 am. The heavier the eyelids, the sincerer the words. Those are the talks you’ll remember. It’s ok not to know the answer and silence is not awkward. It’s shared, so share it more often than not.”
—Jeff Stuckel (via idodirtythings)
“The truth is always an abyss. One must - as in a swimming pool - dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again - laughing and fighting for breath - to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.”
—Franz Kafka (via slychedelic)
“Marry your best friend. I do not say that lightly. Really, truly find the strongest, happiest friendship in the person you fall in love with. Someone who speaks highly of you. Someone you can laugh with. The kind of laughs that make your belly ache, and your nose snort. The embarrassing, earnest, healing kind of laughs. Wit is important. Life is too short not to love someone who lets you be a fool with them. Make sure they are somebody who lets you cry, too. Despair will come. Find someone that you want to be there with you through those times. Most importantly, marry the one that makes passion, love, and madness combine and course through you. A love that will never dilute - even when the waters get deep, and dark.”
—N (via beatboxgoesthump)
