May 2012
11 posts
keys to my heart
if you want me to be annoyed by you, be pretentious and fake
if you want me to shut down from you, be sarcastic and condescending
if you want me to hate you, compete with me for the spotlight
if you want me to pay attention to you, be beautiful inside or out
if you want me to obsess over you, disappear and reappear
if you want me to be infatuated with you, show me your world of dreams
if you...
i'm going to try this with everything
A man: I want happiness.
Buddha: First remove "I", that's ego, then remove "want", that's desire. See? Now you are left with happiness.
“I know from personal experience that when you spend your childhood in more than...”
– Tamara Tattles: Shahs of Sunset: Meet Asa Soltan Rahmati
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super moon
i think this is my “bitch, please” moon. bitch, please, go take responsibility for your own karma and your own feelings and quit tryin’ to make me feel bad or guilty. bitch, please.
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in my loneliest, scariest moments
all i need is my cat and shah rukh khan <3
and maybe some xanex
“Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable...”
– C.G. Jung (via quietsheep)
April 2012
62 posts
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Saṃsāra
In a modern vernacular context, particularly in the Himalayas, Saṃsāra is also a word used to describe how life is full of attachments and comings-and-goings, a subtle state of suffering. For example, when saying goodbye to a loved one, one might utter, “ah… Saṃsāra.”
…so much of this nowadays
Body Empowerment: My response to the HuffPo... →
bodyempowerment:
By Caroline Rothstein
(After originally posting here on Tumblr, this piece was then published on April 30, 2012 in the Huffington Post)
I am 28-year-old white, heterosexual woman from an upper-middle class upbringing. This Glamour list, recently republished in the Huffington Post in…
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Life Force! →
my freshest article for Unravel Your Mind, an arts and entertainment group in Southern California
spiritual history of the world, here’s what i *think* happened: first we were not conscious at all, then we grew big brains and realized we were part of nature and we had little control over the elements. then we started growing our own food and stopped migrating as much. most of us, though, were serfs, slaves, and indentured. we grew to believe something had power over us. then we built...
“Suffering is due entirely to clinging or resisting; it is a sign of our...”
– Nisargadatta Maharaj (via energiesoftheuniverse)
UGH. THEME OF THE WEEK.
“The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude...”
– Meridjet
today is the first day
ideas
are
MASSIVE
they weigh
so many tons!
“She had a need To feel the thunder To chase the lightning From the sky To watch...”
– Garth Brooks - That Summer - WITH LYRICS!
death
when i was little, i almost died several times. no, like really. one time my grandma, who had just come back from india and carried a mysterious virus, got me very sick. i don’t know what went on during this illness, but somehow i developed a strange detachment to life. in fact, i recall vividly that when i was little i had intense hallucinations when i was feverish. my hands and head would...
“The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that...”
– M. Scott Peck (via elige)
"spirituality"
When I first became aware that I was aware of spirit, I really loved to just eat up positive thinking. I became really into Lousie Hay, Gabrielle Bernstein, Abraham Hicks, Ekhart Tolle, etc. I needed to hear messages that were contrary to what I’d been taught in my childhood. I became a reiki practitioner and started doing kundalini yoga. Because of my tendencies to hide away from the mean...
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