June 2010
3 posts
You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
– Ray Bradbury (via imaginarysuperhero) (via peterreyes)
Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.
– Benjamin Franklin (via hypnoticyogi) (via peterreyes)
May 2010
12 posts
All you do is head straight for the grave, a face just covers a skull awhile....
– Visions of Cody by Jack Kerouac (via crazydumbsaint)
Minimal: Book clutter →
For the past 10 years or so I’ve been mostly very good in keeping the clutter out of my house. I said “mostly” because when it comes to books, well, I love books and I was having a hard time letting books go. I would keep every book I like on the shelves. From paperbacks that I bought for the…
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Cheers.
The first draft of everything is SHIT!
– —Ernest Hemingway (via poetrayne)
Yeah, I always forget that… Maybe I should get this tattooed on my forearm or something. (via peterreyes)
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
– Carl Jung (via erraticatharsis) (via peterreyes)
The three treasures
mnmal:
I have just three things to teach;
simplicity, patience, compassion .
These three are your greatest treasures.
Simple in actions and in thoughts,
you return to the source of being.
Patient with both friends and enemies,
you accord with way things are.
Compassionate toward yourself,
you reconcile all beings in the world.
—Tao Te Ching
March 2010
1 post
February 2010
11 posts
Scott Young on learning - ZHabits →
Defeat - Bukowski
defeat
listening to Bruckner on the radio
wondering why I’m not half mad
over the latest breakup with my
latest girlfriend
wondering why I’m not driving the streets
drunk
wondering why I’m not in the bedroom
in the dark
in the grievous dark
pondering
ripped by half-thoughts.
I suppose
that at last
like the average man: I’ve known too many women
and...
How to use a visionboard →
there are worse things
than being alone
but it often takes
decades to realize...
– Charles Bukowski (via llee22) (via womanmay) (via oiseaujaune) (via peterreyes)
Sitting meditation is not, as is often supposed, a spiritual “exercise,” a...
– The Way of Zen by Alan Watts (Chapter 2) (via livereading) (via fuckyeahzenmind)
January 2010
14 posts
When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me; when...
– Joseph Addison
Van Gough writing his brother for paints
Hemingway testing his shotgun
Celine...
– Bukowski, Charles. “Beasts Bounding Through Time”
I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money. I want to...
– Jack Kerouac (via gypsywanderlussst) (via peterreyes)
Truth is truth. To the end of reckoning.
– William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure” (via onebiteatatime)
Does Fasting Makes us Active? →
December 2009
13 posts
Goals and contingencies, as I’ve said, are important. But they exist in...
– Mastery, George Leonard.
Training Wushu in China →
The World Without Us →
(via fuckyeahtheuniverse)
Energy Management →
Procrastination hack: '(10+2)*5' →
What Famous Unbearded Characters Would Look Like... →
onebiteatatime:
The things you own end up owning you.
– Tyler Durden, Fight Club (via mnmal) (via fuckyeahzenmind)