"And then my soul saw you and it kind of went, ‘Oh there you are. I’ve been looking for you.’"
- Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You (via allegorys)
(Source: pierre-du-soleil)
"I like cats. Cats are so much better than death. Why couldn’t I have majored in cats instead?"
- Joly, Book IV (via violentwavesofemotion)
(Source: incorrectlesmisquotes)
I’ll never understand why people feel the need to scoff at prayer in times of tragedy, when that is the very thing requested by many of the suffering.
"Decency means never being tired or made haggard by others. There’s always some enjoyment in dealing with the world, whether you are dealing with people, with other sentient beings, or even with inanimate objects. You could be dealing with your garden; it could be your horse; it could be your dog, your cat, or your stove. No matter what you are doing, the sense of decency is being absolutely on the spot, without falling to the level of uncaring and crudeness."
- Chögyam Trungpa, “The Big No” in Great Eastern Sun: The Wisdom of Shambhala, pages 136-137. (via dharmasimulation)
"We stand helpless before the corporate onslaught. There is no way to vote against corporate power. Citizens have no way to bring about the prosecution of Wall Street bankers and financiers for fraud, military and intelligence officials for torture and war crimes, or security and surveillance officers for human rights abuses. The Federal Reserve is reduced to printing money for banks and financiers and lending it to them at almost zero percent interest; corporate officers then lend it to us at usurious rates as high as 30 percent. I do not know what to call this system. It is certainly not capitalism. Extortion might be a better word. The fossil fuel industry, meanwhile, relentlessly trashes the ecosystem for profit. The melting of 40 percent of the summer Arctic sea ice is, to corporations, a business opportunity. Companies rush to the Arctic and extract the last vestiges of oil, natural gas, minerals and fish stocks, indifferent to the death pangs of the planet. The same corporate forces that give us endless soap operas that pass for news, from the latest court proceedings surrounding O.J. Simpson to the tawdry details of the Jodi Arias murder trial, also give us atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide that surpass 400 parts per million. They entrance us with their electronic hallucinations as we waiver, as paralyzed with fear as Odysseus’ sailors, between Scylla and Charybdis."
- Chris Hedges (via azspot)
"For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and give his life as a ransom for many."
- Mark 10:45 (via shneevon)
Not all those who wander are lost.: The Past.
broken hearts don’t heal
broken strings don’t mend
the pain was not only in the past
its phantom still lingers around
reminding us of our weaknesses,
making us weak in the knees
fragile marrow bones
they crack easily
the past has seen it all
watched us fall, tried to mold us in,
black…
"My earliest poems were a way of talking to somebody. I suppose to myself."
- Philip Levine (via theparisreview)
