February 2012
107 posts
“The following day, I attended a workshop about preventing gender violence,...”
– Why I Am A Male Feminist (via fagsandsluts)
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“For Santorum, as for Ratzinger, if your conscience says one thing, and the Pope...”
– Andrew Sullivan, “Santorum Exposes The Real Republican Party”
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“Another world is not only possible, she’s on her way. Many of us...”
– Arundhati Roy
“You have to give up the life you have to get the life that’s waiting for...”
– James Hillman
“Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek but a means by which we arrive...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr. (via wordslessspoken)
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“This is my objection to Christianism, as it is to Islamism. Because it obscures...”
– Andrew Sullivan, “Online Lent”
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“The real context we’re working in is not one of dominion and power,...”
– Stuart Davis
“The common error of ordinary religious practice is to mistake the symbol for the...”
– Alan Watts (via uselesstower)
“Don’t let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful...”
– Eckhart Tolle (via lazyyogi)
“Shadow and light always go in pairs. The Mother, companion to Aurobindo, insists...”
– Alphonse Goetmann, Dialogue on The Path of Initiation: An Introduction to the Life and Thought of Karlfried Graf Durckheim (New York, NY: Globe Press Books, 1991), p. 61 (via crashinglybeautiful)
“I am enough. What I do is enough. What I have is enough. Who I am and what I do...”
– THE BEST OF: Sacral chakra affirmations (via serpentpriest)
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“The sacred, I shall say, is that which acts as your partner in the search for...”
– Brendan Myers, Ph.D., in his article “Circles of Meaning, Labyrinths of Fear” on The Wild Hunt
“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, not even if I...”
– Buddha (via jennking)
“People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the...”
– Thich Nhat Hahn (via thdandeliongirl)
“Detach from needing to have things work out a certain way. The universe is...”
– Orin (via terramantra)
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“…a lot of people feel like they’re being judged by the others...”
– Brad Warner, giving meditation advice at Tricycle
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The End of Church, or The Beginning of Spirit?
And that, to me, is the true meaning of “religion” – from the Latin religare, “to bind together”. I felt this binding together at Gaia’s Temple. I feel it when I practice zazen with my fellow Buddhists. Rather than being bound by doctrine, we come together around a few principle ideas or practices that are sacred to us. The officiants of such practices are highly esteemed in the community, and may...
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“Meditation hasn’t been the cosmic, psychedelic voyage I was expecting it to be....”
– Greg Eckard, “I Can Quit Thinking Whenever I Want, Dammit!” on Elephant Journal
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“As we meditate, we simply sit straight and watch the breath. So what does that...”
– Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche
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“Every time we breathe, we are breathing in life force.”
– T. Thorn Coyle
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“When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don’t blame the lettuce....”
– Thich Nhat Hahn, from Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life. Still striving to practice this in my daily life.
That awkward moment
geekgirlsmash:
When you finally realize, a decade after the fact, that you weren’t the ugly loser with no friends you thought you were in high school.
But were adorable, popular, and fucking awesome, and too caught up in the high school drama to notice.
I wouldn’t go back for the life of me, but, shit, I wish I had enjoyed it more at the time.
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“Holy Mother, in whom we live, move, and have our being, from you all things...”
– T. Thorn Coyle, prayer from her book Evolutionary Witchcraft
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“The very nature of our awareness is to know what is happening. The very nature...”
– Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha. A succinct explanation of what is meant when we say, “Everyone has Buddha-nature.”
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A Mystic’s Lent: A Guide to Holy Observation →
You don’t have to be Christian to appreciate this mystical approach to Lent. Great read.