June 2013
55 posts
“Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness.”
—Lao Tzu (via larmoyante)
“This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they are a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice.
meet them at the door laughing and invite them in.
Be grateful for whatever comes.
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.” —Rumi, “The Guest House” (via larmoyante)
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they are a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice.
meet them at the door laughing and invite them in.
Be grateful for whatever comes.
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.” —Rumi, “The Guest House” (via larmoyante)
“I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.”
—Jack Kerouac (via larmoyante)
“Yes, we shall all be forgotten. Such is our fate, and we can’t do anything about it. And all the things that seem serious, important and full of meaning to us now will be forgotten one day — or anyway they won’t seem important anymore.”
—Anton Chekhov, Three Sisters (via larmoyante)
“Follow your passion. Stay true to yourself. Never follow someone else’s path unless you’re in the woods and you’re lost and you see a path. By all means, you should follow that.”
—Ellen DeGeneres (via larmoyante)
“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”
—Alan Watts (via larmoyante)
“Nothing is worth more than this day”
—Goathe
“If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your hand”
—Eldo Roshi
