Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
—George Bernard Shaw (via myheadisweak)
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
—George Bernard Shaw (via myheadisweak)
The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
—Virginia Woolf (via hoodoothatvoodoo)
The idea that there is an ‘other’ world beyond our world of flux and change arises only as a result of hatred for the actual world we live in.
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Existentialism Basic Writings second edition (via laneplusultra)
This may give people insight about why I read fantasy novels and play a whole lot of video games.
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
—William S. Burroughs (via psychedelicately)
I got NASA to loan me a moon rock, carbon-dated 3.6 billion years old. I put it on the table in the Oval Office and when people started the crazy stuff, I’d say, ‘Wait a minute guys. See that rock, it’s 3.6 billion years old. We’re all just passing through, take a deep breath, calm down, let’s see what makes sense.’ It had an incredible calming effect!
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How Bill Clinton “defused the madness” as President | FT.com (via somethingchanged)
I want a fucking moon rock.
The true purpose of Zen is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes. Zen practice is to open up our small mind.
—Shunryu Suzuki (via illuminatedbeing)
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive
—Thomas Jefferson (via cwnl)
A man must fill his life with meaning, meaning is not automatically given to life. It is hard work to fill one’s life with meaning- that, I do not think you understand yet. A life filled with meaning is worthy of rest. I want to be worthy of rest when I am no longer here.
—Chaim Potok (via zenlikeme)
quotes this every fucking time fuckyeahexistentialism w. 508 notes
Before speaking, notice what motivates your words.
—Lama Surya Das (via cwnl)
quotes this is really good advice illuminatedbeing ikenbot w. 1,044 notes
