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almost home
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if i look back, i am lost
shark vs the universe
KIROKAZE
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
TVSTRANGERTHINGS
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occasionally subtle
Monterey Bay Aquarium
@theartofmadeline
Kaledo Art
Andulka
Jules of Nature
Product Placement
trying on a metaphor
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#extradirty
Cosimo Galluzzi
seen from United States
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seen from Venezuela
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@cosmicfingerpuppet
You suffer because you won’t accept the obvious: the “you” you defend is a ghost.
Your childhood wounds, your career, your trauma—they're not you. They're events. You are not a victim—you are addicted to your identity.
If it disappeared, so would your drama. But you love your drama more than freedom.
Our daily life – going to work, coming back home, sex, quarrels, anxiety, competition – is rather superficial and empty. We are discontented, and out of this discontent we escape or do things to become contented. So our life is a very superficial, light affair. We can carry on like this until we die, and most people do, accumulating a little property, a car or two, and so on. When you see that, you say, ‘It’s all right, but it isn’t good enough.’ There is music, paintings, the mountains, the rivers, the trees, the squalor, the splendour of the sky and so on, and we say, ‘Yes, it’s all right, up to a certain point.’ Don’t you feel that you want to open a door that will give a new freshness, a new vitality, a new energy, a new beauty, a tremendous view to the whole of existence?
J. Krishnamurti
From Public Discussion 6, Saanen, 9 August 1964
Zen points repeatedly toward a simple but radical insight: confusion is not found in reality itself, but in the interpretive overlay imposed upon it. Experience arrives whole, immediate, and prior to commentary.
The mind divides what is seamless into judgments, preferences, identities, and explanations, then suffers beneath the weight of its own constructions.
Yet Zen does not ask for new beliefs to replace old ones. It invites direct seeing.
When conceptual resistance softens, life is encountered before agreement or disagreement, before grasping or avoidance. What remains is neither passive resignation nor mystical abstraction, but intimacy with things exactly as they are-unforced, unembellished, and already complete.
“A clever man must arrange his interests in order and carry out each of them in its proper place. Our greed often disturbs this, and makes us run after so many things at the same time that we miss out on the most prestigious ones because we have too great a desire for those of least importance.”
— François de La Rochefoucauld, Moral Reflections
“When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay.”
— Brian Aldiss
Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art. — Maya Angelou
He's worried about stepping on flowers. He loves nature.
Wow thanks everyone ;v;
Mini lore snippet lol: at first I just doodled the cat alone in the middle of a page, but I loved him so much I just turned the page and drew the whole thing. He's so great.
I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe.
— Donna Tartt
