i started looking for you

random musings from corbin and marie.

[fulfilling-prophecies]

[istartedlookingforyou]

He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the word and pass it on. So be sparing. What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not.

Cormac McCarthy, The Road, Picador 2010 (139).

[istartedlookingforyou]

[istartedlookingforyou]

[2oms-blog-blog]

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

-Robert Brault (via 2oms)

[istartedlookingforyou]

I have often begun with an actual experience and in the end produced what I have had to call a fiction. In the effort to tell a whole story, to see it whole and clear, I have had to imagine more than I have known. "There's no use in telling a pretty good story when you can tell a really good one," my mother's father told me once.

Wendell Berry, The Way of Ignorance and Other Essays.

[istartedlookingforyou]

To farm is to be placed absolutely.

Wendell Berry.  The Way of Ignorance and Other Essays.

[istartedlookingforyou]

What I have learned as a farmer I have learned also as a writer, and vice versa. I have farmed as a writer and written as a farmer. This is an experience that is resistant to any kind of simplification. I will go ahead and call it complexification. When I am called, as to my astonishment as I sometimes am, a devotee of "simplicity" (since I live supposedly as a "simple farmer"), I am obliged to reply that I gave up the simple life when I left New York City in 1964 and came here. In New York, I lived as a passive consumer, supplying nearly all my needs by purchase, whereas here I supply many of my needs from this place by my work (and pleasure) and am responsible besides for the care of the place.

Wendell Berry.  The Way of Ignorance and Other Essays (47-48)

[istartedlookingforyou]

"Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without." - Buddha

If only...

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[youneversoul]

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[istartedlookingforyou]

The desire to possess is considered by Buddhism to be one of the worst passions with which humans are apt to be obsessed. What, in fact, causes so much misery in the world is the universal impulse of acquisition... Cannot we ever hope to stop the massing of wealth and the accumulation of power merely from the desire for individual or national aggrandizement? Despairing the utter irrationality of human affairs, Buddhist monks have gone to the other extreme and cut themselves off even from reasonable and perfectly innocent enjoyments of life. However, the Zen ideal of putting a monk's belongings into a tiny box is his mute protest, though so far ineffective, against the present order of society.

DT Suzuki, An Introduction To Zen Buddhism.  Grove Press Inc, New York, 1968 (120).

[rafaxx2]

Desafortunadamente las mentes cerradas no vienen con boca cerrada.

Unfortunately closed minds don’t come with a closed mouth. 

love,

Rafa

[rafaxx2]

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[thingsorganizedneatly]

SUBMISSION:

“Pretty roasted nuts for an upcoming video of ours on kinfolk. But even more than pretty, those roasted nuts taste like heaven.” - tiger in a jar

[livejamie]

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

Eric Hoffer (via livejamie)

[istartedlookingforyou]

And I realized with chagrin that my agreeing to be boss had freed Frank to do what he wanted to do more than anything else, to do what his father had done: to receive honors and creature comforts while escaping human responsibilities. He was accomplishing this by going down a spiritual oubliette.

Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle

[istartedlookingforyou]

"There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too."

~Kurt Vonnegut