Nonsense and such

A mind forever voyaging through a strange sea of thoughts, alone. - William Wordsworth

[npr]

An estimated 20.8 million people in our country are living with a substance use disorder. This is similar to the number of people who have diabetes, and 1.5 times the number of people who have all cancers combined. This number does not include the millions of people who are misusing substances but may not yet have a full-fledged disorder. We don’t invest nearly the same amount of attention or resources in addressing substance use disorders that we do in addressing diabetes or cancer, despite the fact that a similar number of people are impacted. That has to change.

U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy on the prevalence of substance abuse in the United States (via npr)

[aspiritualwarrior]

Just let go. Let go of how you thought your life should be, and embrace the life that is trying to work its way into your consciousness.

Caroline Myss (via aspiritualwarrior)

[fyp-psychology]

I did not direct my life. I didn’t design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That’s what life is.

B. F. Skinner  (via fyp-psychology)

[awakeinthedream]

The desire to go home that is a desire to be whole, to know where you are, to be the point of intersection of all the lines drawn through all the stars, to be the constellation-maker and the center of the world, that center called love. To awaken from sleep, to rest from awakening, to tame the animal, to let the soul go wild, to shelter in darkness and blaze with light, to cease to speak and be perfectly understood.

Rebecca Solnit, Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics (via awakeinthedream)

[art-and-things-of-beauty]

Dutch landscape with pollard willows, oil on canvas by Cornelis Vreedenburgh (1880-1946)

[craved-deactivated20230908]

In the end, always laugh. And do not lose this strange habit of having faith in life.

Daniel C. L.  (via alterated)

[fegegtas]

We are living in a time when men, impelled by mediocre and ferocious ideologies, have gotten into the habit of being ashamed of everything — ashamed of themselves, of being happy, of loving or creating.

Albert Camus (via vital-dust)

[hildeeveraert]

Jr Goodwin • Cloud - Oil on Canvas

[quoted-books]

Heroes didn’t leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn’t wear boots and capes. They bled, and they bruised, and their superpowers were as simple as listening, or loving. Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else’s. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back.

Jodi Picoult, Second Glance  (via quoted-books)

[moody-nature]

37,000 Feet | By Santiago Borja

[skunkbear]

I’ve always wanted to see lightning in slow motion!

Scientists at Florida Institute of Technology shot this video on May 20th during a storm near the university’s Melbourne campus. They were testing a high speed camera – one designed for studying the dynamics and energetics of the upward electrical discharges from thunderstorms. But they captured this:

Video courtesy of the Geospace Physics Laboratory, Department of Physics and Space Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology.

[npr]

I could watch this for hours. -Emily

[nevver]

Adventures in solitude, Hiroharu Matsumoto

[quoted-books]

You told me once that a soul isn’t something a person is born with but something that must be built, by effort and error, study and love. And you did that with more dedication than most, that work of building a soul-not for your own benefit but for the benefit of those that knew you.

Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding (via quoted-books)

[mpdrolet]

David Ryle

[thegreenwoodtree]

“We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.”

- Hermann Hesse (German poet and writer, 1877 - 1962)

Monday’s yoga quote, via elephantjournal

(via thegreenwoodtree)

[friedrichnietzsche]

Everyone has his good day, when he finds his higher self; and true humanity demands that we judge someone only when he is in this condition, and not in his workdays of bondage and servitude. We should, for example, assess and honour a painter according to the highest vision he was able to see and portray.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Traffic with One’s Higher Self, Human, All Too Human.  (via friedrichnietzsche)

[casadabiqueira]