Rescape

Re-evaluating the unquestioned assumptions of fundamental reality

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Being Unstuck - The Application of Vulcan Logic

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“I hate myself because I screw up because I’m a screwup which is why nobody likes me, so I’ll hide and stop trying, so I won’t screw up again and make people angry and keep having to remember what a screwup I am.”

— My Inner Child

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The Science of Unbelief - Jesus Storytime pt. 8

[semper-femina]

“gezelligheid”

— (noun) Known as one of the most difficult words to translate, this abstract Dutch noun is identified as a cozy, warm feeling,inspired by those you love at home or in a pleasant atmosphere you experience. Overall, known as the heart of Dutch culture gezelligheid is described as an intimate and relaxed sensation, which connotes a sense of belonging and happiness.  (via wordsnquotes)

[vitrina]

“The silence of my heart is full of sound.”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning, from The Collected Poems; “A Drama of Exile,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

[tseneipgam]

“I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish….You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.“”

— Simone de Beauvoir in a letter to Nelson Algren, 1947

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“The combination of that brilliant brain and fragile body is very loveable. She has a sweet and childlike nature, from which her intellect is completely separate. I have never known anyone who was so profoundly sensitive, and who makes less of a business of that sensitiveness.”

Vita Sackville-West, describing Virginia Woolf, from a letter c. August 1928

[vitrina]

“The skin listens too.”

— Oliveros, Pauline. Quantum Listening: From Practice to Theory (to practice practice). (via sositap)

[vitrina]

“It is time to love and purify oneself in the confused music of the heat and the sun.”

— Albert Camus, from Youthful Writings; “The Moorish House,” wr. c. 1932 (via violentwavesofemotion)

[vitrina]

“I have, as you know, a passion for hands, which are more revealing than faces.”

— Renée Vivien, tr. by Jeanette H. Foster, from “A Woman Appeared To Me,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

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[semper-femina]

“…and from your eyelids, furtively, the teardrops seep like pearls.”

— Heinrich Heine, tr. by Aaron Kramer, from “I See you in my Dream,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

[lovingsylvia]

“I know I’ll always think of you with something like hurt and nostalgia—”

— The Letters Of Sylvia Plath Volume I: 1940–1956, from a letter to Ann Davdiow-Goodman, written 1951

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“I like simple things… books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”

— Daphne du Maurier

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“…there are moments when I am almost frightened at the way you have invaded me […] I feel strangely exposed to you. Sometimes I seem to stand aside and marvel at your way of touching me here, now there.”

— Anaïs Nin in a letter to Henry Miller, August 4, 1932, A Literate Passion. (via parisi0n)

[polykowiak]

“…there are moments when I am almost frightened at the way you have invaded me […] I feel strangely exposed to you. Sometimes I seem to stand aside and marvel at your way of touching me here, now there.”

— Anaïs Nin in a letter to Henry Miller, August 4, 1932, A Literate Passion. (via parisi0n)

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“It was my last act of love.”

— Sylvia Plath, of her suicide attempt in Summer 1953, as recounted by her mother in Letters Home (via lifeinpoetry)