LASERPANTS

music, visuals, stories, minimalism, and a full serving of touchy-feely

[becomingminimalist]

[lsrpnts]

Still so good. Favorite record this year. The War On Drugs - In Reverse

[warlordjimmeh]

[lsrpnts]

[zestoftheday]

[knowhomo-deactivated20191124]

LGBTQ* Typography, Art and Posters You May Have Missed

Art posted during Gay Pride Weekend, Portland, Maine in late(r)-2000s

(Source: Down Is Not Up)

[atouchof-blackandwhite]

[uplifted-vibrations]

this.

[becomingminimalist]

[psych-quotes]

You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That’s the only thing you should be trying to control.

(via nordangerish)

[lustsandluxuries]

At 19, I read a sentence that re-terraformed my head: “The level of matter in the universe has been constant since the Big Bang.” In all the aeons we have lost nothing, we have gained nothing - not a speck, not a grain, not a breath. The universe is simply a sealed, twisting kaleidoscope that has reordered itself a trillion trillion trillion times over. Each baby, then, is a unique collision - a cocktail, a remix - of all that has come before: made from molecules of Napoleon and stardust and comets and whale tooth; colloidal mercury and Cleopatra’s breath: and with the same darkness that is between the stars between, and inside, our own atoms. When you know this, you suddenly see the crowded top deck of the bus, in the rain, as a miracle: this collection of people is by way of a starburst constellation. Families are bright, irregular-shaped nebulae. Finding a person you love is like galaxies colliding. We are all peculiar, unrepeatable, perambulating micro-universes - we have never been before and we will never be again. Oh God, the sheer exuberant, unlikely face of our existences. The honour of being alive. They will never be able to make you again. Don’t you dare waste a second of it thinking something better will happen when it ends. Don’t you dare.

Caitlin Moran (via scatteredandshining)

[lsrpnts]

Something akin to being nostalgic for a past you never experienced. Pop perfection. http://benkhan.tumblr.com

[peace-in-the-flowers-blog]

[uplifted-vibrations]

yes.

[shaktilover]

Most of us have a hard time believing we are pure and perfect as we are. Even yoga and meditation as presented in the West are based around self-improvement and self-help. We believe we must do something to become better and greater before we’re really okay enough. Although it is the most basic principle, it is also the greatest: Divinity expresses Itself within us just as we are, here and now, from moment to moment. There is no ‘improvement’ to be made so that we’ll be ‘better.’ It is our delusion that something is ‘wrong’ or ‘not enough.’ It is more a matter of recognizing and appreciating the Truth of Being right now.

D.R. Butler (via shaktilover)

[lsrpnts]

“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”

Albert Einstein

[lsrpnts]

I think many people tend to forget, day to day, that what came before gave everything we have to us, and that which comes after will inherit everything we give.

[lsrpnts]

That thing you’ve been searching for? The feeling you’ve been missing something? Everything you need has been there all along, buried inside you. The answer to finding it? There isn’t one. There isn’t one final answer. Finding god, six pack abs, a phone call from that ‘special someone’, the next iPhone, a trip to Australia, the better job? All distractions. The situations and outcomes that find you, and the feeling that your choices matter infinitely more than there never having a choice to begin with? An illusion. The stories that you tell yourself about the past and the future? Lies. Your breath cold and sharp in the air, your blood vessels pumping warmth through your body? Everything. The clean water so graciously distributed to your doorstep? Everything. The food pulled from your neighbors earth and prepared by and for those most loved? Everything. Be above it by being in it.

[loveless-people]

Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors.

Andrew Boyd, Daily Afflictions: The Agony of Being Connected to Everything in the Universe  (via loveless-people)