it's hip to be a square

i am

[nvm-illustration]

[thecalminside]

There’s a lot of pain and hardship. Everybody, every minute, is tortured, suffering a lot. We shouldn’t just ignore them and save ourselves alone. Even if we could just save ourselves, we wouldn’t have a peaceful sleep. The rest of the world is going to wake us up with their pain.

Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche (via thecalminside)

[illuminatizeitgeist]

The Kabbalah Cube of Space:

The 22 hebrew letters can be arranged in a kabbalistic system of space. Every letter describes a particular direction, which direves from the 7 major directions in space: north, south, west, east, above, below and the centre. These 7 main directions are at the same time the 7 double-letters, double for they can be pronounced in two ways.

The 12 sides and 3 middle axes of the Cube of Space, are the connections of the 7 main directions. In the kabbalistic book called the Sefer Yetzirah, the book of creation, all directions are direved from the 32 hidden pathways of wisdom.

Learn more about its kabbalistic properties here.

[johnmarkgreenpoetry-deactivated]

Forget labels. Love is a human thing.

[thepetcollective]

[alt-j-deactivated20171027]

Ok me

[shimmerangels-deactivated201804]

chaotic evil

[lazyyogi]

You’re only as young as the last time you changed your mind.

Timothy Leary (via lazyyogi)

[microtear-deactivated20181213]

Therapist: i want you to say something positive about urself

Me: i have eyes

[astrolocherry]

Guard against idols – yes, guard against all idols, of which surely the greatest is oneself.

Alexandra_David_Neel

LEO

(via astrolocherry)

[urgetocreate]

Euan Macleod, Lighthouse

[theuniverseworks]

Here [i.e., on this “level” of practice] there is no purity and no impurity, no dualism nor nondualism, no ritual nor its rejection, no renunciation and no possession… all the observances, rules and regulations [found in other Tantras] are neither enjoined nor prohibited in this way. Or, everything is enjoined, and everything forbidden here! In fact, there is but one commandment on this [higher path], O Queen of the Gods: the yogi is to make every effort to steady his awareness on reality. He must practice whatever makes that possible for him [or her].

Malinivijayottara-tantra Chapter 18 (via theuniverseworks)

[theuniverseworks]

Often the reason that people go from neurosis into psychosis is that they see that spaciousness and synchronistic situation and how vast things are and how the world actually works, but then they cling to their insight and they become completely caught there. It has been said, quite accurately, that a psychotic person is drowning in the very same things that a mystic swims in.

Pema Chodron ~ The Wisdom of No Escape ~ p. 76 (via theuniverseworks)

[angiellehcim]

if someone makes you feel; let them.

6:45pm (via angiellehcim)

[mercedesbenzodiazepine]

IM CRYING

[ekphora-deactivated20190614]

Last night it rained. Now, in the desolate dawn, Crying of blue jays.

–Amy Lowell, from “Twenty-Four Hokku on a Modern Theme”

[ekphora-deactivated20190614]

Love is a game–yes? I think it is a drowning: Black willows and stars.

–Amy Lowell, from “Twenty-Four Hokku on a Modern Theme”

[dappledwithshadow]

Giorgio Belloni (Italian, 1861 - 1944)

[ekphora-deactivated20190614]

I had once tried to write, had once reveled in feeling, had let my crude imagination roam, but the impulse to dream had been slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing. It was not a matter of believing or disbelieving what I read, but of feeling something new, of being affected by something that made the look of the world different.

–Richard Wright, Black Boy