wisdom-

[liberatingreality]

We need to move away from this constant need of coming across as calm, cool and collected. We weren’t built to be calm, cool, and collected. If we were, it wouldn’t feel so exhausting all the time. It would, you know, come naturally to us. You know what comes naturally to human beings though? Being open, being messy, being raw, being unfiltered, having lots of feelings. Why should we have to stifle our true nature? Let’s go after the things we want, let’s love each other brutally and honestly, and not worry about the consequences. Let’s release the feelings inside of us and let them land somewhere special. Otherwise, we might have a lifetime of longing in front of us.

Ryan O’Connell (via liberatingreality)

[goodquoteco]

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

Albert Camus (via hqlines)

[philosophybits]

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

Albert Camus (via philosophybits)

[quotemadness]

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

Audrey Hepburn (via quotemadness)

[fyp-philosophy]

If you obsess over whether you are making the right decision, you are basically assuming that the universe will reward you for one thing and punish you for another. The universe has no fixed agenda. Once you make any decision, it works around that decision. There is no right or wrong, only a series of possibilities that shift with each thought, feeling, and action that you experience.

Deepak Chopra (via fyp-philosophy)

[thetaooflife]

Life is basically insecure. That’s its intrinsic quality; it cannot be changed. Death is secure, absolutely secure. The moment you choose security, unknowingly you have chosen death. The moment you choose life, unawares you have chosen insecurity… The moment things are secure you will feel bored because there is no possibility of any exploration. That’s why marriages create so much boredom. It is the same love affair which was such an adventure; once it becomes institutionalized as marriage it loses all joy, all dance, all poetry. It becomes very mundane, it becomes very routine - but it is secure. Love is insecure. One never knows the ways of love. When it happens it happens, when it disappears it disappears. You cannot do anything about it. marriage is manageable. The law, the society, the public opinion, the morality, the religion, the fear of hell, the greed for heaven - these are all props which keep marriage somehow alive. But it is not true life. True life is always moving from the known into the unknown. And the crossing point from the known to the unknown is what insecurity is all about. The moment you cross the boundary you feel insecure. With the secure, with the familiar you are bored; you start becoming dull. With the insecure, with the unknown, the uncharted, you feel ecstatic, beautiful, again a child - again those eyes of wonder, again that heart which can feel the awe of things is there. You would like to know those beautiful spaces with security, but that is not possible in the very nature of things. Nothing can be done about it. If you want beautiful space you have to start loving insecurity. And then a miracle happens: if you can love insecurity, its “insecurityness” disappears. If you know insecurity contains love, beauty, ecstasy, truth, God, then where is the insecurity? Insecurity exists in your fear of the unknown, of the true, because you have lived in lies for so long - you have lived in lies for centuries. Your collective unconscious is full of lies, and it goes on projecting those lies on the screen of the mind. Everybody has lived in fear because all the religions have exploited the natural instinct of fear in man… The insecurity is there because you have not been brought up with a right approach towards life, you have not been given any insight into the truth of insecurity. You have been simply made afraid. You have not been trained, disciplined for adventure. You have been told to remain within the boundaries and never to go beyond the boundaries… This is the true function of a parent, the true function of a Master: to help you to go beyond the known, to make you a lover of the unknown, to help you to risk for the unknown, to make you a gambler rather than a businessman, to help you to be more poetic rather than more calculative. Then there will be no problems. The loving space and the insecurity of it - both will be rejoiced by you. - OSHO THEOLOGIA MYSTICA

(via thetaooflife)

[wordsnquotes]

If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Demons (via kindofagiant)

[watchoutforintellect]

I don’t do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision.

Allen Ginsberg - from The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice: First Journals and Poems: 1937-1952  (via down-the-rabbith0le)

[fyp-philosophy]

The demand to be loved is the greatest kind of arrogance.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human (via fyp-philosophy)

[quotemadness]

The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.

Charles Bukowski (via quotemadness)

[floydpinkus-deactivated20200807]

What’s this? A great man? All I can see is the play-actor of his own ideal.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), p.62, exp.97. (via floydpinkus)

[minutelyinspiration]

"There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, ‘It all depends on me.’"

Andre Gide (via minutelyinspiration)

[quotationsfori]

I did not fail, I just found 10,000 ways that did not work.

Thomas Edison

[quotationsfori]

What will prove greater; the mistakes you made or the lessons you learned?

[quotationsfori]

Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.

- Ernest Hemingway

[quotationsfori]

sometimes life reaches out to you, it would be insane not to reach back.

[quotationsfori]

for each human being is both the artist and the work of art.