[l1amaani]

[drunkwhenimadethis]

"Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly. ...Seriousness is not a virtue. It would be a heresy, but a much more sensible heresy, to say that seriousness is a vice. It is really a natural trend or lapse into taking one's self gravely, because it is the easiest thing to do. ...For solemnity flows out of men naturally; but laughter is a leap. It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light. Satan fell by the force of gravity."

G.K. Chesterton

[drunkwhenimadethis]

Heard this in a lecture by David R. Hawkins: "How you contextualize your life then is how you present yourself to the world and that's what you are to the world. The universe responds in like. When you are thus to the world, the world is thus to thee, and you walk safely through the hail of bullets and if one's meant for you, so? If you come out the other side then there wasn't one meant for you. That is the way it goes. That's complete surrender, is it not? The past is eliminated by the realization that a decent regret is all that's necessary. You can stop ruminating and trying to rewrite the past. Have a decent regret about it and let it go. I don't want to hear other people's chain's dragging. They wallow in the past because their ego is sucking the juice out of it."

[havingapoemwithyou]

those winter sundays by Robert Hayden

[aloneandforsakenbyfateandbyman]

Nightmares Come at Night (1970)

[firstfullmoon]

Todd Dillard, “How to Live”

[wovi]

[havingapoemwithyou]

Music in the Morning by Dorianne Laux

[primulaceas]

Tennessee Williams, “We Have Not Long to Love.”

[vladj]

source

[drunkwhenimadethis]

Lord may the people I attract into my life be consistent and clear with their affections and intentions. May they know me see me and appreciate me always. May they be receptive to my affections and intentions. May they be true, steady givers of grace. May they be curious and non-deceptive. Should they make error against me, may they take responsibility to humbly inspire my forgiveness. Should I cross them ever by mistake, may they be knowing of my heart. May we never be confused. May clarity grow bigger forever in the space between us. May my life be a meadow for the sweetest flowers. Amen!

[nowvoyager]

Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame - In A Lonely Place 1950

[roadmotel]

Franz Wright, The New Jerusalem

[badarchitecturesucks]

Jay Heikes, The Hill Upstairs, 2005, beet juice and coffee on drop ceiling

[arearchive]

@charlottetaylr

[m0untainslut]

The infinite truth in me sees the infinite truth in you

हरि ॐ तत् सत्

[sonnywortzik]

“INTERVIEWER Do you think of yourself as having a relationship with God? 

CARSON No. But that’s not bad. I think in the last few years, since I’ve been working on Decreation and reading a lot of mystics, especially Simone Weil, I’ve come to understand that the best one can hope for as a human is to have a relationship with that emptiness where God would be if God were available, but God isn’t. So, sad fact, but get used to it, because nothing else is going to happen. 

INTERVIEWER He’s not available because he chooses to remove himself or he’s not available because he doesn’t exist? 

CARSON Neither. He’s not available because he’s not a being of a kind that would fit into our availability. “Not knowable,”as the mystics would say. And knowing is what a worshiper wants to get from God—the sense of being in an exchange of knowledge, knowing and being known. It’s what anybody wants from any relationship of love, and the relationship with God is supposed to be one of love. But I don’t think any kind of knowing is ever going to materialize between humans and gods. 

INTERVIEWER Is it stymied because of the nature of the beast? CARSON Because of the difference of the two orders. If God were knowable, why would we believe in him?”

— Anne Carson, The Art of Poetry No. 88 

[arearchive]

Sam Youkilis's SOMEWHERE