Little Things

just a little tumblelog about little, unimportant things

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Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

Anton Chekhov

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We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. 

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?

Stephen Hawking

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Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Mark Twain

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Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible. 

Dalai Lama

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I am touched by your beautiful anxiety about life.

Rilke, Letters To A Young Poet

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Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth, "You owe Me." Look what happens with a love like that, It lights up the Whole Sky.

Hafiz

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GOODBYE

From where I’m sitting, rain

Falling against the lonely tenement

Has set my mind to wander 

Into the windows of my lovers

They never know unless I write

This is no declaration

I just thought I’d let you know, Goodbye. 

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Matryoshkan Dreams

I've been having vivid, elaborate, haunting dreams of things within things lately. In my dreams I'm obsessed with peeling back layers of everything to reveal the cross section of the universe. What's with this insatiable compulsion for understanding? I wonder if curiosity can genuinely find peace without finite answers. 

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all. -Stephen Hawking

Okay, okay. I'll go play Katamari Damacy now.

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My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness. There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

Dalai Lama

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A dreamer is one who may find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

Oscar Wilde

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You can say I'm a lonely sailor, rockin' gently on my dreams

Devendra Banhart 

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Dreams & Desires

I've always had an interesting dream-life, switching between phases of copious amounts of evocative nightmares, to periods of inadvertent lucid dreaming, to times when I'd rarely dream at all. I think I'm going to start posting some of my dreams on here.