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undergrad in History aspiring chaplain and educator life-long learner "Can you see the light? Can you be the light?"

[natureisthegreatestartist]

Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth.

Novelist, poet and painter Hermann Hesse (via natureisthegreatestartist)

[wonderful-language-sounds]

Hello, can you give me some suggestions on good russian opera soaps/drama/movie(if possible with english sub)?

 I do not watch Russian soaps because I haven’t had good luck with them, but I can answer the others :) I watched a number of these when I was at a A2-B1 level with subtitles so it will be great to watch them again without subs.

Movies

Below are movies that I have watched and recommend or have been recommended to me by Russian friends. I have tried to find versions with subtitles, but if they are not available, they will be listed with a *. As for other places to find movies, asides from torrent sites, I have found that vkontakte (Russian facebook) often has full movies but there are no subtitles so…

Comedies

Anything by Leonid Gaidai, really. But here are my recs.

Operation Y and Shurik’s Other Adventures (1965) 

The Diamond Arm (1969) Highly recommend!

The Irony of Fate  (1975)

Twelve Chairs (1976)

Peter FM (2006)

Misfits (2011)

Hipsters (2008)*

Lucky Trouble (2011)*

All at Once (2014)*

What Men Talk About (2010)*

Blind Man’s Bluff (2005)*

Drama

Anything by Andrei Tarkovsky! His films are highly regarded and I believe all of his films are free to watch online. 

Solaris (1972)

Stalker (1979)

The Mirror (1975)

Ivan’s Childhood (1962)

Other Soviet Films:

The Cranes are Flying (1957) 

Moscow Does not Believe in Tears (1979)

Autumn Marathon (1979)

Modern Films:

Russian Ark (2002) (On Netflix)

Метро (2012)*  

The Return (2003)*

The House of Sun (2010)*

Brother (1997)*

The Barber of Siberia (1998)

Марафон (2012)

Elena (2011)

Leviathan (2014)

How I Ended the Summer (2012)

TV Shows

Drama:

Sherlock Holmes (new one; mixed reviews but I like it)

Sherlock Holmes (Soviet version; people & the Queen prefer it)

Sniffer (Detective show)

School * (somewhat Office style show about school in Russia)

Master and Margarita (tv series about the book; highly recommend)

Freud’s Method (detective series)

Heavenly Court * (legal drama)

Brigada (crime drama)

Other:

Kitchen (One of my all-time favorite shows; Subtitles available on Hulu) 

Interns * (like Scrubs but in its own way) 

Zaitsev * (comedy about a student’s shenanigans)

You can also find American/British tv shows with Russian dubs on http://seasonvar.ru/ with a VPN set to Russia. No subtitles though. For more Russian shows you can go to rutube.ru or pay $10/month at tvteka.com to get access to Russian cable channels & dubs for movies/shows.

To my Russian followers, do you have any tv shows or films you recommend? Кто-нибудь может порекомендовать хорошие фильмы и сериалы?

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All language is but a poor translation.

Franz Kafka (via purplebuddhaproject)

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صحفي بريطاني يعمل على مشروع تصوير العائلات السورية اللاجئه ويترك مكان الشخص المفقود - British journalist working on a project photographing Syrian refugee families and leave the place of the missing person

[purplebuddhaproject]

[purplebuddhaproject]

In the morning it was morning and I was still alive.

Charles Bukowski (via purplebuddhaproject)

[purplebuddhaproject]

[purplebuddhaproject]

The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.

Franz Kafka (via purplebuddhaproject)

[seedo-amjad-deactivated20160707]

Too many Arab-Americans in Brooklyn are losing their lives to drug abuse and addiction because no one wants to talk about.

No one wants to be shamed.

It’s so sad.

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[betterthankanyebitch]

[purplebuddhaproject]

Confusion is a gift from God. Those times when you feel most desperate for a solution, sit. Wait. The information will become clear. The confusion is there to guide you. Seek detachment and become the producer of your life.

The RZA (via purplebuddhaproject)

[micdotcom]

In a speech that lasted almost 30 minutes, Judge Vonda Evans of Detroit laid into 47-year-old William Melendez, the former police officer caught on video beating an unarmed black man in January 2015. Looking at his history, Melendez deserved every word of it.

[purplebuddhaproject]

You can forget that other people carry pieces of your own story around in their heads. I’ve always thought—put together all those random pieces from everyone who’s ever known you from your parents to the guy who once sat next to you on a bus, and you’d probably see a fuller version of your life than you even did while living it.

Deb Caletti (via purplebuddhaproject)