That Which Does Not Suffer

“We have to confront our own destiny.” —Samael Aun Weor Archive. Gnosis.

[philosophybits]

“Don’t be ashamed to need help. Like a soldier storming a wall, you have a mission to accomplish. And if you’ve been wounded and you need a comrade to pull you up? So what?”

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (7.7)

[thecalminside]

By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

-Rabindranath Tagore

[radical-revolution]

In the garbage ,

I see a rose.

In the rose ,

I see the garbage.

Everything is in transformation.

Even permanence is impermanent

Thich Nhat Hanh

[radical-revolution]

[radical-revolution]

Dilgo Khyentse & Trungpa Rinpoche

Self-deception seems always to depend upon the dream world, because you would like to see what you have not yet seen, rather than what you are now seeing.

Self-deception manifests in trying to create or recreate a dream world, the nostalgia of the dream experience.

The opposite of self-deception is just working with the facts of life.

Chögyam Trungpa, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

[thoughtkick]

“Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.”

— Sophocles, Antigone

[thoughtkick]

“I want to be with you, it is as simple, and as complicated as that.”

— Charles Bukowski

[radical-revolution]

"If we know how to use all of these myriad sufferings as a cause to connect with dharma, our suffering can have a wondrous quality."

–Anyen Rinpoche and Allison Choying Zangmo

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[derangedrhythms]

I like men and women who don’t fit well in the dominant culture, or, as Álvaro de Campos calls them, strangers in this place as in every other, accidental in life as in the soul. I like outsiders, phantoms wandering the cobwebbed halls of the doomed castle where life must be lived.

Rabih Alameddine, An Unnecessary Woman

[vexheart]

[thoughtkick]

“I keep wondering, how many people do you need to be, before you can become yourself.”

— Iain S. Thomas

[theodorafrompluto]

St. Cecilia (1897)

by Gustave Moreau

[zerogate]

While our thoughts are pale and shadowy in comparison with our sense impressions, in the case of ancient man it was the other way round. People then had less of a sense of physical objects. Objects were not as sharply defined and differentiated to them as they are to us. If you look at depiction of a tree on the walls of an ancient temple, you will see that the artist has not really looked to see how branches are joined to the trunk. In ancient times no one really looked at a tree in the way we do.

-- Mark Booth, The Secret History of the World

[malojasnake]

- bakkhai, tr. Anne Carson

[radical-revolution]

When the heart is pure, it reflects the whole universe.

-Shams Tabrizi

[red-ibis-red]

but then suddenly there is something there, in those very eyes, something you want and which you would do almost anything to be close to. What is it? For it isn't the pupils you are seeing then, not the irises nor the whites of the eyes. It is the soul, the archaic light of the soul the eyes are filled with, and to gaze into the eyes of the one you love when love is at its most powerful belongs among the highest joys.

—Karl Ove Knausgaard, Autumn