VANGE PHOTO

Casey Vange | Fashion Photographer in NYC  vangephoto.com

[larmoyante]

“You have to be careful telling things. Some ears are tunnels. Your words will go in and get lost in the dark. Some ears are flat pans like the miners used looking for gold. What you say will be washed out with the stones. You look for a long time till you find the right ears. Till then, there are birds and lamps to be spoken to, a patient cloth rubbing shine in circles, and the slow, gradually growing possibility that when you find such ears they already know.”

— Naomi Shihab Nye, “You Have to Be Careful” in Words Under the Words

[lifeinpoetry]

“She will transform unbearable pain into artistic production – exactly like how women take what turns out to be a life and live with it.”

— Lidia Yuknavitch, from “Daguerreotype of a Girl,“ Wreckage of Reason: An Anthology of Contemporary Xxperimental Prose by Women Writers, ed. Nava Renek

[wittyno]

Umbrella Academy - Netflix on Netflix

[asflcl]

Toonami presents FLCL : Progressive, Saturdays at midnight. Think Smooth.

[thingsorganizedneatly]

[stua]

Timeless praying: A mass ordination of 34,000 monks at Wat Phra Dhammakaya, a Buddhist temple in Thailand. Photograph by Luke Duggleby

[thingsorganizedneatly]

Monks Organized Neatly

[nevver]

[vangephoto]

A Synthesis of Ideas — . “Meditation is the basis for an enlightened society that is not based on winning and losing. Meditation is a totally nonviolent, nonaggressive occupation. Not filling the space, allowing for the possibility of unconditional openness—this provides the basis for real change. When one thought has ended and another has not begun, we can rest in that space. We train in returning to the unchanging heart of this very moment. All compassion and all inspiration come from that. . Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others. Wholeheartedly do what it takes to awaken your clear-seeing intelligence, but one day at a time, one moment at a time. If we live that way, we will benefit this earth.” - Pema Chödrön . This month I've made a commitment to myself to meditate everyday for a minimum of 20 minutes. I really wanted to be specific and keep track of it, rather than continuing to meditate only sporadically. Repetition has made it easier to continue to briefly meditate throughout the day—meditation on the train, meditation while I'm making a cup of coffee, meditation while I'm walking with the dog, meditation when I'm waking up. I'm grateful for the morning; I greet myself with friendship. I listen to my thoughts with patience; I let them go, stretch my legs and arms, and face the day. . I learn about my patterns, my rhythms; I hear when they're in harmony and when they're not. I see it as I see any fact—I see it as I see the rain falling. Sometimes it rains; sometimes there's grief or fear, comparison or doubt. There's no one to blame. There's only the pattern: to blame or to praise. Right or wrong. We struggle so much to stay in the middle, to hang out and pay attention to how it all is. But we're all learning—things in our world aren't that binary. Not what's happening in the world, or in the mind, or in the heart.

[nevver]

Lies

[vangephoto]

Perpetually re-reading: Freedom From The Known, Jiddu Krishnamurti, 1969 . "Love is something that is new, fresh, alive. It has no yesterday and no tomorrow. It is beyond the turmoil of thought. It is only the innocent mind which knows what love is, and the innocent mind can live in the world which is not innocent. To find this extraordinary thing which man has sought endlessly through sacrifice, worship, relationship, sex, through every form of pleasure and pain, is only possible when thought comes to understand itself and comes naturally to an end. Then love has no opposite, then love has no conflict. But you don't know how to come to this extraordinary fount—so what do you do? If you don't know what to do, you do nothing, don't you? Absolutely nothing. Then inwardly you are completely silent. Do you understand what that means? It means you are not seeking, wanting, pursuing; there is no centre at all. Then there is love. . Meditation is a state of mind which looks at everything with complete attention, totally, not just parts of it. And no one can teach you how to be attentive. If any system teaches you how to be attentive, then you are attentive to the system and that is not attention. Meditation is one of the greatest arts in life—perhaps the greatest, and one cannot possibly learn it from anybody, that is the beauty of it. It has no technique and therefore no authority. In the understanding of meditation there is love, and love is not the product of systems, of habits, of following a method. Love cannot be cultivated by thought. Love can perhaps come into being when there is complete silence, a silence in which the meditator is entirely absent; and the mind can be silent only when it understands its own movement as thought and feeling. To understand this movement there can be no condemnation in observing it. To observe in such a way is the discipline, and that kind of discipline is fluid, free, not the discipline of conformity."

[vangephoto]

So what's new with you? . currently reading : Be Here Now, @babaramdass 1971

[keebeeart-deactivated20220103]

Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn’t know before you learned it.

Maya Angelou (via thatkindofwoman)

[nevver]

Fuck this guy

[witchoria]

[istillshootfilm]

[vangephoto]

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.” ― Sylvia Plath “Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, 'So what.' I don't know how I made it through all the years before I learned how to do that trick. It took a long time for me to learn it, but once you do, you never forget.” ― Andy Warhol

When overcome with an experience that can't be expressed in words, I try to say only:

How exquisite.

@echonittolitto by Casey Vange

Makeup by Alex LaMarsh

Casey Vange © 2013

[wordsnquotes]

nemophilia

(noun) Derivate from Latin roots, nemophilia is defined as a deep love for the forest, the woods, and the woodland scenery. This profound and organic love also covers the beauty and solitude one appreciates from spending time in the forest. The literal definition is “woodland-loving.” 

etymology: Latin word nemus, which means “grove” or “wooded glade”, and the Greek word philos, which means “loving” 

(via silver-blonde)

[thequotejournals]

My only anxiety is, how can I be of use in the world?

Vincent van Gogh  (via thequotejournals)