philosophybits:

“Ideas too sometimes fall from the tree before they are ripe.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value

“We have been happily borne—or perhaps have unhappily dragged our weary way—down the long and crooked streets of our lives, past all kinds of walls and fences made of rotting wood, rammed earth, brick, concrete, iron railings. We have never given a thought to what lies behind them. We have never tried to penetrate them with our vision or our understanding. But there is where Gulag country begins, right next to us, two yards away from us.”

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

exquisite-grandeur:

“The born commander requires neither an office nor a diploma; he is recognized by his gaze and his voice. And the man predestined to create is recognized by the dreamlike mood he emanates. That is the effect of artworks, their immeasurable, incomprehensible enchantment, and also their power to console.”

— Ernst Jünger, Eumeswil
(via forestrebel)

aspiritualwarrior:

“Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself — and there isn’t one.”

— Wei Wu Wei

“Always go a little further into the water than you feel you are capable of being in. Go a little bit out of your depth. And when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting.”

David Bowie.

President Thomas Katsouleas, University of Connecticut

philosophybits:

“The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.”

— Epicurus, Letter to Menoeceus

3chandeliers:

“The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world.”

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

aspiritualwarrior:

“The joke of it all is that you are looking from your true nature right now without knowing it. If you would stop being fascinated with the contents of your mind, you would experience what I am saying. Feel your way into what I am saying rather than thinking about it. Only a self-concept looks and longs for God. Drop your self-concept and there is only God meeting God. Enlightenment is the restoration of cosmic humour.”

— Adyashanti

“That distillation of experience from which true poetry springs births thought as dream births concept, as feeling births idea, as knowledge births (precedes) understanding.”

Audre Lorde.

“Making plans is a great way to hear God’s laugh.”

Deadwood.

aspiritualwarrior:

“Chanting is a way of getting in touch with yourself. It’s an opening of the heart and letting go of the mind and thoughts. It deepens the channel of grace, and it’s a way of being present in the moment.”

— Krishna Das

Sunbather

A god ages on its own time,

When it wants and how it wants.

Such is the way of cloudrunners and skywalkers

Abominations and heathens of Apollo

Wringing possibilities dry with a foamy grip on the fabric of spacetime.

Vomiting a cosmos

With the deafening din of monsoons driven mad with chaos and glory and youth—

The ageless ones.

One god walks into a bar and wreaks a species

Another, a cult,

And the other, a tempest—

The joke being that they all wore the same shoes.

Which skin will it be today?

Submerging into the decadent splendours of decline,

Chasing paramores off Dover Cliffs

seismically erupted in their wake

Breathing in botonists, birthing greenhouses, bathing and burning, breaking Benin,

Burying bodies—

Blistered and bleeding

Til your heart melts and skull caves in from banging it against a wall while on mushrooms.

Which shoes will you wear today?

Which will earn the right of wearing you?

What storms shall you bring?

What dreams might you cannibalize?

Go roar a forest

aspiritualwarrior:

“Don’t mistake the weather of your mind for the sky of your being.”

— Jeff Foster

exquisite-grandeur:

“The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche
(via fyp-philosophy)