February 2012
mythologyofblue:
As to funeral rites, the earliest age is called the Age of Burning; because all the dead were consumed by fire, and over their ashes were raised standing stones.
-Snorri Sturluson, Heimskringla, (ca. 1230)
(thriley)
“Life begins on the other side of despair.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre”
– (via journalofanobody)
“Simple things are always the most difficult. In actual life it requires the...”
– Carl Gustav Jung, “Psychotherapists or the Clergy,” In The Collected Works of C. G. Jung. (R. F. C. Hull, Trans.). Vol 11, pp. 339-41, paras. 519, 520, 523. Princeton: Princeton University Press. (via parabola-magazine)
“The beautiful letdown is the moment of surrender. After the rush of life, after...”
– Jon Foreman (via binnyyy)
“If my travels have taught me anything it’s that places, like people, are a...”
– Andrew McMahon (via moreofamore)
Wait - what ?: A Poem For Sunday “Dream Song #14”... →
dreaminginthedeepsouth:
A Poem For Sunday
“Dream Song #14” by John Berryman:
Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn, and moreover my mother told me as a boy (repeatingly) ‘Ever to confess you’re bored means you have…
“When Rosa and Joe picked it up they saw that Sammy had taken a pen and, bearing...”
– Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (thank you, platypusnoise)
“The moon people do not eat by swallowing food but by smelling it. Their money is...”
– Paul Auster, Moon Palace (via libraryland)
“I’ve got death inside me. It’s just a question of whether or not I can outlive...”
– Don DeLillo, White Noise (via libraryland)
Blessings from the Shrine Pit →
deadliftpoetry:
You stumble in here wearing a blindfold made out of beer wrappers and ladies’ underwear with your palms out, swearing you’re looking for god, but you’re not looking for a deity, just something to hold onto, something to get you through the night, a strip of masking tape to slip over the lips of your demons. You say you got no faith ‘cause you held the pillow one night and cried...
“[There is accumulation. There is responsibility. And beyond these, there is...”
– Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending (thank you, pagethreeninetyfour)
See Troise Write: The Inner Ring →
hitrecordjoe:
A commencement speech given by C. S. Lewis edited by hitRECordJoe original version here
The Inner Ring By C. S. Lewis
When you invite a middle-aged moralist to address you, I suppose I must conclude, however unlikely the conclusion seems, that you have a taste for…
“Can the hungry go on a hunger strike? Non-violence is a piece of theatre. You...”
– arundhati roy from the guardian (via bonapartay)
“The tiny space I occupy is so infinitesimal in comparison with the rest of...”
– Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons (via tellhimtoshrug)
“But the point is that the poor are not begging us for charity, they are...”
– Philanthropy is the Enemy of Justice
It reminds me of that dark hour when Al Gore, despite being a shareholder in Occidental Petroleum, was the voice of climate change action – because Gates does not speak with the voice of the world’s poor, of course, but with the voice of its rich. It’s a loud...
