January 2012
17 posts
The Enlightened Heart
“Center of all centers, core of cores
almond self enclosed and growing sweet
all this universe, to the farthest stars
and beyond them is your flesh, your fruit
Now you feel how nothing clings to you
Your vast shell reaches into endless space
and there the thick rich fluids, rise and flow
Illuminated in your infinite peace …”
-Rainer Maria Rilke
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It...”
– Rumi
“Ask yourself if what you’re doing today is getting you closer to where you want...”
– Unknown
“The more and more each is impelled by that which is intuitive, or the relying...”
– Edgar Cayce
“It`s always difficult. To feel, rather than to think, to tap into that source...”
– Ben Foster
“Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never...”
– Charles Dickens
“If you remain in the present moment, you will never get hurt. Forget about your...”
– Hindu teaching
“What can be explained is not poetry.”
– W.B. Yeats
“I have no parents; I make the heaven and earth my mother and father.
I have no...”
– Samurai’s Creed
“Even if you have not awakened,
if you realize that your perceptions and...”
– Zen Master Muso Kokushi ( 1275-1351)
“Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something...”
– Samuel Johnson
“Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something...”
– Samuel Johnson
“When the complete density of a particular dimension is filled (with experiential...”
– Alcyone Vobis
“I do think that nowadays its difficult to find a teacher who is brave enough to...”
– David Regelin
A New Year in Mysore! →
December 2011
15 posts
Ūrdhva Kukutāsana C into Vrksāsana →
freshome.com →
500px: The Royal Monastery of Saint Mary →
500px: Ghost →
“Real silence is explosive; it is not the dead state of mind that spiritual...”
– U.G Krishnamurti
“Be the flame, not the moth.”
– Giacomo Casanova
“When some of these cardinals and bishops have experienced their first...”
– George Carlin (via cwnl)
Men get really angry when I say this but I’m going to do it anyway: Gentlemen, I could literally not care less what your opinion is about abortion or what women do with their bodies. Your opinion doesn’t matter and won’t until the day you push what may as well be a ham out...
“I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.”
– ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games (via justbesplendid)
Yoga Girl →
November 2011
34 posts
Vetigo →
Vrśchikāsana A →
“I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.”
– Vincent Van Gogh
“All beings by nature are Buddhas,
as ice by nature is water.
Apart from water...”
– Hakuin Ekaku (via heartmindspirit)
“The same stream of life that runs through the world runs through my veins night...”
– Rabindranath Tagore (via heartmindspirit)
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited; imagination...”
– Albert Einstein
“If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it’s...”
– Joseph Campbell
“I don’t love studying, I hate studying. I like learning, learning is beautiful.”
– Natalie Portman
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Dog Lovin' →
heartmindspirit:
One of his students asked Buddha, “Are you the messiah?” “No”, answered Buddha. “Then are you a healer?” “No”, Buddha replied. “Then are you a teacher?” the student persisted. “No, I am not a teacher.” “Then what are you?” asked the student, exasperated.
“I am awake”, Buddha replied.
