Facta Non Verba

There are different species of laziness: Eastern and Western. The Eastern style is like the one practiced in India. It consists of hanging out all day in the sun, doing nothing, avoiding any kind of work or useful activity, drinking cups of tea, listening to Hindi film music blaring on the radio, and gossiping with friends. Western laziness is quite different. It consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so there is no time at all to confront the real issues. This form of laziness lies in our failure to choose worthwhile applications for our energy.

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Sogyal Rinpiche (via eternalconsciousness)

Quite True!

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Ethics is not limited to observance of a set of ‘dos’ and ‘don’ts’ in human life. it encompasses within itself, the being, the outlook, the psychology, the mindset, the behaviour, and the internal transformation of an individual.

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Didiji

∞ 9/10/2011 (11:20pm) 91,125 notes

#new york city #new york #manhattan #bryant park #nyc #ny #usa #north america

jetgirl78:

Ten Years Later: A Tribute 9/11
My favorite 9/11 tribute in New York City can be found in Bryant Park. 2,819 empty chairs on the lawn facing the site where the World Trade Center once stood, one chair for every life lost. The number of empty chairs captures the enormity of the lives lost and the stark emptiness of it just drives home the point that I hope is never forgotten. 2,819 people were here one moment and gone the next. 2,819 went to work or boarded a plane one morning ten years ago thinking it would be another ordinary day and they never came home.

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The British official awakened the sleeper and shone a flashlight into his face. “We have come to arrest Mr. M.K. Gandhi.” “I am Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi,” the little figure answered politely. “I am at your service.” …While the policemen watched he set about brushing his few teeth in his usual unhurried way. Then after a short prayer he turned to the official in charge and walked briskly to the car outside, chatting cheerfully to his escorts. He knew that it might be years before he returned, yet there was no trace of apprehension or resentment in his manner. The police were so impressed by the simple dignity of this little man that they seemed to be not his jailers but his prisoners. He was at his very best when being persecuted. He was at his strongest when under pressure. And he was free whether inside prison or out.

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Eknath Easwaran, Gandhi the Man (via nirvikalpa)

∞ 9/8/2011 (10:33pm) 3 notes

Comes the Dawn

After a while you learn the subtle difference
Between holding a hand and chaining a soul,
And you learn that love doesn’t mean leaning
And company doesn’t mean security,
And you begin to learn that kisses aren’t contracts
And presents aren’t promises,
And you begin to accept your defeats
With your head up and your eyes open
With the grace of a woman, not the grief of a child,
And you learn to build all your roads on today,
Because tomorrow’s ground is too uncertain for plans,
And futures have a way of falling down in mid-flight.
After a while you learn
That even sunshine burns if you get too much.
So you plant your own garden and decorate your own soul,
Instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
And you learn that you really can endure…
That you really are strong,
And you really do have worth.
And you learn and learn…
With every goodbye you learn.

- Veronica A. Shoffstall

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Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible concatenations, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in point of fact, religious.

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Albert Einstein (via ageofreason)

∞ 9/8/2011 (10:22pm) 5,268 notes

#art

finefools:

Shannon Rankin

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∞ 9/8/2011 (10:18pm) 712 notes

#Le ballon rouge #favvvvvvvvvvv #♥

i miss french class!

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∞ 9/2/2011 (1:18am) 6,220 notes

aishiterushit:

buenonacho:

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avada-kurtdavra:

sakuun:

tealeafs:

holy shit i never knew this…

…Oh my God.

wha…?

oh my god

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yeah i knew :P uhauhauhauha

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∞ 9/1/2011 (12:06am) 3,144 notes

ninbra:

Kali Gandaki Valley with Nilgiri Mountain, Nepal.

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