If you remain in the present moment, you will never get hurt. Forget about your past life. Forget about your future life. Unless your open your heart, unless you jump into the inner abyss, you are not going to become enlightened. Ultimately, you have to knock on your own door; you have to beg at your own door; you have to come back to yourself.
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Hindu teaching I’ll get there (via squidlove) |
I first saw Susie walking up the stairs in between classes when we were undergrads. I’m always attracted to a woman’s eyes, especially when they express a combination of playfulness and a hint of uncertainty.
A day or two later I saw her sitting in the cafeteria, passionately munching on an…
Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.
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| — | Vladimir Nabokov (via noblewingedseraphs) |
I’m the one that has to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.
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| — | Karen Civil (via lovextine) |
Nice Stories…
1. Once, all villagers decided to pray for rain, on the day of prayer all people gathered and only one boy came with an umbrella…
THAT’S FAITH.
2. Example of the feeling of a one year old baby. When you throw him in the air, he laughs because he knows you will catch him…
THAT’S TRUST.
3. Every night we go to bed, we have no assurance to wake up alive the next morning but still we have plans for tomorrow…
THAT’S HOPE.
[When Vonnegut tells his wife he’s going out to buy an envelope] Oh, she says, well, you’re not a poor man. You know, why don’t you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I’m going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope. I meet a lot of people. And, see some great looking babes. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And, and ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don’t know. The moral of the story is, is we’re here on Earth to fart around. And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And, what the computer people don’t realize, or they don’t care, is we’re dancing animals. You know, we love to move around. And, we’re not supposed to dance at all anymore.
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| — | Kurt Vonnegut (via blua) |
