lost and stumbling

The Four Noble Truths

lostandstumbling:

1. Life means suffering.  
2. The origin of suffering is attachment.
3. The cessation of suffering is attainable.  
4. There is a path to the cessation of suffering.

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(Source: thebigview.com)

"Sometimes, loving your body is not an option. Sometimes, the best we can do is accept our bodies as the changeable, beautiful, frustrating vessels they are. That’s OK. Expecting yourself to have a full-on love affair with your body at all times is asking too much. Bodies are occasionally annoying. What we can do is know them, and decide for ourselves when they feel good, and when they feel less good, and what we might do to make them feel better again. Even if we can’t love our bodies, we can make sure we don’t hate them."

Lesley Kinzel (via disgustinghuman)

(Source: broadist, via disgustinghuman)

nevver:

Eames

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Sometimes people just need to realize that I’m not always going to have time for them.

loxyclean:

It would just be so much easier, because then I wouldn’t have to feel bad about telling them that, or feel bad for not being able to tell them because I don’t want to hurt their feelings.

I just want people to accept that other people are people, too (fancy that!), and we all have our own god damn lives to live.

"God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites, so that you will have two wings to fly, not one."

Rumi (via lucifelle)

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if it were a split-second decision, no, i don’t think i would. as challenging and frustrating as the last year has been, i’ve had too many profound and enriching experiences and cultivated some incredibly fulfilling relationships and even the mistakes (maybe especially the mistakes) have led me to more clarity and understanding than i could have ever hoped for.

i’ve fucked up. we have to. if we don’t fuck up we won’t find out what we were supposed to not do, so we can not do them later. or something. i don’t fucking know, the meta is fucking with my head.

(Source: a-world-without-color, via fetusmarie)

"The courage to love truth is one of the preconditions to thinking critically."

Dr. Cornel West (via apoplecticskeptic)

"The answer is never the answer. What’s really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you’ll always be seeking. I’ve never seen anybody really find the answer. They think they have, so they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer."

Ken Kesey (via moreofamore)

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why run your neck, america? where is your humility?

the cold war is over, and 9/11 was a fucking decade ago. shut the fuck up about other countries, and focus on fixing your own shit for fucking once.

"Be friendly to everyone. Those who deserve it the least need it the most."

Bo Bennett (via krissybelle)

(Source: justinezeisman, via feline-sexual)

what kind of america are you okay with?

forget the perfect, gleaming and glorious utopian government that everyone seems to think they want. we’ll never even be as good as we say we are, even if we’re ruthlessly calling ourselves on our shit. forget anything we imagine we could ever hope to accomplish, and right now focus instead on what mistakes, what wrong moves and fouls we should permit ourselves to get away with; what is your margin of error for your government?

at what point would you say, ‘whoa, wait a second, that’s fucked up’ in response to something you saw on the news?

what would make you speak out against social injustices and human rights violations you’ve seen repeated consequence-free?

would you contact your senator to protest and demand redress if your rights as a citizen, if all the american government’s promises about due process and civil rights, were denied you by the police?

we as a nation do not act in accordance with the collective will of our individual citizens. the things our country does are so firmly against the gut desire of most americans that it seems like the United States has schizophrenia. we are a nation at odds with itself. and while no one citizen can be expected to singlehandedly mount an offensive against the government of the most overtly powerful country in the world, what is our responsibility? they don’t teach civics in school anymore. the average american hardly has a clue how our government is purported to run. the average individual’s personal responsibility as a citizen is an elusive, vague and murky concept.

what does it mean when the government, and the politicians who direct and have authority over it, can be bought? 

it means this generation of american citizens is unaware of its own government’s atrocities, and unprepared to prevent or even influence the deceptively quick corruption and destruction of every one of the united states of america’s few existing redeeming qualities.

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Misc

Ask yourself “what is freedom now?”

What is a distraction? meditation.

Love your enemies as you would love your parents. Call forth bad feelings and exorcise them.

Independent of preference, end segregation.

Suffering is becoming aware of a part of my nature that I do not love. How can I not love a part of my nature? and not loving, how can I love again?

When perception and will are united, there exists a state of universal attraction: consciousness.

When perception and will are separated, there exists a state of universal repulsion: unconsciousness.

Everyone wants everyone to be like everyone else.

The denial and the seeking are equal in force. The fulfilled feeling and the hunger feeling are equal in force.

The evolution trap is like travelling to the horizon.

The path is the obstruction.

When you give without need you create want.

Jump States and sympathetic vibration: Don’t go for the main goal, just evaluate the present state and become a little better.

Do objects have intrinsic meaning?

(Source: virtuescience.com)

fuckyeahdrugpolicy:

The war on the truth about drugs | The Guardian

As a country, we look back in horror now at the delusions of other eras – when it was illegal to be gay, for instance, or when women could not vote. Yet we do not stop and see that we are living through another one. Decriminalisation would end the violent illegal drug trade; drug treatment and prescription for addicts would prevent them from committing crime. Both measures would make gigantic savings on the cost of policing and imprisoning offenders, and on clearing up the consequences of their actions. They would also end the outrage of people being locked up for the crime of seeking mostly harmless fun. It’s our laws that are destroying lives. +

(via tinysquashaa)

The Coming Concept Age

In the Information Age a vast amount of unstructured and semi-structured information + “noise” (ie rubbish) is available to us via the internet and other sources such as tv, radio, newspapers books and the people around us. For example: if someone looked up on the internet “wise words, parables and sayings” they would be confronted with a vast number of individual sayings, ragged lists, essays and irrelevant information.

If we take this group of lists etc as a whole we see there is unnecessary repetition, no useful order, missing concepts and so on. This is analogous to having a large box of various jigsaw pieces all jumbled up. In the box there are false pieces, pieces from other jigsaws, unnecessary copies of pieces of the relevant jigsaw and some needed pieces will be missing.

As the Concept Age dawns these lists and so on will slowly come together, the rubbish will fall away and a beautiful and useful pattern will emerge. This is analogous to the jigsaw, whole and completed, free from all any unnecessary copies or irrelevant rubbish.

(Source: virtuescience.com)

"I don’t really know how people can be alive for more than six days without rage. If you live in this world, how can you not have it?"

Martin Freeman in an article from The Times online (via benedictatorship)

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