fuck-dukkha

A collection of other people's thoughts that I don't want to forget.

~ Friday, April 19 ~

“ Everything is natural. The light on your fingertips is starlight. Life begins with coiling - molecules and nebulae. Cruelty, selfishness, and vanity are boring. Each self is many selves. Reason is beauty. Light and darkness are arbitrary divisions. Cleanliness is as undefinable and as natural as filth. The physiological body is pure spirit. Monotony is madness. The frontier is both outside and inside. The universe is the messiah. The senses are gods and goddesses. Where the body is - there are all things.

— Michael McClure (via slychedelic)

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~ Wednesday, March 13 ~

“ A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.

— William Styron (via explore-blog)

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~ Saturday, March 9 ~

“ Do not say, ‘It is morning,’ and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.

— Rabindranath Tagore (via shaktilover)

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~ Tuesday, March 5 ~

“ In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.

— Henry Miller (via explore-blog)

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~ Thursday, February 28 ~

“ No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.

— Heraclitus (via human-voices)

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~ Tuesday, February 12 ~

“ For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

— Carl Sagan (via explore-blog)

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~ Monday, February 4 ~

“ Schools have classes called “women’s studies,” and “African-American literature” because the standard for existence set by white men has yet to be rescinded in this age. “Normal” history is the history of a certain class of white people, from the perspective of men. All the other histories are precisely that: Other.

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Cunt: A Declaration of Independence. (via)

(via mehreenkasana)

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“ The buzz word in popular feminism today is empowerment. When I became a feminist many years ago, the word we used was liberation. Unlike empowerment, liberation is a collective concept which means that even if my life is all rosy and “empowered,” it doesn’t mean shit for those women who are doing low paid jobs while trying to raise families. In fact, there is a very good chance that elite women’s empowerment is built on the backs of other women whose exploited labor provides the goods and services that enable a good career and a comfortable lifestyle. The low pay of nannies, cooks, cleaners, sweat shop workers, and day care providers means that wealthier women are freed up to make a salary that no doubt does feel empowering.

— Gail Dines (via ceedling)

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~ Saturday, January 26 ~

“ Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored. Shamanism has always known this, and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the path required allies. These allies are the hallucinogenic plants and the mysterious teaching entities, luminous and transcendental, that reside in that nearby dimension of ecstatic beauty and understanding that we have denied until it is now nearly too late.

— Terence McKenna, Food of the Gods

~ Thursday, January 24 ~

“ The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.

— Ernest Hemingway

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“ If we actually started calling bullying what it is and address it as racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, fat phobia and classism it would actually give children a better way to deal with the very same power dynamics they will face as adults, while also giving adults more responsibility to challenge the intolerance that is rooted within our society overall.

— Amanda Levitt at Fat Body Politics (October 5th, 2012)

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~ Wednesday, January 23 ~

ceedling:

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~ Friday, January 18 ~

“ You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.

— Rumi

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~ Thursday, January 17 ~

“ On the patriarchal side, there’s this idea of the body belonging to the community. Virginity is an interesting example of this because the woman is seen as a marker of family boundaries, a symbol of the community. She’s viewed as both the source of the literal, as well as, in the more figurative sense, the source of the continuity of the community. That sounds like a privileged status, but in fact what evolves from that is the notion that she needs to be under the control of men — of fathers, of husbands, of brothers. The stress on virginity reflects the imperatives of the larger society: promising society’s continuity through marriage and children. So the woman’s consent is irrelevant, since her purpose transcends herself.

— David Jacobson, at Salon, here. (via ceedling)

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“ Identity is dissolved in the higher wordless truth of ecstasy. In that world, all divisions are overcome. There is only the One Great Life; it sees itself at play, and it is glad.

— Terence McKenna, Food of the Gods