February 2011
151 posts
“I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person.”
—Audrey Hepburn
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“What a miserable day.”
“He didn’t have the decency to return my call.”
“She let me down.”
Little stories we tell ourselves and others, often in the form of complaints. They are unconsciously designed to enhance our always deficient sense of self through being ‘right’ and making something or someone ‘wrong.’ Being ‘right’ places us in a position of imagined superiority and so strengthens our false sense of self, the ego. This also creates some kind of enemy: yes, the ego needs enemies to define its boundary, and even the weather can serve that function.
Through habitual mental judgment and emotional contraction, you have a personalized, reactive relationship to people and events in your life. These are forms of self-created suffering, but they are not recognized as such because to the ego they are satisfying. The ego enhances itself through reactivity and conflict.
How simple life would be without those stories … “
“It is raining.”
“He did not call.”
“I was there. She was not.”
” —Eckhart Tolle Stillness Speaks
“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Anger is just a cowardly extension of sadness. It’s a lot easier to be angry at someone than it is to tell them you’re hurt.”
—Tom Gates (via kari-shma)
“The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake.
Sing in the shower.
Dance to the radio.
Tell stories.
Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem.
Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something” —Kurt Vonnegut, “A Man without a Country”
Sing in the shower.
Dance to the radio.
Tell stories.
Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem.
Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something” —Kurt Vonnegut, “A Man without a Country”
Trinary Motion
Mike Mainieri
Trinary Motion - Mike Mainieri / Man Behind Bars (1995)
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“One thing life has taught me: if you are interested,
you never have to look for new interests.
THEY COME TO YOU.
When you are genuinely interested in one thing,
it will always lead to something else” —Eleanor Roosevelt (via artpropelled)
you never have to look for new interests.
THEY COME TO YOU.
When you are genuinely interested in one thing,
it will always lead to something else” —Eleanor Roosevelt (via artpropelled)
“Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.”
—Doris Lessing (via artpropelled)
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