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“It must be strange world not being a scientist, going through life not knowing—or maybe not caring about where the air came from, where the stars at night came from or how far they are from us. I want to know.” — Michio Kaki
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Science is nothing more than a never-ending search for truth. What could be more profoundly sacred than that?
Ann Druyan (via thedailycosmos)
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I saw the end of “Forward Unto Dawn” earlier this evening. Then around 2:30am this idea hit me, and wouldn’t let me sleep untiI did something with it.
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We all have the potential to fall in love a thousand times in our lifetime. It’s easy. The first girl I ever loved was someone I knew in sixth grade. Her name was Missy; we talked about horses. The last girl I love will be someone I haven’t even met yet, probably. They all count. But there are certain people you love who do something else; they define how you classify what love is supposed to feel like. These are the most important people in your life, and you’ll meet maybe four or five of these people over the span of 80 years. But there’s still one more tier to all this; there is always one person you love who becomes that definition. It usually happens retrospectively, but it happens eventually. This is the person who unknowingly sets the template for what you will always love about other people, even if some of these loveable qualities are self-destructive and unreasonable. The person who defines your understanding of love is not inherently different than anyone else, and they’re often just the person you happen to meet the first time you really, really, want to love someone. But that person still wins. They win, and you lose. Because for the rest of your life, they will control how you feel about everyone else.
Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story by Chuck Klosterman (via youmightfindyourself)
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When someone blushes, doesn’t that mean ‘yes’?
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (via lastdaysofmagic)
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Language is a place of struggle … Our struggle is that of memory against forgetting.
bell hooks, talking about endangered languages and the voices of the oppressed. (via selchieproductions)
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One of the main things that happens when you meditate is that regret starts to surface and you start to think about your life. Meditation neutralizes denial after a while and opens up the circuits and things start to flow in, and then you begin to realize that regret is a distortion of what’s real. What’s real is that this is your life, and it happened, and there’s no going back. There’s only altering your attitude and perception about it so that you can go forward.
Lewis Richmond, “Aging as a Spiritual Practice“
The last 3 quotes I’ve posted have all been along the same lines. Might be time to sit down and write something on this.
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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
Alan Watts (via lastdaysofmagic)
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People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child — our own two eyes. All is a miracle.
Thich Nhat Hanh (via karmacircle)
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Who so would be a man, must be a non-conformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing at last is sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (via thatkindofwoman)
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Gogurt is made of people!
Orion, channeling Charlton Heston
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Love can destroy anything.
Orion
