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We are so engrossed with the objects or appearances revealed by the light that we pay no attention to the light. The thing to do is to concentrate on the seer and not on the seen, not on the objects, but on the Light which reveals them.

Ramana Maharshi (via ashramof1)

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9 Apr 2018 / 214 notes

beingblog:

Anthropologist Helen Fisher explores the biological workings of our intimate passions, the brew of chemicals, hormones, and neurotransmitters that make the thrilling and sometimes treacherous realms of love and sex. In the research she does for match.com and her TED Talks that have been viewed by millions of people, she wields science as an entertaining, if sobering, lens on what feel like the most meaningful encounters of our lives. In this deeply personal conversation, she shows how it is possible to take on this knowledge as a form of wisdom and power.

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5 Apr 2018 / 46 notes

eyeamthat:

“The mind is a bundle of thoughts. The thoughts arise because there is the thinker, the thinker is the ego. The ego, if sought, will automatically vanish. Reality is simply the loss of the ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and reality will shine forth by itself. This is the direct method, whereas all other methods are done only retaining the ego. No sādhanās (spiritual practices) are necessary for engaging in this quest. There is no greater mystery than this: that being the reality we seek to gain reality. We think that there is something hiding our reality and that it must be destroyed before reality is gained. It is ridiculous. A day will dawn when you will yourself laugh at your past efforts. That which will be on the day you laugh is also here and now.”

— Ramana Maharshi

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26 Mar 2018 / 494 notes

buzzfeedrewind:

Incredible Pictures Of Motown In The 1960s

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1 Feb 2018 / 3,972 notes

24hoursinthelifeofawoman:

Thelonious Monk performing at the Newport Jazz Festival) in New York City, 1975.

1 Feb 2018 / 217 notes

To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life.

Chogyam Trungpa (via aspiritualwarrior)

16 Sep 2017 / 674 notes

kvetchlandia:

Herbert List Anna Magnani in the Garden of Her Country House, San Felice Circeo, Italy 1950

5 Aug 2017 / 184 notes

When my hairs were long & the air was crisp… photo by @carlyfoulkes

3 Aug 2017 / 47 notes

I have often run across men (and rarely, but not never, women) who have become so powerful in their lives that there is no one to tell them when they are cruel, wrong, foolish, absurd, repugnant. In the end there is no one else in their world, because when you are not willing to hear how others feel, what others need, when you do not care, you are not willing to acknowledge others’ existence. That’s how it’s lonely at the top. It is as if these petty tyrants live in a world without honest mirrors, without others, without gravity, and they are buffered from the consequences of their failures.
“They were careless people,” F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote of the rich couple at the heart of The Great Gatsby. “They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” Some of us are surrounded by destructive people who tell us we’re worthless when we’re endlessly valuable, that we’re stupid when we’re smart, that we’re failing even when we succeed. But the opposite of people who drag you down isn’t people who build you up and butter you up. It’s equals who are generous but keep you accountable, true mirrors who reflect back who you are and what you are doing.

Rebecca Solnit: The Loneliness of Donald Trump | Literary Hub (via brutereason)

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1 Aug 2017 / 342 notes

James Baldwin // “It’s not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself. You become a collaborator, an accomplice of your own murderers, because you believe the same things they do… You have somehow to begin to break out of all that and try to become yourself. It’s hard for anybody… Hard, because you’ve got to divorce yourself from the standards of that society.” (Photograph by Vortex & Alchemy, July 2013) (at Los Angeles, California)

25 Jul 2017 / 65 notes