May 2013
South Dakota Officials Miss Historic Meeting With... →
Federal officials met with South Dakota’s nine Sioux tribes on Wednesday for a historic summit in Rapid City. A year in the making, it was an effort to address long standing concerns over the high number of Native American children the state places in white foster homes. State officials, however, didn’t show up for the meeting.
“Again, while it is a great blessing that a man no longer has to be rich in order...”
– W. H. Auden, Secondary Worlds (1967). Thanks to my friend and colleague Richard Gibson for reminding me of this great passage which I should never have forgotten in the first place. (via ayjay)
“I tell you truly, your body was made not only to breathe, and eat, and think,...”
– (via santmat)
“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is...”
– Albert Einstein (via salam-balam)
“When performing meditation practice one should think of it as just a natural...”
– Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche From “Maha Ati” via The Collected Works of Chögyam Trungpa vol. 1 (via ringlesscircus)
“We should have been excused
from lugging a body:
the burden of the self
was...”
– E.M. Cioran, from “The Trouble With Being Born” (via violentwavesofemotion)
“They had never been closer in their month of love nor communicated more...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Great Gatsby” (via lifeinpoetry)
“This world is like a mountain. Your echo depends on you. If you scream good...”
– Shams Tabrizi ♥ (via zenhumanism)
“We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke (via kitty-en-classe)
“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”
– William James (via apoetreflects)
“In the West, compassion is usually conceptualized in terms of compassion for...”
– Kristin D. Neff “The Development and Validation of a Scale to Measure Self-Compassion.” Self and Identity, 2: 223–250, 2003 (via writebastard)
“You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to...”
– Aaron Freeman “You Want A Physicist To Speak at your Funeral”
(source: npr)
“We who mourn continue the heat of our own lives”. Damn.
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Zen Humanism: Faith and Its Objectby John DeweyThe... →
zenhumanism:
Faith and Its Object by John Dewey
The idea of God, or, to avoid misleading conceptions, the idea of the divine is, one of ideal possibilities unified through imaginative realization and projection. But this idea of God, or of the divine, is also connected with all the natural forces and…
“One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing’s perfect. Perfection...”
– Stephen Hawking
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“Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to...”
– Hermann Hesse (via likeafieldmouse)
zentaoistchristian:
All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken: The crownless again shall be king. - The Lord of the Rings: One Volume (J.R.R. Tolkien)
