“How do you let go of attachment to things? Don’t even try. It’s impossible. Attachment to things drops away by itself when you no longer seek to find yourself in them.”
—Eckhart Tolle (via lazyyogi)
June 2013
“Once you pass a certain age, life becomes nothing more than a process of continual loss. Things that are important in your life begin to slip out of your grasp, one after another, like a comb losing teeth. And the only things that come to take their place are worthless imitations.”
—Haruki Murakami (via likeafieldmouse)
“No object of desire is real, no object of desire is worth your Peace. If your house is full of desires, burn it down.”
—Papaji (via tobiji)
“I am so vulnerable suddenly.
I am a wound walking out of hospital.
I am a wound that they are letting go” —Sylvia Plath (via dustbinflower)
I am a wound walking out of hospital.
I am a wound that they are letting go” —Sylvia Plath (via dustbinflower)
“Have patience with everything that remains unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language.”
—Rilke (via meggielynne)
“To be or not to be; that’s not really a question.”
—Jean Luc Godard (via mercurieux)
“There’s always something I can’t get hold of in you.”
—Virginia Woolf, from The Voyage Out (via violentwavesofemotion)
“I had been right, I was still right, I was always right. I had lived my life one way and I could just as well have lived it another. I had done this and I hadn’t done that. I hadn’t done this thing but I had done another. And so?”
—Albert Camus, from The Stranger (via violentwavesofemotion)
“I am aware of myself. And, of course, the only things that are aware of themselves and conscious of their individuality are irritated eyes, cut fingers, sore teeth. A healthy eye, finger, tooth might as well not even be there. Isn’t it clear that individual consciousness is just sickness?”
—Yevgeny Zamyatin, We (via rabbitinthemoon)
“We comes from God, I from the Devil.”
—Yevgeny Zamyatin, We (via rabbitinthemoon)
“Stay open and quiet, that is all. What you seek is so near you that there is no place for a way.”
—Sri Nisargadatta (via unlovelycreature)
“You cannot live if you do not die psychologically every minute.”
—Jiddu Krishnamurti, from Freedom From The Known (via violentwavesofemotion)
“You lose yourself trying to hold on to someone who doesn’t care about losing you.”
—Anonymous (via erraticintrovert)
“Things are what they are and will be what they will be.”
—Oscar Wilde (via larmoyante)
