My Holy Mountain

"Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can..."

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“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.”

- Rumi (via goetia)

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Otto Wunderlich Segovia, Spain. Roman Aquaduct (1920)

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Otto Wunderlich

Segovia, Spain. Roman Aquaduct (1920)

invaderxan: Happy Earth Day!

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invaderxan:

Happy Earth Day!

"After meditating for some years, I began to see the patterns of my own behavior. As you quiet your..."

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:39:23 -0400

“After meditating for some years, I began to see the patterns of my own behavior. As you quiet your mind, you begin to see the nature of your own resistance more clearly, struggles, inner dialogues, the way in which you procrastinate and develop passive resistance against life. As you cultivate the witness, things change. You don’t have to change them. Things just change.”

- Ram Dass (via samsaranmusing)

perfectmadness: (by kari.cieszkiewicz.)

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perfectmadness:

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"Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing..."

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“Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it’s a feather bed.”

- Terence McKenna (via nirvikalpa)

"There is no escape. You can’t be a vagabond and an artist and still be a solid citizen, a wholesome,..."

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:32:01 -0400

““There is no escape. You can’t be a vagabond and an artist and still be a solid citizen, a wholesome, upstanding man. You want to get drunk, so you have to accept the hangover. You say yes to the sunlight and pure fantasies, so you have to say yes to the filth and the nausea. Everything is within you, gold and mud, happiness and pain, the laughter of childhood and the apprehension of death. Say yes to everything, shirk nothing. Don’t try to lie to yourself. You are not a solid citizen. You are not a Greek. You are not harmonious, or the master of yourself. You are a bird in the storm. Let it storm! Let it drive you! How much have you lied! A thousand times, even in your poems and books, you have played the harmonious man, the wise man, the happy, the enlightened man. In the same way, men attacking in war have played heroes, while their bowels twitched. My God, what a poor ape, what a fencer in the mirror man is— particularly the artist— particularly myself!””

- Herman Hesse (via fuckyeahexistentialism)

I basically want to reblog everything this Tumblr ever posts.

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Known as Shiprock, this 1700-foot eroded volcanic plume is...

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Known as Shiprock, this 1700-foot eroded volcanic plume is sacred to the Navajos as Tse Bi dahi, or the Rock with Wings. The name comes from an ancient folk myth that tells how the rock was once a great bird that transported the ancestral people of the Navajos to their lands in what is now northwestern New Mexico. Geologists tell us this mountain was formed by a volcanic vent 27 million years ago. Shiprock is the world’s finest example of an exposed volcanic throat. It can be seen for 100 miles.

by Rozanne Hakala

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Hubble’s Extended Groth Strip

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Hubble’s Extended Groth Strip

"The interior of man has been essentially the same for 40,000 years, since the first emergence of..."

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 17:20:41 -0400

“The interior of man has been essentially the same for 40,000 years, since the first emergence of Homo Sapiens Sapiens. Myth has to do with the spiritual potentialities of this constant, this human being. But the images of myth must be derived from the environment of today and in this place. There is therefore a constant transformation of the image, but not of the reference.”

- Joseph Campbell, from an interview with Costis Ballas in 1985

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