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There is something pagan in me than I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing but doubt everything.
Lord Byron
The Tangential: 5 Things We Learned from Maurice Sendak
1. Children are mysterious, and childhood can be dark.
When I worked at a daycare, I watched High School Musical to see what the kids were so excited about. After seeing that the conflict was basically that the stars were good at too many extracurricular activities, I was disappointed….
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(Reblogged from hermeticlibrary)
Right now we’re living in what Carl Sagan correctly termed a demon-haunted world. We have created a Star Wars civilisation but we have Palaeolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology. That’s dangerous.
E. O. Wilson (via redcloud, cuttlephilia)
(Source: inspirationauvoyage)
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May Day serves to divide our story-telling year in two equal halves (no stories after May Day until Samhain, when darkness comes to claim us back). It is considered direly unlucky to get into storytelling around Mayday — singing is a different matter, however.
Marion Gunn, folklorist/linguist, Dublin
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Because gratification of a desire leads to the temporary stilling of the mind and the experience of the peaceful, joyful Self it’s no wonder that we get hooked on thinking that happiness comes from the satisfaction of desires. This is the meaning of the old adage, ‘Joy is not in things, it is in us.’
Dr Joan Borysenko
Cork city - rainy late spring (Taken with instagram)
Y’all, that’s Zucchini frying…I musta forgot where I was #southern #food (Taken with instagram)
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Amazing one,
From the inside of the inside you remember,
Songs of outrageous freedom ~ of giving it all.
They come as whispers, they come as howls,
or as a silence wrapping itself around you.
Small or big, right or wrong, unworthy or “the best”,
It. Does. Not. Matter.
This moment, this is it. This is life.
Get out of your own way and give it from that deep warmth of you.
From the inside of the inside you remember,
Songs of outrageous freedom ~ of giving it all.
They come as whispers, they come as howls,
or as a silence wrapping itself around you.
Small or big, right or wrong, unworthy or “the best”,
It. Does. Not. Matter.
This moment, this is it. This is life.
Get out of your own way and give it from that deep warmth of you.
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I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
Anaïs Nin
