If you ever doubt the power of language, listen more closely. Witness the magic the first time someone whispers “i love you.” Watch a woman put on head phones, close her eyes, and have her life changed by a lyric. See a bad moment flipped upside down by a well timed joke. Words propel us, empower us, make us human and more than human. We constantly struggle to say what we mean and mean what we say. To “wrestle with words and meanings.” that’s what t.s. eliot calls it. But as we whisper and shout, stutter and spin, we create order out of the chaos around us. We are built of words, and we live by them, too.
Most importantly, if you can at all avoid it, don’t be normal. Strive, burn and do everything you can to avoid being the industry standard. Even the highest industry standard. Be greater than anything anyone else has ever dreamed of you. Don’t settle for pats on the back, salary increases, a nod-and-a-smile. Instead, rage against the tepidness of the mundane with every fiber of whatever makes you, you. Change this place.
Please, do that for me.
Not Even the Wind Can Free You (by russell.tomlin)
Dance With Wind
Wind is the fate we are facing
Wind is the life we are touching every second
Wind is the love we don’t understand but feel
Wind is the bridge we cannot see but feel
Wind is wind is wind is wind is wind
Wind is the rope we to ourselves not to be free
Wind is………………………………………………………
Wind is…………………………….. Wind is…………….
Driving into human imagination unknowingly
Nyein Way
**The Wisdom of John Cleese**
Ecstasy of Chaos
When the immense drugged universe explodes
In a cascade of unendurable colour
And leaves us gasping naked,
This is no more than the ecstasy of chaos:
Hold fast, with both hands, to that royal love
Which alone, as we know certainly, restores
Fragmentation into true being.— Robert Graves
Eyjafjallajökull volcano (by Kristin Sig)
“Love is for vanishing into the sky
The mind for learning what men have done and tried to do
Mysteries are not to be solved
The eye goes blind when it only wants to see why”
-RUMI
Take what you need:
Love
Hope
Faith
Patience
Courage
Understanding
Peace
Passion
Healing
Strength
Beauty
Freedom
and have a happy New Year !
Laughter is spiritual health. And laughter is very unburdening. While you laugh, you can put your mind aside very easily. For a man who cannot laugh the doors of the buddha are closed. To me, laughter is one of the greatest values. No religion has ever thought about it. They have always been insisting on seriousness, and because of their insistence the whole world is psychologically sick.
La civiltà avrà veramente inizio quando il potere dell’amore sostituirà l’amore del potere
(Richard Aldington scrittore e critico)
Lilac (by russell.tomlin)
If there is lilac near you, nuzzle your face into it. No one will see or know and the fragrance will remind you that you are still alive.
Why can’t we be how we were in the backyard?
Simple days of hand in hand
And drawing our names in the sand.
Somehow life just complicates.
Our buried treasure it just waits
Lost in the backyard.
You can still meet me in the garden.
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