"My role—and that is too emphatic a word—is to show people that they are much freer than they feel, that people accept as truth, as evidence, some themes which have been built up at a certain moment during history, and that this so-called evidence can be criticized and destroyed."
— Michel Foucault (via evocativesynthesis)
"Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish."
— Hermann Hesse (via tarafrankiebeebop)
"Stop comparing where you’re at with where everyone else is. It doesn’t move you farther ahead, improve your situation, or help you find peace. It just feeds your shame, fuels your feelings of inadequacy, and ultimately, it keeps you stuck. The reality is that there is no one correct path in life. Everyone has their own unique journey. A path that’s right for someone else won’t necessarily be a path that’s right for you. And that’s okay. Your journey isn’t right or wrong, or good or bad. It’s just different. Your life isn’t meant to look like anyone else’s because you aren’t like anyone else. You’re a person all your own with a unique set of goals, obstacles, dreams, and needs. So stop comparing, and start living. You may not have ended up where you intended to go. But trust, for once, that you have ended up where you needed to be. Trust that you are in the right place at the right time. Trust that your life is enough. Trust that you are enough."
— Daniell Koepke (via wendesgray)
"I am looking for someone to share
in an adventure that I am arranging,
and it is very difficult to find anyone."
in an adventure that I am arranging,
and it is very difficult to find anyone."
— J. R. R. Tolkien (via wendesgray)
"If we could read the secret history of those we would like to punish, we would find in each life a sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all our hostility."
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Unitarian, poet)
Lauren Oliver, Delirium
"Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain."
— Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums (via wildernessbound)
The Seven Principles of Hermes
Hermes Trismegistus The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Translation of Original Arabic Book
Hermetic Principle 1 Mentalism
“Everything is mental; the Universe is a mental creation of the All.”
“The act of observing alters the reality being observed.” (Heisenberg Principle)
2 Correspondence
“As above so below; as below so above; as within so without; as without so within.”
3 Vibration
“Nothing rests; everything moves; everything vibrates.”
4 Polarity
“Everything is dual; everything has poles; everything has its pair of opposites; opposites are identical in nature, but different indegree; extremes meet; all truths are but half truths.”
5 Rhythm
“Everything flows out and in; everything has its tides; all things rise and fall; the pendulum-swing manifests in everything; the measure of the swing to the right is the measure of the swing to the left; rhythm compensates.”
6 Cause and Effect
“Every Cause has its Effect; every Effect has its Cause; everything happens according to the law; chance is but the name for a law not recognized; there are many planes of causation, but nothing escapes the law.”
7 Gender
“Gender is in everything; everything has its masculine and feminine principles; gender manifests on all planes.”
"We’re not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be."
— C.S. Lewis (via takemetothemtns)
"Who are you? What are you? Where are you going? Why are you going? How do you plan to get there?"
— Wongi (via tarafrankiebeebop)
"Desire is the need to add something to yourself in order to be yourself more fully. All fear is the fear of losing something and thereby becoming diminished and being less."
— Eckhart Tolle (via tarafrankiebeebop)
"May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds."
— Edward Abbey (via wildernessbound)
"We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society."
— Alan Watts (via tarafrankiebeebop)
