false prophets

almondskeyes: dying. this is too beautiful.

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:31:01 -0400

almondskeyes:

dying. this is too beautiful.

We'll probably be out of oxygen within 800 million years, so get up and enjoy your life.

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 00:31:00 -0400

We'll probably be out of oxygen within 800 million years, so get up and enjoy your life.

"The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us..."

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 00:30:55 -0400

“The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us — there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries.”

- Carl Sagan (via inthenoosphere)

An invisible red thread connects those who are destined to...

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 23:32:46 -0400

An invisible red thread connects those who are destined to meet, regardless of time, place, or circumstances. The thread may stretch or tangle but will never break.

Sari For My Skirt: The Unfinished Suicides of My High School Sweetheart

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 02:22:50 -0400

Sari For My Skirt: The Unfinished Suicides of My High School Sweetheart:

sari-skirt:

For Jake

We were platonic high school sweethearts that fucked in the front seat
without touching and with our eyes open the whole time.
Our questions locked at the genitals like children to bicycles.
Our distant tongues sparked like forks dreaming of sockets.
We were virgin high school…

honey-rider: Vivien Leigh portrait by John Rawlings, 1937

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 14:34:57 -0400

honey-rider:

Vivien Leigh portrait by John Rawlings, 1937

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Thu, 16 Aug 2012 14:34:17 -0400

atlantic-sky: “Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s...

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 14:34:10 -0400

atlantic-sky:

“Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar,” every “supreme leader,” every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.”

― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

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Thu, 16 Aug 2012 14:34:04 -0400

"I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering..."

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 14:33:28 -0400

““I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But as much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient and worldwide cultural traditions that assert an afterlife, I know of nothing to suggest that it is more than wishful thinking.””

- Carl Sagan (via thuwizuhd)

"People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is..."

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 14:31:29 -0400

“People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child — our own two eyes. All is a miracle.”

- Thich Nhat Hahn (via thepreppyyogini)

zencalendar: The universe is a single life comprising one...

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 14:31:11 -0400

zencalendar:

The universe is a single life comprising one substance and one soul.

—Marcus Aurelius

"Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom."

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 14:31:05 -0400

“Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.”

- Bodhidharma (via hmac108)

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they will tell us so muchbut show us nothing

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 14:24:40 -0400

they will tell us so much
but show us nothing