The Typic Series

"How many times do we lose an occasion for soul work by leaping ahead to final solutions without..."

Tue, 14 May 2013 01:05:33 -0400

““How many times do we lose an occasion for soul work by leaping ahead to final solutions without pausing to savor the undertones? We are a radically bottom-line society, eager to act and to end tension, and thus we lose opportunities to know ourselves for our motives and our secrets.””

- Thomas Moore (via emotional-algebra)

”Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those...

Fri, 10 May 2013 21:07:00 -0400

”Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you.” - Chuck Palahniuk

“It’s a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart...

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 18:34:03 -0400

“It’s a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.” - Naguib Mahfouz (Sugar Street)

"I don’t believe in charity. I believe in solidarity. Charity is vertical, so it’s humiliating. It..."

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 17:25:53 -0400

“I don’t believe in charity. I believe in solidarity. Charity is vertical, so it’s humiliating. It goes from the top to the bottom. Solidarity is horizontal. It respects the other and learns from the other. I have a lot to learn from other people.”

- Eduardo Galeano (via mexiroccan)

"So here’s my advice: Study broadly and without fear. Learn a language if you can, because that will..."

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 12:07:02 -0400

“So here’s my advice: Study broadly and without fear. Learn a language if you can, because that will make your life more interesting. Read a little bit every day. But more importantly, surround yourself with people who you like and make cool stuff with them. In the end, what you do isn’t going to be nearly as interesting or important as who you do it with.”

- John Green (via sketchmedesire)

"The Problem with going away for an extended period - you mentally packed the people you knew in..."

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 13:30:07 -0400

“The Problem with going away for an extended period - you mentally packed the people you knew in bubble wrap and stored them in some boxroom in your mind, expecting them to be just as you left them when you returned. the world didn’t work that way, though; they just went on having lives without you.”

- Maybe Amanda (via kaoskakisimataempat)

“There is nothing beyond God that deserves to be sought and...

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 12:46:52 -0400

“There is nothing beyond God that deserves to be sought and nothing finds its conclusion with other than Him.” — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah

"The bad news is, people are crueler, meaner and more evil than you’ve ever imagined. The good news..."

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 16:41:43 -0400

“The bad news is, people are crueler, meaner and more evil than you’ve ever imagined. The good news is, people are kinder, gentler and more loving than you’ve ever dreamed.”

- Iain Thomas (via erraticintrovert)

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I..."

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 07:00:53 -0400

““I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.””

- Frank Herbert, Dune (via wordsarelikeoxygen)

"Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of..."

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:21:04 -0400

“Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again. It’s like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can’t stop the raging storm, but singing can change the hearts and spirits of the people who are together on that ship.”

- Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life (via excessivebookshelf)

“وكم لله من لطفٍ خفيٍّ. يَدِقّ خَفَاهُ عَنْ فَهْمِ...

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 19:54:00 -0400

“وكم لله من لطفٍ خفيٍّ. يَدِقّ خَفَاهُ عَنْ فَهْمِ الذَّكِيِّ” - Ali Bin Abi Talib (RA)

“The universe is always speaking to us. … Sending us little...

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 20:19:53 -0400

“The universe is always speaking to us. … Sending us little messages, causing coincidences and serendipities, reminding us to stop, to look around, to believe in something else, something more”

— Nancy Thayer

“Every love that leads away from His Love is infact a...

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 19:17:55 -0400

“Every love that leads away from His Love is infact a punishment; only love that leads to His love is a heartfelt and pure love.” — Ibn Al-Qayyim

"You’ll need coffee shops and sunsets and road trips. Airplanes and passports and new songs and old..."

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 14:39:38 -0400

“You’ll need coffee shops and sunsets and road trips. Airplanes and passports and new songs and old songs, but people more than anything else. You will need other people and you will need to be that other person to someone else, a living breathing screaming invitation to believe better things.”

- Jamie Tworkowski (via thelittleyellowdiary)

"Her mind is an unquiet one, words and thoughts and impulses constantly crashing into each other."

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 13:23:32 -0500

“Her mind is an unquiet one, words and thoughts and impulses constantly crashing into each other.”

- David Levithan, Every Day (via chaishiiirin)

"She was illusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower,..."

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 18:44:22 -0500

“She was illusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl. We did not know what to make of her. In our minds we tried to pin her to a corkboard like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew.”

- Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl (via colour-me-curious)

"I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It’s all a..."

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 13:59:23 -0500

“I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It’s all a question of how I view my life.”

- Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes (via liketheopensea)

"Like my grandmother, I understood the questions of identity, how being torn in two often leaves..."

Sun, 17 Feb 2013 15:26:52 -0500

“Like my grandmother, I understood the questions of identity, how being torn in two often leaves something less than one.”

- An excerpt from House of Stone : A memoir by Anthony Shadid. (Allah yerhamak). (via rimeswriting)

"And so she bears down, telling herself it will work, that in the end it’s actually possible to..."

Sun, 17 Feb 2013 07:32:19 -0500

“And so she bears down, telling herself it will work, that in the end it’s actually possible to believe in your dream so completely that you can drag the rest of the world into it with you.”

- J. Robert Lennon, from Familiar (via the-final-sentence)

"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to..."

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 09:20:08 -0500

“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson (via marshalistyasugana)