•carpediemxiii*
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•by Elena Dudina*
Nisargadatta Maharaj
Nisargadatta. (1973). I am that. Mumbai: Chetana Publications.
(via yoga9vipassana)
“You’ll find that you’re not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You’re by no means alone on that score, you’ll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You’ll learn from them — if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry.”
— J.D Salinger, Catcher in the Rye
Illuminated Sand Castle, Noosa Beach, Australia
photo via tricia
“Does it hurt?” asked the Rabbit.
“Sometimes,” said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. “When you are Real you don’t mind being hurt.”
“Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,” he asked, “or bit by bit?”
“It doesn’t happen all at once,” said the Skin Horse. “You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.”
from The Velveteen Rabbit (or How Toys Become Real) by Margery Williams, 1922
About
[stephy, 26, Beirut-Lebanon*]
•my body is a journal in a way. It's like what sailors used to do, where every tattoo meant something, a specific time* in your life when you make a mark on yourself, whether you do it yourself with a knife or with a professional tattoo artist•
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