February 2012
29 posts
“This is a subtle truth:
whatever you love. you are.”
– Rumi (via fuckyeahrumi)
“Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude...”
– Victor Hugo (via larmoyante)
Lyrical Dissonance
I wish I was good at poetry.
That my left brain would leave my right alone.
Words flowing haphazardly into beauty
Rather than precisely into semicolons.
I wish my journal was full of poetic notions
As much as my mind seems to be.
Yet, it is not.
But all is as it should be;
The world might make sense only through poetry
but that’s not how I make sense to the world.
“I will always wish
that you could see in yourself
all I see in you.”
– Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)
“What indeed makes us happy is the infinite and uncreated richness of...”
– Josef Pieper, Happiness is Contemplation
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Today’s been heavy, and I’m not sure why…which might be the worst kind of heaviness.
Forget
tylerknott:
Why do we forget that the snow was born to melt and the leaves were born to fall and the sun was born to set? Why do we forget that the snow was born to dance and the leaves were born to float and the sun was born to rise? -Tyler Knott Gregson-
My word. I adore your words, Tyler.
“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
– Carl Jung (via masongross)
“We’re all difficult. Everyone who is married is a difficult spouse. We emphasize...”
– William Doherty, psychology professor at the University of Minnesota (via psychotherapy)
I had the thought today that some things might just be easier if I were married…then I realized that’s nearly empirically false. Then I laughed.
January 2012
36 posts
“ART BRINGS VIBRANCE and beauty to our lives. Creativity is both a fully human...”
– Deeper Walk: Why Art Matters to Christians
Relevant Magazine
January 2012: The best January yet.
I do not love January, and I won’t make any apologies for it. It’s my birthday month, but other than that, it’s pretty much usually just a wet blanket of a month. The holidays are over, and good or bad they have left us exhausted, and here in Tennessee, the winter is usually pretty miserable. It’s icy, wet, and gray, other than an occasional February snow…but...
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journey
I’m a big believer in the journey. I think that it’s important to value every life experience that you are introduced to, the ones you barely endure and the ones your wholeheartedly enjoy.
Something that has come to be representative of this for me is a prayer labyrinth. As you can see, there’s only one path to the center; this is quite different from a maze because it...
joshschutz:
“I believe in God, only I spell it Nature” - Frank Lloyd Wright
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“As we mark the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, we must remember that this...”
– President Obama’s statement on the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade (via barackobama)
This is really well stated, and nearly exactly how I feel about the issue.
Let's Talk.
As I was heading out of town for my annual new year’s monastery trip, I had breakfast with a dear friend. I love sitting down to a conversation over a meal, it is one of the more central things to my faith. My respect and love for this friend is on a different level than most…our connection is much more like that of a sister, despite our age and life differences, and I value...
Leak
tylerknott:
I finally understand that I do not write, I leak. -Tyler Knott Gregson-
“When I am silent, I fall into the place where everything is music.”
– Rumi (via fuckyeahrumi)
“You suppose you are the trouble
But you are the cure
You suppose that you are...”
– Rumi (via fuckyeahrumi)
Just discovered this Tumblr…I will try to limit it to one reblog a day, folks…but no promises. Rumi gets me.
“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
– Albert Camus (via gill-man)