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Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.

Pema Chödrön, (via purplebuddhaproject)

You ruin your life by desensitizing yourself. We are all afraid to say too much, to feel too deeply, to let people know what they mean to us. Caring is not synonymous with crazy. Expressing to someone how special they are to you will make you vulnerable. There is no denying that. However, that is nothing to be ashamed of. There is something breathtakingly beautiful in the moments of smaller magic that occur when you strip down and are honest with those who are important to you. Let that girl know that she inspires you. Tell your mother you love her in front of your friends. Express, express, express. Open yourself up, do not harden yourself to the world, and be bold in who, and how you love. There is courage in that.

Bianca Sparacino, How To Ruin Your Life (Without Even Noticing That You Are)

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Artist Alert: Marion Fayolle

Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heart-ache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty. Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. We all derive from the same source. There is no mystery about the origin of things. We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, to discover what is already there.

Henry Miller, Sexus (via purplebuddhaproject)

The Coming Singularity

Strength comes from struggle. When you learn to see your struggles as opportunities to become stronger, better, wiser, then your thinking shifts from “I can’t do this” to “I must do this.

Toni Sorenson (via purplebuddhaproject)

you: hey

me, with 25 wikipedia tabs open on cryptids, megafauna, & extraterrestrials: what?

I wish to show you the darkness you are so afraid of. Trust me. This darkness is a place you can enter and be as safe in as you are anywhere; you can put one foot in front of the other and believe the sides of your eyes. Memorize it. You will know it again in your own time. When the appearances of things have left you, you will still have this darkness. Something of your own you can carry with you.

Margaret Atwood, from Selected Poems II: 1976 - 1986 (via violentwavesofemotion)

Stock Prices of Weapons Manufacturers Soaring Since Paris Attack

The Paris attacks took place on Friday night. Since then, France’s president has vowed “war” on ISIS and today significantly escalated the country’s bombing campaign in Syria (France has been bombing ISIS in Iraq since last January, and began bombing them in Syria in September).

Already this morning, as Aaron Cantú noticed, the stocks of the leading weapons manufacturers – what is usually referred to as the “defense industry” – have soared:…. Read on:- https://theintercept.com/2015/11/16/stock-prices-of-weapons-manufacturers-soaring-since-paris-attack/

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.

Leonardo da Vinci (via purplebuddhaproject)

By translating the numbers in mystical squares, the Ancients discovered internal symmetry and harmonies that lay hidden within the chaos… The ancient Magic Square of 3 x 3 (also known as the ‘Lo-Shu’ in ancient China, C17th BC) is the centre of the Tibetan Calendar/Cosmology. It is a timeless mathematical harmonic whose sums of the columns, rows and diagonals all add up to and vibrate to 15. Symbolically this Magic Square creates Order amidst Chaos, and Equality in All Dimensions. I believe also that this is the oldest mathematics on the planet that is visible or tangible, in contrast to the Vedic Stream of Knowledge that states all the Vedas were written on the rays of the Sun, but the knowledge is not actually written down visibly, thus the Chinese Magic Square is the source and the oldest record that we have. (src)

I don’t love you loud or monstrously. I don’t love you like a hurricane loves a city or a bullet loves flesh. I don’t love you like the writer in me wants to love you. I don’t love you in a way that makes good television. I don’t love you as if you were cursed and broken and imploding, as if you were a grenade waiting for my words of regret and grief. I don’t love you like I’m waiting for you to explode and burn every part of me that wanted to believe what little we had was immortal. I don’t love you so my heart can bleed all over my fingertips and I can call the stains art. I don’t love you so I can one day hate you. I love you and there is no explosion. I love you and instead, there is quiet. (I love you in the way that creates, not destroys)

in the beginning, there was you, me and the light; g.p. (via pretentieuxtitre)

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An abugida, also called a alphasyllabary, is a type of script where consonant-vowel combinations are written together as a unit. The consonant is the main letter with a vowel notation added on. Examples of abugidas include the large Brahmic family of scripts in South Asia, the Ethiopian ge'ez script, and a family of Canadian Algonquin, Inuit, and Athabaskan scripts, inspired by the Devanagari script of India and shown above.