“Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.”
—Buckminster Fuller
November 2011
30 posts
“Many people live in air-conditioned houses and apartments.
We alter our air with electric machines.
We spend vast sums of money and energy to change our air. And we drive in air-conditioned cars- the 8% of us in the world who have cars- to air-conditioned schools and offices and stores with tile floors and fluorescent lights.
It’s even possible to go days without spending any significant time outside.
And it’s still considered living.” Rob Bell
“Those of us who have been true readers all our life seldom fully realise the enormous extension of our being which we owe to authors. We realise it best when we talk with an unliterary friend. He may be full of goodness and good sense but he inhabits a tiny world. In it, we should be suffocated. The man who is contented to be only himself, and therefore less a self, is in prison.”
—C. S. Lewis, An Experiment in Criticism
“Eventually you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is.”
—Gary Zukav
“The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth’s dreamland; where prose is prowling on the desk and poetry is hiding in the heart.”
—Rabindranath Tagore, from Lover’s Gifts
“The clitoris is pure in purpose. It is the only organ in the body designed purely for pleasure. The clitoris is simply a bundle of nerves: 8,000 nerve fibers, to be precise. That’s a higher concentration of nerve fibers than is found anywhere else in the body, including the fingertips, lips, and tongue, and it is twice… twice… twice the number in the penis. Who needs a handgun when you’ve got a semiautomatic.”
—Eve Ensler, The Vagina Monologues (2001)
“You and I have spoken all these words
but for the way we have to go,
words are no preparation.
I have one small drop of knowing in my soul.
Let it dissolve in your ocean.” —Rumi
but for the way we have to go,
words are no preparation.
I have one small drop of knowing in my soul.
Let it dissolve in your ocean.” —Rumi
