March 2012
276 posts
February 2012
272 posts
“Nothing at this school becomes an issue until it starts affecting white people....”
– Anonymous reflections on the uproar about police brutality at Occupy Wall Street (via mylifeasafeminista)
Coughcough UVM coughcough
(via split-the-coast)
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20 Instructions for Life by The Dalai Lama
This ‘life instructions’ list from the Dalai Lama has gone viral and I absolutely love it! Here it is:
1.Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
2. When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
3. Follow the three R’s:
- Respect for self,
- Respect for others and
- Responsibility for all your actions.
4. Remember that not getting what you want is...
“Don’t seek, don’t search, don’t ask, don’t knock, don’t demand—relax. If you...”
– Osho (via kimjungho)
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On Wisdom
I’m sceptical about people who readily tell people what they should do, what is and dish out “wisdom” and answers with absolute certainty. I like the people who are asking and living the questions.
“I’m not anti-social. I’m pro-solitude.”
– Author Unknown (via thesearepeopleyouknow)
“Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.”
– Pythagoras (via streetphilosophers)
“You may think the grass is greener on the other side, but if you took the time...”
– (via turned-on-underground)
Racism 101: Are you a Racist?: Five Important... →
paradiscacorbasi:
A lot of would be white allies freak out when people of color start using hostile language. This is nothing new.
But it occurs to me the why is something I’d never realized before.
I’ve said before People of Color are angry and they have every right to be angry.
But…
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“I believe that love that is true and real creates a respite from death. All...”
– Ernest Hemingway (Midnight In Paris)
“If you’re white, you can play a Middle Eastern prince. If you’re black, you can...”
– Chris Rock, thank you for calling it out (via hinduthug)
“When anything is blocking my head or there’s worry in my life, I just go sit on...”
– Heath Ledger (via nirvikalpa)
Love. Without. Condition.
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Leave him there
your pain & baggage
Leave it in the dark
Don’t walk to me
holding tight
to what is obscure
If my lifeline
of pleasure gets derailed
then I’m afraid
It will derail
the budding love
that has been growing
In the once hollow part
of my chest
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Why can’t you see
the we’re all a beautiful stroke on the canvas
of a grand masterpiece?
Top 10 Reasons to Banish Soda →
lightofsveta:
I have never felt so overwhelmingly lonely as I do right now.
“In August of 1990 I found myself laying on my stomach in the woods with a pair...”
– Kathleen Hanna, Our Hit Parade (via grrrlstudies) 