December 2010
“Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.”
—Margaret B. Runbeck (via tinkeroftime)
“The effort involved in seeking the truth is paradoxically long and arduous because the truth is what we intrinsically are, and therefore cannot be sought.”
—Rodney Smith in Stepping Out of Self-Deception: The Buddha’s Liberating Teaching of No-Self (Shambhala Publications)
“By being too sensitive I have wasted my life.”
—Arthur Rimbaud
This is my obligatory “end of the year” post.
2010 is the first decade that I was alive through the entirety of and it has treated me well. Though at times things were not fully satisfying or easy, this year has been a beautiful learning experience. I turned 19, I fell in love, I sat by the beach, I moved away from home, I worked hard and I did my best to hold my head up high. The choices that I made are still ones that I do not regret, the places that I went and the people that I met made everything worthwhile. My high times are reaching new heights and my lows are seemingly more trivial and meaningless, so I will enjoy that while it lasts.
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The most important thing is to never stop questioning.” - Albert Einstein
“You cannot see what I see because you see what you see. You cannot know what I know because you know what you know. What I see and what I know cannot be added to what you see and what you know because they are not of the same kind. Neither can it replace what you see and what you know, because that would be to replace you yourself.”
“Hang on, can I write this down?” said Arthur, excitedly fumbling in his pocket for a pencil.” —Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless, Pan Books, UK; Harmony Books, U.S., 1992 (via amiquote)
“Hang on, can I write this down?” said Arthur, excitedly fumbling in his pocket for a pencil.” —Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless, Pan Books, UK; Harmony Books, U.S., 1992 (via amiquote)
The very last roll of Kodachrome →
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If the poignancy in these photos was a bear, I’d be rapemauled to death twice over.
“Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition. They avoid rather than confront the world. But those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will penetrate its deepest mysteries.”
—Carl Sagan (via Lieutenant Commander Amborg)