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Scared and sacred are spelled with the same letters. Awful proceeds from the same root word as awesome. Terrify and terrific. Every negative experience holds the seed of transformation.
Alan Cohen (via sorakeem)
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It’s amazing how words can do that, just shred your insides apart.
Lauren Oliver, Delirium (via dumbwhitegirl)
Source: sad-plath
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A word and everything is saved.
A word and all is lost.
André Breton (via apoetreflects)
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“We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infinitesimal hairline between an all-powerfully causative past and an absorbingly important future. We have no present. Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience. We are therefore out of touch with reality. We confuse the world as talked about, described, and measured with the world which actually is. We are sick with a fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas.”
Alan Watts (via speaksteady)
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There is a language older by far and deeper than words. It is the language of bodies, of body on body, wind on snow, rain on trees, wave on stone. It is the language of dream, gesture, symbol, memory. We have forgotten this language. We do not even remember that it exists.
Derrick Jensen, from A Language Older Than Words (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2000)
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I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.
Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text (via 7pleiades7)
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The night
Hath been to me a more familiar
face
Than that of man; and in her starry
shade
Of dim and solitary loveliness
I learned the language of another
world.
Lord Byron
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The Greeks understood the mysterious power of the hidden side of things. They bequeathed to us one of the most beautiful words in our language—the word ‘enthusiasm’—en theos—a god within. The grandeur of human actions is measured by the inspiration from which they spring. Happy is he who bears a god within, and who obeys it.
Louis Pasteur (via portionsofeternity)
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Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much. Language consists of five basic sounds produced by the vocal cords. They are the vowels a, e, i, o, u. The other sounds are consonants produced by air pressure: s, f, g, and so forth. Do you believe some combination of such basic sounds could ever explain who you are, or the ultimate purpose of the universe, or even what a tree or stone is in its depth?
Eckhart Tolle (via cosmofilius)
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I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.
Roland Barthes, The Pleasure Of The Text
