1. When the earth is ravaged and the animals are dying, a new tribe of people shall come unto the earth from many colors, classes, creeds, and who by their actions and deeds shall make the earth green again. They will be known as the warriors of the Rainbow.
    — Native American Prophecy (via ninefoldgoddess)

    (Source: pyrrhic-victoria, via ninefoldgoddess)

     


  2. “Birdsong brings relief
    to my longing.

    I am just as ecstatic as they are,
    but with nothing to say!

    Please, universal soul, practice
    some song, or something, through me!”

    —  Rumi
     


  3. If the masses started to accept UFOs, it would profoundly affect their attitude towards life, politics, everything. It would threaten the status quo. Whenever people come to realize that there are larger considerations than their own petty lives, they are ripe to make radical changes on a personal level, which would eventually lead to a political revolution in society as a whole.
    — John Lennon
     


  4. There is no need of any competition with anybody. You are yourself, and as you are, you are perfectly good. Accept yourself.
    — Osho  (via mystic-moon)

    (Source: hip-, via mentalfornication)

     

  5. twist-so-fine:

    hephs-thighs:

    world-realities:

    ‘Christian or Muslim, We Are All Egyptians’ - Christians form a human chain around Muslims to protect them from disruptions during Friday prayer in Alexandria, Egypt.

    this will always be one of the most beautiful pictures i have ever seen

    Oh, humanity.  I always think I’m done with you, and then you go and do something sweet.

    this still gives me goosebumps, this was one of the greatest things ever. <3

    (via yoursarcasmpleasesme)

     


  6. Nobody can push you out of your trap – no guru, no drug, no mantra, nobody, including myself – nobody, especially myself. All that you have to do is to be aware from the beginning to the end, not become inattentive in the middle of it. This new quality of awareness is attention, and in this attention there is no frontier made by the “me”. This attention is the highest form of virtue, therefore it is love. It is supreme intelligence, and there cannot be attention if you are not sensitive to the structure and the nature of these man-made traps.
    — Jiddu Krishnamurti
     


  7. Man is much the same as a tree. He has been put on earth like a seed. But he can only grow into a tree by virtue of his own efforts.
     

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  9. Creation itself is the divine calligraphy with which God covered the pages of changing time with the black and white design of night becoming days and days becoming night.
    — Qadi Ahmed (16th century author on the art of calligraphy)
     


  10. Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high

    Where knowledge is free

    Where the world has not been broken up into fragments

    By narrow domestic walls

    Where words come out from the depth of truth

    Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection

    Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way

    Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit

    Where the mind is led forward by thee

    Into ever-widening thought and action

    Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.

    —  Rabindranath Tagore
     


  11. If we accept that sound is vibration and we know that vibration touches every part of our physical being, then we understand that sound is heard not only through our ears but through every cell in our bodies. One reason sound heals on a physical level is because it so deeply touches and transforms us on the emotional and spiritual planes. Sound can redress imbalances on every level of physiologic functioning and can play a positive role in the treatment of virtually any medical disorder. Sound enters the healing equation from several directions: It may alter cellular functions through energetic effects; it may entrain biological systems to function more homeostatically; it may calm the mind and therefore the body; or it may have emotional effects, which influence neurotransmitters and neuropeptides, which in turn help to regulate the immune system—the healer within.
    — Dr. Mitchell Gaynor (via lucifelle)

    (via lucifelle)

     


  12. Yet I sometimes believe that we wanted to be fooled - that we wish to be led to the slaughter by our masters, to race for the cliff-edge with the desperate enthusiasm of the suicide bomber, our instincts awakened by something that should have been buried at Hastings or Waterloo or Antietam or Berlin or even Da Nang. Do we need war? Do we need it the way we need air and love and children and safety? I wonder.
    — Robert Fisk, ‘The Age of the Warrior: Selected Writings’
     


  13. The Virture of Love the Heart’s natural love is the principal requisite to attain a holy life. When this love, the heavenly gift of Nature, appears in the heart, it removes all causes of excitation from the system and cools it down to a perfectly normal state; and, invigorating the vital powers, expels all foreign matters- the germs of diseases-by natural ways (perspiration and so forth). It thereby makes man perfectly healthy in body and mind, And enables him to understand properly the guidance of Nature.
    — Sri Yukteswar (via lucifelle)

    (via lucifelle)

     


  14. But when he came to study those who had thrown off the old myths, he found them even more ugly than those who had not. They did not know that beauty lies in harmony, and that loveliness of life has no standard amidst an aimless cosmos save only its harmony with the dreams and the feelings which have gone before and blindly moulded our little spheres out of the rest of chaos. They did not see that good and evil and beauty and ugliness are only ornamental fruits of perspective, whose sole value lies in their linkage to what chance made our fathers think and feel, and whose finer details are different for every race and culture. Instead, they either denied these things altogether or transferred them to the crude, vague instincts which they shared with the beasts and peasants; so that their lives were dragged malodorously out in pain, ugliness, and disproportion, yet filled with a ludicrous pride at having escaped from something no more unsound than that which still held them. They had traded the false gods of fear and blind piety for those of licence and anarchy.
    —  H.P. Lovecraft, The Silver Key
     


  15. A beggar had been sitting by the side of a road for over thirty years. One day a stranger walked by. “Spare some change?” mumbled the beggar, mechanically holding out his baseball cap. “I have nothing to give you,” said the stranger. Then he asked: “What’s that you are sitting on?” “Nothing,” replied the beggar. “Just an old box. I have been sitting on it for as long as I can remember.” “Ever looked inside?” asked the stranger. “No,” said the beggar. “What’s the point? There’s nothing in there.” “Have a look inside,” insisted the stranger. The beggar managed to pry open the lid. With astonishment, disbelief, and elation, he saw that the box was filled with gold.
    —  Eckhart Tolle, “The Power of Now”