ragavairagya

Goddess Kali shrine, Calcutta, India, circa/before 1920

thepreservationist — Wed, 22 May 2013 07:37:33 -0400

Goddess Kali shrine, Calcutta, India, circa/before 1920

"Now all you can do is wait. It must be hard for you, but there is a right time for everything. Like..."

thepreservationist — Wed, 22 May 2013 07:26:47 -0400

“Now all you can do is wait. It must be hard for you, but there is a right time for everything. Like the ebb and flow of tides. No one can do anything to change them. When it is time to wait, you must wait.”

- Haruki Murakami, The Wind Up Bird Chronicle

thepreservationist — Wed, 22 May 2013 07:25:17 -0400

André Kertész: On Reading

thepreservationist — Wed, 22 May 2013 07:17:38 -0400

André Kertész: On Reading

Peonies. Irving Penn.

thepreservationist — Tue, 21 May 2013 08:02:58 -0400

Peonies. Irving Penn.

Patti Smith

thepreservationist — Tue, 21 May 2013 08:01:11 -0400

Patti Smith

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thepreservationist — Tue, 21 May 2013 07:46:04 -0400

"‘Don’t wait for it,’ I said. ‘Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. Create. And then the..."

thepreservationist — Tue, 21 May 2013 07:43:12 -0400

“‘Don’t wait for it,’ I said. ‘Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. Create. And then the love will come to you, then it comes to you. It was only when I wrote my first book that the world I wanted to live opened up to me.’”

- Anais Nin (March 1933)

"You have to decide right now to be free once and for all. Everyone who has found freedom in this..."

thepreservationist — Tue, 21 May 2013 07:42:31 -0400

“You have to decide right now to be free once and for all. Everyone who has found freedom in this lifetime has had to make this decision.”

- Papaji

"Spiritual awakening doesn’t happen because you master some spiritual technique. There are lots of..."

thepreservationist — Tue, 21 May 2013 07:41:27 -0400

“Spiritual awakening doesn’t happen because you master some spiritual technique. There are lots of skillful meditators who are not awake. Awakening happens when you stop bullshitting yourself into continual nonawakening. It’s very easy to use disciplines to avoid reality rather than to encounter it. A true spirituality will have you continually facing your illusions and all the ways you avoid reality.”

- Adyashanti

Yves Klein, 1961

thepreservationist — Mon, 20 May 2013 09:01:05 -0400

Yves Klein, 1961

"At least once in your life, when you need to reset, pick a handful of places 4 to 8 hours away in..."

thepreservationist — Mon, 20 May 2013 08:57:46 -0400

“At least once in your life, when you need to reset, pick a handful of places 4 to 8 hours away in every direction. Put them in a hat, get in the car, pull a name, and drive there. No questions asked.”

"You must die in order to live; you must melt down to shape anew. You must destroy to build,..."

thepreservationist — Mon, 20 May 2013 08:47:50 -0400

“You must die in order to live; you must melt down to shape anew. You must destroy to build, annihilate before creation. The Supreme is the universal solvent, it corrodes every container, it burns through every obstacle. Without the absolute denial of everything, the tyranny of things will be absolute. The Supreme is the great harmonizer, the guarantee of the ultimate and perfect balance – of life in freedom. It dissolves you and thus re-asserts your true being.”

- Nisargadatta Maharaj

"The whole world is simply my story, projected back to me on the screen of my own perception. All of..."

thepreservationist — Mon, 20 May 2013 08:47:34 -0400

“The whole world is simply my story, projected back to me on the screen of my own perception. All of it.”

- Byron Katie

"I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life."

thepreservationist — Mon, 20 May 2013 08:46:47 -0400

“I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.”

- Virgina Woolf

"Anyone can love a rose, but it takes a great deal to love a leaf. It’s ordinary to love the..."

thepreservationist — Mon, 20 May 2013 08:44:25 -0400

“Anyone can love a rose, but it takes a great deal to love a leaf. It’s ordinary to love the beautiful, but it’s beautiful to love the ordinary.”

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thepreservationist — Sat, 18 May 2013 11:38:12 -0400

"Growth is not a steady, forward, upward progression. It is indeed a switchback trail: three steps..."

thepreservationist — Sat, 18 May 2013 11:27:42 -0400

“Growth is not a steady, forward, upward progression. It is indeed a switchback trail: three steps forward, two back, one around the bushes, and a few simply standing, before another forward leap.”

- Dorothy Corkville Briggs

Marina Abramovic - Untitled works from Spirit Cooking (1996)

thepreservationist — Sat, 18 May 2013 11:20:01 -0400

Marina Abramovic - Untitled works from Spirit Cooking (1996)

yama-bato: Ayako Takaishi

thepreservationist — Fri, 17 May 2013 09:07:17 -0400

yama-bato:

Ayako Takaishi