some kind of whole made of shivering fragments

vimandvigour:

Steve and Neile McQueen, Big Sur, California, 1963, (Photo by John Dominis)

this is me at 22 so i expect to be an exceptionally batty, old woman. 

repulsed:

Joan Marti

snowce:

Mark Arbeit, Atelier Alain Bonnefoit #4, 2002

terramantra:

Summertime in Babylon, Robert Moses Joyce

"

When does real love begin?

At first it was a fire, eclipses, short circuits, lightning and fireworks; the incense, hammocks, drugs, wines, perfumes; then spasm and honey, fever, fatigue, warmth, currents of liquid fire, feast and orgies; then dreams, visions, candlelight, flowers, pictures; then images out of the past, fairy tales, stories, then pages out of a book, a poem; then laughter, then chastity.

At what moment does the knife wound sink so deep that the flesh begins to weep with love?

At first power, power, then the wound, and love, and love and fears, and the loss of the self, and the gift, and slavery. At first I ruled, loved less; then more, then slavery. Slavery to his image, his odor, the craving, the hunger, the thirst, the obsession.

"
- Anaïs Nin, A Journal of Love: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin 1934-1938 (via terramantra)

illuminatizeitgeist:

“In the view of Tantra, the body’s vital energies are the vehicles of the mind. When the vital energies are pure and subtle, one’s state of mind will be accordingly affected. By transforming these bodily energies we transform the state of consciousness.”

-The 14th Dalai Lama

"Everything is ecstasy, inside. We just don’t know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever. Close your eyes, let your hands and nerve-ends drop, stop breathing for 3 seconds, listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson you forgot, which was taught in immense milky way soft cloud innumerable worlds long ago and not even at all. It is all one vast awakened thing. I call it the golden eternity. It is perfect. We were never really born, we will never really die. It has nothing to do with the imaginary idea of a personal self, other selves, many selves everywhere: Self is only an idea, a mortal idea. That which passes into everything is one thing. It’s a dream already ended."
- Jack Kerouac

“Tell me one last thing,” said Harry. “Is this real? Or has this been happening inside my head?”
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” 

"I must see new things and investigate them. I want to taste dark water and see crackling trees and wild winds."
- Egon Schiele (via nervouspeter)

gacougnol:

Jean-Pascal Imsand

hearstothemute:

give up.

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