“stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.”
— hafiz
it’s nice to remember just how much i don’t need.
sundry sullen
“i am in love with love
and love is in love with me.
my body is in love with the soul
and the soul is in love with my body.
i opened my arms to love
and love embraced me like a lover.”
— rumi
“in a way, you are poetry material; you are full of cloudy subtleties i am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.” — franz kafka, letters to milena
love dem.
moon salute.
flower shop : designed by paul hankar : brussels, xix century.
that moment when you’re high and making a peanut butter + jelly sandwich.
“what is wonderful about music is that it helps man to concentrate or meditate independently of thought. therefore music seems to be the bridge over the gulf between the form and the formless. if there is anything intelligent, effective, and at the same time formless, it is music. poetry suggests form, line and color suggests form, but music suggests no form.” “music also produces that resonance which vibrates through the whole being. it lifts the thought about the denseness of matter; it almost turns matter into spirit, into its original condition, through the harmony of vibrations touching every atom of one’s whole being…” “music touches our innermost being, and in that way produces new life, a life that gives exaltation to the whole being, raising it to that perfection in which lies the fulfillment of man’s life.” — hazrat inayat khan from the mysticism of sound and music
yo la tengo makes me feel good!
i want to say things that make people feel good.
“keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos.” — thich nhat hanh