“would you like you if you met you?”
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March 2011
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sense of self
Once you lose your sense of self, you will see no right or wrong, no correct or incorrect way. You will only know that things exist as they do, just as much as this is all just a dream.
“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain which grows flowers, not thunder”
—Rumi (via resonantfrequencies)
“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought, there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it’s true I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you.”
—Frida Kahlo (via velvetcarousels)
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Discouraging Applause: Prostitution and its representation in pornography create an... →
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Prostitution and its representation in pornography create an aggressive sexuality requiring the objectification of a woman. She is made into a thing not worthy of the respect due to another equal sentient individual. Prostitution fosters a sexuality in which it is acceptable for the client to…
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“…what is called knowladge in everyday parlance, is only a small island in a vast sea that has not been traveled… Hence the existential question for the knower is this: which does he love more, the small island of his so called knowladge or the sea of infinite mystery?”
—Karl Rahner
“I do not name the people I talk about to someone who doesn’t know them, I use, despite the trouble of it, abstract descriptions like “that friend whose parachute got tangled up with another parachute the time he jumped.”
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“God and the Devil
Are both human images.” —Ai Qing
Are both human images.” —Ai Qing
