petty attempts at understanding life
message archive theme

It’s good to leave each day behind,
like flowing water, free of sadness.
Yesterday is gone and its tale told.
Today new seeds are growing.
written by Rumi (via sweetsweetsmile)

(Source: commondense, via mediocrestrippoker)

Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.
written by Saint Francis de Sales  (via samsaranmusing)

(via mediocrestrippoker)

The senses have been conditioned by attraction to the pleasant and aversion to the unpleasant: a man should not be ruled by them; they are obstacles in his path.
written by Bhagavad Gita (via samsaranmusing)

(via mediocrestrippoker)

mediocrestrippoker:

William Blake’s “Eternity” (via takeawalkonthewildeside)
Because you start to realise that all other forms of happiness are temporary, conditional, transient, illusory forms of happiness. Sexy happiness, druggy happiness, new jacket happiness.
written by Russell Brand, on Buddhism and meditation. (via getbornkeepwarm)

(Source: BBC, via mediocrestrippoker)

samsaranmusing:

The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao
The name that can be named is not the eternal name
The nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth
The named is the mother of myriad things
Thus, constantly free of desire
One observes its wonders
Constantly filled with desire
One observes its manifestations
These two emerge together but differ in name
The unity is said to be the mystery
Mystery of mysteries, the door to all wonders
I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and your not here to live up to mine.
written by Bruce Lee (via samsaranmusing)

(via mediocrestrippoker)

We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.
written by Bill Hicks (via samsaranmusing)

(via mediocrestrippoker)

crscwldpt:

Someone who is about to admonish another must realize within himself five qualities before doing so [that he may be able to say], thus:

“In due season will I speak, not out of season. In truth will I speak, not in falsehood. Gently will I speak, not harshly. To his profit will I speak, not to his loss. With kindly intent will I speak, not in anger.”

(from the Vinaya Pitaka)

(via mediocrestrippoker)