"Come in, stay a while."
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
"I’m a slow walker, but I never walk back."
– Abraham Lincoln
"We are told “no,” we’re unimportant, we’re peripheral. “Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that.” And then you’re a player, you don’t want to even play in that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that’s being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world."
– Terence McKenna (via receptive)
(via fuckthereallife)
"On a parking-lot staircase
I met two fine-looking men
descending, both in slacks
and dress shirts, neckties
much alike, one of the men
in his sixties, the other
a good twenty years older,
unsteady in his polished shoes,
a son and his father, I knew
from their looks, the son with his
right hand on the handrail,
the father, left hand on the left,
and in the middle they were
holding hands, and when I neared,
they opened their simple gate
of their interwoven fingers
to let me pass, then reached out
for each other and continued."
I met two fine-looking men
descending, both in slacks
and dress shirts, neckties
much alike, one of the men
in his sixties, the other
a good twenty years older,
unsteady in his polished shoes,
a son and his father, I knew
from their looks, the son with his
right hand on the handrail,
the father, left hand on the left,
and in the middle they were
holding hands, and when I neared,
they opened their simple gate
of their interwoven fingers
to let me pass, then reached out
for each other and continued."
– ‘Two,’ by Ted Kooser.
"Will is a child’s motive force: it impels a child from within, whereas obedience compels a child from without. Those who would overrule a child’s will take “obedience” as their watchword, as they fear disobedience and disorder and believe that if a child is not controlled, there will be chaos. But these are false opposites. The true opposite of obedience is not disobedience but independence. The true opposite of order is not disorder but freedom. The true opposite of control is not chaos but self-control."
– Jay Griffiths, from ‘Kith: The Riddle Of The Childscape.’
"I love you not as something private and personal, which is my own, but as something universal and worthy of love which I have found."
– Henry David Thoreau (via somepsychedelia)
(via moderndayhippie2groovy)
