"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 universeobserver)
(Source: fluctuatin, via atemporal-emptiness)
"And every time you step back from your own melodrama, the cosmic humor gets higher and higher."
Ram Dass (via cosmofilius)
(Source: labyrintho, via blissful-awareness)
“The inexpressible depth of music, so easy to understand and yet so inexplicable, is due to the fact that it reproduces all the emotions of our innermost being, but entirely without reality and remote from its pain… Music expresses only the quintessence of life and its events, never these themselves.” - Arthur Schopenhauer
"Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down."
Natalie Goldberg (via cosmofilius)
(Source: live-to-the-point-of-tears, via prometheanreach)
