It's Been a While

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The world is what you make of it, friend. If it doesn't fit, you make alteration
-Silverado

Love

All Gone to Look for America

"Kathy, I'm lost" I said, though I knew she was sleeping "I'm empty and aching and I don't know why..."

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I can't stop listening to the Bookends record, it's kind of becoming an issue since I just sit in my dad's room all day listening to the record over and over, but it's so good.

Nobody at the Wheel

One of my favorite Tumblrs.

"And it's Hard to Dance With the Devil on Your Back so Shake Him Off"

Help I'm addicted...

Ceremonials

Florence + The Machine released a new CD yesterday and I would just like to say once again she has blown me away. Her vocals are spot on (as always) I mean really, how could you not love Florence Welch?

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"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." 
-William James

Art enables us to find ourselves and loose ourselves at the same time. -Thomas Merton

It's official, I'm in love with Raquel Aparicio's art the meticulous detail is simply breathtaking. Go to her website, you won't regret it.

I had a friend once, who told me the worst mistake you can make is to think that you're alive. When really you're asleep in life's waiting room. -The Waking Life

I'm obsessed with BIRP (Blalock's Indie Rock Playlist) and I just noticed on the site they have MixTapes! I listened to the most popular one called Don't Wake Up and it is one of the most beautiful things I have ever heard. I tried really hard to find an embed code so I wouldn't have to just give you the link but I couldn't! :( So the link is here.

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The movie the quotes are from is called the Waking Life, So I googled it and it's free on google so I watched it and it is so cool! Although the artist's style hurts my eyes the dialogue is so powerful and amazing.

6 Word Stories

Six Word Stories could possibly be the best website I've ever been on (ok, maybe not THE BEST but it's up there) I just love how the brief sentences leave everything open to interpretation and the artwork is so beautiful.    

I've Found It!

So I couldn't find the poem I based my blog name on and I really wanted to quote it when I first started the blog. But I found the poem in a book about Buddhism that I got from the library called The Buddha Book.

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On Life

Life is…
like a flickering flame:
a phenomenon that
cannot last long.
Like an illusion:
appearing real
but not there-
being empty.

Phenomena are
like dewdrops
or water bubbles
that can perish at any time.

Being transitory in nature
like a dream
they appear real
from their own side,
yet they are empty from
their own side.

Like a dream-
exactly like that.
Total hallucination
Like lightning,
transitory in nature.
When there is lightning
a flash of light appears
and then is gone.

Same:
When death comes
all appearance of this life
go,
like friends who were here
then pass away
and are gone.

Buddha said:
If we cling, if we grasp
there is suffering.
Things cannot last;
they are impermanent by
nature.
Holding the view of
permanence
only leads to suffering.
It creates the cause to
reincarnate in samsara
again.

Attachment ties us to
samsara… again.

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You're either weird or pretending not to be.
-Andy Frick

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