March 2012
45 posts
“The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is by being always absolutely over-educated.”
—Oscar Wilde
“Let us go on to consider desire. We know, do we not, the desire which contradicts itself, which is tortured, pulling in different directions; the pain, the turmoil, the anxiety of desire, and the disciplining, the controlling. And in the everlasting battle with it we twist it out of all shape and recognition; but it is there, constantly watching, waiting, pushing. Do what you will, sublimate it, escape from it, deny it or accept it, give it full rein: it is always there. And we know how the religious teachers and others have said that we should be desireless, cultivate detachment, be free from desire, which is really absurd, because desire has to be understood, not destroyed. If you destroy desire, you may destroy life itself. If you pervert desire, shape it, control it, dominate it, suppress it, you may be destroying something extraordinarily beautiful.”
— Jiddu Krishnamurti, The Book of Life (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
“It is not possible to become desireless, but it is possible to give up material desires.
It is the nature of the living entity to desire; it is not possible to be desireless.
If one is desireless, he is dead.” —Kapila
It is the nature of the living entity to desire; it is not possible to be desireless.
If one is desireless, he is dead.” —Kapila
“True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories”
—Florence King
