Thoughts can create such a barrier that even if you are standing before a beautiful flower, you will not be able to see it. Your eyes are covered with layers of thought. To experience the beauty of the flower you have to be in a state of meditation, not in a state of mentation. You have to be silent, utterly silent, not even a flicker of thought – and the beauty explodes, reaches to you from all directions. You are drowned in the beauty of a sunrise, of a starry night, of beautiful trees.
— Osho (via wethinkwedream)
(Source: lucifelle, via whispersofthebeloved)
The Remaining Me
Even after the entire world has taken me apart, there’s still a part of me left for you.
Thinking too much can cause problems, but so can not thinking enough.
The tricksy dilemmas of life.
Posted May 4, 2012 at 6:03pm
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Zainab al-Khawaja protesting alone in the streets of Bahrain against the arrest and detention of her father, Abdulhadi al-Khawaja—a revered human rights defender—who entered the seventieth-day of his hunger strike. She was arrested by Bahraini security forces shortly after this photo was taken.
(via badassmuslimahs)
Rules to live by
“For me, a woman who is absorbed in her work, who does not care about gaining one’s favor, strong yet subtle at the same time, is essentially more seductive. The more she hides and abandons her femininity, the more it emerges from the very heart of her existence.”
—Yohji Yamamoto
Posted April 23, 2012 at 3:30pm
