“When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? It is because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.”
—Jiddu Krishnamurti (via distempered)
March 2012
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Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language.
Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them.
And the point is to live everything. Live the question now. Perhaps then, some day far in the future, you will gradually without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.
” —Rainer Maria Rilke (via icehova)Today:
Left Albuquerque
Arrived at the Petrified Forest; the Painted Desert(s)
Arrived in Holbrook, AZ
Read The Gold At The Starbow’s End by Frederick Pohl (Read this..seriously..so good)
Was invaded by ideas and essences contained in both the vast and beautiful wilderness of Arizona and the vast and beautiful contents of Mr. Pohl’s novella.
Felt the precise and unique fullness of mind/body/soul that comes along with continuing success on the Road and companionship of the best kind.
It’s been a good day.
“It is a special kind of enlightenment to have this feeling that the usual, the way things normally are, is odd —uncanny and highly improbable.”
—Alan Watts “The Book” (on the taboo against knowing who you are)
“One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (via travelminds)
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
—Buckminster Fuller (via distempered)
“The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.”
—André Malraux (via distempered)
Just had the most beautiful day of the trip thus far.
It couldn’t have been any better, quite honestly.
A full day hiking and discovering things neither one of us could have imagined.
And then a gorgeous drive down a long desert road right into the sunset.
Plus, the man that owns the hotel we’re staying at is the nicest person we have ever met in forever. Such a sweetheart.
And the breakfast here includes scrambled eggs, sausages, and waffles.
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