January 2012
13 posts
“At the end of my life, with just one breath left,
if you come, I’ll sit up and...”
– Rumi
“There is a path from me to you that
I am constantly looking for.”
– Rumi
1 tag
“My problem was that I wanted to belong to both groups simultaneously, and yet...”
– Junot Diaz
“I was neither black enough for the black kids or Dominican enough for the...”
– Junot Diaz
“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness....”
– Lao Tzu
2011
This year served as a school to learn more about me, about my humanity, and more importantly how to share it. First though i had to tear down walls of fears and insecurities that had kept me from fully loving and living. That’s where i think this year was crucial, in helping me open up, in being ok with vulnerable and afraid. I learned about not having to do it alone, but also about loss and...
“Yesterday is gone and took away its tale. Today we must live a fresh story...”
– Rumi
December 2011
27 posts
“Dance, dance…
otherwise we are lost.”
– Pina Bausch
1 tag
However, not everything was great about 2011. It was a year of loss & pain for me.
And just as I woke up (from my nap today) I realized I liked the phrase “slips into sleep”..
“An average man is too concerned with liking people or with being liked himself....”
– Carlos Castaneda, A Separate Reality
“I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Dime que no y me tendrás pensando todo el día en ti, planeando la estrategia...”
“I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees”
– Pablo Neruda
“It Was A Good Day”
“I have more care to stay then will to go”
“I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light...”
– Hafiz (via sorakeem)
“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity...”
– Henry David Thoreau
“I could light the night up with my soul on fire
I could make the sun shine from...”
– James Vincent Mc Morrow - Higher Love
2 tags
“Love means having to say you’re sorry every fifteen minutes.”
– John Lennon
1 tag
“Like a dream
The sky is falling
Is it you who’s talking?
Can I take...”
– Come on - Will Young
“I want to be where your bare foot walks, because maybe before you step, you’ll...”
– Rumi
1 tag
“I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only...”
– Sufi Proverb
November 2011
34 posts
1 tag
Chivalry Is... →
Chivalry is honor. Chivalry is passion. Chivalry is respect for life. Chivalry is sympathy. Chivalry is sacrifice. Chivalry is belief in an idea, and the display of that idea. Chivalry is taking the mud splash. Chivalry is giving up your umbrella. Chivalry is to aid without reward. Chivalry is to…
1 tag
“Be soulful;
Be kind;
Be in love.”
– Rumi
