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My blog is about a year old now so I figure it’s a good time to call it day and leave tumblr alone for a while and focus on being more productive. I’ve met some great people and discovered lots of beautiful things. All the best tumblr folk!
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Cure for bad mood = booking a hostel in Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico for a week around the 21st of December?
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thewhimsyofthings asked: hahaha speaking of synchronicities- i was musing a lot over 'melancholia' the past couple days, loving how pretty a word it is, but wondering if it was technically/officially a dictionary word, noticing that the internet auto-spell-check red line didn't appear under it when typed out. and indeed it's a legitimate word turns out, in fact was the former NAme for depression. what a romanticized (IMO) name haha. and i had no idea it was a song!
There’s definitely a difference between melancholy and depression. Melancholy involves the happy release felt when you resign yourself to fate. I’ve always thought that “Melancholic bliss” is the only rational emotional response to the worlds beauty and suffering..
Not sure what that sync meant - she’s left me hanging
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Anonymous asked: Are you familiar w/ Van Morrison's "Melancholia" (it's on youtube)
No - but I am now :)
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Melancholy shouldn’t be confused with depression. Melancholy is an active state. When we’re melancholic, we feel uneasy with the way things are, the status quo, the conventions of our society. We yearn for a deeper, richer relationship with the world. And in that yearning, we’re forced to explore the potential within ourselves – a potential we might not have explored if we were simply content. We come up with new ways of seeing the world and new ways of being in the world. Melancholy and creativity go together.
– Alexander Stutterheim (via myheadisweak)(via lobbywaitingarea)
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Sonnet for a Tango in the Twilight
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Who was it that said it all in a homegrown tango
Whose drawn-out, lovely sweetness made me pause
Under some unassuming little balconies
In that leafy neighborhood that isn’t even yours?All I know is that in its sorrow I saw a simple yard
Within whose earthen walls the whole sunset fit,
A place I’d glimpsed a few months ago in some slum,
And that I loved you more than ever, hearing it.Caught in that music, I stayed there on the sidewalk
Facing the lonesome moon, the heart of the street,
In the relentless wind that came down driving the night.That infinite tango pulled me toward everything,
Toward the fresh stars. Toward the chance of being a man,
And toward that clear memory my eyes kept seeking..
~Jorge Luis Borges
(via gnostix1)
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To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man’s injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man’s superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?
– Mahatma Gandhi (via myquotelibrary)(via this-fire-and-rain)
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– Bob Marley”You find that being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure.
That’s so real it scares you.”
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One day. Someday.
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– Shakti Gawain, Reflections in the Light (via saras-vati)My primary relationship is with myself – all others are mirrors of it. As I learn to love myself, I automatically receive the love and appreciation that I desire from others. If I am committed to myself and to living my truth, I will attract others with equal commitment. (via saras-vati)
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