Immature people falling in love destroy each other’s freedom, create a bondage, make a prison. Mature persons in love help each other to be free; they help each other to destroy all sorts of bondages. And when love flows with freedom there is beauty. When love flows with dependence there is ugliness.
A mature person does not fall in love, he or she rises in love. Only immature people fall; they stumble and fall down in love. Somehow they were managing and standing. Now they cannot manage and they cannot stand. They were always ready to fall on the ground and to creep. They don’t have the backbone, the spine; they don’t have the integrity to stand alone.
A mature person has the integrity to stand alone. And when a mature person gives love, he or she gives without any strings attached to it. When two mature persons are in love, one of the great paradoxes of life happens, one of the most beautiful phenomena: they are together and yet tremendously alone. They are together so much that they are almost one. Two mature persons in love help each other to become more free. There is no politics involved, no diplomacy, no effort to dominate. Only freedom and love.
Osho (via belle-de-nuit)
I’m a glutton for punishment.
Bowie in Space!
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Canadian Astronaut Chris Hadfield plays Space Oddity in Space
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Dear friends,
Running a publishing house, the distro wing of which stocks mostly “radical” literature, we meet a lot of quote unquote revolutionaries. The more revolutionaries I meet in this country the more I realize nothing will ever get done. If the height of your…
Am I living in a Devil Town?
Well I’m from Utica and I’ve never heard anyone use the phrase steamed hams.
Oh, not in Utica, no. It’s an Albany expression.
Note: The cure for asthma is not, “Just breathe!”, and the cure for cancer is not, “Stop growing those cells!” Similarly, the cure for depression is not, “Just be happier!”, and the cure for anxiety is not, “Stop worrying so much!” These are not phases of life for teenagers and the weak-minded - they are serious and chronic medical illnesses.
Reblogging this every time I see it.
(Source: vangoghsdaughter)
