May 2012
April 2012
“Some people are born to make great art and others are born to appreciate it. Don’t you think? It is a kind of talent in itself, to be an audience, whether you are the spectator in the gallery or you are listening to the voice of the world’s greatest soprano. Not everyone can be the artist. There have to be those who witness the art, who love and appreciate what they have been privileged to see.”
—Ann Patchett | Bel Canto (via blogut)
What's the point of life if you're just going to waste all of it trying to get to the afterlife?
what happens if you’re wrong?
If your religion isn’t really the one true religion and you end up just a rotting carcass in the ground. Or what if there is a god but your religion wasn’t the one true religion, or you didn’t meet up to his standards and you burn in hell for eternity? What’s the point of worshiping god all your life if the probability of you actually getting into heaven is close to none, and that’s just if there actually is one.
I say, make your life here the best it possibly can. You should live as if there is no god, no afterlife, and this is the only life you have. Do good things, but don’t be afraid to live a little. If there is a just god, then he will look at your life and see that it was good and he will let you have a happy afterlife. If there is an unjust god, then there wouldn’t have been any point in worshiping him in the first place, and you can just be happy that you enjoyed your time on earth. And if there is no god and no afterlife, and the life you have now is the only one you have, then you lived the way you should have.
“Grant yourself a moment of peace, and you will understand how foolishly you have scurried about. Learn to be silent, and you will notice that you have talked too much. Be kind, and you will realize that your judgment of others was too severe. Hasten slowly, and you will soon arrive.”
—Ancient Chinese proverb (via elige)
“We are caged by our cultural programming. Culture is a mass hallucination, and when you step outside the mass hallucination you see it for what it’s worth.”
—Terence McKenna (via elige)
“In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.”
—Alice Walker (via liquidmoons)
