I said to the sun
tell me about the big bang.
The sun said “it hurts to become”.
I carry that hurt on the tip of my tongue
Andrea Gibson, I Sing the Body Electric 

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Posted 6 hours ago on Wednesday 30 May 2012 with 88 notes .
I am not kidding when I say that I find incredibly esoteric and specialized porn to be one of the most life-affirming things in the world. Even… no, especially the stuff that doesn’t do anything for me. Every giantess crush site, every furry vore gallery, every Shintaro Kago shit-and-dissection-fest, every body-inflation discussion group, every set of specialized apron-fetish films, every dendrophile fan club, every time I learn a new word like “boytaur” or “OT3″ or “docking” or “unbirth”… all these things bring me a genuine and unironic joy. These things, these kinks, these flights of imagination, are the impassioned obsessions of real people, everyday people. At least one of your coworkers, at least one of your family members. And that’s not creepy, that’s wonderful. Every one of those weird kinks is a shout of human individuality in a world that wants to reduce us down to buying patterns and demographic trends.
Why I Love Weird Porn | No, Seriously, What About Teh Menz? (via sexisnottheenemy)
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Posted 2 days ago on Sunday 27 May 2012 with 1,366 notes .
I have a healthy range of fetishes, one of which is so unusual that I’ve never met anyone in ‘real life’ who shares it. Growing up with that sort of ‘dirty secret’ can be a lonely experience; but finding a whole sub-community of dedicated porn-makers who not only shared my kink, but actively celebrated it and acted out the same fantasies, helped me to realize I wasn’t some twisted freak. At least not for that reason. If porn can help kids realize that their urges are natural and healthy, that’s not a bad thing in my book.

The diversity of adult entertainment is so great that just talking about ‘porn’ as if it’s one big pink throbbing homogeneous mass is profoundly ignorant, whether its the subject of a campaign or a research question. For example, a paper by Michael Flood suggests “exposure to pornography helps to sustain young people’s adherence to sexist and unhealthy notions of sex and relationships,” but would we see the same impact from Maggie Mayhem’s feminist porn that we would from Playboy?

Lumping the two together is like trying to ask, “do video games make people violent,” without bothering to differentiate between the Grand Theft Auto series and Pacman. It undermines research, but more seriously it can lead people to tackle the wrong problem. It could well be true, for example, that the majority of porn reinforces misogynistic attitudes, and that this could damage young children as a result; but if that’s the case then the problem is misogyny, not pornography, and it needs to be tackled wherever it appears, not just in the adult entertainment industry.
Porn panic! | Martin Robbins | The Lay Scientist | Science | guardian.co.uk (via sexisnottheenemy)
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Posted 2 days ago on Sunday 27 May 2012 with 1,318 notes .
This is love, she thought, isn’t it? When you notice someone’s absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?
Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated

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Posted 3 days ago on Saturday 26 May 2012 with 1,326 notes .
We were not born critical of existing society. There was a moment in our lives (or a month, or a year) when certain facts appeared before us, startled us, and then caused us to question beliefs that were strongly fixed in our consciousness-embedded there by years of family prejudices, orthodox schooling, imbibing of newspapers, radio, and television. This would seem to lead to a simple conclusion: that we all have an enormous responsibility to bring to the attention of others information they do not have, which has the potential of causing them to rethink long-held ideas.
Howard Zinn
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Posted 4 days ago on Saturday 26 May 2012 with 971 notes .
Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and sorrow come and go like the wind. To be happy, rest like a giant tree, in the midst of them all.
Buddha

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Posted 5 days ago on Thursday 24 May 2012 with 209 notes .
There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
Erma Bombeck

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Posted 6 days ago on Thursday 24 May 2012 with 778 notes .
When you resist something, life is revealing a part of you that cannot accept the present moment as it is. When you are in a state of acceptance are you able to take positive action towards changing something. Acceptance is the key to a steady flow of well being in your life.
Jackson Kiddard 

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Posted 6 days ago on Wednesday 23 May 2012 with 41 notes .
No particular thought can be mind’s natural state, only silence. Not the idea of silence, but silence itself. When the mind is in its natural state, it reverts to silence spontaneously after every experience; or, rather, every experience happens against the background of silence.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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Posted 1 week ago on Wednesday 23 May 2012 with 20 notes .

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Posted 1 week ago on Saturday 19 May 2012 with 410 notes .
Dream not, friend, of deserts and oases,
But look inwards, and begin to live!
James Clarence Mangan, from “Advice Against Travel” 

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Posted 2 weeks ago on Sunday 13 May 2012 with 120 notes .
There’s no feeling like that when you first apply a spiritual medicine. You have that agonizing moment where you think “Will this work? Am I bullshit?”, and you squash that shit, buckle down, and apply. Then your spiritual body starts to throb and tingle and dance, and you remember that you’re a goddamn sorcerer-alchemist, and of COURSE it works. I’ve been making elixirs for more than a decade, and I still have that moment. Damn materialist education… My alcohado knocked the headache out almost immediately, Ntondele Nzambi Mpungu!
p.s. Kinda weird that I’m posting this as a quote…of myself. Ha. Well, it is what it is.
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Posted 2 weeks ago on Saturday 12 May 2012 with 38 notes .
I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
John Steinbeck 

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Posted 2 weeks ago on Friday 11 May 2012 with 14,163 notes .
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Dune by Frank Herbert 

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Posted 2 weeks ago on Friday 11 May 2012 with 66 notes .
sorry, mom.: runaway houses

inbetweenlove:

i was the last girl he fucked before he got with her. i guess that’s why he still looks at me like i’m naked, that girl swimming in his bed, coming all the time. it was the winter my whole body fell away, suspended like spiders in the dark. the world makes you believe that…

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Posted 2 weeks ago on Thursday 10 May 2012 with 167 notes .