May 2012
“I used to think the world was broken down by tribes,’ I said. ‘By Black and White. By Indian and White. But I know this isn’t true. The world is only broken into two tribes: the people who are assholes and the people who are not.”
—Sherman Alexie (via myquotelibrary)
“Your problem is how you are going to spend this one and precious life you have been issued. Whether you’re going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.”
—Anne Lamott
“The best way to find out things, if you come to think of it, is not to ask questions at all. If you fire off a question, it is like firing off a gun; bang it goes, and everything takes flight and runs for shelter. But if you sit quite still and pretend not to be looking, all the little facts will come and peck round your feet, situations will venture forth from thickets and intentions will creep out and sun themselves on a stone; and if you are very patient, you will see and understand a great deal more than a man with a gun.”
—Elspeth Huxley
“Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.”
—Buddha (via elige)
Oh Those Zany Thai Buddhist Monks!! →
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In Srisaket, a senior monks uses his mobile phone to record a video of a topless woman. Monk Noppadol Natawan, 47, is on his meditation walk when he sees a woman inside her house wearing only shorts and no bra. He takes out his mobile phone and takes footage of the woman, who it turns out had…
