american satori

May 26

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(via US Navy’s ‘UFO-Like’ Stealth Drone Takes Flight | Fox News)

He was less interested in traditional coherence than in what he called jouissance: joy, surprise, adventure, pleasure — tantric orgasms of critical insight rolling from fragment to fragment. He proclaimed the death of the author and advocated a style of reading he referred to as “writerly,” in which readers work as active creators of a text. -

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May 25

“The whole play of existence is so beautiful that laughter can be the only response to it. Only laughter can be the real prayer, gratitude.” — Osho (via nirvikalpa)

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Thousands of Buddhist monks chanted during a lantern lighting to celebrate Makha Bucha day, which commemorates Buddha’s first sermon on the essence of Buddhism.

“In retrospect, we regret the things we didn’t do more than the things we did.” — Empire Records (via fruitytastes)

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“I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘if this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.’” — Kurt Vonnegut (via slychedelic)

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“Wouldn’t it be powerful if you fell in love with yourself so deeply that you would do just about anything if you knew it would make you happy? This is precisely how much life loves you and wants you to nurture yourself. The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth. Then you can enjoy a lifelong love affair that brings you the richest fulfillment from inside out.” — Alan Cohen (via lucifelle)

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