Posted in Books, Fiction, Passages, Quotes, tagged Beautiful, Bernhard Schlink, Conscious, Dark truths, Forever, Gall, Happiness, Happy, Hindsight, Impossible, memory, pain, Passage, quote, Real, Revealed, Shatter, The Reader, True, Truths, Unconscious, Unhappily, Unhappy on May 19, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Photograph by Jeff Rinehart
“Why? Why does what was beautiful suddenly shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths? Why does the memory of years of happy marriage turn to gall when our partner is revealed to have had a lover all those years? Because such a situation makes it impossible to be happy? But we [...]
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Posted in Life, Photography, Ramblings, tagged Birthday, Breathing, Decades, Dreaming, Era, Eyes, Heart, Insha Allah, Life, Mind, Perspective, Real, Sight, Sleepgin, soul, time, Twenty-two, Waking, window, Wishing on February 27, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Photograph by Perlette
Twenty-two years of life today and I wonder how have I reached this point. This point in which two decades have gone by, two decades of life, of breathing, of waking and sleeping, of wishing and dreaming, of joys and sorrows – two decades. It hardly seems real that such a long expanse [...]
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Posted in Fiction, Life, Prose, Ramblings, Random, tagged nameless, Life, soul, Prose, Mind, Pen, Midnight, Faces, Dark, Return, Ponder, reality, Real, Intention, words, Flow, Random, Rambling, Soothing, Writing, Fiction, Scenes, Images, Tales, Imagination, Stroke, Element, Cycle, Stories, Awake, Conjured, Related, Restless, Face, Strangers, Passing, Expression, Blank, Animated, Narrating, Drawing, Impulse, Impulsively, Chain, Guess, Shape, Pictures, Gaze, Waves, Gentle, Tides, Smothering, Deeper, Drown, Vivid, Knight, Cast Away, Borders, Unhinged, Unwanted, Wanted on February 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Photograph by *gocha*
There are scenes, images, tales that play themselves out in my mind. Unrelenting, heedless, sweeping in their pursuit to flow from the confines of the imagination to the scribbling stroke of the pen, to be laid out and manifested in words adding yet another element of life to its cycle. Where do they come [...]
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Posted in Life, Photography, Quotations, tagged Beliefs, Chuck Palahniuk, Concepts, Death, Die, Dream, fantasies, flickr, Fragile, Ideas, Imagine, Intangible, Legend, Nothing, Perfect, photograph, Poeple, Quotation, Quotations, quote, Real, Stone, Thought, Thoughts, Unreal, Wood on December 28, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Photographed by *sugar*CélineM*
“The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. stone crumbles. wood rots. people, well, they die. but things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.”
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"A Year with Rumi: Daily Readings" by Coleman Barks
"O wave! Plunge headlong into the dark seas,
And change thyself with many a twist and turn;
Thou wast not born for tile solace of the shore;
Arise, untamed, and find a path for thyself."
- Allama Muhammad Iqbal
