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‘And what, monks, is ageing? In whatever beings of whatever group of beings, there is ageing, decrepitude, broken teeth, grey hair, wrinkled skin, shrinking with age, decay of the sense-faculties—that, monks, is called ageing.’

The Buddha
#meditation #buddhism #aging

Primo Levi (1919–1987), an Italian Jewish chemist & Holocaust survivor, died on April 11, 1987, after a fall from his third-floor apartment in Turin. Many sources, including police reports at the time, recorded his death as a suicide.

#primolevi #inmemory #warpoem

...I never understood so clearly as at that moment how laborious is the death of a man.

Primo Levi in 'If This Is a Man'

#primolevi #quote #ifthisisaman

Morning meditation — This moment is an all-time experience. ‘This moment is an all-time experience, not a fleeting event.’ Zen Graffiti

Reminder:

‘This moment is an all-time experience, not a fleeting event.’

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#impermanence #hereandnow #zen #buddhism #quote

Those who exclaim that “animals are not people” tend to forget that, while true, it is equally true that people are animals. To minimize the complexity of animal behavior without doing the same for human behavior erects an artificial barrier.

Frans de Waal
#animals #fransdewaal #weareanimals

'Still Life with Easter Eggs' (1921)
by
Gabriele Münter (1877 – 1962) was a German expressionist painter

#painting #easter #stilllife

#poetry #warpoetry

"Spring" (1979) by Norman Stevens (1937–1988), a renowned British printmaker and painter.
Born in Bradford, he was disabled by polio as a child. Died of cancer on August 20, 1988.

#painting #green #spring

#poetry #emilydickinson #grief

Mister nice guy As a cartoonist, Tim Kreider seemed to loathe almost everybody, but his essays tell a different story

"Each of us has a Soul Toupee. The Soul Toupee is that thing about ourselves we are most deeply embarrassed by and like to think we have cunningly concealed from the world but which is, in fact, pitifully obvious to everybody who knows us."

Tim Kreider

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Charlie Mackesy

#quote #holdon #painting #charliemackesy

How to Dye Beautiful Easter Eggs Naturally.

Photo: Stefan Berger / fotograf-stefan-berger.de

#easter #eastereggs

A cartoon by Maddie Dai. - via NewYorkerCartoons

still timely...

#cartoon #maddiedai #doriangray

Richard Brautigan (1935 - 1984)

#poetry #RichardBrautigan #alone

by Stevie Smith (1902 - 1971)

#poetry #steviesmith #alone #ironic #notwaving #quote

Richard Brautigan (1935 - 1984)
in The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster (1968)

#poetry #richardbrautigan #karmarepairkit

source: www.healthyyards.org

#gardening #insects #healthyyard #commonsense

#buddhism #milarepa #tibetanbuddhism

What do sparrows sing about on the last day of winter?
"We survived, we made it,
we're alive, we're alive!"

Artist Shozo Ozaki -- living and working in Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan

#painting #shozoozaki #sparrows #endofwinter

those faces of the cows -- adorable

cartoon by www.instagram.com/grickle14/

#cartoon #cat-like #cows #Grickle

You take something that no longer exists and put it into your mind and compare it with what comes up. If you have a shadow of something, can you hold onto that shadow? All of your perceptions, as they arise like shadows, have nothing for you to hold on to.

Zen Master Inōe Gien (1894-1981)
#zen

"...The conditions are always impossible."

#quote #now #dorislessing

“…these still lifes, I tried awfully hard to make a thing look as though it was casual. But I don't think there is anything casual in art.”
Luigi Lucioni (1900 – 1988), Italian-American painter

Dominant colours (1956) by him

#painting #stilllife #shadesofgreen

...Everything we do without a pure heart is always late; the characterological feature of sincere gestures is their timeliness.

Jose Saramago,
The Gospel According to Jesus Christ

#saramago #pureheart #timely #josesaramago #favebooks

36 hours after the birth of their only daughter, Theodore Roosevelt's wife passed away from undiagnosed Bright's disease. Just hours before, in the same house, his mother, Martha succumbed to Typhoid, aged just 48.
This was his diary entry for that day.
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#history #diary

New Yorker cartoon

#cartoon #valentines

Dan Piraro Bizarro Comics

#deadflowers #stvalentines #cartoon #danpiraro

My neighbour who has lived a long time often finishes conversations by saying, “ It will be ok.”
It’s simple but I like hearing it. I hope you’re ok wherever you are.
Charlie Mackesy www.facebook.com/Charliemacke...
#charliemackesy #itwillbeok #quote #simple

“Cats, in particular, teach us to be ourselves, whatever the odds. A cat, except through force, will never do anything that goes against its nature. Nothing seduces it away from itself.“

—Alice Walker, We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For

#cats #alicewalker #truetoyourself