Escape from Reality

surreelust: Ballerina in a Death’s Head by Salvador Dalí

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 15:49:11 -0400

surreelust:

Ballerina in a Death’s Head by Salvador Dalí

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Sun, 16 Jun 2013 15:49:01 -0400

By Patrick Hamilton (on tumblr)

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 15:48:37 -0400

By Patrick Hamilton (on tumblr)

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"Airports see more sincere kisses than wedding halls. The walls of hospitals have heard more prayers..."

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 00:08:42 -0400

“Airports see more sincere kisses than wedding halls. The walls of hospitals have heard more prayers than the walls of churches.”

- (via grizzlytales)

"A psychologist walked around a room while teaching stress management to an audience. As she raised a..."

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 02:40:11 -0400

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A psychologist walked around a room while teaching stress management to an audience. As she raised a glass of water, everyone expected they’d be asked the “half empty or half full” question. Instead, with a smile on her face, she inquired: “How heavy is this glass of water?”

Answers called out ranged from 8 oz. to 20 oz.

She replied, “The absolute weight doesn’t matter. It depends on how long I hold it. If I hold it for a minute, it’s not a problem. If I hold it for an hour, I’ll have an ache in my arm. If I hold it for a day, my arm will feel numb and paralyzed. In each case, the weight of the glass doesn’t change, but the longer I hold it, the heavier it becomes.” She continued, “The stresses and worries in life are like that glass of water. Think about them for a while and nothing happens. Think about them a bit longer and they begin to hurt. And if you think about them all day long, you will feel paralyzed – incapable of doing anything.”

It’s important to remember to let go of your stresses. As early in the evening as you can, put all your burdens down. Don’t carry them through the evening and into the night. Remember to put the glass down!

”

- (via sun-burst)

"I don’t know how to answer. I know what I think, but words in the head are like voices under water...."

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 02:34:13 -0400

““I don’t know how to answer. I know what I think, but words in the head are like voices under water. They are distorted.””

- Jeanette Winterson (via misiuq)

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Tue, 11 Jun 2013 02:11:51 -0400

"Your lips brush mine and we bloom with wildflower kisses and pianist fingers arch behind my back and..."

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 02:10:54 -0400

“Your lips brush mine and we bloom with wildflower kisses and pianist fingers arch behind my back and love explodes with color through the garden of my chest and i cannot hear a thing except the sound of your voice as you say everything without a single word.”

- Megan Madgwick (via budddha)

Alicia Keys, Israel and Civil Rights

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 02:10:07 -0400

eretzyisrael:

The analogy between African-Americans in the era of segregation and Palestinians today is a false one.

By Richard Friedman

Birmingham, Ala.

Alice Walker, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, has lately garnered more attention for her unhinged political views than for her writing. She has compared Fidel Castro to the Dalai Lama. She refused to allow her book “The Color Purple” to be translated into Hebrew. But perhaps nothing was more off-base—at least morally speaking—than the open letter Ms. Walker wrote in late May to singer-songwriter Alicia Keys. Ms. Walker, writing at the website of the U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, urged Ms. Keys to cancel a July 4 performance in Israel.

Ms. Walker wrote: “you are putting yourself in danger (soul danger) by performing in an apartheid country.” The writer then compared the plight of the Palestinians to that of blacks in the American South prior to the civil-rights movement. “You were not born when we, your elders who love you, boycotted institutions in the U.S. South to end an American apartheid less lethal than Israel’s against the Palestinian people.”

The analogy is false: “Apartheid” is a more apt description for the systemic discrimination against women across the Arab world than the only democracy in the Middle East. But this comparison is also an insult to the courageous civil-rights activists who risked their lives in Birmingham, Montgomery and elsewhere in the South to attain full rights for black Americans.

What characterized the civil-rights movement was its strict adherence to the philosophy of nonviolence. Even when attacked with fire hoses and police dogs, civil-rights demonstrators courageously refused to retaliate.

The Palestinian leadership, by contrast, for decades has used violence whenever missile attacks or suicide bombers suit its aims. It is Israel that has shown an inclination to absorb punishment, though the country’s tolerance stretches only so far before it responds militarily to attacks.

The comparison that Ms. Walker and her comrades in the boycott-Israel movement make to the civil-rights movement is false in other ways. Unlike the American South decades ago, when local governments enacted laws and policies to prevent U.S. citizens from attaining full rights, Israel has tried repeatedly to reach an agreement with the Palestinians in the West Bank that would grant them sovereignty. In 2005, Israel even withdrew unilaterally from the Gaza Strip. We all know how that turned out.

Those civil-rights activists who participated in the movement of the 1950s and 1960s—as well as others who remember the era—owe it to that noble cause to speak out when Ms. Walker and others distort and misuse this period in American history to advance an anti-Israel agenda.

It also wouldn’t hurt to remind people like Ms. Walker that no less a civil-rights leader than Martin Luther King Jr. was a fierce supporter of Israel. Days before his assassination in 1968, he said that “Israel is one of the great outposts of democracy in the world, and a marvelous example of what can be done, how desert land can be transformed into an oasis of brotherhood and democracy.”

Bayard Rustin, who organized the March on Washington in 1963, also believed in Israel’s cause. In the late 1960s, when some black activists began denouncing Zionism and Jews generally, Rustin cautioned against joining “in history’s oldest and most shameful witch hunt, anti-Semitism.”

Perhaps Alicia Keys is more familiar than Alice Walker with the true history of the relationship between the civil-rights movement and Israel. After the writer’s open letter to Ms. Keys appeared, the Grammy Award-winning musician publicly rebuffed Ms. Walker: “I look forward to my first visit to Israel,” she told the New York Times. “Music is a universal language that is meant to unify audiences in peace and love, and that is the spirit of our show.”

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cruello: Smile

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 01:21:18 -0400

cruello:

Smile

Olivia Wright www.flickr.com/photos/perpetually

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 01:02:58 -0400

Olivia Wright

www.flickr.com/photos/perpetually

lunaoki: Niccolo Debole

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 10:09:46 -0400

lunaoki:

Niccolo Debole

"I want you because there aren’t any good words for who you are. The only ones that come to mind are..."

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 10:09:11 -0400

““I want you because there aren’t any good words for who you are. The only ones that come to mind are earnest, sad clichés like ‘amazing’ and ‘magnetic’ and ‘fascinating’ and I don’t want to use them, but on the other hand they are the only words, and cliché or not they are honest words and I’m not sure consulting a thesaurus at this point would be genuine. And it’s not that I want you officially, like I want your last name or your Sunday mornings or your hard shiny promise, I just want to absorb you. I want to know what you know, want to hear your stories, want to filter through them gently and get lost in them, them and the soft hypnosis of your hands in my hair.””

- Mila Jaroniec (via budddha)

"You will hear that she has left the country, that there was a gift she wanted you to have, but it is..."

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 00:12:12 -0400

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You will hear that she has left the country, that there was a gift she wanted you to have, but it is lost before it reaches you. Late one night the telephone will sign, and a voice that might be hers will say something that you cannot interpret before the connection crackles and is broken.

Several years later, from a taxi, you will see someone in a doorway who looks like her, but she will be gone by the time you persuade the driver to stop. You will never see her again.

Whenever it rains you will think of her.

”

- Neil Gaiman (via budddha)

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Thu, 06 Jun 2013 13:19:09 -0400

"Some women let you kiss them while some kissed you back— but just. Others kissed with enthusiasm,..."

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 03:57:00 -0400

“Some women let you kiss them while some kissed you back— but just. Others kissed with enthusiasm, but it was with the same kind of enthusiasm they felt for a good meal, a Bette Davis film, or a lovely present they’d just been given. But she was different. She was hungry for you, hungry to kiss you, to hear what you had to say; hungry to tell you what was on her mind. To his mind, this overall hunger was what defined her. It was the greatest compliment he had ever received from a woman and he never grew tired of it.”

- Jonathan Carroll
(via budddha)

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Thu, 06 Jun 2013 03:54:23 -0400

h4ilstorm: 2012-11-13 15-27-19 (by Scott Grubb)

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 03:53:25 -0400

h4ilstorm:

2012-11-13 15-27-19 (by Scott Grubb)

Escape from Reality

surreelust: Ballerina in a Death’s Head by Salvador Dalí

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By Patrick Hamilton (on tumblr)

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"Airports see more sincere kisses than wedding halls. The walls of hospitals have heard more prayers..."

"A psychologist walked around a room while teaching stress management to an audience. As she raised a..."

"I don’t know how to answer. I know what I think, but words in the head are like voices under water...."

Photo

"Your lips brush mine and we bloom with wildflower kisses and pianist fingers arch behind my back and..."

Alicia Keys, Israel and Civil Rights

The analogy between African-Americans in the era of segregation and Palestinians today is a false one.

cruello: Smile

Olivia Wright www.flickr.com/photos/perpetually

lunaoki: Niccolo Debole

"I want you because there aren’t any good words for who you are. The only ones that come to mind are..."

"You will hear that she has left the country, that there was a gift she wanted you to have, but it is..."

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"Some women let you kiss them while some kissed you back— but just. Others kissed with enthusiasm,..."

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h4ilstorm: 2012-11-13 15-27-19 (by Scott Grubb)