August 2011
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You played me the xylophone. I’m not quite sure why, but you did. Each tap of your mallet, each broken, stunning note that emerged, you laughed. Your mouth, a half crescent moon, smiling, with you hair draping the sky. Your face was the sky. “Come,” whispered the sky. “Dance with me.” I held hands…
“Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust. You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded, because the elements - the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution and for life - weren’t created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars, and the only way for them to get into your body is if those stars were kind enough to explode. So, forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.”
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- Lawrence M. Krauss
(via sirmitchell)
“Does one learn how to forget?”
“It isn’t a matter of forgetting.
What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
How to be there with the dead and yet still be here, on the spot, with the living.”
She gave him a sad little smile and added,
“It isn’t easy.” —Aldous Huxley (Island)
“It isn’t a matter of forgetting.
What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
How to be there with the dead and yet still be here, on the spot, with the living.”
She gave him a sad little smile and added,
“It isn’t easy.” —Aldous Huxley (Island)
“Make love when you can. It’s good for you.”
—Kurt Vonnegut (via fuckitbukowskiwasright)
“Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting”
—Aldous Huxley (via floatingparticles)
