What is this but my reflection?

"Your being a person is due to the illusion of space and time; you imagine yourself to be at a..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 02:22:45 -0400

“Your being a person is due to the illusion of space and time; you imagine yourself to be at a certain point occupying a certain volume; your personality is due to your self-identification with the body. Your thoughts and feelings exist in succession, they have their span in time and make you imagine yourself, because of memory, as having duration. In reality time and space exist in you; you do not exist in them. They are modes of perception…”

- Nisargadatta Maharaj

Nisargadatta. (1973). I am that. Mumbai: Chetana Publications.

(via yoga9vipassana)

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Wed, 22 May 2013 02:21:32 -0400

witneyhouston: im having one of those nights where u watch one youtube video and watch a related...

Wed, 15 May 2013 23:31:10 -0400

witneyhouston:

im having one of those nights where u watch one youtube video and watch a related video and 3 hours later ur watching an hour long conspiracy documentary about how the illuminati killed michael jackson

mentalalchemy: I’ve posted this a few times, but it’s worth...

Wed, 15 May 2013 16:38:29 -0400

mentalalchemy:

I’ve posted this a few times, but it’s worth it.

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Wed, 15 May 2013 15:52:11 -0400

“…I have to believe that when my eyes are closed, the world’s...

Wed, 15 May 2013 15:50:12 -0400

“…I have to believe that when my eyes are closed, the world’s still there. Do I believe the world’s still there? Is it still out there?” - Memento (2000)

"Let silence take you to the core of life. All your talk is worthless when compared to one whisper of..."

Wed, 15 May 2013 02:15:50 -0400

“Let silence take you to the core of life.
All your talk is worthless when compared
to one whisper of the Beloved.”

- Rumi(via the-kingdom-of-love)

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Tue, 14 May 2013 13:36:45 -0400

Louis Wain (5 August 1860 – 4 July 1939) was a schizophrenic...

Tue, 14 May 2013 12:49:15 -0400

Louis Wain (5 August 1860 – 4 July 1939) was a schizophrenic artist whose images of cats changed as his mental health deteriorated

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Mon, 13 May 2013 22:38:41 -0400

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Mon, 13 May 2013 18:48:31 -0400

metrodorus: Eureka Canyon

Mon, 13 May 2013 17:44:46 -0400

metrodorus:

Eureka Canyon

"I don’t know if others are like me, or if the science of life consists essentially in being so..."

Mon, 13 May 2013 17:10:40 -0400

“I don’t know if others are like me, or if the science of life consists essentially in being so alienated from oneself that this alienation becomes second nature, such that one can participate in life as an exile from his own consciousness. Or perhaps other people, even more self-absorbed than I, are completely given over to the brutishness of being only themselves, living outwardly by the same miracle that enables bees to form societies more highly organized than any nation and allows ants to communicate with a language of tiny antennae whose results surpass our complex system of mutual understanding.”

- Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet (via allegorys)

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Mon, 13 May 2013 00:30:29 -0400

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Sun, 05 May 2013 21:32:33 -0400

fuckyeahvikingsandcelts: the-vashta-nerada: ianbrooks: LOTR...

Thu, 02 May 2013 10:09:53 -0400

LOTR Illustrated Guitar by Vivian Xiao / posted by ianbrooks.me

LOTR Illustrated Guitar by Vivian Xiao / posted by ianbrooks.me

LOTR Illustrated Guitar by Vivian Xiao / posted by ianbrooks.me

LOTR Illustrated Guitar by Vivian Xiao / posted by ianbrooks.me

LOTR Illustrated Guitar by Vivian Xiao / posted by ianbrooks.me

LOTR Illustrated Guitar by Vivian Xiao / posted by ianbrooks.me

LOTR Illustrated Guitar by Vivian Xiao / posted by ianbrooks.me

LOTR Illustrated Guitar by Vivian Xiao / posted by ianbrooks.me

fuckyeahvikingsandcelts:

the-vashta-nerada:

ianbrooks:

LOTR Illustrated Guitar by Vivian Xiao

Exquisitely detailed enough to be crafted in the forest realm of Lothlórien, this beauteous guitar was not forged by elf nor man, but by 16 year Vivian Xiao with sharpie markers! Depicting Nazgul, Minas Tirith, and even the all-seeing Eye of Sauron, this divinely-engraved instrument could surely inspire even more Led Zeppelin songs. Check put Vivian’s website for details on purchasing and commissions.

Artist: Deviantart / Tumblr / Facebook (via: Obvious Winner)

wings-for-marie: One of the absolute best posts on tumblr.

Thu, 02 May 2013 00:44:28 -0400

wings-for-marie:

One of the absolute best posts on tumblr.

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Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:56:03 -0400

jtotheizzoe: Like A Bee Sees By now you’ve probably all watched...

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:49:44 -0400

jtotheizzoe:

Like A Bee Sees

By now you’ve probably all watched the latest It’s Okay To Be Smart video about the amaaaaazing ways that bees are able to sense flowers. (actually I know a few of you haven’t so go do that, mmkay? Thanks!)

Beyond the electric field sensing part (which is cool in its own right), it’s the fact that bees see into the “invisible” that just blows my mind. Bees (and butterflies too, actually) have photoreceptors that respond to wavelengths down in the UV range (see chart above). They use that vision to zoom right in on the important part of the flower: the sweet, sugary nectar pot.

Spoiler alert: As much as we love flowers, they don’t really give a crap about us. But they do love bees. In return for giving the bees the sugary yum-yums, flowers get pollinated. And in the name of the evolutionary game, that’s the most important thing. To help get the gene-passing-on done, flowers have evolved certain pigments near the center of the flower that absorb UV light. That paints a big, fat bulls-eye for the bee to land on, right where the flower needs them (next to all the flower-sex bits). To us, the whole flower may look yellow or orange. To a bee. BIG “land here” spot in the middle.

THAT IS AMAZING!!! Nature, you are just too cool.

Thanks to camera technology, we can take UV filtered photos of flowers and see those patterns pop out. It’s a pretty advanced technique, but some of my favorites are above. Check out those photographers’ galleries at the links below:

UV floral photography by Klaus Schmitt and Bjørn Rørslett. Click to subscribe to IOTBS on YouTube.

honeyy-drip: the progression is horrifying

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 00:53:42 -0400

honeyy-drip:

the progression is horrifying