homesickATLien:
"Any of us can see, of course, that there is a conflict in our lives between adventure and discipline, or evil and virtue, or freedom and security. There is a meeting point between containment and liberation, and we can find it in the rites of initiation.
homesickATLien:
“The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed”
homesickATLien:
“The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can’t be found”
homesickATLien:
“It’s the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognise the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at, but what you see”
homesickATLien:
"It's the pointless things that give your life meaning. Friendship, compassion, art, love. All of them pointless. But they're what keeps life from being meaningless"
homesickATLien:
“Dreams shed light on the dim places where reason itself has yet to voyage”
homesickATLien:
"Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes"
homesickATLien:
Varkala, Kerala
homesickATLien:
"When you decide to learn about faults, so that they can be rectified, you open a line of communication with the source of all revelatory thought.
homesickATLien:
"Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss"
homesickATLien:
Shwedagon Pagoda, Yangon
homesickATLien:
Nils Frahm, Arts Centre Melbourne
homesickATLien:
Morning Harmony, Mornington Peninsula
homesickATLien:
“Dreams are expressions of the unconscious...and are the almost invisible roots of our conscious thoughts”
homesickATLien:
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
homesickATLien:
Yo whatup?
homesickATLien:
"How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also. If I am to be whole. Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other"
homesickATLien:
Koh Rong Island, Cambodia
homesickATLien:
Da Nang, Vietnam
homesickATLien:
Da Nang, Vietnam
homesickATLien:
“Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run, but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant.”
homesickATLien:
Vang Vieng, Laos
homesickATLien:
"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being"
homesickATLien:
“Even chance meetings are the result of karma… Things in life are fated by our previous lives. That even in the smallest events there’s no such thing as coincidence.”
homesickATLien:
Valliyur, Tamil Nadu
homesickATLien:
“My own world of European consciousness had become peculiarly thin.. it is quite possible that India is the real world and that the white man lives in a madhouse of abstractions"
homesickATLien:
Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu
homesickATLien:
Misty Mountains, Kodaikanal
