Manuel L. Quezon III's Blog, page 87
August 9, 2011
popculturebrain:
inothernews:
Um… there's a billboard in…
This sounds like the stuff of nightmares — especially if it's right outside someone's bedroom window.
Also, maybe it's because of stuff like this that Twitter is currently valued at $8 billion.
(Photo: Andrew Burton / Getty Images via MSNBC.com)
"If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever."
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
August 8, 2011
buffleheadcabin:
allcreatures:
Lions don't normally climb…
Lions don't normally climb trees, but the rare sight of seven lions in an acacia tree was captured in the Nakuru National Park in Kenya by tourist Angela Turnbull, a London-trained nurse who has emigrated to Australia
Picture: Angela Turnbull / National News and Pictures (via Pictures of the day: 3 August 2011 - Telegraph)
Looks like it's as hot in Africa as it is in South Carolina today.
heracliteanfire:
Rhyton [drinking horn] terminating in the…
Rhyton [drinking horn] terminating in the forepart of a wild cat. Parthian, ca. 1st century B.C. (via The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
"You cannot love someone if you don't understand that person. This is simple. And if you love without…"
You cannot love someone if you don't understand that person. This is simple. And if you love without understanding, you are making him or her suffer. That is not true love. Deprive the other person of space, of freedom, of freshness, and you can see that. And when the other person is not nourished by love, you will not be nourished by love.
When you practice love and kindness, you are the first person who profits from the practice. A man or a woman that is motivated by bringing joy and transforming suffering is beautiful, in himself, or herself. And of course the person he loves or she loves will be beautiful too, because she is water by my tree. So, when the other person does not look happy, we know that there is something wrong in our love. We should stop saying, "I love her so! I have done everything in my power in order to make her happy. Why isn't she happy? She doesn't want to be happy!" We should not blame like that. We should go back and look deeply into the nature of our love, to see whether we understand that person and her sufferings.
In the beginning, she is a flower. We think, without her, how could we survive? But now, she doesn't look like a flower. And we blame her! We blame her for not being our flower. But who is the person responsible for the flower? You. What have you been doing to your flower? Love has turned into hatred. And now you have a different kind of opinion. You think that separation is the best way. "I cannot live with her anymore." Quite an opposite statement.
So love transforming into hatred is a very common thing. And therefore you should practice love everyday in order to keep love alive. And love, in the Buddhist context, is bringing joy and transforming suffering in the other person. How can you do that if you are not calm enough, if you do not look deeply into him or her in order to see what kind of need he has, what kind of suffering she has? Who does not need meditation?
"- Thich Nhat Hanh, Zen Master (via xezene)
August 7, 2011
sunfoundation:
The Go-to Snacks of Literary Greats
I'm not…
The Go-to Snacks of Literary Greats
I'm not the squealing type, but couldn't help but let out a delighted squeak at the sight of this illustration of famous writers' favorite snacks by Wendy MacNaughton for the New York Times. MacNaughton confesses to munching on garlic croutons as she works, which I can totally get behind. Personally, I go for Red Vines.
