February 2012
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Guys.
I don’t have a ‘type’ of guy, I find a lot of completely different looking guys hot and their personalities vary a bit, if I actually know them. However, no matter what; skinny/slim guys with brown/dark blond hair and blue eyes are instantly hotter than average. HOORAY FOR SLIM BROWN HAIRED GUYS.
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Buddhist Offerings 365 Days 24/02/12 - 25/02/12
‘When we examine our body, word and mind, we try in vain
to find anything permanent there. The concept of an individual person
is only sane and valid if we consider it to be one single aspect of global interdependence’
- Mathieu Ricard
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Insight from the Dalai Lama. 25/02/12 - 26/02/12
‘You must build your basic mental attitude in a healthy way, like in the case of a healthy body. If the immune system is strong, then some virus or germs can’t disturb you much. So similarly, your mental attitude has to be calm, then if some disturbance comes, even if some negative emotions come, they remain for a very short period. All the emotions remain on the surface, and do not...
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Insight from the Dalai Lama. 24/02/12
‘Human use, population, and technology have reached that certain stage where Mother Earth no longer accepts our presence with silence’
- Dalai Lama
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Florence Welch.
I WILL SEE HER FACE IN LESS THAN 2 WEEKS.
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“It’s a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but...”
– Augustus Waters (via trytodosomethingremarkable)
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I want to thank my 78 followers. As well as all the blogs I follow. You make tumblr an even happier place than it was before I found you all/you found me :D <3 HOORAY FOR TUMBLR.
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Buddhist Offerings 365 Days 23/02/12
‘Perhaps the deepest reason why we are afraid of death is because we do not know who we are.
We believe in a personal, unique and separate identity; but if we dare to examine it,
we find that this identity depends entirely on an endless collection of things to prop it up,
our name, our ‘biography’, our partners, family, home, job, friends, credit cards…
It is on their...
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Insight from the Dalai Lama. 23/02/12
‘Though at first you might question the possibility of Buddhahood, full spiritual transformation becomes realistic when you consider the effectiveness of love, compassion, and the altruistic intention to become enlightened. They will support you on your spiritual path, and you will be amazed at their power’
- Dalai Lama
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Florence + The Machine.
TWO WEEKS TOMORROW. TWO WEEKS. I AM SEEING FLORENCE WELCH IN TWO WEEKS. SHE IS BEAUTIFUL AND I LOVE HER. HOORAY FOR FLORENCE!
(This has been a Flost.)
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Buddhist Offerings 365 Days 22/02/12
‘The Buddha described us as a collection of five changing processes:
the processes of the physical body, of feelings, of perceptions, of responses,
and of the flow of consciousness that experiences them all.
Our sense of self arises whenever we grasp at or identify with these patterns.
Our world and sense of self is a play of patterns. Any identity
we can grasp is transient,...
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Insight from the Dalai Lama. 22/02/12
‘If there are future lifetimes, the quality of the next lifetime depends upon this lifetime. If you conduct your life in a good manner, this will be beneficial to the next one’
- Dalai Lama
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The Fault In Our Stars. (Tabbed)
Whilst I was reading The Fault In Our Stars, by John Green, I tabbed pages that I thought were especially sweet, sad, exceptional or made me feel angry at a character or event. There were fourteen pages I tabbed in total and they are the following:
p73
p111
p123
p125
p153
p192
p207
p245
p258
p281
p306
p310
I think the fact that the tabs are relatively spaced out throughout the book,...
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The Fox Hat and the Unlit Cigarette.
I just read a post comparing Takumi’s fox hat (Looking For Alaska) with Augustus’ unlit cigarette (The Fault In Our Stars). This idea is interesting. It kinda makes me wonder how many people I know have things like this that I haven’t actually noticed yet.
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“You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have...”
– Augustus Waters
John Green; The Fault In Our Stars; p313
(via fatefellshortxo)
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The Fault In Our Stars.
I just finished The Fault In Our Stars. Holy shit that book is amazing, I don’t know how it compares to Looking For Alaska just yet (which is my favourite John Green book) but the first half had me think about the blunt-ness of John Green’s portrayal of Hazel, Augustus and Isaac. The second half made me tear up and almost cry so many times and the ending, in my opinion was stunning....
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My favourite ship.
I am a big pasta and cheese shipper.
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Buddhist Offerings 365 Days 21/02/12
‘We see that life, composed of this mind and body, is in a state of continual constant transformation and flux. There is always the possibility of radical change. Every moment - not just poetically or figuratively, but literally - every moment we are dyring and being reborn, we and all of life’
- Sharon Salzberg
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Insight from the Dalai Lama. 21/02/12
‘If humankind continues to approach its problems from the perspective of temporary expediency, future generations will face tremendous difficulties.’
- Dalai Lama
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dancetoadifferentdrum:
Today is a palindromic date: 21022012
If you write the date out in full, this way, this will be the last for eight years, with the next palindrome due on February 2nd 2020 (02022020).
Happy Palindromic Day!
I-likesloths replied to your post Flirting.
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Flirting.
I didn’t realise it but people (who say this) are right, using one word as a “symbolic” means of flirting can be very effective and hot.
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The Fault In Our Stars.
I am on p113 of The Fault In Our Stars. This book is amazing. Like, really fucking amazing.
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“What a slut time is. She screws everybody”
– John Green; The Fault In Our Stars; p112
I am off to read TFIOS.
HOORAY!
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Buddhist Offerings 365 Days 20/02/12
‘The mind produces a powerful illusion,
that of existing in this body which we consider to be our own.’
- Kalu Rinpoche
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Insight from the Dalai Lama. 20/02/12
‘In ordinary life, some people are more successful than others for no obvious reason. We just say that he or she is lucky, but these are instances of the working of positive karma’
- Dalai Lama
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John Green.
The Fault In Our Stars by John Green arrived today! :D I am so excited to read it :) Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan came today as well, but it was very damaged with lots of ripped pages so I am going to have to send it back for replacement. Sadface. Still, TFIOS!!!
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My Uncle.
My uncle and his wife are over. I love him so much. People usually have that stereotypical ‘wise’ family member, and he’s mine. He reminds me of what I can remember of my Papa (mum’s dad) before he died. Whenever my uncle talks he’s hilarious and he just seems so knowledgeable, it makes you listen and question what/how you thought before.
It also helps that he...
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Buddhist Offerings 365 Days 19/02/12
‘Who am I? Who is carrying this body?’
- Jack Kornfield
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I have had a lovely halfterm.
I am sad that it is my last half term of my life as a student.