~~Grace-Notes~~

**For every piece of beauty, there is a dark thought **

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uncuteartist:

If anyone ever tells you that:

  • The books you read are not “real books”
  • The music you listen to is not “real music”
  • The games you play are not “real games”
  • The art you like is not “real art”
  • The clothes you wear are not “proper clothes”
  • The comics you read are not “real comics”

It’s perfectly okay to write them off as a petty, joyless asshole and continue enjoying the things you like.

(via infjconfessions)

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But to let pass nature in general, and to reason of things particular according to their own particular natures; how absurd and ridiculous is it, first to say that all parts of the whole are, by their proper natural constitution, subject to alteration; and then when any such thing doth happen, as when one doth fall sick and dieth, to take on and wonder as though some strange thing had happened? Though this besides might move not so grievously to take on when any such thing doth happen, that whatsoever is dissolved, it is dissolved into those things, whereof it was compounded. For every dissolution is either a mere dispersion, of the elements into those elements again whereof everything did consist, or a change, of that which is more solid into earth; and of that which is pure and subtile or spiritual, into air. So that by this means nothing is lost, but all resumed again into those rational generative seeds of the universe; and this universe, either after a certain period of time to lie consumed by fire, or by continual changes to be renewed, and so for ever to endure.

from the Tenth Book of “Meditations” by Marcus Aurelius

To know that all existence is change is to not be crushed, bewildered and terrified of things such as death….which is only the beginning of something new; the striking of midnight, so to speak. Nothing can really be destroyed, only transformed.

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victoriousvocabulary: SOVEREIGN [noun] 1. a monarch; a king, queen, or other supreme ruler. 2. a person who has supreme power or authority. 3. a group or body of persons or a state having sovereign authority. 4. a gold coin of the United Kingdom, equal to one pound sterling: went out of circulation after 1914. [adjective] 5. belonging to or characteristic of a sovereign or sovereign authority; royal. 6. having supreme rank, power, or authority. 7. supreme; preeminent; indisputable. 8. greatest in degree; utmost or extreme. 9. being above all others in character, importance, excellence, etc. Etymology: Middle English soverain < Old French soverain < Vulgar Latin *superānus. [Laurie Lipton]

victoriousvocabulary:

SOVEREIGN

[noun]

1. a monarch; a king, queen, or other supreme ruler.

2. a person who has supreme power or authority.

3. a group or body of persons or a state having sovereign authority.

4. a gold coin of the United Kingdom, equal to one pound sterling: went out of circulation after 1914.

[adjective]

5. belonging to or characteristic of a sovereign or sovereign authority; royal.

6. having supreme rank, power, or authority.

7. supreme; preeminent; indisputable.

8. greatest in degree; utmost or extreme.

9. being above all others in character, importance, excellence, etc.

Etymology: Middle English soverain < Old French soverain < Vulgar Latin *superānus.

[Laurie Lipton]

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Man has been fitted with the five senses corresponding to the five elements, of which the astral body or the soul, with the help of the bodily senses, makes use to receive perceptions of the physical world.
from “Initiation Into Hermetics” by Franz Bardon

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Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking.
Leo Tolstoy (via crystalllllrose)

(Source: stxxz.us, via poetics-and-rhetoric)