Imagine A Droplet Sitting On A Rigid Surface Spontaneously Bouncing Up And Then Continuing To Bounce

Astronauts returning home from the ISS aboard a not so spacious Soyuz capsule

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The most beautiful part of your body is where it’s headed. & remember, loneliness is still time spent with the world.

Ocean Vuong, “Someday I’ll Love Ocean Vuong,” published in The New Yorker (via bostonpoetryslam)

It doesn’t matter what they will make of you or your days: they will be wrong, they will miss the wrong woman, miss the wrong man, all the stories they tell will be tales of their own invention. Your story was this: you were happy, then you were sad, you slept, you awakened.

Jane Hirshfield, It Was Like This: You Were Happy (via maryfelicity)

The Tale of Princess Kaguya (2013)

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Our universe is in many respects sublime. It prompts wonder but can be daunting — even frightening — in its complexity. Nonetheless, the components fit together in marvelous ways. Art, science, and religion all aim to channel people’s curiosity and enlighten us by pushing the frontiers of our understanding. They promise, in their different ways, to help transcend the narrow confines of individual experience and allow us to enter into — and comprehend — the realm of the sublime.

Cosmologist and particle physicist Lisa Randall on the sublime and the essential differences in how art, science, and religion make sense of the universe – wonderfully mind-expanding read. (via explore-blog)

Goals:

1. Do science. 2. Advance the human race. 3. Make other people happy.

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you’ve understood all your life, but in a new way.

Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook (via yesdarlingido)