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Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem.

— Walt Whitman (via nirvikalpa)
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iheartowlies43: untitled by jacqueline riman on Flickr.
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Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to have woken up, I am alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it, I am going to use all of my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others, to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings, I am going to have kind thoughts towards others, I am not going to get angry, or think badly about others, I am going to benefit others as much as I can.

— The Dalai Lama (via terramantra)
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cwnl: Saturn’s Moon Titan May be More Earth-Like Than Thought Saturn’s moon Titan may be more similar to an Earth-like world than previously thought, possessing a layered atmosphere just like our planet, researchers said. Titan is Saturn’s largest moon, and is the only moon known to have a dense atmosphere. A better understanding of how its hazy, soupy atmosphere works could shed light on similar ones scientists might find on alien planets and moons. However, conflicting details about how Titan’s atmosphere is structured have emerged over the years. The lowest layer of any atmosphere, known as its boundary layer, is most influenced by a planet or moon’s surface. It in turn most influences the surface with clouds and winds, as well as by sculpting dunes. “This layer is very important for the climate and weather — we live in the terrestrial boundary layer,” said study lead author Benjamin Charnay, a planetary scientist at France’s National Center of Scientific Research. Earth’s boundary layer, which is between 1,650 feet and 1.8 miles (500 meters and 3 kilometers) thick, is controlled largely by solar heat warming the planet’s surface. Since Titan is much further away from the sun, its boundary layer might behave quite differently, but much remains uncertain about it — Titan’s atmosphere is thick and opaque, confusing what we know about its lower layers. For instance, while the Voyager 1 spacecraft suggested Titan’s boundary layer was about 2 miles (3.5 km) thick, the Huygens probe that plunged through Titan’s atmosphere saw it as only about 1,000 feet (300 m) thick. To help solve these mysteries about Titan’s atmosphere, scientists developed a 3D climate model of how it might respond to solar heat over time. “The most important implication of these findings is that Titan appears closer to an Earth-like world than once believed,”
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beautifulurself: + by guest of nature on Flickr.
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Enlightenment for a wave in the ocean is the moment the wave realizes that it is water.

— Thich Nhat Hanh (via nirvikalpa)
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The validity and strength of emotions cannot be overestimated, for they represent in only slightly tinged form the uncamouflaged vitality of the universe as it passes through the inner self. Emotions represent, therefore, this vitality before it has been constructed into camouflage. It has been tinged psychologically in its entry through the subconscious, but that is all. Emotions are the most vital tools with which you have to work. It is for this reason that you must learn how to use them.

— Seth, The Early Sessions, Book 3 
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