January 2011
67 posts
chasing rainbows: 20 Untranslatable Words from... →
fuckthereallife:
(via tthighs:youmightfindyourself)
1. Toska
Russian – Vladmir Nabokov describes it best: “No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it…
Meditation Correlated With Structural Changes In... →
buffleheadcabin:
Recently scientists from Massachusetts General Hospital had 16 participants take an 8-week mindfulness meditation program. This sort of meditation focuses on non-judgmental awareness of sensations and feelings. Subjects practiced for about 30 minutes a day.
Brain images were taken of each subject before and after the training. Scientists found increases in grey-matter density...
“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his...”
– Nelson Mandela (via pandacake)
“You can be too rich and too thin, but you can never be too well-read or too...”
– Tim Gunn (via elizabethanne)
“It all depends on what you want. You can trust us to stick to you through think...”
– Merry Brandybuck (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring)
