random & amusing. enjoy. [cell phone version here] _________________Tumblr (3.0; @chirag)http://www.chirag.es/“I am a sick man. I am an angry man. I am an unattractive man. … I couldn’t make myself anything: neither good nor bad, neither a scoundrel nor an honest man, neither a hero nor an insect. Now I go on living in my corner and irritating myself with a spiteful and worthless consolation that a wise man can’t seriously make himself anything, only a fool makes himself anything.”<br/><br/> - <em>Dostoyevsky. <em>Notes From Underground.</em></em>http://www.chirag.es/post/1075350665http://www.chirag.es/post/1075350665Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:27:46 +0200<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l71v9lkdAb1qc48o0o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Time and Silence (via <a href="http://bialb.tumblr.com/post/948847093/voodoochild">bialb</a>)</p>http://www.chirag.es/post/1075346979http://www.chirag.es/post/1075346979Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:26:38 +0200“The path to knowing oneself is travelled by interacting with others.”<br/><br/> - <em>Principle #327. The Tao of CC.</em>http://www.chirag.es/post/1041907726http://www.chirag.es/post/1041907726Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:10:37 +0200“Other than exams or parties, one should also prepare for old age.”<br/><br/> - <em>Principle #326. The Tao of CC.</em>http://www.chirag.es/post/1020056606http://www.chirag.es/post/1020056606Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:05:00 +0200<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7tftuJQVA1qz50t6o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>metempsychosis. (via <a title="source" target="_self" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/moaan/">moaan</a>)</p>http://www.chirag.es/post/1019996547http://www.chirag.es/post/1019996547Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:49:06 +0200“The height of flattery is to be loved by a narcissist.”<br/><br/> - <em>Principle #325. The Tao of CC.</em>http://www.chirag.es/post/1019976296http://www.chirag.es/post/1019976296Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:43:00 +0200<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7tezlLou01qz50t6o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Another routine day breaks. (via <a title="source" target="_self" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/memetic/">memetic</a>)</p>http://www.chirag.es/post/1019930201http://www.chirag.es/post/1019930201Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:30:57 +0200“To remain humble is to know that life can slap you at anytime.”<br/><br/> - <em>Principle #324. The Tao of CC.</em>http://www.chirag.es/post/1019922247http://www.chirag.es/post/1019922247Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:28:00 +0200<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7grstopzy1qzkp97o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote> <p><strong> </strong></p> </blockquote> The Bamboo Forest, Kyoto, Japan <p>(via <a href="http://bialb.tumblr.com/post/992452248/the-bamboo-forest-kyoto-japan">bialb</a> via <a href="http://landscapelifescape.tumblr.com/post/983445659/the-bamboo-forest-kyoto-japan-trey-ratcliff">landscapelifescape</a>)</p>http://www.chirag.es/post/1019164762http://www.chirag.es/post/1019164762Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:32:37 +0200“Even a bed of roses has thorns in it.”<br/><br/> - <em>Principle #323. The Tao of CC.</em>http://www.chirag.es/post/1019016667http://www.chirag.es/post/1019016667Fri, 27 Aug 2010 11:36:00 +0200<a href="http://www.schoolofwisdom.com/history/teachers/rabindranath-tagore/gitanjali/">Gitanjali: Mystical poems of Rabindranath Tagore</a>http://www.chirag.es/post/1018533714http://www.chirag.es/post/1018533714Fri, 27 Aug 2010 08:39:44 +0200<p><span class="quote">“Born empty handed.<br/>Die empty handed.<br/>I witnessed life at its fullest,<br/>Empty handed.”</span></p> <p><strong><span class="quote">- Marlo Morgan</span></strong></p>http://www.chirag.es/post/1002885693http://www.chirag.es/post/1002885693Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:29:23 +0200<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7nje50y9O1qz50t6o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>reflection. (via <a title="source" target="_self" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ashleyrosex/">ashley rose</a>)</p>http://www.chirag.es/post/1002860276http://www.chirag.es/post/1002860276Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:20:28 +0200“Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.”<br/><br/> - <em>American Chief Seattle</em>http://www.chirag.es/post/1002837994http://www.chirag.es/post/1002837994Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:12:00 +0200<p><span lang="ES-MODERN" xml:lang="ES-MODERN"> <p>I am not that.</p> </span></p> <p>I am not the other either.</p> <p>I am both.</p> <p>Yet I am neither.</p> <p>- CC</p>http://www.chirag.es/post/1002774539http://www.chirag.es/post/1002774539Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:50:03 +0200<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7cfq58zdi1qz50t6o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>conte de fée indienne. (via <a title="source" target="_self" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bollydreams/">Bollywood Se</a>)</p>http://www.chirag.es/post/971506048http://www.chirag.es/post/971506048Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:27:41 +0200“The sad part of setting a goal is that you will eventually outgrow it.”<br/><br/> - <em>Principle #323. The Tao of CC.</em>http://www.chirag.es/post/971469610http://www.chirag.es/post/971469610Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:14:00 +0200<object width="400" height="326"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/MqpNvNtzKFc&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/MqpNvNtzKFc&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="326" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>Gypsy flamenco that reaches thy soul.</p> <p>Piano arrangement.</p> <p>Orobroy.</p>http://www.chirag.es/post/967782660http://www.chirag.es/post/967782660Tue, 17 Aug 2010 20:23:00 +0200<p>Who made the swan, and the black bear? <br/>Who made the grasshopper? <br/>This grasshopper, I mean— <br/>the one who has flung herself out of the grass, <br/>the one who is eating sugar out of my hand, <br/>who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down— <br/>who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes. <br/>Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face. <br/>Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away. <br/>I don’t know exactly what a prayer is. <br/>I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down <br/>into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass, <br/>how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields, <br/>which is what I have been doing all day. <br/>Tell me, what else should I have done? <br/>Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon? <br/>Tell me, what is it you plan to do <br/>with your one wild and precious life?</p> <p>- Mary Oliver</p> <p>(via <a href="http://loveandzombies.tumblr.com/">loveandzombies</a>) (via <a title="source" target="_self" href="http://theworldpulse.tumblr.com/post/831987702/who-made-the-world-who-made-the-swan-and-the">theoworldpulse</a>)</p>http://www.chirag.es/post/967671362http://www.chirag.es/post/967671362Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:53:00 +0200<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l3eir7WzeF1qc3tijo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>comic kiss.</p> <p>(via <a href="http://hugastranger.tumblr.com/post/657373418/rogue-gambit-sigh">hugastranger</a>)</p>http://www.chirag.es/post/967637776http://www.chirag.es/post/967637776Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:44:00 +0200