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"[A Taurean] may develop a brooding resentment through nursing a series of injuries received and, whether their characters are positive or negative, they need someone to stroke their egos with a frequent, 'Well done!'"

Yes. Please. Stroke my ego.

The sweetest couple in the whole world checked out of my hotel today and I'm not sure why I care so much, but I want things to work out for them and I want them to be together, and happy, forever.

I gave my mother a copy of Everyday Tao for Christmas, as it's one of my very favorite books and we are similarly fascinated with our spirits and the unseen and so on and so forth. Each of the 256 pages is it's own little chapter and is devoted to a different topic. I bookmarked pg. 31 for her because it moved me to tears...
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"... when the mind is quieted, the multiplicity of things disappears." -Ashvaghosha

Some idiot just sent me a message and said he wants to hang out with me. I asked him why I was interesting to him and he said, "I don't know if you are interesting, I just think you are hot!!!" Wrong answer, dumbass.

What does it mean to love?

(Don't answer that question. I borrowed it from BillyFiveCrows. It's a beautiful question and I'm working out the details.)

I spoke with my cousin this evening and she said the most amazing thing! She said, "If I could un-invent something, it would probably be tapioca." "That's going in the book," I said. "And maybe on the back cover somewhere, too."

"These passions, simple but overwhemingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a great ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair. I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy - ecstasy...
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"If you can let go of Tao with your mind and surround it with your heart, it will live inside you forever." -Lao Tzu