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I’ve built this sanctuary inside myself where I am free to feel everything as deeply as I please and only broadcast the stone walls of the outside for others to see.

jordanfierro  (via wordsnquotes)

Good Vibes HERE

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Volcano’s on five worlds. From left to right: Venus, Earth, Mars, Io, Enceladus.

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"If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I bet they’d live a lot differently. When you look into infinity, you realize there are more important things than what people do all day."

Calvin and Hobbes (via hurtlamb)

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Everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was … lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot (via stormingcuriosity)

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You must be ready to accept the possibility that there is a limitless range of awareness for which we now have no words; that awareness can expand beyond range of your ego, your self, your familiar identity, beyond everything you have learned, beyond your notions of space and time, beyond the differences which usually separate people from each other and from the world around them.

The Tibetan Book of The Dead (via ninehourstwentythreeminutes)

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Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal, for the present moment is infinitely small; before we can measure it, it has gone, and yet it exists forever.

Alan Watts (via prometheanreach)

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To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget.

Arundhati Roy, The Cost of Living (via larmoyante)

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NASA: Saturn’s Auroras

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This image was taken by Messenger spacecraft around 183 million kilometers (114 million miles) away from Earth. Our home planet and Moon seem so close that they look somewhat like a binary star.

Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington. 2011. Full description here.

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Untitled on We Heart It. http://weheartit.com/entry/87803902/via/bethweathergirl

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There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

Jane Austen (via cad-y)

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Looking in the mirror from 898,410,414 miles away…

NASA has released a raw edition of July’s photo of Earth and the moon, as seen from the Cassini spacecraft currently orbiting Saturn.

From out there, we look like stars. 

Just a tip, NASA: We’re gonna have to give it a better name than “N00213959.jpg”. Maybe “Pale Blue Sparkle”?

(hi-res at NASA website, a more processed version is sure to come… stay tuned)

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Sources:

B’Tselem, 2010. Statistics on Palestinians in the custody of the Israeli security forces (accessed on 18 April 2013) B’Tselem, 2013. Administrative Detention in the Occupied Territories (accessed on 18 April 2013) Amnesty, 2008. Submission to the UN Human Rights Council (accessed on 18 April 2013) B’Tselem, 2011. Human Rights in the Occupied Territories Annual Report, p.20 (PDF) Addameer. Family Visits (accessed on 18 April 2013) ICRC, 2010. Respect for the Life and Dignity of Detainees (accessed on 18 April 2013) Adalah, 2011. Solitary Confinement of Prisoners and Detainees in Israeli Prisons (PDF) Addameer, 2010. Palestinian Women Political Prisoners, p.8 (PDF) Addameer, 2013. Monthly Detention Report (accessed on 18 April 2013)

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A friendly reminder