Danielle LaPorte » truth

peace in the seeking…

Danielle LaPorte — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:08:39 +0000

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
- Blaise Pascal

what do you hope is true?

Danielle LaPorte — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 08:08:06 +0000

I hope it’s true that:

: the universe is ever expanding.
: the hole in the ozone layer really is shrinking.
: the very clear vision I see of my son living a long and luscious life comes to fruition.
: troops will really pull out of Iraq by 2011.
: pensions and social security will still be around when people need them.
: sitings of the Virgin Mary are really sitings of THE Virgin Mary.
: Michael Jackson didn’t do it.
: Jim Morrison is still alive, and Leonard Cohen will keep touring.
: I can come back for another life if I choose to be an earthling again, or I can hang out in a new dimension and just assist from the cosmic sidelines.

and you?

straight talk

Danielle LaPorte — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 23:02:29 +0000

What’s the point of talking to anyone if you don’t tell it like it is?
- John Krakauer, author of Into The Wild

identity searchin’

Danielle LaPorte — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:03:04 +0000

I passed a thousand signs
looking for my own name.
- Johnny Cash, The Wanderer

To be great, be whole…

Danielle LaPorte — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:12:57 +0000

To be great, be whole;
Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you.
Be whole in everything. Put all you are
Into the smallest thing you do.
The whole moon gleams in every pool.
- Fernando Pessoa

when beauty turns into sentimentality or propaganda…

Danielle LaPorte — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 06:35:34 +0000

We get into trouble in the spirit when we give up any of these: when beauty turns into sentimentality or propaganda, when architecture and the other arts unconscious or considered secondary, when we forget the importance of ongoing, lifelong learning in all areas as support for the spiritual life, and especially when we make spiritual practice the project of creating a certain kind of self.
- Thomas Moore

Consciousness is a sign that…

Danielle LaPorte — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 05:59:58 +0000

Consciousness is a sign that we haven’t yet learned to live from the soul.
- Thomas Moore

beautiful lies

Danielle LaPorte — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 07:44:58 +0000

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

hear the truth

Danielle LaPorte — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 07:24:15 +0000

The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it.
- Ghandi

freed freedom

Danielle LaPorte — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 07:05:33 +0000

Power is about what you can control. Freedom is about what you can unleash.
- Harriet Rubin