hgk477:

1. Only move at dusk and dawn. 
   
2. Cover yourself. The sun is an old and angry thing. 
   
3. Try not to leave tracks. 
   
4. Not all that is visible is real. 
   
5. Not all that is real is visible. 
   
6. When you start hearing the voices of the dead, settle down and do not move. They will pass you by. 
   
7. Do not approach caravans. 
   
8. Dreams had in the desert are either prophetic or real. Decide wisely which to believe. 
   
9. There are no wolves here. You will hear them anyway. 
   
10. Never rest in the bottom of a dune valley. 
    
11. Do not speak to anything that has not proven itself to be human. 
    
12. When the sand shakes, run. 
    
13. Cover your mouth. The sand will coat your lungs. 
    
14. Seeing things in the day is not a problem. Seeing things at night should be.  
    
15. Never play the flute. 
    
16. Always carry a sack of sugar for hungry things. 
    
17. You are meat. Do not forget this fact. 
    
18. If there is something in your periphery, do not look at it. It wants you to. 
    
19. Dig yourself into the ground in a sandstorm. The wind will take you away. 
    
20. The flames are not real. 
    
21. The shadows are not real. 
    
22. Never close your tent flap all the way. It is impolite. 
    
23. Never let your lantern go out. 
    
24. The ancient have no love for the young. 
    
25. Do not drink water offered to you. 
    
26. Do not watch the dancers. They will trick you. 
    
27. There should be no clouds. If there are, move until they disappear. 
    
28. Travel alone. You will invariably lose your companions. 
    
29. Someone will cry out for help. Do not follow the voice. 
    
30. The murmurs of veiled ones are to be disregarded.

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a-quiet-green-agreement:

“She would wander about for a little while at first, uncertainly, deep among the plants and wet with their dew, and yet not quite putting out her hand to touch anything. And then a sort of sturdiness would possess her—stabilize her; she would stand still for a moment, as if a blindfold were being removed; and then she would kneel in the flowers and begin to work.”

– Eudora Welty, from “A Curtain of Green,” Stories, Essays, & Memoir (Library of America, 1998)

(via memoryslandscape)

astrosoeur:

Aries: “You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”

Taurus: “There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.” 

Gemini: “The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.”

Cancer: “One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.” 

Leo: “There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”

Virgo: “Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.” 

Libra: “You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.” 

Scorpio:“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.”  

Sagittarius: “Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?”

Capricorn: “The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.”

Aquarius: “In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.”

Pisces: “One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.”  

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