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25.01.2022 Your deepest roots are in nature. No matter who you are, where you live, or what kind of life you lead, you remain irrevocably linked with the rest of creation. - Charlie Cook To experience peace does not mean that your life must always be blissful. It means that you are capable of tapping into a blissful state of mind amidst the normal chaos of a hectic life. - Jill Bolte Taylor ... Spirituality is not to be learned by flight from the world, or by running away from things, or by turning solitary and going away from the world. Rather, we must learn an inner solitude wherever or with whomsoever we may be. - Meister Eckhart Meditation ... is a way of changing our relationship to our thoughts, so we're not so consumed by them, with no sense of space. Having a newly spacious relationship to our thoughts brings both peace and freedom. - Sharon Salzberg Transcendental meditation is not a religion, it's not against any religion... It's for human beings, no matter what color, what religion, what walk of life. It is an ancient mental technique that allows any human being to dive within, transcend and experience the source of everything. It's a blessing for the human being because that eternal field is a field of unbounded intelligence, creativity, happiness, love, energy and peace. - David Lynch You should sit in meditation for twenty minutes every day... unless you're too busy; then you should sit for an hour. - Zen Proverb Artist's credit: Dipak Kundu https://www.fineartandyou.com//deepak-kundu-indian-artist.

21.01.2022 "Anyone who has been in a real crisis knows that words matter. Words have energy and the potential to hurt and harm; they also have the power to help and heal. At certain times, words can be the most powerful force available to humans. There is an old teaching story that begins where a child has fallen quite ill and none of the local doctors can affect a cure. The distraught parents called upon a revered old Sufi. He came and spoke some words over the child, concluding by say...Continue reading

19.01.2022 The problem is we're looking for someone to grow old together, while the secret is finding someone to remain kids with.

18.01.2022 It is no more possible to make life easy than it is to grow a herb of immortality. Carl Jung, Civilization in Transition

16.01.2022 When you are going through hard times you need a way to guide yourself. But how can you set your direction when you can’t see any clear harbor? And how can you navigate through difficult waters when you’re swamped by overwhelming emotions? When you’re overwhelmed by loss, by the difficulties around you, when you feel you are lost in the darkness, sometimes all you can do is to breathe consciously and gently with your pain and anguish and know that with this simple gesture you... are resetting the compass of your heart, no matter your circumstances. By taking that one simple, mindful breath, you will return again to compassion and realize that you are more than your fears and confusions. Whatever your difficulties, you can always remember that you are free in every moment to set the compass of your heart to your highest intentions. You can offer the best of yourself in any circumstance, including in difficult times. In fact, the two things that you are always free to dodespite your circumstancesare to be present and to be willing to love. http://ow.ly/Sg4j30qvebs See more

09.01.2022 Under everything we can find treasure, unearthing this is our task. To uncover a deeper part of ourselves. Let it fall. Let all the social masks and limiting ' stories of self' you've accumulated fall away. And as they wash away, feel the freeing of your true self emerge from beneath it all...this is you. You know you by the way it feels like a homecoming. Realize deeply that this you has always been there and always will be. And, like a daily hygiene routine, it's up to you to shower off everything that isn't you, to let your authentic self shine through, raw and beautifully you. Everyday...

09.01.2022 The inability to receive support from others is a trauma response. Your I don’t need anyone, I’ll just do it all myself conditioning is a survival tactic. And you needed it to shield your heart from abuse, neglect, betrayal, and disappointment from those who could not or would not be there for you. From the parent who was absent and abandoned you by choice or the parent who was never home from working three jobs to feed and house you.... From the lovers who offered sexual intimacy but never offered a safe haven that honored your heart. From the friendships and family who ALWAYS took more than they ever gave. From all the situations when someone told you we’re in this together or I got you then abandoned you, leaving you to pick up the pieces when shit got real, leaving you to handle your part and their part, too. From all the lies and all the betrayals. You learned along the way that you just couldn’t really trust people. Or that you could trust people, but only up to a certain point. Extreme-independence IS. A. TRUST. ISSUE. You learnt: if I don’t put myself in a situation where I rely on someone, I won’t have to be disappointed when they don’t show up for me, or when they drop the ball... because they will ALWAYS drop the ball EVENTUALLY right? You may even have been intentionally taught this protection strategy by generations of hurt ancestors who came before you. Extreme-independence is a preemptive strike against heartbreak. So, you don’t trust anyone. And you don’t trust yourself, either, to choose people. To trust is to hope, to trust is to be vulnerable. Never again, you vow. But no matter how you dress it up and display it proudly to make it seem like this level of independence is what you always wanted to be, in truth it’s your wounded, scarred, broken heart behind a protective brick wall. Impenetrable. Nothing gets in. No hurt gets in. But no love gets in either. Fortresses and armor are for those in battle, or who believe the battle is coming. It’s a trauma response. The good news is trauma that is acknowledged is trauma that can be healed. You are worthy of having support. You are worthy of having true partnership. You are worthy of love. You are worthy of having your heart held. You are worthy to be adored. You are worthy to be cherished. You are worthy to have someone say, You rest. I got this. And actually deliver on that promise. You are worthy to receive. You are worthy to receive. You are worthy. You don’t have to earn it. You don’t have to prove it. You don’t have to bargain for it. You don’t have to beg for it. You are worthy. Worthy. Simply because you exist. -Jamila White, @inspiredjamila

06.01.2022 A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise. - Aldo Leopold

02.01.2022 ‘Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. Rumi Sorrows of the Moon Mixed Media... 2015 See more

01.01.2022 We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through.... Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow to love.... and then, we return home. -- Aboriginal proverb art | Colleen Wallace Nungari, Dreamtime Sisters.

01.01.2022 A white man and an elderly Native man became pretty good friends, so the white guy decided to ask him: What do you think about Indian mascots? The Native elder responded, Here’s what you’ve got to understand. When you look at black people, you see ghosts of all the slavery and the rapes and the hangings and the chains. When you look at Jews, you see ghosts of all those bodies piled up in death camps. And those ghosts keep you trying to do the right thing. But when you loo...k at us you don’t see the ghosts of the little babies with their heads smashed in by rifle butts at the Big Hole, or the old folks dying by the side of the trail on the way to Oklahoma while their families cried and tried to make them comfortable, or the dead mothers at Wounded Knee or the little kids at Sand Creek who were shot for target practice. You don’t see any ghosts at all. Instead you see casinos and drunks and junk cars and shacks. Well, we see those ghosts. And they make our hearts sad and they hurt our little children. And when we try to say something, you tell us, ‘Get over it. This is America. Look at the American dream.’ But as long as you’re calling us Redskins and doing tomahawk chops, we can’t look at the American dream, because those things remind us that we are not real human beings to you. And when people aren’t humans, you can turn them into slaves or kill six million of them or shoot them down with Hotchkiss guns and throw them into mass graves at Wounded Knee. No, we’re not looking at the American dream. And why should we? We still haven’t woken up from the American nightmare. ~source unknown See more