Mind Over Matter

Greetings my name is Josh! I love to spread love and inspiration everywhere! Life is an amazing privilege and i stand to make it the best possible experience for everyone. I love to skateboard, draw, and graphic design. I also love philosophy, sharing and collaborating ideas and discussing different perceptions of reality. I am an advocate for entheogens and can attest to their powerful positive life changing abilities! Master your environment!!!

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Thinking and consciousness are not synonymous. Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought.

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It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death. ” — Eleanor Roosevelt Those who gave up on love, I say trust life a lil bit :]

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Embrace yourself!!!

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To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important. This total reversal of the truth accounts for the fact that in the ego mode the mind is so dysfunctional.It is always concerned with keeping the past alive, because without it who are you? It constantly projects itself into the future to ensure its continued survival and to seek some kind of release or fulfillment there. It says: “One day, when this, that, or the other happens, I am going to be okay, happy, at peace.” Even when the ego seems to be concerned with the present, it is not the present that it sees: It misperceives it completely because it looks at it through the eyes of the past. Or it reduces the present to a means to an end, an end that always lies in the mind-projected future”

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Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to “die before you die” and find that there is no death.”

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I love words! The vibrations and energy they contain can be felt when exchanged between one another. Different levels of understanding, awareness and comprehension can be attained with words. Use them consciously and constructively to help anyone you have the privilege to come into contact with. Spread the lighttt ✌

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Groww!! love and positive energy to all of my friends and living things in our existence adapt and thrive in your current surroundings! Continue on your journey to the never ending better version of yourselves for the enjoyment of us all. Resistance will arise but remember the life force is stimulated in the ethers by the love that radiates out of ones energy. The love energy is all around us waiting to aid us in any way possible once we choose to act with the scent of love in all situations and with all people. Watch the miracle of life unfold before your eyes and feel the exuberant life force flow through your being in that very moment.

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Bob Ross is the man! 🙌

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Nourish yourself and Grow!

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Speak with the scent of love! Listen with the intent to understand!

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Whatever you are after it's out their waiting for you!! Keep on pushing! Wishing everyone the best!!! Enjoy your day!

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Nature is a mirror, inspiring and teaching us, deepening our sense of belonging in the world. Wherever you look, you can see that our patterns and the patterns of the natural world are the same. You can find this resonance in every form, from molecules to plants and animals and to planets. We live our lives according to the same principles as the trees, the mountains, the clouds, and the birds. We begin our lives in the womb, folded in on ourselves like the bud of a flower. We can see our whole lives in the mirror of this natural form. When we emerge from the womb, we slowly begin our unfolding, just as the flower begins to open its petals. At its prime, the flower draws many insects to it and also the eyes of appreciative humans. When the flower’s petals begin to fade and its life cycle comes to an end, it ceases to hold itself upright and returns to the earth. Traditionally, we return to the earth, just as all plants and animals do. Like flowers, we leave behind seeds in the forms of children and other gifts only we could have given. They continue to unfold even after we are gone. Rebirth is encoded into our lives, and death is just one part of the cycle. Look around you, and you will find connection and insight. Notice how your moods shift from one to another like the sky shifts from bright blue to turbulent grays. Your thoughts are like clouds, appearing, changing shape, passing through, and then disappearing without a trace. The rain cleanses the sky, just as an emotional release cleanses your mind. The sky itself is your eternal awareness, unchanging underneath all these permutations. Let it reflect back to you your own abiding perfection. As you walk through the world, find your own metaphors for connectedness in nature. Flesh them out fully and follow them as they lead you through the mystery and intelligence of life.

Madisyn Taylor, The Mirroring World. (via occeanseyes)

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At this very moment, the Earth is above you, below you, all around you, and even inside you. The Earth is everywhere. You may be used to thinking of the Earth as only the ground beneath your feet. But the water, the sea, the sky, and everything around us comes from the Earth. Everything outside us and everything inside us comes from the Earth. We often forget that the planet we are living on has given us all the elements that make up our bodies. The water in our flesh, our bones, and all the microscopic cells inside our bodies all come from the Earth and are part of the Earth. The Earth is not just the environment we live in. We are the Earth and we are always carrying her within us.

Thich Nhat Hanh, Love Letter to the Earth (via xkljfslkdjfsl)

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Make Things Happen

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Get started today!

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Nurture your vessel!!! Keep up with your nutrional maitnence! 💪

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