An exercise in mindfulness

Obstacles are opportunities!

[nevver]

Monsters, Jim Benton (@jimbentonshots)

[lazyyogi]

If it is the quality of your consciousness at this moment that determines the future, then what is it that determines the quality of your consciousness? Your degree of presence.

All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present.

Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry — all forms of fear — are caused by too much future, and not enough presence.

Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence.

Most people find it difficult to believe that a state of consciousness totally free of all negativity is possible. And yet this is the liberated state to which all spiritual teachings point. It is the promise of salvation, not in an illusory future but right here and now.

Eckhart Tolle

[braveandorstupidv0]

You can never force people to be kind to you, but you can make the choice to surround yourself with kind people.

Reddit user Ok_Classroom1548

[braveandorstupidv0]

The light has gone out of my life

- Theodore Roosevelt

[larmoyante]

“He held me when my insecurities were as sharp as a knife and at every moment they got sharper, he held me even tighter.”

— Maram Rimawi

[amy-santiagos]

[tgpgifs]

Look what I’ve been reduced to.

[softerworld]

A Softer World: 536

[that-m8-blog]

“Don’t become who hurt you.”

— Unknown (via wordsnquotes)

[braveandorstupidv0]

If I can’t move heaven then I shall raise hell.

- The Guest List by Lucy Foley

[that-m8-blog]

“Sometimes you have to give up on people. Not because you don’t care, but because they don’t.”

— (via remember-the-reason)

[sobeitjayt]

Me: Nothing can stop me now

Myself: *stops me*

[quote-book]

“Be careful whose advice you buy, but, be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it’s worth”

— Everybody’s Free (to wear sunscreen). - Baz Lurhmann (via quote-book)

[softerworld]

A Softer World: 1085

(I just smile and say ‘compared to what?)

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[braveandorstupidv0]

I don't want your love unless you know I am repulsive, and love me even as you know it.

Georges Bataille

[braveandorstupidv0]

All the love in the world is useless when there is total lack of understanding.

Franz Kafka (Briefe an Felice)

[braveandorstupidv0]

You go through the motions. But every once in a while, you meet someone, and everything changes. You see a gal in the bar, or a guy, if that's your thing, and you toss out some Cary Grant BS like, "What brings someone like you to a joint like this?". And she, or he, if that's your thing, they smile at you, and your whole goddamn universe turns upside down. And that's when shit gets really crazy.

Only Murders in the Building, "Sparring Partners" (S02E9)