Hi. Welcome.

I live in a cabin in the woods

[aspiritualwarrior]

“The whole universe is sum up in the Human Being. Devil is not a monster waiting to trap us, He is a voice inside. Look for Your Devil in Yourself, not in the Others. Don’t forget that the one who knows his Devil, knows his God.”

— Shams Tabrizi

[aspiritualwarrior]

“Lies need you to believe them, but the truth simply is—believe it or not.”

— don Miguel Ruiz

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quotes that help me survive:

“You are not lost. You are here. Stop abandoning yourself. Stop repeating this myth about love and success that will land in your lap or evade you forever. Build a humble, flawed life from the rubble, and cherish that. There is nothing more glorious on the face of the earth than someone who refuses to give up, who refuses to give in to their most self-hating, discouraged, disillusioned self, and instead learns, slowly and painfully, how to relish the feeling of building a hut in middle of the suffocating dust.” — Heather Havrilesky, Ask Polly

this tumblr text post:

“To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.” — Mary Oliver

From an interview with Kazu Makino:

Instructions On Not Giving Up, Ada Limon:

And this poster by Yumi Sakugawa

“You have to believe, in your heart, that even if you don’t work hard and exercise and think positive thoughts and make new friends and march triumphantly into the future, you are still enough. You will always have bad days. Being broken doesn’t make you a loser. You can crumble, and you will still be enough. Make that your religion moving forward. You are here to feel this moment. You are not here to become someone better. You are not here to impress or compete. You are not here to prove yourself. You are here to savor this life. Let down your guard. You are already enough. Believe it.” — Heather Havrilesky

“The first feminist gesture is to say: “Ok. They’re looking at me. But I’m looking at them.” The act of deciding to look, of deciding that the world is not defined by how people see me, but by how I see them.” -Agnès Varda

lyrics from the song Grow by The Oh Hellos:

“The world’s otherness is antidote to confusion, that standing within this otherness—the beauty and the mystery of the world, out in the fields or deep inside books—can re-dignify the worst-stung heart.” — Mary Oliver

“I hope you will go out and let stories, that is life, happen to you,and that you will work with these stories from your life--not someone else's life--water them with your blood and tears and your laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom. That is the work. The only work.” — Clarissa Pinkola Estes

[aspiritualwarrior]

“To love is to recognise yourself in another.”

— Eckhart Tolle

[aspiritualwarrior]

Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbours worthy.

— Thomas Merton

[bullfrog479]

This juvenile green snake got ran over by car. Enmity stops at nothing.

[dimensional-tourist]

Life is this simple: We are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and the Divine is shining through it all the time. This is not just a nice story or a fable. It is true.

Thomas Merton

[irtenyev]

when w. h. auden said “evil is unspectacular and always human” and ursula k. leguin said “this is the great treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain”

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and also: “imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.” — simone weil, tr. richard rees

[books-n-quotes]

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree. — Rabindranath Tagore

[bullfrog479]

Is Fish meat?

[bullfrog479]

Get the skillet hot babe.

[bullfrog479]

America Without God

As religious faith has declined, ideological intensity has risen. Will the quest for secular redemption through politics doom the American i

Nice work

[bullfrog479]

Are you a fisherman?

Yes

[everything-starstuff]

Maggie Vandewalle

[mysticallion]

Raccoon, Rabit, Bear and Mouse

Decided one night to get out of the house.

They found a nice spot to stare at the sky

Then sat in awed silence as the world swirled on by.

Finally little Mouse made a soft sighing squeak,

And his other three brothers saw a tear on his cheek.

“Why ever are you sad?” asked Bear in surprise,

Then handed him a hankey so he might dry his eyes.

After awhile Mouse quietly replied,

“It’s just big, big feels that I can’t keep inside.

“When I open my heart and let go of my fear

“It seems like the stars are ever so near.”

Then the other three nodded. They did understand.

The universe before them was lovely and grand.

So they pulled Mouse a bit closer, and they all gave him hugs,

And they watched the stars twinkle like bright lightning bugs.

And they all sat in silence and gazed at the skies,

And the night swam and swirled as the world whirled on by.

[aspiritualwarrior]

“A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet. As the sun on rising makes the world active, so does self-awareness affect changes in the mind. In the light of calm and steady self-awareness, inner energies wake up and work miracles without any effort on your part.”

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

[thesassybunnies]

Bunnies like leaves too 

(via)

[bullfrog479]

Icy conditions in my neck of the woods