Cloud 19

Just a few of my favorite things.

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Caroline Z Hurley on the Importance of Trust

“CZH is about home, yes, but it’s also about the home inside yourself. Trusting yourself, trusting that if you are present and awake, everything works out. That everything placed in your life is a lesson to become more expansive, and the trick is to have fun through the process, to laugh at the drama, to breathe through the chaos. And I truly believe that the physical space you create around you in your home helps with all of that.” Meet Caroline Z. Hurley Shop who shares her story and thoughts on the importance of trusting the process. 

Photos by Louise Palmberg for The Style Line

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Couldn't have said it better. 🙌🏻

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Elizabeth Gilbert — Choosing Curiosity Over Fear

Her name is synonymous with "Eat Pray Love." But through the disorienting process of her success, Elizabeth Gilbert has also reflected deeply on the gift and challenge of inhabiting a creative life.

Her name is synonymous with "Eat Pray Love." But through the disorienting process of her success, Elizabeth Gilbert has also reflected deeply on the gift and challenge of inhabiting a creative life.

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“Act on a principle that has the backing of evolution: constant delegation of authority.” --Alan Watts 

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If you can fall in love again and again ... if you can forgive as well as forget. If you can keep from growing sour, surly, bitter and cynical ... you've got it half licked.

Henry Miller via Brain Pickings

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Well said. 

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How to Motivate People: 4 Steps Backed by Science

Employees, spouses, kids — what does it take to get people motivated so you don’t have to nag them? Motivation is powerful. It predicts success…

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Gut Feelings–the "Second Brain" in Our Gastrointestinal Systems [Excerpt]

There is a superhighway between the brain and GI system that holds great sway over humans

Incredible piece validating the intelligence in our bodies and instincts.

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Take notice - Kurt Vonnegut

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a faux new yorker cover, with the theme “animals in an urban environment.” i chose to draw cats attending a convention wearing human ears C(^o=v=o^)D

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This! #socialmedia 

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“The person you love is 72.8% water” by Teagan White. Pieces based on a quote from “The Art of Looking Sideways” by Alan Fletcher. Title of the assignment was “type as image”. Teagan White is a freelance designer and illustrator from Chicago, currently a student at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.

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“It’s only with the heart one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

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: note to self :

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For gobs of brilliant Anais Nin writings, check out eBay. 

(Image: Brainpickings)

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“Love … is the honoring of others in a way that grants them the grace of their own autonomy and allows mutual discovery.”

Anne Truitt, excerpt from Daybook: The Journal of an Artist (via mavirtute)

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“If you lived in your heart, you would already be home by now.”- Author Unknown

via Tara Brach youtube Channel. <3: ElleBelle SparkleSeed (via 74ellebelle)

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Mindfulness is a pause – the space between stimulus and response: that’s where choice lies.

Tara Brach (via stardust-seedling)

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Illustration from ‘Neurocomic,’ a graphic novel about how the brain works.

Such an incredible collaboration between a neuroscientist and a illustrator.