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10 Things I Learned in 2015

Go where the fear lies.

You learn a lot about yourself when you travel alone.

I am heard and seen more than I know.

I have everything I need.

Life is an ongoing practice of showing up and choosing love over fear.

My body knows before my mind does.

Listening to music brings me alive.

Being human means I am not always supposed to feel good.

I am a highly sensitive extrovert.

I want the whole world to win.

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(via Beautiful Tiled Collages That Explore the Passing of Time | AnOther)

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Multipotentialite Super Powers with Emilie Wapnick

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Kelly Notaras, The Desire Talk

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THE GUEST HOUSE This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they are a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still, treat each guest honorably. He may be clearing you out for some new delight. The dark thought, the shame, the malice. meet them at the door laughing and invite them in. Be grateful for whatever comes. because each has been sent as a guide from beyond. -- Jelaluddin Rumi,     translation by Coleman Barks

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The distance between inertia and beginning is so vast, that upon contemplation, it feels too large to cross. When we do begin, we make discoveries. We discover strengths, and hopes, dreams not yet lived, beloved hiding places and parts of ourselves we wish nobody could see. It is much safer not to begin. What if you began a dream and it didn't work? Or, you were no good at it, or it didn't satisfy you the way you always imagined? What if you began and quit? ... We can begin over and over, as many times as we want or need to. BEGIN IT.

SARK

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Start Close In

Start close in, don’t take the second step or the third, start with the first thing close in, the step you don’t want to take.

Start with the ground you know, the pale ground beneath your feet, your own way to begin the conversation.

Start with your own question, give up on other people’s questions, don’t let them smother something simple.

To hear another’s voice, follow your own voice, wait until that voice becomes an intimate private ear that can really listen to another.

Start right now take a small step you can call your own don’t follow someone else’s heroics, be humble and focused, start close in, don’t mistake that other for your own.

Start close in, don’t take the second step or the third, start with the first thing close in, the step you don’t want to take.

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S Carey - Neverending Fountain

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“As it is, we are merely bolting our lives—gulping down undigested experiences as fast as we can stuff them in—because awareness of our own existence is so superficial and so narrow that nothing seems to us more boring than simple being. If I ask you what you did, saw, heard, smelled, touched and tasted yesterday, I am likely to get nothing more than the thin, sketchy outline of the few things that you noticed, and of those only what you thought worth remembering. Is it surprising that an existence so experienced seems so empty and bare that its hunger for an infinite future is insatiable? But suppose you could answer, “It would take me forever to tell you, and I am much too interested in what’s happening now.” How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such a fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself as anything less than a god? And, when you consider that this incalculably subtle organism is inseparable from the still more marvelous patterns of its environment—from the minutest electrical designs to the whole company of the galaxies—how is it conceivable that this incarnation of all eternity can be bored with being?” ~ Alan Watts, The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

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“True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One’s inner voices become audible… In consequence, one responds more clearly to other lives.”

Wendell Berry

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“We design our world, while our world acts back on us and designs us.” - Anne-Marie Willis

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Pure generous radiance

Before I chose my face for this world even before the shape of my heart and certainly before the arch of my preferences There I was all Truth pure generous radiance streaming ever outward from the beginning to eternity and I knew: I am of Light, The Light, I am Light. Now in the crook of my day in the coal of my desires heart open or heart closed tender or tired still or wild like a fist or a field, Here I am all Truth pure generous radiance streaming ever outward from the beginning to eternity and I know: I am of Light, The light, I am Light.

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Love After Love

The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at the other's welcome and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you have ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.

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Hacking Your Flow State

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Hacking the Genome of Flow by Jamie Wheal

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Ester Hicks - Preparing For What You Want

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Lost in Translation

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right now, i’m lost in a transition. the old is dead, and i don’t know what the new is. the only way to find the new is to start different things and see if there’s something that can come out of experimentation. it’s somewhat unsettling, but it’s a hopeful thing in a way. i’ve been here before, lots of times.

- david  lynch, on his first museum show | via jarrettfuller [emphasis mine]