Izzy & Ezra

coffee drinker. lover of words.

[themotivationjournals]

Home is in my hair, my lips, my arms, my thighs, my feet and my hands. I am my own home. And when I wake up crying in the morning, thinking of how lonely I am, I pinch my skin, tug at my hair, remind myself that I am alive. Remind myself to step outside and greet the morning. Remind myself that it’s all …change. It’s all about…freedom.

Diriye Osman, Fairytales for Lost Children (via wnq-anonymous)

[pl1se0]

[philosophybits]

Do not despise your inner world… Our society is very outward-looking, very taken up with the latest new object, the latest piece of gossip, the latest opportunity for self-assertion and status. But we all begin our lives as helpless babies, dependent on others for comfort, food, and survival itself. And even though we develop a degree of mastery and independence, we always remain alarmingly weak and incomplete, dependent on others and on an uncertain world for whatever we are able to achieve. As we grow, we all develop a wide range of emotions responding to this predicament… Our emotional life maps our incompleteness: A creature without any needs would never have reasons for fear, or grief, or hope, or anger. But for that very reason we are often ashamed of our emotions, and of the relations of need and dependency bound up with them… So people flee from their inner world of feeling, and from articulate mastery of their own emotional experiences.

Martha Nussbaum, in, Take My Advice, James L. Harmon ed. (via philosophybits)

[sunbathe]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BVT90YTDMy4/

[cleverwordsandotherstuffilike]

Sony Awards

Open street photography and Germany national award winner: Manuel Armenis

‘The most dignified lady of the neighborhood [is] bravely defying the burden of her old age,’ says Armenis. ‘Always stylishly dressed, colourful and in a good mood. Smiling, never complaining, even though everyday life is exhausting and challenging. But you never see her without her best friend – her little dog’

[itsmegkehoe]

[abiding-in-peace]

If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including (especially) the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.

Pema Chodron (via abiding-in-peace)

[astound]

[cobotis]

“The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently…”

— Pema Chodron

[mindful-and-motivated-deactivat]

Instead of asking ourselves, ‘How can I find security and happiness?’ we could ask ourselves, 'Can I touch the center of my pain? Can I sit with suffering, both yours and mine, without trying to make it go away? Can I stay present to the ache of loss or disgrace-disappointment in all its many forms-and let it open me?’ This is the trick.

Pema Chodron (via cultivating-kindness)

[grayskymorning]

Elena Elese

[mindful-and-motivated-deactivat]

Meditation is a process of lightening up, of trusting the basic goodness of what we have and who we are, and of realizing that any wisdom that exists, exists in what we already have. We can lead our life so as to become more awake to who we are and what we’re doing rather than trying to improve or change or get rid of who we are or what we’re doing. The key is to wake up, to become more alert, more inquisitive and curious about ourselves.

Pema Chodron (via cultivating-kindness)

[abiding-in-peace]

We already have everything we need. There is no need for self-improvement. All these trips that we lay on ourselves—the heavy-duty fearing that we’re bad and hoping that we’re good, the identities that we so dearly cling to, the rage, the jealousy and the addictions of all kinds—never touch our basic wealth. They are like clouds that temporarily block the sun. But all the time our warmth and brilliance are right here. This is who we really are. We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake.

​Pema Chodron - From her book ‘Start Where You Are’ (via abiding-in-peace)

[kristenmeriewieder-deactivated2]

I miss Amsterdam. (at Amsterdam, Netherlands)

[abiding-in-peace]

[purplebuddhaproject]

Instead of saying “I don’t have time” try saying “it’s not a priority,” and see how that feels. Often, that’s a perfectly adequate explanation. I have time to iron my sheets, I just don’t want to. But other things are harder. Try it: “I’m not going to edit your résumé, sweetie, because it’s not a priority.” “I don’t go to the doctor because my health is not a priority.” If these phrases don’t sit well, that’s the point. Changing our language reminds us that time is a choice. If we don’t like how we’re spending an hour, we can choose differently.

Wall Street Journal (via purplebuddhaproject)

[izzyezra]

I am a firm believer in photo booths, Tuesday date nights and pizza breath make outs #youngjoni