K.S. Janes

Hi my name is Kristie. Sharing my photo’s represents my love of life. Each photo contains a quote about this love.

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“You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.”

- Pema Chodron

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Genuine understanding comes through lived experience, and that what we build outwardly often shapes us inwardly.

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“Take this day as it comes. Let the past rest, let the future wait and make the present bloom.” ― Shani Morris,

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Interdependence

We are all connected. Our lives continually affect one another, and nothing stands alone. When we truly see this, compassion naturally grows. We begin to care more deeply, reflect more honestly, and recognize that giving and receiving are simply different expressions of the same connection.

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Experience rises like a fresh wind—raw, energetic, unfiltered. Then emptiness opens its quiet wings, letting everything move and shimmer. Luminosity appears next—clear, sharp, without boundaries —light without a story.

When we cling to theories of solidity, we shrink our world. But when we sit still and look gently, perception becomes precise— soft as breath, sharp as a blade.

Awareness shows us a simple truth:everything touches everything, and the world belongs to no one and therefore to everyone.

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Dancing With the Unknowable

I open to the ungraspable. To the world that won’t be pinned down. To a life that refuses to be solved. May I meet it with humor and humility. May I stand gently in the middle of uncertainty, and let it teach me how to live. If I look foolish, may I also look kind. If I fall, may I fall awake. And may laughter be my companion as I walk toward the vastness that was here all along.

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Devotion cannot be manufactured by will alone. It grows from experience, from the slow and intimate process of truly knowing something or someone. It is born through relationship, nurtured by commitment, and deepened through presence.

Often we speak of devotion as if it were a choice, but my experience has been different. Devotion seems to arise on its own, like a flower opening when the conditions are right.

The more we appreciate what is here, the more fully we meet life as it is, the more devotion finds a place to settle. We do not chase devotion; we create the conditions for it to appear.

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There is a great freedom in understanding that you cannot control how others think, feel, or act. We can then return our attention to what is ours—to stay rooted in our own heart, to act with integrity, to care for our unfolding, and to let go of carrying what does not belong to us. In that letting go, there is both freedom and ease.

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Life unfolds through an endless cycle of birth and death. Each phase of life, each year, each month, each day, and each moment arrives, blossoms, and passes away. In this gentle flow of endings and beginnings, life continually renews itself.

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Enjoyment is always here, always available.

Listen to the water as it crashes against the rocks.

Feel the steady ground beneath your feet.

Let the movement of air brush against your skin and awaken you.

Allow the energy within to rise, as the passion for living sets your spirit on fire.

Lift your eyes to the vast blue sky and feel yourself connected to its infinite space.

Water, earth, air, fire, and space—

all moving together as the living spectrum of ecstasy.

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Hello May, you look beautiful today!

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“Like writing on water, thoughts and feelings vanish if not held onto.” The natural state is not opposed to thoughts—it is simply untouched by them. To not grasp is to allow the river of mind to flow without dam or defense. Nothing needs to be erased. Only the hand that holds must release.

Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

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May my seeing be soft, my heart unguarded, my world enough.

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Pain, is a symbol, a clear voice reminding us of how we cling to comfort, how we resist what is. And yet within pain lies a quiet truth: nothing needs to change for life to be whole.

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Recent scientific research suggests that the Great Sand Dunes in Colorado began forming around 440,000 years ago, after a large inland lake that once covered the San Luis Valley – named “Lake Alamosa” when evidence of the lakebed was discovered in 2002 – dried up due to climate change. The predominant southwest winds blowing toward a low curve in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains helped form Colorado’s Great Sand Dunes, and they still do today.

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An inner light shines through, guiding me back into presence. Change is always on its way. I rest in the now, while quietly gathering the memories, lessons, and gratitude for what has been—and what will be.

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This heavy, enveloping darkness surrounds me, thick and consuming at first, then slowly it begins to soften. From within it, something stirs—gentle movement emerging from this heavy, overwhelming feeling. In that quiet shift, appreciation begins to rise, and I find myself reaching toward the subtle, unexpected beauty held within it all.

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