Love + Lush

Inspirations, musings and sightings

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We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.

 Thích Nhất Hạnh (via purplebuddhaproject)

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For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.

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Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.

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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (via wordsnquotes)

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The Future Is Here, and It’s FKA Twigs.

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How to Care for Empaths and Highly Sensitive People

Highly sensitive people and empaths sense the slightest change in the room and in people. They’re easily effected emotionally and physically by every feeling and touch possible. If you are yourself an empath or love and care for a sensitive person, we urge you to educate yourself on the rare and special gift they posses. 

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GOD: The Originator

Josephine Baker by George Hoyningen-Huene, Paris, 1927

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Love

Love is a seed that we plant and requires tender care and watering in order for the tree to grow. Just as we cannot forsee the future and what is to become of this love later in life, the tree cannot tell what the weather will be like in the future.  Rain and the strongest of winds may befall on the tree, however as long as the foundation remains strong, love is able to exist. The seed from which the tree sprouts from has no say in where it decides to live or where the wind blows, just as love has no rational or a certain direction. The biggest and oldest trees that seemed to have just have simply always been there hold the greatest love, as it nurtures love for others, providing shade for two lovers, a home for birds to build a nest, and providing food to the squirrels whom scurry upon it.

            At times a branch overextends itself and breaks just as we may often stretch our relationship with love, and at times we are heartbroken and saddened as a result, however love cannot be tamed and risks must be taken in order for the tree to grow. Love was never meant to be caged solely in our hearts as the life in a seed was always meant to break through into the world and becomes something much more than it originally was, just a seed. The life which comes from a seed is a miracle in itself to which we must provide the Sun and water in our lives through patience and A great tree develops over time and can tell stories both bad and good from what it has seen over the years and as a result is what it has become what it is today.

            As the seasons change, the tree goes through changes itself; where the leaves turn yellow and orange in the fall, leafless in the winter, a return in leaves in the spring, and full  set of new leafs by the summer. Love is no different in that there will be times when we are fully naked and left to wonder about Spring and Summer when it seemed so easy to love, yet the tree knows that no winter will last forever no matter how cold it may be.  In Hinduism and in Buddhism, the Mandala is representative of balance in life, where the basic Mandala containing four gates is symbolic of both the confusion and the enlightenment that we see in our lives. Nothing is forever, as Monks blow away their creation after countless hours to create the Mandala, representative of the impermanence in life and how everything is in constant change. Give yourself freedom to grow through love, as love is the most natural direction for humans in a World that can seem so complicated and so confusing at times, just as each tree grows upward towards the sky.  Don’t try to control the way that love moves, as any attempt will be futile, for love grows like the branches, wildly growing by the laws of nature rather than by human rational.

Namaste,

Forrest Curran

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