The Alchemist

Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.

[naniselk]

If I lose myself, I lose it all. -"Running", Beyonce

[goodreadss]

Don’t give in to your fears. If you do, you won’t be able to talk to your heart.

Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist (via goodreadss)

[naniselk]

Those three words Are said too much And not enough

Snow Patrol

[naturaekos]

I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow. I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights. I’ve learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you’ll miss them when they’re gone from your life. I’ve learned that making a “living” is not the same thing as making a “life.” I’ve learned that life sometimes gives you a second chance. I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back. I’ve learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. I’ve learned that even when I have pains, I don’t have to be one. I’ve learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back. I’ve learned that I still have a lot to learn.

Maya Angelou (via naturaekos)

[kushandwizdom]

Nothing is a coincidence. Everything you're experiencing is meant to happen exactly how it's happening. Embrace the lessons. Be grateful.

- Unknown

[naniselk]

Tattoo idea I'm obsessed with

[naniselk]

When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. You can not turn away. Your destiny is bound to the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors.

Andrew Boyd

[goodreadss]

Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn’t have the courage to say “yes” to life?

Paulo Coelho (via goodreadss)

[naniselk]

Experience teaches, if one is able to process their experiences and gain some insight from them. Then remember it. Then apply it. Then see if it works, or doesn't. Then improve upon it. Then improve upon the improvement. All the cliches in the world don't add up to single bean of learning. And all the learning in the world, doesn't add up to a single bean of wisdom.

[quoteconfessions]

At your absolute best, you still won’t be good enough for the wrong person. At your worst, you’ll still be worth it to the right person.

Karen Salmansohn (via poetsloveher)

[naniselk]

If flowers can teach themselves how to bloom after winter passes, so can you.

[naniselk]

Actually creating the things we are passionate about is the most beautiful thing in the world. Don't let fear and negativity stop you. Your passion is bigger and far more profound and most of all LOUDER than all that noise. And that's all it is; noise. Your passion is so powerful that it will drown out the negative sounds, eventually anyway. @becompassionateinc (at Thessaloníki, Greece)

[naniselk]

Walking, I am listening to a deeper way. Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. ‘Be still,’ they say. 'Watch and listen. You are the result of the love of thousands.’

Linda Hogan

[naniselk]

and you say your magic words, so that i forget and i will write down what is written in the stars it's all been decided, don't you realize?

Find A Place- Iko

[naniselk]

[naniselk]

Tonight, I walk. I am watching the sky. I think of the people who came before me and how they knew the placement of the stars in the sky, watching the moving sun long and hard enough to witness how a certain angle of light touched a stone only once a year. Without written records, they knew the gods of every night, the small, fine details of the world around them and the immensity above them. Walking, I can almost hear the redwoods beating….It is a world of elemental attention, of all things working together, listening to what speaks in the blood. Whichever road I follow, I walk in the land of many gods, and they love and eat one another. Walking, I am listening to a deeper way. Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. 'Be still,' they say. 'Watch and listen. You are the result of the love of thousands.'

Linda Hogan, Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World

[naniselk]

“I wanted silence. My daydreams were full of places I longed to be, shelters and solitudes. I wanted a room apart from others, a hidden cabin to rest in. I wanted to be in a redwood forest with trees so tall the owls called out in the daytime. I daydreamed of living in a vapor cave a few hours away from here. Underground, warm, and moist, I thought it would be the perfect world for staying out of cold winter, for escaping the noise of living. And how often I’ve wanted to escape to a wilderness where a human hand has not been in everything. But those were only dreams of peace, of comfort, of a nest inside stone or woods, a sanctuary where a dream or life wouldn’t be invaded.”

Poem by Linda Hogan