[errantabbot]

Zen Buddhists might fetishize sitting meditation as much as evangelical Christians fetishize beseeching prayer. To be sure, both meditation and prayer are worthwhile pursuits, arguably though, something is lost when the whole of one’s life gets thrown into them rather than being augmented by them. And if you think meditation is going to help you levitate, or that prayer is going to change anything about reality other than your perspective, well...

~Sunyananda

[beautofwomen]

[yuyuuyuyuu-deactivated20230726]

being a sleepy mf with a busy life is so hard

[heavenleighvibez]

[tkkatherineblog]

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[hevenliii]

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[nasfera2]

The moment Suga Free became legendary

[gaiasfinest-deactivated20210519]

The only person I look up to is the highest version of myself. I am a divine being with infinite potential and the capability to attain anything I want. I don’t doubt myself whatsoever. I accept how unique I am and that I have a lot to offer to the world.

[sophsmagotes]

1 minute. don’t think, don’t talk. just watch, listen, feel, and breathe.

[safe-haven-safe-place]

[geopsych]

“Is it not possible that a place could have a huge affection for those who dwell there? Perhaps your place loves having you there. It misses you when you are away and in its secret way rejoices when you return. Could it be possible that a landscape might have a deep friendship with you? That it could feel your presence and feel the care you extend towards it? Perhaps your favorite place feels proud of you …”

— John O’Donohue, from Beauty: The Invisible Embrace. Wise words from an Irishman on St. Patrick’s Day. 

[m96k]

[fil-jannah]

“ Once a heart gets too heavy with pain, people don’t cry. They just turn silent. Completely silent. ”

- Unknown

[aiyanayanas]

[jontedrew]

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[dankmemeuniversity]

[werenotreallystrangers]

when you really start doing things for yourself their opinion matters so much less

[heathervibes]

Save your energy 🌞

[aspiritualwarrior]

“The easiest way to get into the meditative state is to begin listening. Simply close your eyes and allow yourself to hear all the sounds that are going on around you, listen to the general hum and buzz of the world as you listen to music. Don’t try to identify the sounds you are hearing, don’t put names on them, simply allow them to play with your eardrums. Let them go. In other words, let your ears hear whatever they want to hear. Don’t judge the sounds: there are no proper sounds nor improper sounds, and it doesn’t matter if somebody coughs or sneezes or drops something—it’s all just sound. As you pursue that experiment you will very naturally find that you can’t help naming sounds, identifying them, and go thinking, talking to yourself inside your head, automatically. But its important that you don’t try to repress those thoughts by forcing them out of your mind because that will have precisely the same effect as if you were trying to smooth rough water with a flatiron—you’re just going to disturb it all the more. What you do is this: as you hear sounds coming into your head, thoughts, you simply listen to them as part of the general noise going on just as you would be listening to cars going by, or birds chattering outside the window. So look at your own thoughts as just noises. And soon you will find that the outside world and the inside world come together. They are a happening. Your thoughts are a happening just like the sounds going on outside, and everything is simply a happening and all you are doing is watching it.”

— Alan Watts