The Searcheress

[searcheress]

I have to get out of here. Every time I think of my life right now I can feel my heart sank. By society standards I have little to complain about, I live in a little nice apartment near work in Milan, I have a steady job as a sales assistant , a nice family a loving fiancé , some friends and some interests. But to me the city is too chaotic, my little flat seems like a very well decorated cage, my job emotionally and physically drains me leaving me almost incapable to interact with my family and friends, my fiancé is the best cell mate I could possibly ask for, but still I feel caged.

[pantherpause]

[searcheress]

Oh good god Penny Dreadful will you ever stop making me burst into tears?

This scene was so intense, my heart sank when Lily looked down on the chain on her ankle. 

And those words, those three men standing above her, treating her like a caged animal, talking about making her better, their will to erase her just to avoid the discomfort of having her around and not being able to manage such creature.

[searcheress]

Witchy corner

[lazyyogi]

What are the first steps to freedom?

Freedom is the reign of your naturalness. As such, the journey to freedom is a path of return to one’s primordial Self. 

The first step is right where you are, today. 

A few places from which you might begin:

The voice in your head. 

No matter how interesting and brilliant or anxious and intense, the voice in your head is not you. 

It is something you experience. 

Watch that voice. Do not accept what it says at face value. Learn when to doubt it.

That voice is a brain-tool; it is not who you are. 

Your desires and attachments. 

What do you desire on a daily basis? What gives you feelings of happiness?

Certain desires can be worth cultivating, such as art and self-expression. Those desires bring you closer to yourself in a conscious manner. 

Other desires are distractions and places of stagnation. 

Learn to discriminate between the two. Sacrifice any and everything that tries to hold you back or in place. 

What do you attach to?

What do you use to orient your world and sense of reality or sense of self?

Everything changes and nothing can be depended upon to remain the same. 

Learn to let go of what you are attached to before life forces you to do so through suffering change. 

Daily meditation. 

Meditation is like an egg. It contains everything needed for the birth of reality. 

Nurture the practice daily. You will not regret it. 

Uncover your inspiration of Ultimate Reality.

Buddhists use the notion of Emptiness and Voidness to get in touch with Ultimate Reality. 

Many religions may use God. 

Mysticisms tend to use formless undying consciousness. 

Others use transcendent Love. 

The gist:

Something can inspire you to feel in touch with the Divine or the Ultimate Reality. 

In actuality, this is none other than your Primordial Self, the truth of your existence. 

Treat it like an art and find what inspires your mind and heart. 

Read stuff.

Recommendations:

The Avadhuta Gita as translated by Sri Purohit Swami

The Ashtavaktra Gita as translated by Thomas Byrom

The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle

The Places That Scare You by Pema Chodron

I Am That by Nisargadatta Maharaj

Anything by Sri Ramana Maharshi

Anything by Sri ShivaRudraBalayogi

Anything by Adyashanti

The Seven Steps to Awakening

This is a lot of stuff. You may begin anywhere. The spiritual path, the path of freedom, is like picking up a scent. You get a whiff and you follow it where it takes you. 

If you are struggling with depression, start there. If you are dealing with fear, start there. If you are seeking truth beyond what society tells you, go with that. If you are yearning for a love that has no beginning and no conditions, do it. 

Your path begins every day, today. 

Namaste :) I hope this helped. 

[lazyyogi]

And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words… As if you had a meaning, as if you were a mere word, as if you were something that could be looked up in a dictionary. You are meaning.

Alan Watts (via lazyyogi)

[aspiritualwarrior]

Meditation is for you to realise that the deepest nature of your existence is beyond thoughts and emotions, that it is incredibly vast and interconnected with all other beings.

Tenzin Palmo (via aspiritualwarrior)

[searcheress]

The silent agony

Sara Di Pierantonio had 22 years

Sara lived in Rome

Sara had an ex boyfriend, with whom was quite amicable in spite of a violent accident when they were together, she never reported it because she didn’t want to cause him trouble even if she was scared

Sara found love again and was heading home after a date when her ex boyfriend bumped his car into hers one night

Made her stop, covered her in alcohol 

Sara was capable to jump of of her car to cry for help

Not one car passing by stopped

Sara was chased and eventually set on fire with her car

Right now , in Italy a woman is killed every three days. 

This has to stop, we need to acknowledge that this is hate gender crime. 

If you are a woman in Europe violence is the number one cause of death between age 14 and 44

If you are a woman you need to be afraid that one day that person who now says “i love you” will kill you with his bare hands, of disfigure you with acid, stab you and your child multiple times and the dump your remains while going on with his life until he is caught

I am so in pain right now i can’t even put my anger into words

[searcheress]

Outrage After A Man Stabbed A Stranger To Death Because He Felt "Ignored" By Women This is so sad and infuriating at the same time if all this acts were targeted against a racial group or a religion we would definitely talk about hate crime

[lazyyogi]

Is it normal to get irritated of people and to feel contempt when they don't do what they are supposed to? I think I'm being critical and arrogant. I don't want to feel this way but I can't help it. I always try to be considerate and be kind but most people are just plain inconsiderate. This hurts me and I think I am starting to hate them. How do I get around this?

Forget normal. Does it feel good to get irritated and feel contempt? 

On a shallow level, it is satisfying. Like scratching an itch. But look deeper and you will see how it is not a state of peace nor happiness. 

Be satisfied with nothing less than your own inner freedom to be peaceful and happy always. 

The source of authentic consideration and kindness is awakeness. When you begin to awaken from ego-identification, the narrowness of perceived individuality, you will naturally be considerate toward others. You’re in touch with that now–don’t doubt it. 

You will regard others in ways impossible to comprehend unless others awaken too. So you must be patient with those who are not conscious in the same way that you are yet. 

After all, there was a time you were once another way too. 

That said–don’t make yourself a slave to others’ ignorance. You can emanate kindness and compassion while saying “no.” Compassion is not about enabling the ignorance of others. Think of compassion like the energy of a fierce mother. The mother doesn’t take no shit from her children but she would also die protecting them. 

A good book is The Places That Scare You by Pema Chodron. 

Namaste :)

[searcheress]

Coloring books are a form of meditation.

Actually they are a very useful tool for preparing our minds to meditate, they help the mind finding focus ( Dharana ).

Coloring allows the fear centre of your brain ( the amigdala ) to relax, and it actually trains it to better handle stress.

Coloring can change your heart rate and brainwaves, it facilitates replacing negative thoughts and images with pleasant ones.

Coloring opens up the frontal lobe which handles decision making processes by allowing you to make easy decisions that consistently lower your stress and improve your ability to choose 

Coloring is successfully used to ease patient pain

I was curious to try it and i have to say i was not disappointed at all

[fyp-psychology]

Free yourself from the illusion of good and bad days. Labeling time makes us nostalgic of the past and demanding of the future. There is only here and now. Let it be.

Ram Dass (via fyp-psychology)

[stardust-seedling]

The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure.

Baruch Spinoza (via stardust-seedling)

[shencomix]

Martha is the worst.

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[panatmansam]

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650) French Philosopher (via panatmansam)

[searcheress]

Wild moon child

I’m a wild moon child

i lived

hidden in my fort

under a square blanket 

telling myself it’s a playful thing

untile there was no air to breathe

I peek 

through the fabric of my soul

but the light is oh so strong

i fear i will go blind

but i also know

that Odin gave his eye

Am i ready to die?

Am i ready to live?

[sparksflyonestreet]

The whole idea of men creating perfect robot women for their own pleasure, it happens every day. The most “beautiful" women you see in public, none of them are for real. They’re just men perpetuating their perverted stereotype of women. Just the oldest story in the world. There’s a penis on every page of Cosmopolitan magazine if you know where to look.

“Haunted” - Chuck Palahniuk   (via tsavast)

[searcheress]

The man with universe in his throat.

Mary Lennox: - In India when it rained, my ayah would tell me stories. In one of the stories there was a god who reminds me of you. When he was growing up…. He had to be kept a secret, so no one would see him.

Colin: Really? Why?

Mary Lennox: Because his uncle wanted to kill him. His uncle dreamed the young god would take over heaven.

Colin: Where did he hide?

Mary: He lived with some cows.

Colin: Was he different from other people?

Mary: Only on the inside. When you looked down his throat you could see the universe.

Colin: The universe couldn’t fit down anybody’s throat.

Mary: Down his it could.

Colin: How? He’d have to be bigger than the whole universe to fit it down his throat. You said he looked like everybody else on the outside.

Mary: That’s right. It’s inside that he was different.

I wonder why we feel the need to hide, the urge to merge and disappear.

Maybe it’s because we need so bad to belong, and our society told us the only way to do so is by sacrificing ourselves.

Or is something more ancient , to protect ourselves from those evil uncles out there scared by us and ready to take us down because they think we are some kind of threat to them? 

I still can remember the first time i heard those words watching The secret garden, it felt so poetic ,impossible and yet true. I thought “ we al carry the universe in our throats”.