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[thecalminside]

The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers.

Rabindranath Tagore (via thecalminside)

[theliteraryjournals]

It’s never the changes we want that change everything.

Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (via meditationsinwonderland)

[terracemuse]

How much more of it remains? (Masaoka shiki 1867-1902)

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[pvris-l-a-b]

Take Lynn’s advice, she knows best

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Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it’s a feather bed.

Terence McKenna (via earthmedicina)

[i-call-you-her]

[purplebuddhaproject]

Let us encourage one another with spiritual friendship, conversations that are uplifting, and remembrance of our sacred purpose in life.

Ellen Grace O'Brian (via purplebuddhaproject)

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

Own your longing. Do you hear me? Own it.

Anne Sexton, from A Self-Portrait In Letters (via violentwavesofemotion)

[studdedheartsblog]

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[purplebuddhaproject]

[moon-in-a-dewdrop-deactivated20]

They don’t teach you this in school. They don’t show you the beauty of existing, they don’t show you the wonder of the earth, they don’t show you the unity that human beings are. They show you who’s better, who’s worse. They show you what they need to show you in order for their system to survive. They don’t show you love.

Literature On High   (via blua)

[purplebuddhaproject]

Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.

Jon Kabat-Zinn (via purplebuddhaproject)

[aspiritualwarrior]

The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use, even spirituality.

Chogyam Trungpa, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism (via aspiritualwarrior)

[jerfreyy-deactivated20240211]

Oh my God, what if you wake up some day, and you’re 65, or 75, and you never got your memoir or novel written; or you didn’t go swimming in warm pools and oceans all those years because your thighs were jiggly and you had a nice big comfortable tummy; or you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life, of imagination and radical silliness and staring off into space like when you were a kid? It’s going to break your heart. Don’t let this happen.

Anne Lamott (via jerfreyy)

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