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“These are the times in life — when nothing happens — but in quietness the soul expands.”

— Artist and philosopher Rockwell Kent’s century-old meditations on wilderness, solitude, and creativity, penned during a seven-month adventure in Alaska with his young son – immensely insightful, almost unbearably beautiful. (via explore-blog)

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“The mind creates the abyss, and the heart crosses it.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

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“If you ever find yourself looking for a miracle,

look at the grass growing beneath your feet,

at blossoms turning to fruit,

at the tiny acorn that grows into the giant oak.

Nature is a world of miracles.

You are one of them.”

— Quiet Lotus

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“I said to the almond tree, ‘Friend, speak to me of God,’ and the almond tree blossomed.”

— Nikos Kazantzakis

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How many instruments can you count in Tiff’s studio space? (Hint: don’t forget the basket of flutes in the corner). #musicmonday #musicianlife https://www.instagram.com/p/CFaBOGvBM_R/?igshid=ysfpdw7ewech

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Seeking Yourself

When we seek a sense of wholeness or completion, what we are really seeking is ourselves. This is because we are innately complete. We cannot be made any more complete than we already are.

To seek completion, therefore, is to seek yourself. However, seeking yourself in things that are not you will only lead to suffering. Seeking yourself in external things, in temporary feelings, in narrow ideologies, none of it will work.

When you chase after people to fill the role of a boyfriend, you are seeking yourself through another person. When you judge people by how much money or fame they have, you are seeking yourself through commodity. When you defend your ego, you are seeking yourself through a self-image.

The urge to seek yourself, to awaken to yourself, is natural and innate. But the places we aim that urge create confusion and suffering inside us.

Try an experiment and assume you are whole, that you need nothing added to you. Every wonderful moment and experience in your life has only ever come from within you and there they are always shining. Now see the ways in which you rob yourself of that sense of wholeness when you go about your day.

What makes you feel a sense of lack, of being less than miraculous? There lies the chance to discover where you are putting up illusory divisions within yourself.

See for yourself where and when you start self-seeking. Does it work? Or perhaps it is more like drinking saltwater, which only leaves you thirsty for more.

If you want peace, if you want love, if you want happiness, aim for the highest form of all three: eternity.

Namaste

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