Dec 26, 2017
Balance in motion. Salty hair and sandy feet. Portugal 2017.
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Balance in motion. Salty hair and sandy feet. Portugal 2017.
The more I moved the more I realize the importance of being out in nature.
Future. A strong word. While learning to provide for the future, humans also started to worry. My journey showed me that someone who is struggling to survive is more thankful for being healthy & alive, for friends and family and daily food than someone who is brought up in the Western society. A small reminder for all of us this upcoming weekend ❤️
Being back in Europe made me wonder about how heavy people are going through life, almost as it was a burden. This challenge filled with worries about the future, creating anxiety about what will be. I wondered where this lightness had gone? This excitement about life and all its wonders. Suffering stems not from the events in our lives but our judgement about them - Epictetus Although written so many decades ago this statement is more than true in our modern day society. We cannot always have control about the events happening to us but about how we approach things while practising self control and avoiding emotional extremes. Although we are heroes in desiring things, we should make ourselves aware that there is no ideal state nor world but the present and how we deal with it, while seeing everything we own as borrowed and one day we have to give it back to the universe.
Have a great week everyone ❤️
Beautiful find 🍃
Thanks my wonderful friends for still being with me ❤️ I needed a break from what has happened and truly focus on myself. The past couple of weeks have been an intense confrontation of life, death and emotions. Thoughts of emptiness and failure crossed my mind, so did freedom and happiness. On my journey I realized that emotions are not there to be judged but to be understood, this way we eliminate fear and find the courage to let go. The past has powerful effects on the self and this is why it is important to see a purpose in everything that is happening to us in the present to discover mindfulness and freedom, freedom from pain. Once we learn to forgive and accept ourselves we love more deeply in a way as it should be ~ let's continue this journey together 💛
2017 will be more about stillness as I realized there is still a lot to be processed. Nevertheless I am glad to be given this second life and am excited for whatever will come ✨
When I am out in nature I always wonder to what price our Western lifestyle has changed after Second World War and how Ego has become all of a sudden more important than community, how possessions more valuable than experiences, beauty defined by newspapers and how institutions have been given more respect than elders, uniforms more trust than ourselves and in the end a cycle of disorientation and pressure has been created in order to satisfy greedy heartless souls. One of the biggest lessons I learnt is to start making choices consciously for myself and the community to head out in confidence and not let others abuse my own vulnerability, but let my own thoughts steer this journey while trying to create something beautiful for those souls I actually love <3
From that winter I chose to spent in Portugal with a soulmate I met in Peru.