THE LIVING AIR

[thelivingair]

I know the cast of your favourite shows

I know that your glasses fall down your nose

I know your humour and your taste,

I know you can act with too much haste

I know your fears, I know your wishes

I know specifically how you stack the dishes

I know your eyes are a stoney blue

But there’s still one thing I wish I knew.

I know your favourite food and wine

I know when something’s on your mind

I know your kindness, I know your kiss

I know a tidy house, for you, is bliss

I know your shoe size and your style

I know your true laugh and your true smile

I know that I struck gold with you

But there’s still one thing I wish I knew.

I feel remorse when I act in fear

And my sense of honour disappears

For I know I’m yours and you are mine

And I know our love is for all time

And yet we make believe we’re friends

When we fall under the eyes of men

And I wish I could know and understand

What it is to feel safe whilst I hold your hand

[thelivingair]

Dear Grandad,

I was just a babe-in-arms;

Barely a few days

When we met in hospital,

Before you passed away

I’m 28 now, and that means

It’s that long since you’re gone,

Your children all have grandchildren,

Your grandchildren are grown

The time we shared was fleeting

Before you passed in ‘92

But there’s something that I’ve always wished

That I could say to you

I wish you could have stayed around,

And I had known your face

But worry not, because your home

Was still a magic place

I hope you felt no guilt at all

When you had to go,

Because our Nan was the best Nan

You could ever hope to know

We were never short of laughter,

We were never short of tea

I could be sure, when we arrived,

Of a great big smile for me

We were never short of “pep mints”

Biscuits, sausage rolls, jam tarts

With her own special pastry,

Made with lots of heart (and lard)

I hope that you rest easily

Because you always knew

That Nan would be so wonderful

Even though she was without you

Our memories burn brightly,

And so you both live on

In Kelly, Katy, Stacey, Julie,

Jo, Jen, me and Don

(Not forgetting all the great-grandchildren)

28 years you’ve had to wait

For the company you’re now afforded

But I’m sure you always had in mind that

“Patience is rewarded”

I’m sorry I never knew you,

But I had so much joy from Nan

So thanks for waiting all those years

With love,

From Dan

[thebuddhistmind]

Once you accept yourself as you are, you allow yourself to be happy. You don’t need to become anything or anyone else, just as a rose doesn’t need to become a lotus in order to be happy. A rose is already beautiful. You are wonderful just as you are.

Thich Nhat Hanh

[purplebuddhaproject]

“Having a low opinion of yourself is not modesty. It’s self-destruction.”

— Bobby Sommer (via purplebuddhaquotes)

[wnq-writers]

“Love yourself as if doing so will create change. It will.”

— Juansen Dizon

[thelivingair]

Accept yourself as you are. Allow yourself to be sad. Be understanding and compassionate as you might to someone else. The worst thing you can do is tell yourself you shouldn’t be feeling how you do.

[fyp-science]

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

Carl Sagan (via wordsnquotes)

[afksjadfkjasdglasdgsd-deactivat]

been feeling kind of paranoid lately

[ineedathneed]

Take that time by yourself to get to know yourself and rediscover what makes you shine. Don’t surrender yourself to waiting, and don’t stay isolated for too long, because there’s a beautiful you the world is dying to meet. 

[gwenlightened-blog]

comics that end sadly but wind up being replied to with love are what I live for

[thecalminside]

Not-knowing is true knowledge. Presuming to know is a disease. First realize that you are sick; then you can move toward health.

Lao Tzu (via thecalminside)

[aspiritualwarrior]

The truth is: you don’t have a life, you are life. The One Life, the one consciousness that pervades the entire universe and takes temporary form to experience itself as a stone or a blade of grass, as an animal, a person, a star or a galaxy. Can you sense deep within that you already know that? Can you sense that you already are That?

Eckhart Tolle  (via yeshecholwa)

[thequotejournals]

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

(via chloegouda)

[seemoreandmore]

Sometimes it’s better to stop trying to make sense of things. Life isn’t clear cut, there are always gray areas.

ALEXANDRA ADORNETTO (via seemoreandmore)

[thequotejournals]

It is both a blessing And a curse To feel everything So very deeply.

David Jones, Love and Space Dust (via thequotejournals)

[thelivingair]

I feel like I'm sleeping Can you wake me? You seem to have a broader sensibility I'm just living on nerves and feelings With a weak and a lazy mind And coming to people's parties Fumbling deaf dumb and blind

I wish I had more sense of humor Keeping the sadness at bay Throwing the lightness on these things Laughing it all away

[thelivingair]

In my 25th year I’ve only just discovered how much of a struggle life can be; how lost and lonely and sad you can feel and how nobody can do anything about it. I am grateful that I’m learning such an important lesson -  it means I’ll appreciate good things when they come around. I feel like I’ve just been born into the real world. I need to get to know myself again in these new parameters, learn to enjoy my own company again, and work out what makes me happy. But I don’t really know where to start. 

[scripturesketches]

Do not be afraid.

Appearing in various forms 365 times, this is the most frequently given commandment from God in the Bible. (via thewindthief)

[thelivingair]

Don't cling to where you are; cling to positive change.