The Path to Consciousness

My personal path of self-discovery and happiness.

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Questions

I always have questions swirling through my head. Questions about why I do what I do? And does what I do even matter? If I smoke weed very other day and drink beer once a week does that make me a bad person? Am I weaker because of it? Is there a spiritual perfection? Or do we all just try our best to be the best we can be and follow what makes our heart race? 

And on top of those kind of questions I also ask myself, are these questions healthy? I don’t know. I think so most of the time, sometimes I wish I could quiet my mind a bit. And when I think that, I try to implement meditation into my daily routine. It truly makes me feel better to just take a step back and breath. 

Therapy has done absolute wonders for me. Stephanie helps me by asking questions I don’t always ask myself. Like today when we met, she asked me to take some time this week and ask myself why I get so emotional when I talk about the future. What initiates the tears? Does marijuana induce tears? Does fear induce? A combination? Can I pin-point anything?

And despite the headaches, I am thankful for these questions. 

[primaivy]

[stay-yourself-0]

[mstrkrftz]

Hand of God XXX by Michelle Nicole

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Rushing into action, you fail. Trying to grasp things, you lose them. Forcing a project to completion, you ruin what was almost ripe. Therefore the Master takes action by letting things take their course. He remains calm at the end as at the beginning.

Tao Te Ching - translated by Stephen Mitchell

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If you look to other for fulfillment, you will never truly be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

Tao Te Ching - translated by Stephen Mitchell

[murakamistuff]

“Is it hard on you?” she asked. “Is what hard?” “Suddenly being on your own after being a couple.” “Sometimes,” I said honestly. “But maybe going through that kind of tough, lonely experience is necessary when you’re young? Part of the process of growing up?” “You think so?” “The way surviving hard winters makes a tree grow stronger, the growth rings inside it tighter.”

Haruki Murakami - Yesterday (via her0inchic)

[placesworld]

Papua New Guinea

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I wanna go here 

[you-r-nature]

[mstrkrftz]

[wordsthat-speak]

I suppose in the end it’s almost too easy to look back and say what you should have done, how you might have changed things. What’s harder - what’s much, much harder - is to accept what you actually did do.

Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division (Peter Hook)

[lazyyogi]

3-Year-Old Claims To Remember Who Killed Him In Past Life, Leads Police To Body

In his book, Children Who Have Lived Before: Reincarnation today, German therapist Trutz Hardo shares extraordinary case studies of children from around the world who remember details of their past lives. One child in the Golan Heights, a region near the border of Syria and Israel, has a tale that will give you goosebumps.

Very interesting. 

Namaste :)

[generationvegan]

[evil-angel41]

Fuck all the suicide hotlines and shit for a second.

Reblog this just in case; you never know who might need it.

[pockyplay]

where was this when my dog was dying ):

[fire-dad]

This is so important.

[radicalginger]

There were no sex classes. No friendship classes. No classes on how to navigate a bureaucracy, build an organization, raise money, create a database, buy a house, love a child, spot a scam, talk someone out of suicide, or figure out what was important to me. Not knowing how to do these things is what messes people up in life, not whether they know algebra or can analyze literature.

William Upski Wimsatt  (via her0inchic)

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If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.

Tao Te Ching - translated by Stephen Mitchell

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Because he believes in himself, he doesn't try to convince others. Because he is content with himself, he doesn't need other's approval. Because he accepts himself, the whole world accepts him.

Tao Te Ching - translated by Stephen Mitchell