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That’s where the magic lies. Quote author unknown but given to me by the fabulous Rose Ramsay

#5rhythms #5r #gabrielleroth #gabrielle roth

We asked readers to tell us about the walks they are taking, what they see on their travels and how they feel as they cover old ground or forge new paths.

Beautiful photographs, universal text - this is a very lovely read

#flowers and plants #walking street #walking in nature #dailywalk

“Someone left the gate open..”

Into the Wild

#intothewild #gates

“More than anything we want to exist in pure, flowy freedom. We don’t actually want to build dams. We need to get out of the way. We need to let go. We need to take our filthy mitts off life...for ourselves and for others. Besides we don’t want to feel we have to do it all on our own. I want to know that life “has this one”. That I’m held and can chill out on top deck for a bit with a drink with an umbrella in it..” Sarah Wilson from “First we make the beast beautiful”

#simone de beauvoir #the blood of others #freedom #flow

Sublime music, this is so beautiful

#vivaldi

Capturing sunlight

Photo Credit: Autumn Rain

#sunlight #sunbeams #sunjar

Peace every morning under my oak tree

Video credit Sussi Louise Smith

#sage #sageburning

Nurture the Mood of Dawn

“Considering a day’s activities, first get up early, wash and groom yourself, dress properly, including accessories, and sit quietly with your hands folded, making your appearance and manner correct. Nurture the mood of dawn, and contemplate the principle of heaven and earth ceaselessly producing life… Above all, you should observe subtle impulses. When a man of mettle is at home, if he is circumspect even in solitude, then he will have a calm conscience. He does not neglect manners - whether in public, or out of sight. Here his mind is broad, here his body is robust, here his attention is focused; his will has a definite direction, and no ideas of license or indulgence occur to him.”

- From Shidō (The Way of the Knight), Yamaga Soko

via Lucian James Fearless Strategies No 3

Photo Credit: friend of my friend Sussi Louise Smith

#dawn #lucianjames #fearless #nurture #shido #yamagasoko

“And the whirlwind is in the thorn tree..”

#johnnycash

The Universe in Verse 2020 trailer: "Antidotes to Fear of Death" from Maria Popova on Vimeo.

#vimeo

ANTIDOTES TO FEAR OF DEATH by Rebecca Elson

Sometimes as an antidote To fear of death, I eat the stars.

Those nights, lying on my back, I suck them from the quenching dark Til they are all, all inside me, Pepper hot and sharp.

Sometimes, instead, I stir myself Into a universe still young, Still warm as blood:

No outer space, just space, The light of all the not yet stars Drifting like a bright mist, And all of us, and everything Already there But unconstrained by form.

And sometime it’s enough To lie down here on earth Beside our long ancestral bones:

To walk across the cobble fields Of our discarded skulls, Each like a treasure, like a chrysalis, Thinking: whatever left these husks Flew off on bright wings.

#rebecca elson #fear of death #antidote #poetry