came to believe..

[fuckyeahyoga]

[theambitiouswoman]

Been thinking a lot about this lately

We rely on external factors because they give us a sense of control, and while these things do work, we can't create a mental dependency on them

When we do, we abandon our own power and create an imbalance, dismissing it with coping ideals. These practices should be seen as tools, but the power to reach any result always relies within us

We don’t have to trick ourselves into anything or force a mindset, because that only temporarily solves the issue, real transformation comes from embracing both our mind and heart

As you decide to be, so it is

[reemillustrated]

snoopy reads mary oliver!!

[trailofleaves]

Mary Oliver, “Nothing is Too Small Not to Be Wondered About”

The cricket doesn’t wonder if there’s a heaven or, if there is, if there’s room for him. It’s fall. Romance is over. Still, he sings. If he can, he enters a house through the tiniest crack under the door. Then the house grows colder. He sings slower and slower. Then, nothing. This must mean something, I don’t know what. But certainly it doesn’t mean he hasn’t been an excellent cricket all his life.

[dk-thrive]

holding their hands for a time quietly and intently around the living

Instead of picking flowers from my garden and sending them to you for your birthday on a journey they could never survive, I will offer them in the manner of the sacrificers of the Egyptian reliefs, who dedicated and presented their flowers to the gods not by picking them, but by holding their hands for a time quietly and intently around the living, growing stems. - Katharina Kippenberg, quoted in the notes of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Uncollected Poems, trans. Edward Snow (North Point Pr; Bilingual edition, March 1, 1996) (via alive on all channels)

[le-bronzage-est-delicieux]

via Archives Mood

[sacred-dwellings]

“Art matters. It is not simply a leisure activity for the privileged or a hobby for the eccentric. It is a practical good for the world. The work of the artist is an expression of hope - it is homage to the value of human life, and it is vital to society. Art is a sacred expression of human creativity that shares the same ontological ground as all human work. Art, along with all work is the ordering of creation toward the intention of the creator.”

— Michael Gungor, The Crowd, The Critic And The Muse: A Book For Creators

[artist-redon]

Mysterious Boat, 1897, Odilon Redon

Medium: oil,panel

[artist-mondrian]

Lighthouse in Westkapelle, 1909, Piet Mondrian

Medium: oil,canvas

https://www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/lighthouse-in-westkapelle-1909

[luthienne]

Mary Oliver, Winter Hours: Prose, Poems, and Prose Poems

[kafk-a]

Mary Oliver

[oldfarmhousefallfeatures]

https://www.pinterest.com/autumnharvest/

[astrolocherry]

“What was it like to wake up after having never gone to sleep? That was when you were born. You see, You cant have a experience of nothing, nature abhors a vacuum. So after your dead the only thing that can happen is the same experience, or the same sort of experience, as when you were born”

— Alan Watts

[oldfarmhousefallfeatures]

[blueleafhome]

[oldfarmhousefallfeatures]

SUNROOM

Farmhouse Interiors

http://www.instagram.com/houseandhome/

[oldfarmhousefallfeatures]

Blue❄winter sky

by celine phoenix