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[radical-revolution]

slowing down is not stopping, is making space to breathe, reflect, and realign with what actually matters.

it is a powerful, conscious decision to move through life intentionally.

[thebibliosphere]

This is your reminder that if you are feeling helpless and cannot be on the front lines, there are other ways to help.

People need to be fed. Check to see what your local food pantry situation is. Make hot meals for people you know have been out in the cold for hours on end. Emergency kits for field medics need to be supplied. People need help getting to the pharmacy, the grocery store. Help shovel your neighbor’s sidewalk if you’re able. Find a way to do something.

Build connections. Build community. They want us frightened and isolated. Refuse.

[favorite-aesthetic]

The Most Majestic Libraries In The World

[socialjusticeinamerica]

[wilwheaton]

I've been thinking ... since it's clear the the Constitution doesn't mean anything anymore, and politicians who don't feel like following the law can just ignore it: Obama 2020.

[uijayi]

[cuteandadorable]

❤🐾😾

[thinkveganworld]

Well, this brought tears to my eyes.  Animals have emotions, and if they’re abandoned or pushed aside, it hurts them emotionally and physically.  Please handle them with care.

[tibetanthangkapaintings]

Sending healing energy to @dalailama that was hospitalised today due to a chest infection. His Holiness is feeling better now. 🙏 https://www.instagram.com/p/BwEuxa0Bfey/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=u8p0t39iuigd

[justbeingnamaste]

“Everything is within your power, and your power is within you.”

[black-bloc-antifa]

[jayasrilaprabhupada-deactivated]

Prabodhananda Sarasvati Thakura

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🌺Beyond the world of the three modes of nature, which is decorated with numberless universes and filled with suffering, is the shoreless ocean of bliss that is the self manifested, brilliant effulgence of the spiritual world.

🌸The wise know this spiritual effulgence free from the waves of material change and without suffering, ignorance, or the activities of ignorance, as the Supreme Brahman.

🌺He who takes shelter of Vrndavana, which is beyond the three modes of nature, which by its own mercy shines on the earth, which generously gives the nectar of pure love for Lord Hari, and which is filled with splendid bliss and flooded with unequalled sweetness, is honored by the three worlds.

[weirdlandtv]

Friar Park, George Harrison’s home from 1970 to his death in 2001.

The huge 1889 neo-Gothic mansion, with its grottoes, secret passageways, giggling gnomes, sprawling gardens and mysterious and quirky inscriptions, inspired quite a few songs by the former Beatle. Among them “Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll)” (1970), a nod to its eccentric former owner; “Ding Dong, Ding Dong” (1974) which contains one of its many inscriptions: “Ring out the old, ring in the new / Ring out the false, ring in the true”; and “The Answer’s at the End” (1975), of which the title and a portion of the lyrics are taken from another one of its engravings: “Scan not a friend with a microscopic glass / You know his faults, now let his foibles pass / Life is one long enigma, my friend / So read on, read on, the answer’s at the end.”

“Flying Hour”, written in 1978, quotes an inscription from Friar Park’s clock tower:

Past is gone, thou canst not that recall

Future is not, may not be at all

Present is, [so] improve the flying hour

Present only is within thy power.

Wise words. Further, the cover of George’s first solo album ALL THINGS MUST PASS (1970) was shot at Friar park, as were the videos for the 1976 songs “Crackerbox Palace” and “True Love”, and I’m sure you’ve seen that bit in THE BEATLES ANTHOLOGY of Paul, George and Ringo reminiscing in the garden. For George, the mansion was a treasure trove that kept on giving.

Having grown up in a similar spooky and magical place, also with bits of wisdom scattered throughout (“Fear not about what might happen / For what happens is never what you fear”), I’ve always been fascinated by Friar Park, so much that I visited it in 2011. I took this photo of its gate then (that’s not the house by the way, but one of its lodges):

As former Beatles press agent Derek Taylor wrote about the house: “It is a dream on a hill and it came, not by chance, to the right man at the right time.”

There’s some more to show even, so there will be a follow-up later on.

[jtl-art-gallery]

“Deep Woods” acrylic painting by Joe Lytle

[spacevorobey]

[ebonetnoir]

I visited the Morgan Library and Museum yesterday. What a fabulous place! A book lover’s dream.

[starseededhippie]

Trust the Universe

[tibetanthangkapaintings]

A bodhisattva handles enlightenment and afflictions in the same way a skillful gardener handles flowers and garbage - without discrimination. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh