wizethings

What have you learned today???

[gentlechamomile]

Sex, like all things, is righteous to the extent that heaven meets earth there. In modern times, the physical drama of sex is OVERVALUED, while its spiritual meaning is under appreciated. We tend to overemphasize, to literally idolize sex, not because we appreciate its importance but because we do not. By cheapening sex, we fail to honor it. By casting a garish, ugly light upon its every detail, we hide our faces from its mystery. Sex is not, in its essence, about the body at ALL. It is an opportunity for us to remove our emotional armor with someone who wants us to remove it and who want to remove his or her own. Problems occur when we have sex with people who have NO desire whatsoever for us to be so naked in their presence, who have no sense of the sacred responsibility it is to hold another person’s heart in their hands. Sex, when it is a vehicle for love, is HOLY. Sex without love is dangerous. It leads to pain and some level of emotional destruction, whether consciously experienced immediately or not. Sex should be a deepening of communication, not a substitute for it. Sex that is sacred is a marriage of hearts. In this fierce and fiery joining the beginning of the world is reenacted. Something is born whether we conceive or not, for we are chemically altered, profoundly changed by the act of having fully expressed ourselves and shared our love so deeply. It is one of our sicker cultural obscenities that we present sex to our children via media in such incredibly CASUAL, loveless images. It is an area where the modern home is bombarded with darkness: Where sex is degraded, love is degraded; where love is degraded, the world falls apart. But when honesty, vulnerability and kindness form a backdrop to the emotional risk of the moment, sex is an experience of great light. Its healing power is legion. Great sex is emotional starlight. We have sex a million times in an effort to achieve that one in a million. If we had over-the-moon sex on a regular basis, sex that rings from the soul and sends shock waves through us, there would be LESS disease, LESS anger and probably LESS war. If every man and woman alive could feel the crazy, delirious rush of the soul when it touches the soul of another, this world would be a happier place. God celebrates pleasure: only people condemn it. Our demeaning, gross and pathetic attempts to sexualize the world inappropriately - libidinizing products that we do not need in order to manufacture false desire to feed our commercial machinery - is an immorality. It lacks RESPECT not only for human beings, but also for the role that sex can and should play in a spiritually mature existence. Why do we as a culture sensationalize and exploit dark and meaningless sex? Because we lack the experience of its dazzling light. In failing to cultivate a healthy respect for sexual power, we become vulnerable to its misuse. Anything repressed expresses itself inappropriately. A righteous experience of sex cannot be found outside a spiritual center, an authentic human soulfulness, because nothing can. That which is within us can save us, but the same things misused are the things that will destroy us. There’s a state of being that is raw and authentic and fiercely graceful, like a great ballerina dancing in her prime. Sex in that place is more than just sex. With every couple who make it past the sad disconnection of sex that’s just sex to the fire at our center, the world is brought closer to the end of its pain. How excruciating to have touched that place, and then to land unsuspectingly back in the world as we knew it: the cold, nonintimate, unsoft world of people who cannot find each other. That’s why we should NEVER have sex casually. If you’re not with a person who’s an artist at love, the art of love is a dangerous game. A lot of people can join us for the view of heaven that sex can give. But there aren’t a lot of people who can stay awake in the morning, who have the personal skills to hold on to the vision once the sun has risen and the world is calling. It takes depth and maturity, or the innocence of youth, to have the personality structure it takes to cherish today whom we cherished last night. So be careful but be brave - that’s what the good witch of good sex would tell us. And God - what would He say? Oh, I think He would say, be careful but be brave. In your arms you are holding the most precious creature: my child in whom I am adoringly pleased. Love him and honor him, be kind to him and bring him deep peace. Pray that your energies might bless him and protect him. Surrender your heart and surrender your soul. Pray before, pray during, pray after.

Marianne Williamson   (via mindofataurus)

[gentlechamomile]

Sex, like all things, is righteous to the extent that heaven meets earth there. In modern times, the physical drama of sex is OVERVALUED, while its spiritual meaning is under appreciated. We tend to overemphasize, to literally idolize sex, not because we appreciate its importance but because we do not. By cheapening sex, we fail to honor it. By casting a garish, ugly light upon its every detail, we hide our faces from its mystery. Sex is not, in its essence, about the body at ALL. It is an opportunity for us to remove our emotional armor with someone who wants us to remove it and who want to remove his or her own. Problems occur when we have sex with people who have NO desire whatsoever for us to be so naked in their presence, who have no sense of the sacred responsibility it is to hold another person’s heart in their hands. Sex, when it is a vehicle for love, is HOLY. Sex without love is dangerous. It leads to pain and some level of emotional destruction, whether consciously experienced immediately or not. Sex should be a deepening of communication, not a substitute for it. Sex that is sacred is a marriage of hearts. In this fierce and fiery joining the beginning of the world is reenacted. Something is born whether we conceive or not, for we are chemically altered, profoundly changed by the act of having fully expressed ourselves and shared our love so deeply. It is one of our sicker cultural obscenities that we present sex to our children via media in such incredibly CASUAL, loveless images. It is an area where the modern home is bombarded with darkness: Where sex is degraded, love is degraded; where love is degraded, the world falls apart. But when honesty, vulnerability and kindness form a backdrop to the emotional risk of the moment, sex is an experience of great light. Its healing power is legion. Great sex is emotional starlight. We have sex a million times in an effort to achieve that one in a million. If we had over-the-moon sex on a regular basis, sex that rings from the soul and sends shock waves through us, there would be LESS disease, LESS anger and probably LESS war. If every man and woman alive could feel the crazy, delirious rush of the soul when it touches the soul of another, this world would be a happier place. God celebrates pleasure: only people condemn it. Our demeaning, gross and pathetic attempts to sexualize the world inappropriately - libidinizing products that we do not need in order to manufacture false desire to feed our commercial machinery - is an immorality. It lacks RESPECT not only for human beings, but also for the role that sex can and should play in a spiritually mature existence. Why do we as a culture sensationalize and exploit dark and meaningless sex? Because we lack the experience of its dazzling light. In failing to cultivate a healthy respect for sexual power, we become vulnerable to its misuse. Anything repressed expresses itself inappropriately. A righteous experience of sex cannot be found outside a spiritual center, an authentic human soulfulness, because nothing can. That which is within us can save us, but the same things misused are the things that will destroy us. There’s a state of being that is raw and authentic and fiercely graceful, like a great ballerina dancing in her prime. Sex in that place is more than just sex. With every couple who make it past the sad disconnection of sex that’s just sex to the fire at our center, the world is brought closer to the end of its pain. How excruciating to have touched that place, and then to land unsuspectingly back in the world as we knew it: the cold, nonintimate, unsoft world of people who cannot find each other. That’s why we should NEVER have sex casually. If you’re not with a person who’s an artist at love, the art of love is a dangerous game. A lot of people can join us for the view of heaven that sex can give. But there aren’t a lot of people who can stay awake in the morning, who have the personal skills to hold on to the vision once the sun has risen and the world is calling. It takes depth and maturity, or the innocence of youth, to have the personality structure it takes to cherish today whom we cherished last night. So be careful but be brave - that’s what the good witch of good sex would tell us. And God - what would He say? Oh, I think He would say, be careful but be brave. In your arms you are holding the most precious creature: my child in whom I am adoringly pleased. Love him and honor him, be kind to him and bring him deep peace. Pray that your energies might bless him and protect him. Surrender your heart and surrender your soul. Pray before, pray during, pray after.

Marianne Williamson   (via mindofataurus)

[gentlechamomile]

No matter what, you must deal with the frightened parts of your personality or else, they’ll express itself in different forms. That’s a guarantee. Choosing to dimming your light in order to avoid criticism, doesn’t deal with the part of you that tells you, “You’re not good enough.” The same goes for superiority. Choosing to say you’re better than others doesn’t acknowledge the fact that you too feel inferior. Because you can only be ENOUGH when you’re better than someone else. 

[wonderfulyou]

#yogagirlchallenge Day 11 is a Random Act of Kindness day. Tomorrow, I don’t want you to think of a random act of kindness of your own like last time, but rather for all of us to unite in one, big, beautiful cause.

Did you know that one in ten children suffer from sexual abuse during their childhood? In the USA alone, 400.000 kids are victims every single year. In developing countries the number is much much higher, and even in Sweden the true estimate is that four children in each class suffers from sexual abuse every year. This is a horrific, heart wrenching problem and one that is tabu - people just don’t speak up about sexual abuse. As long as there is silence it is impossible for change to take place and it’s time for this to change.

Tomorrow is Trasdockans Dag (The Day Of The Rag Doll) in Sweden and thousands of people gather at Medborgarplatsen to push for these silent voices to be heard and to give children and adults the courage to break the silence. For one solid minute, everybody screams together. As loud as they can. Young children that suffer from this abuse don’t have to voice to speak up so on this day, we gather to do it for them. If you live in the Stockholm area - please go take part in the event and SCREAM FOR KIDS! Lots of people and music and healing vibes and trust me, it feels damn good to scream your head off and let some demons out. The louder we are the more awareness we spread!

Together with my mom @trostisar (who dedicates her life to supporting kids in need) I am helping to raise awareness for this cause all over the world and our #yogagirlchallenge is a perfect opportunity.

For tomorrow’s challenge theme I want you to SCREAM! Wherever you are! Turn your video recording on, aim it at anything you want and scream your head off for 15 seconds. It’s might feel weird and you’ll probably need to find a good spot to do it but think of it as releasing all the built up tension you are holding inside from the bullshit you’ve endured throughout your life while helping support a day dedicated to children in need. Tag #screamforkids + #yogagirlchallenge - check out atsub.se or d2l.org for more ways to support. Let’s scream our heads off! (at Scream For Kids!!!)

[littleflower96-deactivated20150]

[wizethings]

Oh the homes of fairy's and gnomes!

[wizethings]

My love, he has my heart in his hands. He builds love like no other I've ever known and that love built so high may be my down fall. Or the rock of my salvation.

[atmidnightcc]

Miss Brent meeting his doppleganger on last night’s episode? Watch it all online here!

[pickypicnic]

[ibiza-travel-guide-deactivated2]

i’ve been wondering what this is from and it’s from this film called Kirikou et la Sorcière : Drawn from elements of West African folk tales, it depicts how a newborn boy, Kirikou, saves his village from the evil witch Karaba.

[butterlounge]

[peanutbutta]

Meet the real life mermaid who swims with jellyfish and can hold her breath under water for up to five minutes

Linden Wolbert travels the world as a full time professional mermaid and uses her custom-made 6ft tail to propel her through the water.

The 32-year-old freediver and model can swim to depths of 115ft and uses her skills to promote ocean conservation and education.

WHAT

[the-milk-eyed-mender]

how do u go about being a “professional” mermaid

who pays you?

[loganlaveau]

who cares PROFESSIONAL MERMAID

[gentlechamomile]

Your emotions are the gateway to understanding your inner world. You will continue to encounter circumstances that trigger painful emotions until you look beyond them to the interior dynamics that create your emotional pain.

When you do that, you embark upon the journey that you were born to take.

[gentlechamomile]

"Unconditional love" confuses need with love. Love is blissful and requires nothing. Need is painful, has conditions, and always demands MORE. For example, when you buy a new car (house, suit, bicycle) that you have been longing to own, your need for the car (painful) is replaced by your need to protect it (painful). When you create a relationship, at last, that gives you the security, sex, or family that you dreamed of, your fear of not finding such a relationship (painful) is replaced by your fear of losing it (painful). These are NOT experiences of love. They are experiences of NEED. They may LOOK and feel like love to the one who needs, but the experience of attachment always reveals otherwise. The experience of attachment IS the experience of need. "Unrequited love" is unrequited need in disguise—experiences of one human reaching futilely for fulfillment through another, withering in loneliness, or drowning in despair. Painful experiences are NOT love no matter how much they APPEAR to be. For example, a friend of mine raised a small dog from a puppy, looking forward to seeing it every evening, and played with it on weekends. The dog was a big part of his life. One afternoon it ran away. He called, whistled, and searched. Family and friends came to help. Suddenly in the midst of communal whistling and calling it reappeared, carefree as before. My friend rushed toward it with anger distorting his face. The dog cowered, too frightened to run. It whined once as he swept it off its feet and shook it in the air. He furiously shouted at the terrified animal not to run away again. When his family tried to calm him he shouted at them, "It’s my dog, dammit!" Later, embarrassed but repentant, he explained, “I love that dog. I love it as much as anyone in my family. That is why I was angry when it ran away and why I needed to make it understand not to run away again.” He mistook need for love. One part of his personality loved the dog, but another part NEEDED the dog and was terrified to lose it. That part became active when the dog ran away. Need requires a return on investment, whether the investment is time, money, or “love.” The dog did not provide the return that a frightened part of my friend’s personality expected. He did not think about investments or returns but a frightened part of his personality that he was unaware of did, and it became furious when the animal ran away. Beneath his fury was fear of losing something important. He thought that was his dog, but it was not. It was what the dog brought him, at least temporarily—experiences of feeling loved and lovable, belonging, and being a part of Life.

Gary Zukav  (via mindofataurus)

[gentlechamomile]

2014 is the year of affirmation. Take the time to affirm the aspects of your life you want to attract, develop or transform. 

Affirmations here.

[beherenowandzen-deactivated2016]

The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life’s challenges when they come. Through those challenges, an already unconscious person tends to become more deeply unconscious, and a conscious person more intensely conscious. You can use a challenge to awaken you, or you can allow it to pull you into even deeper sleep.

Eckhart Tolle (via beherenowandzen)

[coketalk]

Worth a trip to New York.

[wizethings]

Is this real??? I so would see that!

[wizethings]

In this moment my heart hurt from the love I felt. God's love, my family's love and of course his love.

[lazyyogi]

I'm non-binary transgender, gender fluid to be specific. Most people just assume I'm female. I'm on the verge of abandoning the idea of getting people to recognize that I'm just as male as female. I'm also a future (public) music educator, so being trans could constitute sexual misconduct to some ignorant parent that demands I be fired. Do you have any advice or opinions on keeping my mouth shut vs educating the ignorant?

It is a very common teaching in Yoga and Tantra that every living being has a play of masculine and feminine energy within them. Allowing this expression on a bodily level is not too different. 

But it will confuse a lot of people. This is mostly due to our conditioning. Try not to take it personally, even though it may feel personal. If people really knew you and really knew themselves, there would be only love and acceptance. If there is no love and acceptance, then there is some fundamental knowledge left untouched within. 

I have never been a fan of gender identities, be they male, female, or any sort of definition derived from them. This is for the simple fact that the body is a temporary experience. To define ourselves by that experience does not make sense to me, nor does it make sense to limit our sense of aliveness to gender norms. 

To learn to express ourselves thoroughly and honestly in this moment is the intimate work of a lifetime. It is not about expressing emotions or liberations or rebellions or causes. It’s something much more eternal than those plays, yet doesn’t exclude them either. 

As a future educator, especially a musician, you should learn how to educate with your mouth shut. Words only go so far. To speak and educate without words requires you to live your philosophy fully instead of explaining it. 

People can resist or argue against words. They can become violent and aggressive. Seeking to educate the unwilling can be a dangerous thing—just ask Jesus. But there can be no argument made against embodiment. 

I am reminded of someone who once asked the enlightened sage Ramana Maharshi why he does not go out and speak to people all over the world, and why he prefers silence to speaking many words. Ramana replied that some people who go to a lecture may or may not learn something. Perhaps they leave the lecture and think it over, but a few days later they are just replaced with other daily thoughts. Whereas someone who sits in the company of a silent sage may be moved to feel something beyond words. Then that person leaves with something much more intimate and lasting than words. 

You have more choices than simply to hide yourself or confront the ignorant. My advice would be to abide as an undisturbed ambassador. Open yet without an agenda, honest but crafty, and ultimately seeking to bridge a non-existent border. 

Continue to know and recognize and be as yourself more fully. Daily meditation is something I cannot emphasize enough. Those who have eyes will certainly recognize the Being in you, and those who are not really looking will have nothing to see. 

“Be a true representative of the goodness in your heart, and don’t expect it to be easy or even noticed.” ~ Adyashanti

Namaste my friend :) Much love