Zdravko Stefanovic

stories and poems from my journey on a green-blue globe

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It’s not what you add to it that trips us out, it’s what we uncover inside of us that awakens the eye of conquest and creation. -Zdravko Stefanovic

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I closed my eyes and yet I could see. All of a sudden I saw the true madness of it all and I saw that it is all beautiful, in one way or the other, the entire construction of reality; pure beauty lingering inside waiting to be touched. ~Zdravko Stefanović _____________________________________ Follow me on facebook: www.facebook.com/zdravko.stefanovic.writer Also: www.zdravko-stefanovic.com Buy my book "Honoring the mystery" on Amazon, Barnes and nobles or google to find your closest distributor.

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In the center of your brain there is a button. Push it. ~Zdravko Stefanović

Visual Artist: Luke Brown

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Spiritual materialism

I'm a spiritual materialist. To say that Spirit exists and that Matter does not is to say that there is only daylight because you sleep away the night. Your spiritual inclination can be very well enriched by a healthy appreciation of the material realm, and your wisdom may be replenished by seeing how Spirit and Matter are not entirely disconnected notions. To preach detachment is to elude yourself from your earthly potential and the very powerful human journey of coming into connection and appreciation, into affection and into sex, into balance and seeing how everything is connected through intent. Intent is the karma. Intent is the contract you make, the energy you take on credit to manifest your reality. ~Zdravko Stefanović

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Anyone else ever had this feeling? Where the world is a stage and you're an actor? The Truman Show. Where you get a sneak peek into the mysteries of our existence. _____________________________________ Follow me on facebook: www.facebook.com/zdravko.stefanovic.writer Also: www.zdravko-stefanovic.com Buy my book on Amazon, Barnes and nobles or google to find your closest distributor 💚🙏🏻 _____________________________________ 📸⚡ Photo taken by me in Serbia. Follow me on www.instagram.com/n.a.t.u.r.e_p.h.o.t.o to see what my eyes see.

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Give reasonably much, without any reason. Fill your cup and let others have what flows over. The love you give is also the love you yourself want to receive. It is necessary that you don't forget about yourself. If you do - then how can you do anything? You can't, because you are either depleted or asleep. The awakened one stays wakeful for himself, thus he reaps the greatest of fruits; by being in truth with himself and in being of service to others. This fruit is reaped best when not drying out under the hot sun of unreachable demands one puts on oneself and a dysfunctional compassion. The tree has roots of its own that it must drink with, yet the entire forest is alive. Think of this, and you will understand. ~Zdravko Stefanović

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I have seen that many deities guard deeper realms of the mind. They are put there for a very good reason and the reason is mostly for your own protection. They are a test of your light and how much of it you can bring with you into the pits and lairs of the Kingdom of darkness. If you cannot pass their simple tricks, then what awaits you beyond that would only make you lose your way. To be worthy of the path is to be worthy yourself. No fool was ever granted an audience with the King.

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Growing up, I noticed every little transformative happening inside of me. I loved patterns because I could see patterns. I understood that patterns was the hidden language of nature, providing many answers. I guess this is why later on, when growing up in high school, I would fall brutally in love with science, especially chemistry, where I had an ingenious teacher who could speak of molecular states and reactions with such novelty that I could see the pattern and connection my own atoms had with the entire natural world. His name was Ivan, and I many times loved him as I could love my father. There’s a specific type of love for the people who become your parents. Parents are not tied by your blood, I quickly realized, no. They are humans who can treasure your heart to the next evolutionary step on your spiritual, mental and physical ladder. Ivan was not a chemist, he was a storyteller. His heart was also like mine, capable of loving the worlds inside of oneself, and sometimes he could openly (and somewhat eloquently disguised) express how the outer world was a pure disappointment when we kids crossed the line. “Come on kids, are you fucking kidding me? Focus! This is beautiful and it is important.” We would all laugh, but I felt the change in the tone of his voice to be sufficient enough to express that what he wanted to gift us was not knowledge, science or chemistry - but it was the alchemical magic behind patterned sequence of events that make up the world - that make up us - that make up the bees, the flowers, the dripping honey and the sweat on your lover’s belly from hours of love-making. His teachings would stay with me forever. Unfortunately, my teacher in chemistry two years after that completely killed the thrill of chemistry by talking about it as if it’s all logical. That can sometimes be the bloody shame of the entire scientific and human community - the absence of passion. ~Zdravko Stefanović ___________________________________________ [Photo taken by my good friend Raafet Abdallah] Give him a follow! www.instagram.com/raafet ___________________________________________ Buy my book today on Amazon, Barnes and Noble or whatever book distributor closest to you! Much love 💚

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I couldn’t dream enough dreams in one lifetime that would make me steer my life in a direction away from you, I said. I had to wait months before I actually got to see you for the first time. Months. Six of them. At some point I could see you behind my eyelids when i was meditating, I could see you waking up slowly, and I wished I was there to taste your skin, to serve you yourself. In these meditations, the moment could stretch, so that it became a scene where this one time, you would wake up slowly into lucidity and pleasure, finding me between your thighs, kiss-eating you to the point where you’re not sure if you’re awake or if you just slipped into another dream. This dream of yours continued until you would wake up from me penetrating into you, and then, as you did, my meditation ended. I knew I was going to meet you. You were living in USA and I was living in Sweden, but I knew through some kind of pre-written magic, that I would come inside of you one day, and that the dream would turn real, and that the meditation was not a figment of my imagination. It was the visible future, I knew it was. All I could do was wait until I one day would find you laying in my bed, within my grasp and within the range of all the love I wanted to unleash into every cellular fabric of your soul. ~Zdravko Stefanović (visual art by @alphachanneling) __________________________________________________ Follow me on tumblr: www.tumblr.com/zdravko.stefanovic On instagram : www.instagram.com/zdravko.stefanovic Buy my book on Amazon, Barnes and nobles or google to find your closest distributor 💚🙏🏻 __________________________________________________

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It was the love of a lifetime.

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Love is the golden frequency of your being's vibration. It does not get more noble than that. It is gold, the most noble metal from the periodic system. This is the metaphor of your alchemy, of transforming yourself so that your consciousness enters the realm of spirit, the realm of divinity. ~Zdravko Stefanović

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Pay close attention. That is the message you can't overlook. Pay close attention, and the path will reveal itself to you. You'd be surprised how quick a lifetime passes, and a lifetime is something glorious, beautiful! There are two ways I look at fate. The first is where fate offers you the possibility of a cosmic purpose, and where this purpose is yours to forge, to meditate with, to authenticate yourself with. The second version is more of a remnant from religious times, one where fate has already handed you an invisible purpose, with or without your awoken intention to step into. The first one is liberating, inspiring, an invitation to craftsmanship. It is open, it puts the responsibility in your hands, it does not tie your shoelaces for you, you're the one taking the barefoot steps on the cosmic trail. The second one is dogmatic, an immature version of a seed that still hasn't found its soil that has a secret rulebook you need to abide by. In my observations, the Universe, God, Spirit, does not work according to this kind of human logic. Insight, inner sight, works outside of that, where risk and chance lifts you higher and takes you a little deeper. Fate is either pursued or created, and honestly, sometimes I can't tell the difference between the two. I think it all comes down to that we all need to figure out our own spiritual journey. We ought to release ourselves from the idea of life being a quest, and step into the theatrical comedy of how all things effortlessly know to fall in place when we align the sacred, whispering identity that lives inside all of us. ~ Zdravko Stefanovic (An elaborated version of an excerpt from my book, Honoring the Mystery...)

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Everything is changing always and I am learning to align with the sound of doors shutting behind me and doors opening in front of me. The path is all I know 💚 ~Zdravko Stefanović

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"I think the entire message of the psychedelic experience is that nature seeks to communicate." ~Terence McKenna

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