March 22, 2023
Our energy affects all aspects of our lives. And so our value
comes from the quality of energy that we emanate in every moment.
Our energy, our vibration, is our true currency.
Photo by Todd Trapini on Unsplash
comes from the quality of energy that we emanate in every moment.
Our energy, our vibration, is our true currency.
Photo by Todd Trapini on Unsplash
March 21, 2023
There will be a relationship worth waiting for-
a love beyond anything you can possibly imagine-
don't settle; when you choose your Self you have arrived.
Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash
March 20, 2023
“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love."
- Mother Teresa
Photo by Dimitar Belchev
March 19, 2023
"Anger is like drinking poison
and expecting the other person to die."
- Buddah
and expecting the other person to die."
- Buddah
March 18, 2023
"If you are a sailor and you put an anchor down, you will be safe in one place. Do you want to be safe, or do you want to sail?
All bonds, unconsciously developed, become bondage."
- Sadhguru
Photo by Zoltan Tasi on Unsplash
All bonds, unconsciously developed, become bondage."
- Sadhguru
Photo by Zoltan Tasi on Unsplash
March 17, 2023
"Wherever you go
go with all your heart."
- Confuscious
Photo by Nick Fewings on Unsplash
March 16, 2023
Ego death is when we shed the cloaks
of the culturally-created self
so that the Authentic Self is revealed.
It should be called 'ego resurrection'.
Photo by Илья Мельниченко on Unsplash
March 15, 2023
"We are the glass and the water,
the emptiness and the fullness,
simultaneously."
- Alexx @wearethesamenergy
Photo by Manki Kim on Unsplash
the emptiness and the fullness,
simultaneously."
- Alexx @wearethesamenergy
Photo by Manki Kim on Unsplash
March 13, 2023
"Choose your thoughts wisely.
They are your eternal companions."
- Neha Malhotra
Photo by Anders Drange on Unsplash
March 12, 2023
Words are powerful; spells.
that's why we call it spelling.
Which ones will we cast?
Which ones will we consume?
Photo by Natalia Y. on Unsplash
March 9, 2023
"As long as we remain unhealed from the wounds we first started off with, we're just going to keep bleeding on people who never actually were the cause of that original pain."
- Author Unknown
Photo by Dominik Scythe on Unsplash
March 11, 2023
"I dream my paintings
and paint my dreams."
- Vincent Van Gogh
Photo by Victor Furtuna on Unsplash
March 8, 2023
"We are the bridge across forever, arching above the sea, adventuring for our pleasure, living mysteries for the fun of it, choosing disasters triumphs challenges impossible odds, testing ourselves over and again, learning love and love and love!"
- Richard Bach
Photo by Zoltan Tasi on Unsplash
March 5, 2023
"You got to talk to God everyday.
if you ain't talkin' to God
you're making this thing way harder than it's got to be."
- Steve Harvey
Photo by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash
March 3, 2023
The Drums
Forever and Ever Amen
Forever and Ever Amen
March 2, 2023
art is a map
for those who come after us.
there's no hierarchy on the path.
we're all walking each other Home.
ceramics:
notched bones
by ella ostedgaard
for those who come after us.
there's no hierarchy on the path.
we're all walking each other Home.
ceramics:
notched bones
by ella ostedgaard
March 1, 2023
Forgiveness is unnecessary
when we no longer value judgement.
There's Love.
And there's a call for Love.
Photo by Matt Carberry
February 27, 2023
"We are all filled with a longing for the wild. There are few culturally sanctioned antidotes for this yearning. We were taught to feel shame for such a desire. We grew our hair long and used it to hide our feelings. But the shadow of Wild Woman still lurks behind us during our days and in our nights. No matter where we are, the shadow that trots behind us is definitely four-footed."
-Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Photo by Tom Pottiger on Unsplash
February 26, 2023
"If Patience started a band,
I'd be her biggest fan."
-Elliott Smith
Photo by Luigi Boccardo on Unsplash
February 25, 2023
"Truth doesn't ever need proof.
Just a little time."
-probably somebody
Photo by Aron Visuals on Unsplash
February 23, 2023
You can do what you're told
no matter what's right for you.
Or you can do what's right for you
no matter what you're told.
Photo by Scott Webb on Unsplash
February 22, 2023
The questions we ask ourselves
will determine the course of our lives:
What would I do and love everyday,
even if I appear for a time to be failing?
Photo by Nick Fewings on Unsplash
February 21, 2023
"Another dream-determinant that deserves mention is telepathy. The authenticity of this phenomenon can no longer be disputed today. It is, of course, very simple to deny its existence without examining the evidence, but that is an unscientific procedure which is unworthy of notice. I have found by experience that telepathy does in fact influence dreams, as has been asserted since ancient times. Certain people are particularly sensitive in this respect....The phenomenon undoubtedly exists, but the theory of it does not seem to me to be so simple."
-C. G. Jung in The Practical Use of Dream Analysis (1934)
Photo by elCarito on Unsplash
-C. G. Jung in The Practical Use of Dream Analysis (1934)
Photo by elCarito on Unsplash
February 20, 2023
"We have to have the level of courage and of surrender to trust the seasons of our own life. To trust that there is a spring behind every winter. To trust that just because something appears to be dead doesn't mean it's not going to be resurrected in a different season."
-Infinity, Magnetize Yourself
Photo by Ankhesenamun on Unsplash
February 10, 2023
A soulmate isn't someone who completes us.
Soulmates inspire us to complete ourselves.
Photo by Marcus Dall Col on Unsplash
February 9, 2023
"You will know you are far from the Truth
when you do not see God in everything."
-Miguel de Molinos
16th century Spanish mystic
Photo by Vitalis Herschmann on Unsplash
February 8, 2023
In the darkness there is a path.
It is not for you to become lost,
but for you to find your way.
Photo by Joshua J. Cotten on Unsplash
It is not for you to become lost,
but for you to find your way.
Photo by Joshua J. Cotten on Unsplash
February 7, 2023
"If there is no enemy inside,
we will find no enemy outside."
-variation of an African proverb
February 6, 2023
"So oftentimes it happens that we live our lives in chains
and we never even know we have the key."
-Eagles
Photo by Mahdi Bafande on Unsplash
February 2, 2023
If we don't want our worst
moments held against us,
then we can't hold another
to theirs.
moments held against us,
then we can't hold another
to theirs.
November 8, 2022
Passion of the Wild Red Mother
-from the RUMI Oracle Card deck, by Alana Fairchild
"Don't ask the conscious ones about the wine.
Behold the glowing effects of it in the eyes of the drunks."
-Rumi
It takes a great spirit,
one with much patience of studied rebellion,
to be ready to cast off the shackles of society
from a place of loving defiance rather than anger.
Passion is the bridge that leads [us] from a smaller truth:
that suffering is necessary in order to heal;
towards a larger and more luscious experience-
of life as a Divine embrace.
This is possible when [we] give up on judgement
of what is good and what is bad-
on what is apparently spiritual and what is not-
and when [we] just realize....
everything in life is leading to Love.
-from the RUMI Oracle Card deck, by Alana Fairchild
"Don't ask the conscious ones about the wine.
Behold the glowing effects of it in the eyes of the drunks."
-Rumi
It takes a great spirit,
one with much patience of studied rebellion,
to be ready to cast off the shackles of society
from a place of loving defiance rather than anger.
Passion is the bridge that leads [us] from a smaller truth:
that suffering is necessary in order to heal;
towards a larger and more luscious experience-
of life as a Divine embrace.
This is possible when [we] give up on judgement
of what is good and what is bad-
on what is apparently spiritual and what is not-
and when [we] just realize....
everything in life is leading to Love.
Photo by David Rojas in San Vicente Pacaya, Guatemala:
The moon in its total eclipse phase.
Above the moon the star cluster Pleiades.
And below, the Fuego volcano and Acatenango.
The moon in its total eclipse phase.
Above the moon the star cluster Pleiades.
And below, the Fuego volcano and Acatenango.
June 17, 2022
"Life shrinks or expands
in proportion to one's courage."
-Anaïs Nin
To me, courage is the exalted state of fear. It is the blessing
we receive when we face fear, with gratitude, and ask it for its gift.
Photo: Courage, Seven of Wands
James Wanless Voyager Tarot
James Wanless Voyager Tarot
June 16, 2022
"Love takes no heed of our divisions,
but sweeps us-
tumbling as we are-
into an endless consciousness
of everything.
Lovers do not live out
of the detached Here & Now
but they enter into
the enormous possessions of the heart.
God becomes real to them.
They are not harmed by death.
For being full of life, they are full of death."
Rainer Maria Rilke
translated by Alrik (Rik) Spensson, Iowa City street musician
Photo by Courtney Smith on Unsplash
but sweeps us-
tumbling as we are-
into an endless consciousness
of everything.
Lovers do not live out
of the detached Here & Now
but they enter into
the enormous possessions of the heart.
God becomes real to them.
They are not harmed by death.
For being full of life, they are full of death."
Rainer Maria Rilke
translated by Alrik (Rik) Spensson, Iowa City street musician
Photo by Courtney Smith on Unsplash
June 15, 2022
'Always remember...
I send you nothing, but angels.'
I send you nothing, but angels.'
June 14, 2022
A person went for a swim in the sea. After some time they began to struggle and fear for their life. Just then a boat came by and offered to help. The swimmer refused the boat, saying, "God will save me."
The boat reluctantly left though the swimmer continued to struggle. Soon a plane came by and dropped a line. Again the swimmer refused help, saying, "God will save me."
As the plane flew away, the swimmer began to lose consciousness. But a dolphin appeared and began to carry the swimmer to shore.
"No, dolphin," whispered the swimmer. "God will save me." The dolphin released them and the swimmer soon drowned.
On the Other Side the swimmer felt God and said, "What the what God?! I trusted you would save me, but you didn't."
God replied, “Well, I tried... I sent a boat, a plane and a dolphin."
-Variation to 'The Parable of a Drowning Man'
Many thanks to the boats, planes and dolphins who bless my life.
Photo by Johannes Plenio on Unsplash
The boat reluctantly left though the swimmer continued to struggle. Soon a plane came by and dropped a line. Again the swimmer refused help, saying, "God will save me."
As the plane flew away, the swimmer began to lose consciousness. But a dolphin appeared and began to carry the swimmer to shore.
"No, dolphin," whispered the swimmer. "God will save me." The dolphin released them and the swimmer soon drowned.
On the Other Side the swimmer felt God and said, "What the what God?! I trusted you would save me, but you didn't."
God replied, “Well, I tried... I sent a boat, a plane and a dolphin."
-Variation to 'The Parable of a Drowning Man'
Many thanks to the boats, planes and dolphins who bless my life.
Photo by Johannes Plenio on Unsplash
June 13, 2022
Let the heart break
until it breaks open.
Photo by Ty Tomlinson on Unsplash
June 12, 2022
June 11, 2022
This being human is a guest-house:
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they are a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture.
Still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.
Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.
-Rumi
Photo by Jan Tinneberg on Unsplash
June 9, 2022
Once there was an old farmer who had a horse. One day the horse ran away. The neighbors heard the news and came by with condolences. "Too bad." they said.
"Not bad or good," said the farmer. "It just is."
The following day the farmer's horse returned with three wild horses. The neighbors heard the news and came by with congratulations: "What good luck!" they said.
"Not good or bad." said the farmer. "It just is."
The very next day the farmer's child tried to break one of the wild horses but they were thrown and broke their leg.The neighbors arrived and said, "Too bad. We're so sorry."
"It's neither bad or good," said the farmer. "It just is."
In the morning the army came to town. "We want to start a war," said the army. "All the young people will come with us to train." However, the farmer's child with the broken leg was not allowed to go. The neighbors came by and said to the old farmer: "This really is good luck!"
"It's neither good nor bad," said the farmer. "It just is."
--Zen Parable
*to me this story represents the Hierophant- V in tarot:
'have a higher state of awareness over the human condition'
Photo by Fabian Burghardt on Unsplash