Transforming

Most of us need to be reminded that we are good, that we are lovable, that we belong. If we knew just how powerfully our thoughts, words, and actions affected the hearts of those around us, we’d reach out and join hands again and again.

Our relationships have the potential to be a sacred refuge, a place of healing, and awakening. With each person we meet, we can learn to look behind the mask and see the one who longs to love and be loved. We can remember to say our blessings out loud.

―Tara Brach

Just Be

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.

Just keep going. No feeling is final.

-Rainer Maria Rilke

Lightly

It’s dark because you are trying too hard.
Lightly child, lightly.
Learn to do everything lightly.
Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply.
Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.

Lightly, lightly – it’s the best advice ever given me.
When it comes to dying even. Nothing ponderous, or portentous, or emphatic.
No rhetoric, no tremolos, no self conscious persona putting on its celebrated imitation of Christ or Little Nell.

And of course, no theology, no metaphysics.
Just the fact of dying and the fact of the clear light.

So throw away your baggage and go forward.
There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet,
trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair.
That’s why you must walk so lightly.

Lightly my darling,
on tiptoes and no luggage,
not even a sponge bag,
completely unencumbered.


Aldous Huxley, Island

merry the badass girls :)

Girls should be strong together. 

Strong like steel, 

merry like the tinkling of chimes 

dancing in the wind.

— Kristin Halbrook

:)

instinct

I have been 

and still 

am a seeker, 

but I have ceased to question stars and books; 

I have begun to listen to the teaching 

my blood whispers to me...

― Hermann Hesse

self

I never wish to be easily defined. 

I’d rather float over other people’s minds 

as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; 

more like a transparent, 

paradoxically iridescent creature 

rather than an actual person...

— Franz Kafka  

Rise to life

Those who cannot live fully 

often become 

destroyers of life.

― Anaïs Nin