If you don’t become the ocean,

you’ll be seasick every day.

 

- Leonard Cohen -

 

 

 

 @Pietro Morello

 

 

 When you have to make a choice

 and don't make it, 

that is in itself a choice. 

- William James -

 

 Walking with luggage Petr Mašek

@Petr Mašek

 

 

 

 

 We must emerge slowly from our wintering. 

We must test the air and be ready to shrink back into safety when blasted by unseasonal winds; we must gradually unfurl our new leaves. 

 There will still be the debris of a long, disordered season.

 These are the moments when we have to find the most grace: when we come to atone for the worst ravages of our conduct in darker times, when we have to tell truths that we’d rather ignore.

 Sometimes we will have to name our personal winters, and the words will feel barbed in our throats: grief, rejection, depression, illness. 

Shame, failure, despair.

- Katherine May -

Michael Kiwanuka - Cold Little Heart (Live on The Current)

 

 If someone angers us, it is because we already have anger within us, and that person is only triggering this anger, and causing it to rise to the surface.

If someone annoys us, it is often because we are seeing something in them that reminds us of something we do not like in ourselves.

If someone makes us feel sad or inadequate, it is because we already carry these feelings within us, and they merely did something to cause these feelings to come to the surface.

As the great psychologist Carl Jung said:
“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”

No one can really irritate us, annoy us, or make us miserable, unless they provoke these feelings that are already dormant within us.

If someone says something that brings out an emotional response in me it is because there is a part of me that agrees with them on some level.

If I want to cling to my delusions and defend my ego, then I will perceive that person as an enemy.

If, however, I operate from the position of truth, and want to shed the layers of my ego and my conditioning, then I will realize that they are not my enemy, but my friend, because they assisted me in seeing and uncovering the next layer of illusion within myself.

Seeing things in this light is not always easy to do, and it requires that you take full ownership of yourself and your experience.

The ego hates this of course, because it perceives itself as a victim, and perceives everything as some form of personal attack on “me.”

If someone judges you, it is because they judge themselves.

If someone acts out in anger toward you, it is because they carry this anger within them.

If someone treats you with disrespect, it is because they do not respect themselves.

The way we treat others is a reflection of how we treat ourselves.

We can learn a lot about ourselves, and others, simply by observing the behaviors that we act out.

However we act on the surface reflects something deeper within us.

~@josephpkauffman

 

 

 

 

People judge you not because there is something wrong with you but because you remind them of something that they have not yet accepted within themselves.

When you understand that whatever others think about you is just reflecting their own perception of themselves, you stop taking things personally.

Only those can appreciate others, who love and accept themselves. 

Judgement is literally a virus for your energy and acceptance is the cure for it.

 

 

When you feel triggered, you're reliving an unresolved past trauma or memory.

Instead op panicking, practice pause and breathe through whatever you're feeling.

It may seem difficult or intense but your power is being returned to you through that trigger.

To claim your power back, starve reacting, instead infuse love into the inner child aspect of you that's rejoining you, that felt unsafe, insecure and unsupported.

You got this, everyting is going to be OK.

 

 

Jammin' with Rylyn

 

 

 Let there be spaces in your togetherness, 

And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

 Love one another but make not a bond of love:

 Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

 Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. 

Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf.

 Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone,

 Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. 

Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. 

For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. 

And stand together, yet not too near together:

 For the pillars of the temple stand apart, 

And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.

Khalil Gibran - The Prophet

 

 

 La Vieille Charité, Marseille, Photo by Raymond Depardon, 1998

 

 

The youth of today, like all youth,

 

 are in revolt against society, 

 

and that is a good thing in itself,

 

 but revolt is not freedom

 

 because when you revolt it is a reaction

 

 and that reaction sets up its own pattern,

 

 and you get caught in that pattern. 

 

- Krishnamurti -

 

 

Masaka Kids Africana Dancing Jerusalema By Master KG [Feat. Nomcebo]

 Being with him when he died was something I will never forget.

 His bravery. His happiness. His acceptance.

 It was a colossal experience for me.

 Changed my life completely in a way that I had not expected.

 I expected to feel sad and lost.

 But I felt the opposite. 

Just, like, ‘Boy, this is it. 

This is all we have. Right here.

 So you’d better pay attention.’

- Laurie Anderson and Lou Reed -