“It is not beauty that endears, it’s love that makes us see beauty.” ~ Leo Tolstoy, 𝑊𝑎𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑃𝑒𝑎𝑐𝑒 Sep. 9, 1828–Nov. 20, 1910 · © Flower Riot Gardens

“You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.”

The Buddha says, "My approach to reality is not that of belief but of seeing." His teaching has been qualified as " ehi passiko" come & see. Not " come & believe." Buddha says: Come & see: " ehi passiko." It is here, present - you just come and see.

Trying to stay aware of the space between everything, the ether, trying to keep my eyes liquid, dancing from sensory image to image, also watching the ether… hopefully bringing me to the moment, awareness.

The world changes when we change. The world softens when we soften. The world love us when we choose to love the world...🤍 #HappyMonday #quote

Your most authentic self isn't the character you've been perfecting, it's the gentle emptiness that holds every version of you with equal tenderness.

"There are no problems." But the mind will refute this forcefully. Energetically and in all ways possible. It says - "Can't you see I have so and so problem." Watch this resistance in you. This story. This voice that doesn't let you live. That's the work you need to go

Digging through my shadow, I have found so much light

"Inhale the present, exhale the past.”

The less you want, the richer you are. The more you need in order to be happy, the more miserable you’ll be. ~ Yanni

...... the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and [that] thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past. . . - Gabriel García Márquez ' Love in the Time of Cholera' . .📷jp.pinterest.

Inner stillness slows you down and makes space for beauty, love and grace.

You are alone, absolutely alone. This has to be understood very clearly. The moment a person becomes conscious, he becomes alone. The greater the consciousness, the greater the awareness that you are alone. So, do not escape from this fact through society, friends,

どんな小さな1歩でも 踏み出しミッションを クリア出来た時の達成や その成功経験こそが自信に繋がり この先の道を変える 誰かと比べて自分は…と感じる方へꕤ 比べるのはね 昨日の自分と今日の自分 ではないでしょうか🌻 見あげた雨上がりの空に あなたの心に 虹が掛かりますように💫｡ ·͜· ｡𝓜🌈

Sometimes distance becomes the gentle teacher of love In the hush of absence we begin to notice the way a smile lingers like light on water the warmth of a voice echoing in thought the gestures once passed over now sacred Love stretches in silence It deepens to the spaces between

It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.

“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.” – Vincent van Gogh

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” T.S. Eliot * September 26, 1888

there is a blushing little girl inside me spinning, leaping and pirouetting dancing in the titillating rain of your love I feel your affection in my bones like an impending thunderstorm butterflies swarm to swim your whirlwinds as I melt into a playful puddle of concupiscence

I still feel your orb A luminous wisper under my skin On bad days You are my sun You're a gentle pulse that lingers long after your gone You're eternal in my space My silent star Your orb remains It's an everlasting mark Embedded into my soul I will feel you for an eternity