"You will always have to live with yourself, and it
is to your best interest to see that you have good
company - a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright,
generous, magnanimous companion."
is to your best interest to see that you have good
company - a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright,
generous, magnanimous companion."
— Orison Swett Marden. (via yogachocolatelove)
I talk to my inner lover, and I say, why such rush?
We sense that there is some sort of spirit that loves
birds and animals and the ants—
perhaps the same one who gave a radiance to you
in your mother’s womb.Is it logical you would be walking around entirely orphaned now?
The truth is you turned away yourself,
and decided to go into the dark alone.
Now you are tangled up in others, and have forgotten
what you once knew,
and that’s why everything you do has some weird sense of failure in it.On this path there is no asking and no not-asking.
The ego simply disappears the moment you touch Him.
And the joy of looking for Him is so immense
that you just dive in,
and coast around like a fish in the water.Kabir
(Source: lazyyogi)
(Source: lazyyogi)
"The way to become aware “I am not the body, I am not the mind” is what meditation is all about. Watch, watch your body walking, sitting, lying down, and you will be able to see that you are the watcher, not the body. Watch your mind in anger, in hatred, in love, in greed, in misery, in joy, and you will become aware one day that you are not these things that happen in the mind; you are the watcher. Slowly slowly the watcher becomes crystallized. That is the birth of the soul. That day you are really born, that day your real life begins. From that moment god is a reality for you, and the only reality."
— Osho (via yogachocolatelove)
"This pain is not to make you sad, remember. That’s where people go on missing…. This pain is just to make you more alert—because people become alert only when the arrow goes deep into their heart and wounds them. Otherwise they don’t become alert. When life is easy, comfortable, convenient, who cares? Who bothers to become alert? When a friend dies, there is a possibility. When your woman leaves you alone—those dark nights, you are lonely. You have loved that woman so much and you have staked all, and then suddenly one day she is gone. Crying in your loneliness, those are the occasions when,if you use them, you can become aware. The arrow is hurting: it can be used. The pain is not to make you miserable, the pain is to make you more aware! And when you are aware, misery disappears."
— From Take it Easy, Volume 2 Chapter 12 (via yogachocolatelove)
Orphaned owls Linford and Christie
The owls were hatched at the Hawk Conservancy Trust in Andover, Hampshire, in February and are now being hand-reared by a very devoted Jimmy and his dog, JT.
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"I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?"
— Voltaire (via girlinlondon)
