some more of other people's words (c/o kelly)

"To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance.
To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you.
To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair.
To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple.
To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand.
To never look away. And never, never, to forget."

- Arundhati Roy

trust the universe

....sometimes i think we have to challenge the universe. or at least challange our own perceptions - our own ideas about the universe.

and sometimes maybe we just need to trust it.


maybe we're gonna be o.k.

applicable

this is just something i wrote down the other day. it sort of summarizes what stuck with me after a lecture by a brilliant yoga instructor at the costa rica retreat...it resonated somehow.

by clinging to a sense of I, me and mine, we turn ourselves into subjects. and we misconstrue the gap between what is real and what is perceived by this objectification as lonliness. as lack. we try to fill this lack with objects. ideas of what should be there. instead of just being. realizing there is no i and you. listening honestly.

and then love shows up.

random quote

i have this written down on a little piece of paper, that i'm obviously going to lose and wanted to write it somewhere more permanant before it disappeared!

"Desire is a teacher. When we confuse desiring with having or attaining something, we move away from ourselves, away from listening, flowing, feeling, creating, and into pushing, striving, teeth-gritting, forcing way of being...
Desire becomes a place to get to rather tahn a vital energy to feel, experience and ride. It is possible to be in a state in which desire is valued not as a prelude to possession, control, or merger, but as a mode to appreciation itself."

-Mark Epstein

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