December 2011
“The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live...”
– Normant Vincent Peale (via myquotelibrary)
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the...
yogaprivatelessons:
Rumi
“A sage once said, ‘How shall I open my heart, oh friend? It is forbidden for me...”
– Sri Ramakrishna (via revolutioneyes)
“Every experience, no matter how bad it seems, holds within it a blessing of some...”
– Buddha (via thenocturnals)
“Always the general show of things
Floats in review before my mind,
And such...”
– Henry David Thoreau, from: “Inspiration” (via wonderfulambiguity)
“We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via lucifelle)
10 Ways to Love Others →
terramantra:
Some guidelines for loving:
1. Tell them about their brilliance. They likely can’t see it and they don’t know its immensity, but you can see it, and you can illuminate it for them.
2. Be authentic, and give others the gift of the real you and a real relationship. Ask your real questions. Share your real beliefs. Go for your real dreams. Tell your truth.
3. Don’t confuse...
“The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it...”
– Lao Tzu (via lucifelle)
“It is in bringing joy to one’s own life that we give the greatest service to...”
– Almine (via lucifelle)
A Deeply Inspiring Near-Death Experience Story
Mellen-Thomas Benedict is an artist who survived a near-death experience in 1982. He was dead for over an hour and a half. During that time, he rose up out of his body and went into the light. Curious about the universe, he was taken far into the remote depths of existence, and even beyond, into the energetic void of nothingness behind the Big Bang. Eminent near-death experience researcher Dr....
“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
– Edgar Allan Poe (via horrorparadox)
“Love all your thoughts, even those that are limited or fearful. Think of them as...”
– Orin (via a-golden-lion)
“You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of...”
– Kahlil Gibran (via kari-shma)
