“If you love a flower, don’t pick it up. Because if you pick it up, it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.”
— Osho
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“I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.”— Neil Gaiman10/26/2014 Here is one of the aspects of spiritual awakening that isn't talked about enough, in my opinion.
You feel more alone than ever. But this is not an aloneness that belongs to a separate self. It is not loneliness, not isolation, not a sense of cosmic abandonment. It is the aloneness of an entire universe, an exquisite and intimate aloneness that resides at the very core of existence itself. An aloneness that is perfect solitude, that is the caress of the autumn breeze on your cheek, the sound of a little robin announcing the arrival of the morning. It is a walk down unknown paths. Nobody and nothing has the power to remove your aloneness, that’s true. Yet you sink deeper and deeper into this magical place of solitude, touching life for the first and only time, naked and without protection, no defenses. Nobody to save you, nobody who needs to be saved anyway. Past and future are a billion miles away, and you wonder if anything ever existed at all prior to This. You have found your true home, at your centreless center. You feel more alone than ever. Yet, at the very same time, you feel more connected than ever, closer to every living being, because you know deep in your bones that we are all made of the same essence. Your aloneness does not separate but connects, drawing everything in. You are no longer looking for love and connection because they are already yours in your heart of hearts. You no longer hide from the world because the world is you, and so you can enter so deeply into the heart of relationship. There is no fear of loss of love, and so realness, rather than comfort, security and fleeting pleasure, becomes the basis of your meetings. You are more alone than ever, yet your relationships are more intimate, deeper, more nourishing. It seems like a paradox for sure, but there is no paradox to you. And don’t expect anyone to understand how you have changed. Simply understand that they cannot understand right now. And love them anyway, as you love the little robin announcing the arrival of the morning.” — Jeff Foster (via oceanandwave) “Your assumptions about the lives of others are in direct relation to your naïve pomposity. Many people you believe to be rich are not rich. Many people you think have it easy worked hard for what they got. Many people who seem to be gliding right along have suffered and are suffering. Many people who appear to you to be old and stupidly saddled down with kids and cars and houses were once every bit as hip and pompous as you..
The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The hours writing in your journal. The long meandering walks. The hours reading poetry and story collections and novels and dead people’s diaries and wondering about sex and God and whether you should shave under your arms or not. These things are your becoming. One Christmas at the very beginning of your twenties when your mother gives you a warm coat that she saved for months to buy, don’t look at her skeptically after she tells you she thought the coat was perfect for you. Don’t hold it up and say it’s longer than you like your coats to be and too puffy and possibly even too warm. Your mother will be dead by spring. That coat will be the last gift she gave you. You will regret the small thing you didn’t say for the rest of your life. Say thank you. ” — Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things “I think we still live in a culture that assumes that men are single by choice and women are single because no one wants them.”
— Sara Eckel, This is Why You’re Still Single (It’s Not Why You Think) |
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“Expectation is the root of all heartache.”
— Shakespeare |