“🌿 May we remember that love is not far away, waiting to be earned or perfected. It is here, woven into every moment, even the ones that feel like obstacles. May we soften enough to see the guru in what we resist, and open enough to let love flow through us as compassion for ourselves, for one another, and for this living world.” —Julie Anna

“We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking.” —Richard Rorr

✨ “My words are tied in one with the great mountains, with the great rocks, with the great trees.” — Yokuts Indian Prayer

Rather the flying bird, leaving no trace, than the going beast, marking the earth.”

~Fernando Pessoa

✨ May we meet harm with awareness. May we protect our hearts with compassion. And may our words and actions align with love.

“May we remember to live in cooperation with nature, and in harmony with one another.”

—Shanti Ma

“Feeling better helps everyone heal.” —Matt Kahn

“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky.”
— Kahlil Gibran

"Every Creature is a word of God and is a book about God."

~Meister Eckhart

In yogic texts, the union of Prana and Apana is described as the ignition point of Kundalini or awakened inner potential. When these two forces meet in harmony at the navel or heart, something transformative happens:

“There is no reason we should believe in or expect anything greater than the basic inspiration that exists in us already.”

~Trungpa Rinpche

“May we never give up on ourselves or each other. May we hold space for awakening, for remembering.”

~Shanti Ma

A post about memory, insight, and grace.

“He is the most private man I’ve ever known. He has a moat and a drawbridge which he lets down only occasionally.”

~ A.E. Hotchner

“We are all just walking each other home.”

~Ram Dass

“He had lost himself entirely... so in all his relations to others and to himself he had lost himself entirely.”
— C.G. Jung on Pauli

"The centre of me is always and eternally a terrible pain – a curious wild pain – a searching for something beyond what the world contains, something transfigured and infinite – the beatific vision – God..."

~Bertrand Russell

“The bees could tell my emotional or energetic state. When I embodied kindness around them, they treated me with the same. A cloud of exuberance surrounded us, as though the bees were templating euphoria into the air…”

~Jacqueline Freeman

“Be still.
Listen to the stones of the wall.
Be silent, they try to speak your name…
Who are you? Who are you? Whose silence are you?”**
— Thomas Merton

“If you want to be happy, eradicate your attachment; cut your concrete concepts. …The way to cut them is not troublesome—just change your attitude; switch your attitude, that’s all.”

~Lama Thubten Yeshe