Do not settle for less than exactly what you want. Your heart’s desires are there for a reason. Chase them. Pursue them relentlessly. Do not lose sight of your goals. They are your very reason for being.

~   Franki Durbin (via angerr)
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seen today, while driving

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“What if I told you 10 years from now your life would be exactly the same? Doubt you’d be happy. So, why are you afraid of change?”

circular-referencez:

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The only reason we don’t open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don’t feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with. To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves, we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else’s eyes.

~   Pema Chödrön (via samsaranmusing)
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Mindfulness is the energy that helps us to be truly present. When you are truly present, you are more in control of situations, you have more love, patience, understanding, and compassion. That strengthens and improves your quality of being. It can be very healing to touch your true nature of no-self.

~   Thich Nhat Hanh (via samsaranmusing)
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there is so much we do not know.

we are just skimming the surface
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parkstepp: Rather than being your thoughts and emotions,be the awareness behind them. Eckhart Tolle
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(no greater honor than to be chosen by a child)
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deseraestage: Live Through This got a two page spread in Curve Magazine’s June 2013 pride issue! (i love your heart, des. i’m so honored to call you a friend)
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Oh, Indian food, how I love you.

marry me?
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A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there’s work to be done.

~   Ram Dass (via ashramof1)
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Seeing For a Moment


I thought I was growing wings —
it was a cocoon.

I thought, now is the time to step
into the fire —
it was deep water.

Eschatology is a word I learned
as a child: the study of Last Things;

facing my mirror — no longer young,
the news — always of death,
the dogs — rising from sleep and clamoring
and howling, howling,

nevertheless
I see for a moment
that’s not it: it is
the First Things.

Word after word
floats through the glass.
Towards me.

- Denise Levertov

poetrydenise levertov
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