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May 22, 2013 6:01 pm
3:02 pm
samsaranmusing:

Brother fox is mildly amused at your antics.

samsaranmusing:

Brother fox is mildly amused at your antics.

12:01 pm May 21, 2013 6:01 pm
"We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty."

Maya Angelou (via snakehair)

(via emergentpattern)

3:02 pm

everybodyhasabrain:

cognitivedefusion:

Meditation for panic attacks.

Aka…

EXPOSURE THERAPY.

*High five* Buddhism.

(He describes meditation amidst a panic attack where he “makes friends” with the panic - not avoiding it or telling it to leave - and this results in the panic going away. That is, mindful awareness of the panic with the intention of “befriending” it!)

Great advice on how to have a “nervous breakthrough”. “If you tell panic to get out, panic will become your enemy, and then you won’t be able to get rid of it.”

12:01 pm

(Source: shopruche, via maudeloves)

May 20, 2013 6:01 pm 3:02 pm
"

I have discovered,
just as my teachers always told me,
that we already have what we need.

The wisdom, the strength,
the confidence, the awakened heart
and mind are always accessible, here, now, always.

We are just uncovering them.
We are rediscovering them.
We’re not inventing them or importing them from somewhere else.

They’re here.

That’s why when we feel caught in darkness,
suddenly the clouds can part.

Out of nowhere we cheer up
or relax or experience the vastness of our minds.
No one else gives this to you.

This is a work in progress,
a process of uncovering our natural openness,
uncovering our natural intelligence and warmth.

"

Pema Chödron (via yogachocolatelove)

(via tutmondigo)

12:01 pm
"We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society."

Alan Watts (via samsaranmusing)
May 19, 2013 6:01 pm

(Source: betype, via thejestingcamera)