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Credit: The Cosmic Dancer (Facebook) “Do you have the patience to wait till your mud settles and the water is clear? Can you remain unmoving till the right action arises by itself?” ~ Tao Te Ching [Art: Tracy Porter]

Credit: The Garden Almanac "Everyone calls it dew. The lawn has been running its own plumbing all night. Dew is sky water. It condenses out of humid air onto anything cool, blades and webs and the wheelbarrow you meant to put away. But on calm nights, roots keep pushing water up while the leaves have stopped using it, and the pressure needs somewhere to go. So the plant opens tiny relief valves at its leaf tips and edges and lets the extra out, one bead at a time. Botanists call it guttation. Tomorrow at sunrise, get low and check. A film all over the blade is dew. One round drop balanced exactly on the tip is the plant's own well water. Strawberry leaves hang theirs along the edge like a hem of glass beads. 🌿" #nature #guttation #dew

Credit: Ravenous Butterflies (Facebook) “The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow or love. Chained by his certitude, he is a slave; he has forfeited his freedom. Only the person who risks is truly free.” Leo Buscaglia Stanislaus Soutten Longley - Autumn.

#selfmastery

Credit: Classic Literature Dump (Facebook) "The hardest person to question is often ourselves. We can demand evidence from everyone else while quietly making exceptions for the beliefs, fears, ambitions, and assumptions we desperately want to be true. Self-deception rarely feels like lying; it feels like rationalizing. We select the evidence that comforts us, explain away what threatens us, and call the result “what I believe.” Feynman's warning is therefore less about intelligence than intellectual honesty. The real test of a thinking person is not how confidently they defend their conclusions, but whether they are willing to discover that they might be wrong." #questioneveryting

#parenting

#LOL

credit: Whispers From The Heart (Facebook) "In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write a famous author and ask for advice. Kurt Vonnegut was the only one to respond -- his response is magnificent: “Dear Xavier High School, and Ms. Lockwood, and Messrs Perin, McFeely, Batten, Maurer and Congiusta: I thank you for your friendly letters. You sure know how to cheer up a really old geezer (84) in his sunset years. I don’t make public appearances any more because I now resemble nothing so much as an iguana. What I had to say to you, moreover, would not take long, to wit: Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow. Seriously! I mean starting right now, do art and do it for the rest of your lives. Draw a funny or nice picture of Ms. Lockwood, and give it to her. Dance home after school, and sing in the shower and on and on. Make a face in your mashed potatoes. Pretend you’re Count Dracula. Here’s an assignment for tonight, and I hope Ms. Lockwood will flunk you if you don’t do it: Write a six line poem, about anything, but rhymed. No fair tennis without a net. Make it as good as you possibly can. But don’t tell anybody what you’re doing. Don’t show it or recite it to anybody, not even your girlfriend or parents or whatever, or Ms. Lockwood. OK? Tear it up into teeny-weeny pieces, and discard them into widely separated trash receptacals. You will find that you have already been gloriously rewarded for your poem. You have experienced becoming, learned a lot more about what’s inside you, and you have made your soul grow. God bless you all!" Kurt Vonnegut Photo credit: Transgressive fiction.

Credit: Pyramid Consciousness "What blocks you isn’t separate from the path. It’s the raw material the path is currently made of. Most people treat obstacles as interruptions to the real work, delays standing between them and whatever they’re actually trying to do. That framing keeps the obstacle and the goal in permanent opposition, one thing fighting the other for the same space. Marcus Aurelius is proposing something stranger and more useful. The obstacle isn’t blocking the action. It’s supplying the action’s next form. What stands in the way doesn’t get removed so the way can continue. It becomes the way. This only makes sense once you notice how much progress actually happens through friction rather than despite it. A muscle doesn’t grow around resistance. It grows because of it, using the exact force trying to stop it as the mechanism of its own development. A river doesn’t detour around every boulder out of defeat. Contact with the boulder is what carves the particular path the water eventually takes. The obstruction and the eventual shape aren’t opponents. One produces the other. This reframes frustration itself. The instinct when blocked is to see the block as proof that things have gone wrong, that the plan has failed. Stoic practice asks for a harder, more useful read: the obstacle is data about what actually needs to happen next, often more accurate data than the original plan provided. What stood in the way becomes, quite literally, the next correct move. Nothing is actually blocking you. Everything blocking you is only material you haven’t used yet." #PyramidConsciousness #MarcusAurelius #Stoicism

#LOL

Credit: Spiritual Titans "Sometimes what you call “just the way I am” is actually a survival response that became familiar. Maybe you became distant because closeness once hurt. Maybe you became controlling because uncertainty once made you feel unsafe. Maybe you became overly independent because depending on others repeatedly disappointed you. Maybe anger became your armor because vulnerability once felt dangerous. Triggers have a way of revealing these hidden places. A certain tone, a delayed reply, rejection, criticism, being ignored, or feeling misunderstood can suddenly bring out a version of you that feels much younger than the moment you are actually in. That does not make you broken. It gives you information. Instead of only asking, “Why did this person upset me so much?” begin asking, “What did this situation touch inside me?” That question can change your healing. Because awareness helps you separate your true personality from the defenses you built to survive. You may not actually be cold. You may be guarded. You may not actually be difficult. You may be afraid of being hurt again. You may not actually need control. You may need safety. Healing is not becoming someone completely different. It is slowly removing the armor until you can recognize who you were underneath it. Your triggers are not your identity. They are often invitations to meet the parts of you that still need understanding, compassion, and healing." #triggers #ShadowWork