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Lava river -  Kīlauea- Hawaii

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Wales, UK🌿

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It is pointless trying to know where the way leads. Think only about your first step, the rest will come.

Shams Tabrizi (via aspiritualwarrior)

Every four years, it seems I have a desire to divorce my entire way of life and return to myself/take a spiritual time-out. I listen to higher self podcasts, begin to break off commitments, sometimes with people but largely with my day-to-day job or routine. I’ll return to books written by authors who’ve left a traditional path behind, make playlists, practice yoga, sometimes travel, and cultivate authenticity in my decision-making. I usually reach a point where I have given too much and am no longer being nourished in return. Nourishment is different from a financial exchange. It can simply mean someone is investing time or attention in my growth/development. Or even just that I am able to grow, wherever I am. Growing, and not stagnating or existing in a space that makes me shrink or feel small. Like I am only expressing a portion of myself. This feeling drives me mad. This is the one thing I cannot stand. Being boxed in, not being seen -- when the majority of the pieces that make up the whole of me are sitting on the sidelines. When I feel inhibited from self-expression or use of my talents.

I invest a lot in others (and organizations), I support and help them grow, maybe more than your average person would as it is natural to me and tends to relate to my chosen profession. And so I’ve learned I need to be mindful, my own keeper --  to know when I am not getting enough in return, to know when my efforts are not reciprocated in a way that is nourishing to me, that is providing an exchange that fits my current needs. If it were up to the world around me, this uneven exchange would go on forever. Others benefit and I swallow my feelings so as not to inconvenience. And “others” includes companies, because companies are made up of people, and I show up like this at work.

All in all, I come back to a deep discomfort every so often, which illuminates a need for change. This discomfort shows me where, and to what extent, I am out of alignment. Right now is a period of change, and taking the first step was the most difficult. I have no idea what comes next, but I do know it will come.

I heard this today “I am being guided without having to do or control”

And... meditation = without pressure or force. As I be.

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In my life, nothing goes wrong. When things seem to not meet my expectations, I let go of how I think things should be. It’s a matter of not having any attachment to any fixed outcome.

Deepak Chopra (via aspiritualwarrior)

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“When you get out of the driver’s seat, you find that life can drive itself, that actually life has always been driving itself.”

Adyashanti

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“Let go of all ideas and images in your mind, they come and go and aren’t even generated by you. So why pay so much attention to your imagination when reality is for the realizing right now?”

Adyashanti

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Introducing a newly-completed summer cabin project in the Finnish Archipelago, conceived and created together by partners Milla Selkimäki and Aleksi Hautamäki.

They call it the Project Ö, where “Ö” means ‘an island’ in Swedish. They purchased the 5-acre island, on the edge of the Archipelago National Park, two years ago and have since built the main cabin with a sauna and the workshop.

The buildings pay a tribute to the traditional Finnish archipelago aesthetics, with cabled roof, long eaves, extended gutters and vertical cladding. The shape of the cabins is long and narrow, which allows for large window surfaces with varying views, as well as possibilities for very different types of functions at the opposite ends of the building; for example, sundowner drinks with friends at one end, while the kids are sleeping in the other.  

The vision was to have all things necessary with as little space as possible. All individual spaces have been designed to be as compact as they can without compromising the functionality and comfort. The two buildings are just 70m² in total, yet they sleep 10 adults comfortably if needed.

Their island is totally self-sufficient, as it uses solar power for energy and filtered sea water for drinking. The houses have running water, flush toilet, heating, cooling, and a modern kitchen. Hot running water is produced with a sauna stove and the same system provides heating to the floors.

You can follow along by following @project_archipelago. 

Photos by @Archmospheres.

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Promenade at Sunset, Paris, Childe Hassam

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Heard some important information on Twitter today, and thought I’d post it here for anyone who may not have heard it. This is actually a thing, devised by human rights organisation called Karma Nirvana.

Reblog to save a life?

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dreamy rainy friday evening in Brooklyn

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Camille Monet at the Window, Argentuile, Claude Monet

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“It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.”

Ram Dass

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To be disoriented is part of the process of awakening; it is natural to be disoriented, because everything is new. You are new, your perception is new, and your perception of everything and everyone has now changed.

Adyashanti (via aspiritualwarrior)

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Luxembourg, October 2015

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Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don’t find themselves at all.

Rollo May (via aspiritualwarrior)

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