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NEW handmade, limited edition crystal rings.

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A soul mate’s purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life.

Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love (via wordsnquotes)

I never believed in love because I never had love I was told what love was but I never experienced it, bc what I was told was love didn’t feel like love and it hurt, but we love you, but it hurt, but I love you, but you hurt, but we love you. I didn’t love the hurt. So my soul craved real love. A love that I am in a constant battle with, the one with myself and the one with the world, the accepting, understanding, kind of love. And you wouldn’t believe how magical it is to watch your self love something unconditionally, and then watch what you love grow. When you see growth around you, it means you yourself have grown in the same ways. We surround ourselves with who we are. I was taught to be wise because I learned it, I was taught patience bc I practiced it, and I was taught love because I embodied it. You are what you see.

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Have you figured out yet why beautiful souls die early, why we lose so many angels on earth?

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I never wanted this Mcflurry to end.

7 sad word story

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seniors: enjoy your last year cause before u know it you’ll be forced to leave ur dogs & I don’t think anyone is mentally prepared for that

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what if people pronounced “yikes” like they do “nike”

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my last words will probably be sarcastic

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i was on the train and 3 drunk girls saw me and said i had nice brown eyes so they sang “brown eyed girl” to me

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my boyfriend and i were eating nachos and he was struggling to get the good stuff on his chip so i used my chip to push it on his and he stopped and looked up at me and said “THIS is the type of support i need in a relationship”

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Always you are worried that somebody will judge you as harshly as you judge yourself.

P’taah (via iam-youis)

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Thousands of Candles Poster Art Print

by Pyramid America

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Know that every time you are trying to control, you are shutting down spontaneous creativity.

P’taah (via iam-youis)

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ॐ Art by Mark Lee. Follow Machine Elves for more. ॐ

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The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can’t be organized or regulated. It isn’t true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.

Ram Dass (via abiding-in-peace)

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How to Love Yourself.

The type of meditation practice described below is literally the most powerful work I do with clients and for myself.  It’s based on Buddhist psychology and is very much like self-psychotherapy.  Please give this a try; you will be a happier person AND make the world a better place!  Beth

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1. Whenever you become aware of negative thoughts and emotions arising, rather than ignoring them, or setting them aside for later, identify, acknowledge, and honor them.

2. Become very clear on what the specific upset is by identifying the exact thoughts that are bothering you. Are they self-judging, bad memories, or anxiety about future events? Any thought that causes dis-ease in you, regardless of past, present or future is applicable.

3. Next, indentify the specific emotions that arise in you as a result of said thoughts. What do they feel like? Is there tightening in your chest? Is your stomach turning or is there a throbbing sensation in your head? Again, any emotion that causes dis-ease is applicable.

4. Once you’ve clearly identified the thought(s) and emotion(s), close your eyes and explore the imagery they subsequently create in your mind (once you’re familiar with the practice, you won’t always need to close your eyes—i.e., if you’re driving, or in public you can still do this.) Do the thoughts and emotions create colors, shapes, figures? Are they abstract or clear? The important thing is to let your thoughts and emotions create the imagery while you simply become aware of what they are.

5. Breathe. We’re at the half way mark and I’d like to offer you a sincere congratulations on completing the first half! Our natural tendency is to suppress these uncomfortable thoughts and emotions, often telling ourselves that we’ll deal with them later—but honestly, does later ever come? Unfortunately for most of us, it never does. So even just by taking the time to become conscious of, and identify these unpleasant thoughts and emotions is a huge step! Let’s not stop there however, because here’s where the really good stuff starts to happen.

6. This step is where everything begins to change! Once you have the mental images of what your thoughts and emotions look like (and even if there’s no image at all, this practice still works), picture yourself holding the image (or lack thereof) in the same way a mother holds a newborn baby. Picture the image of your painful thought and emotion wrapped in a warm blanket, being held with very loving care closely to your heart, your chest, as you extend it very sincere compassion from your heart center. (You can also use the imagery of wrapping the thought/emotion in a warm blanket and placing it in a baby carriage, and rocking the carriage back and forth.)

7. Next, mentally (or verbally) say to the image that you know it’s there and you promise to care for and hold it with compassion until it’s ready to go. Do your best to say these words from a very sincere place in your heart.

Through bringing our attention to the image of our painful thoughts and emotions, and tending to it with an open heart, we’re doing the most natural thing we can—expressing love. Instead of ostracizing our uncomfortable thoughts and emotions and their unpleasant effects, we show them pure, complete and inclusive love. It’s a love they’ve never known before, and a love many of us have never known before either.

The thoughts and emotions will often subside very quickly. Sometimes, however, they aren’t ready to go so fast, and that’s fine. When we initially told them we’d be with them as long as they needed us, we were sincere in that intention. So if/when the thoughts and emotions call us on it, we honor our words and hold them dearly in our heart for as long as it takes.

  ~  written by Chris Grosso, who credits Thich Nhat Hanh as his source.

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Knowing yourself goes far deeper than the adoption idea set of ideas or beliefs. Spiritual ideas and beliefs may at best be helpful pointers, but in themselves they rarely have the power to dislodge the more firmly established core concepts of who you think you are, which are part of the conditioning of the human mind. Knowing yourself deeply has nothing to do with whatever ideas are floating around in your mind. Knowing yourself is to be rooted in being, instead of lost in your mind.
Your sense of who you are determined what you perceive as your needs and what matters to you in life - and whatever matters to you will have the power to upset and disturb you. If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small. 
If peace is what you really want, then you will choose peace. If peace mattered to you more than anything else, and if you truly knew yourself to be spirit rather than a little me, you would remain nonreactive and absolutely alert when confronted with challenging people or situations. It would be powerful and effective and would make no person or situation into any enemy. 
How you react to people and situations, especially when challenges arise, is the best indicator of how deeply you know yourself. 
The more limited, the more narrowly egoic the view of yourself, the more you will see, focus on and react to the egoic limitations, the unconsciousness in others. Their faults or what you perceive their faults become to you their identity. This means you will only see the ego in them and thus strengthen the ego in yourself.

Finding Who You Truly Are, A New Earth (via awake-society)