“I Hope You Find Someone You Can’t Live Without. I Really Do. And I Hope You Never Have To Know What

“I do not wish to convert people from one organized religion to another; I have no interest in any of these organized religions. My interest is in Dhamma - the truth, the teachings of all Enlightened Ones. If at all there is any conversion, it should be from misery to happiness, from defilement to purity, from bondage to liberation, from ignorance to Enlightenment.”

— S. N. Goenka

Fresh start bitter end

It sinks in your eyes’ blue (life, lust, love) like a skimming stone having lost all momentum,

and drowns there, where I have again and again. But it is only the end

for a moment. Stillness may hold your moon- spirit in its orbit but gravity wanes and

your trajectory is as yet unknown. Where will you go

then?: When the beginning takes you? Where will you fly (and if not fly, walk; and if not walk, swim)?

Do we win the battle when there are no fears left to face? Or is it won through exploration and through acceptance: that

there will be one thing and then another and then another

like the haunting of an ancient burial ground from now until forever.

“The scariest thing about distance is you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget about you.”

— The Notebook

Manifesting Money

Remember that money is a tool. It can be used to build many feelings such as confidence, gratitude, and joy. But it's not the source of these things. You are.

Money is like a toothbrush. You use the toothbrush to brush your teeth so they can be healthy which results in what you're actually looking for, a confidence boost.

Notice how both money and a toothbrush are used to get a result but they aren't the focus nor the end goal.

When manifesting money, focus on why you have it. It'll be easier to feel abundant this way.

Personally, I use my riches to invest in my lifestyle, the people and things that I love, and my career. Thinking about the impact my wealth has on my life provides me with a much fuller experience of abundance than simply thinking about a number in my bank account does.

[Notice how I speak of my wealth in the present tense.]

Create beautiful things,

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Even her hands cried

When he let them go

𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐤

“Suddenly I needed my heart in a hurry. I offered it to you, cold and dripping, incompletely thawed. You didn’t even wash its blood from your fingertips. As it numbed them, you asked me to kiss your hands.”

— Carolyn Kizer, excerpt of “What the Bones Know” in Cool, Calm and Collected

OSHO talks-

I Have Called That the New Man – Zorba the Buddha

“First I taught you about trust, the heart, feeling, love; and now I am teaching you about doubt, skepticism, reason, intellect, because I would like you to be a whole man. You can be completely satisfied with trusting, with the heart, but you will not be a whole man. I would not call Mira a whole person, I would not call Ramakrishna a whole person. They are beautiful, but the intellect is missing; it is all heart. It is too much sugar, it creates diabetes. I am diabetic. Too much of the heart, too much sweetness, and you suffer from diabetes – and I don’t want any of you to suffer from diabetes. Yes, just living by the heart you will have spiritual diabetes. Intellect is salty, spicy; it is not all sugar.

“I would like you to enjoy the wholeness of your being, when your body, your heart, your intellect all fall in tune. I have called that the new man – Zorba the Buddha.”

-Osho

Have you ever just cried because you’re you?

borrowed time

I’m walking up against the wind, this is indeed my borrowed time

the cuffs, the lattice the burning furnace the thorny glade the wired wall

magnitude of malevolence, one tired hand upon another cutting into this air slithering through inadvertently

egress, the high transom window and sight of sunshine

…

I’m walking with the wind now, this is no longer borrowed time

the hatchery the abundant cloud the river, the highway the umbilical love

relevance of release into the transformation, the perpetual firelight the significant ease the expanding awareness

all flight, free as feathers