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“To become intimate  is to become vulnerable  not only to what I want and desire in my life, but to the fear I have of my desire being met.”  This is the paradox of longing: Because longing can be an addiction, because no active addict ever wants to give up their addiction — or can without a great deal of suffering — it can be terrifying and almost unbearably vulnerable to surrender to an intimacy so amply fulfilling that it leaves nothing to long for. And yet in that vulnerability lies our power and our freedom to transform a relationship from a tether of dependency into a slender cord of grace. Read the WHOLE  ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ MARGINALIAN by Maria Popova    “Couple these fragments of the  thoroughly soul-slaking  “Consolations II” With other essays in which we  explore such  overused, underexamined words  as shame, time, love, burnout, and end with a wonderful read  on lichens as a lens on intimacy ,  Kahlil Gibran on  love...

 

A BRAVE AND STARTLING TRUTH by Maya Angelou We, this people, on a small and lonely planet Traveling through casual space Past aloof stars, across the way of indifferent suns To a destination where all signs tell us It is possible and imperative that we learn A brave and startling truth  And when we come to it To the day of peacemaking When we release our fingers From fists of hostility And allow the pure air to cool our palms  When we come to it When the curtain falls on the minstrel show of hate And faces sooted with scorn are scrubbed clean When battlefields and coliseum No longer rake our unique and particular sons and daughters Up with the bruised and bloody grass To lie in identical plots in foreign soil  When the rapacious storming of the churches The screaming racket in the temples have ceased When the pennants are waving gaily When the banners of the world tremble Stoutly in the good, clean breeze  When we come to it When we let the rifles fall from our shoul...

“It was a joy to write, and a joy to collaborate with two of the most thoughtful and talented people I know:  The print book features original art by Ofra Amit  (who painted my favourite piece in  A Velocity of Being ), and the audiobook features  the living artwork that is Lili Taylor’s voice narrating the essays (I read the poems).” Maria Popova

🐈‍⬛ ROOF TOP 🐈‍⬛ SPACE CATS 🐈‍⬛  FIERCE LIVING JOY 🤪 TWO ATE JOYOUSLY! 🤪 ♾️ MAGICAL ⭕️🆑IT⭕️ FROM WITHIN🔥 That is the difference between signs and omens.  Signs disrespect the nature of reality,  while omens betoken our search for meaning,  reverent of the majesty and mystery of the universe they are a conversation between consciousness  and reality in the poetic language of belief. Whenever we think in absolutes, we ossify.  Our freedom always lies in our flexibility,  and because concepts like meaning and identity  are not fixed, because they  “require our intentional participation,”  they are “mercifully flexible.”  They take the shape of our beliefs  about who we are and what we deserve,  they abide by the messages we send  ourselves through the omens  we make of reality. For those of us who find consolation  in the natural world,  the sense of meaning has to do with contacting  the numin...

Those people you can just sit with and do absolutely nothing and it still feels like everything.  Misaligned relationships and misaligned energy keeps your nervous system also misaligned.  Trust that inner knowing. No reasons ever needed.  Listen IN, feel IN, go with IN and  That’s how you’ll realise who you are magnetically CONNECTED TO, HEART TO HEART,  not MIND ATTACHED TO, NOT BODY ATTACHED TO.  FROM LOVE not for love. #ssy marginalian ethical excellence true nature  “PAY ATTENTION  BE ASTONISHED  TELL ABOUT IT” Poet Laurette  Mary Oliver connected  Totally to True Nature.  🙏♾️🙏 True Nature transforming anxiety, stress, worry and mind attachment into unadulterated unwavering joy. Sun Day Exploring More,  Thank you dear friend.  #yoga #SSY #farmgate The light hearted neither want to live, nor want to die. If life is there, the creature fully dances with life; if change is there, the creature wholly dance...