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“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.” ~ Anatole France
Art by Benjamin Moss
“When any of us meet someone who rejects dominant norms and values, we feel a little less crazy for doing the same. Any act of rebellion or non-participation, even on a very small scale, is therefore a political act.” ~ Charles Eisenstein
“I was dead, then alive. Weeping, then laughing. The power of love came into me, and I became fierce like a lion, then tender like the evening star.” ~ Rumi
“Discipline, as understood by a warrior, is creative, open, and produces freedom. It is the ability to face the unknown, transforming the feeling of knowing into reverent astonishment; of considering things that exceed the scope of our habits, and daring to face the only war that is worthwhile: The battle for awareness.” ~Carlos Castaneda
Art by Anatheme
Source ~ Dreamwork with Toko-pa
Happy Spring Equinox! May all the seeds you’ve planted blossom into beautiful flowers.
Art by Anna Berezovskaya
I dream of a family of stars. When one of us shines brightly, it inspires the rest of us to turn up our shine. There are no teachers in the STARFAMILY, only learner-sharers. While some of us are meant to lead, others clear the path and do the math, but we are all STARS, so comparison ceases to exist. RECIPROCITY is the only law, held up by the authority of love. We know that everything is VIBRATION, so we are radically responsible with what tunes we tell. Everyone in the starfamily is needed, even the CHAOS stirrers, who help us know dissonance which is the precursor to CHANGE. Every obstacle we surpass brings us closer to the TRUTH of our indispensability, which is also fleeting. We are disappearing COMETS, with but a blink of a life to make our streaks on the sky in an unselfconscious praising of the present, aching to return to the ONE LOVE which made us. ~ by Dreamwork with Toko-pa
Art by Antonio Caparo
“You’re walking the labyrinth of life. Yes, you’re meant to move forward, but almost never in a straight line. Yes, there’s an element of achievement, of beginning and ending, but those are minor compared to the element of being here now. In the moments you stop trying to conquer the labyrinth of life and simply inhabit it, you’ll realize it was designed to hold you safe as you explore what feels dangerous. You’ll see that you’re exactly where you’re meant to be, meandering along a crooked path that is meant to lead you not onward, but inward.” ~Martha Beck
Art by Jamie Zollars
Source ~ Shamantube
“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word “love” here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace – not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.” ~ James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
“Let us leave the orbit of yesterday, with all its struggles and its joys and memories, and let us fully enter a new moment, setting our sights on new stars, charting the course for our highest selves and contributions. Should we wish to change, let us be bold once again. Yes, let us be brave and find our moon, chasing a vision so big and unimaginable that the mere thought of it brings sweat to our palms and stuns our heart with anxiety, yet never fails to lift our soul with purpose. Under no circumstances shall we settle on challenges that fail to inspire; let them be so real and meaningful to us that we rise each day and pursue them with full intensity, until we have victory or we die. Let us be more disciplined and true, each day taking action, testing things out, failing, getting up again, failing again, learning, rising and rising and rising ever more. This is the stuff of commitment and character, the demands of real contribution. Let us have vision now to break the boundaries of all that we have ever known, lift above our own competencies and insecurities, take flight fueled only by courage and love, soar high in our service to the world.” ~Brendon Burchard
Under The Blue Door 