Love is a matter of inner nature, not of relationship. Love has nothing to do with relationship, love is a state of being. It is an inner component of one’s individuality.
Osho
Tonight is the full moon known as the Pink Moon which got it’s name from the wild ground phlox flower, one of the first flower of spring. This moon is in the sign of Libra and is a great time for exploring your relationship, and apperciating beauty :) blessed be!
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Topaz crystal surface and cleavage.
One of the characteristics of topaz is its perfect cleavage, which has nothing to do with the usual meaning we associate with this word, though it’s a constant of corny geological jokes of the ‘geologists make the bedrock’ type. In minerals cleavage is a consequence of crystal structure and the regular arrangement of atoms in a lattice. In some crystals this arrangement has lines of weakness, where there are fewer bonds holding the atoms together and along which the crystal can easily break or be separated. Those of you who have played with a ‘book’ of mica crystals will have seen how it splits easily along parallel cleavage planes like pages in a book.
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Here are thee easy ways to incorporate mindfulness into your life:
1. Pause several times a day to notice your breath.
Noticing your breath makes you present. Whenever you pause to notice your breath, breathe deeper than you had been. If you tend to carry around residual stress, your unconscious breathing will be faster and more shallow. When you notice your breath and breathe more slowly, you let out a bit of stress right where you are instead of waiting for life to become less stressful.
In those moments where you notice your breath, you also notice other things. You notice your thoughts. You notice how you feel. You notice your body posture. You notice if you are standing or sitting. You notice if you are plugged in or unplugged. As you notice these things and continue to breathe slowly, respond to whatever you notice with kindness. Being present, noticing things and responding with kindness is the essence of mindfulness. It is very easy to incorporate into your day. In fact, it is much harder not to practice it.
2. Unplug yourself.
Turn off your phone, stay off the computer, don’t watch television and be present where you are. You can do that for 5 minutes or 5 hours and as you notice what you notice in that time, respond to those thoughts and feelings with kindness.
3. Start a mediation habit.
Meditation is sitting and focusing your attention on your breath. You can do that for 10 minutes 2 or 3 times a day. You can do it in the middle of the night. A solid practice would be 20 minutes twice a day. Sit once in the morning and once in the afternoon or evening. Dedicating yourself to a sitting habit is the difficult part. Sitting and doing nothing is as easy as it gets. If it’s not easy, its needed.
Mindfulness, when practiced in small doses, spills over into your day. Practicing meditation is doing all three of these at once. If you develop a mediation practice you will find many moments throughout the day where you are unplugged, aware of your breathing, present, and responding with kindness to the world where you are.
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Painting of Orgyan Dorje Chang at Tsogyelgar
You see, everything is erotic wonderment displaying itself as appearance. Appearance and awareness are making love. The eye and the object of sight, the ear and sounds you hear … music, birds, traffic all of it is this union, this intimacy and beauty. If we can train the mind to be still, silent, free of chaos then our body’s themselves, our minds, our lives become a sort o revelation, sutras and poems written by the ink of appearance on the paper of Being. - t.k.
Pachystachys lutea (aka lollypop plant or golden shrimp plant)
my original photography- please do not remove credit
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Before and after water therapy: when it arrived and one day later.
I’ve been totally converted to the water therapy for succulents thing! It seemed so weird to me at first, but it really does work wonders for perking up a struggling plant and encouraging root growth. I’ve even managed to rescue some leaf propagations with a bit of water time, it’s really fascinating.
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People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within.
Ramona L. Anderson
understanding yourself is power.
loving yourself is freedom.
Forgiving yourself is peace
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