e x q u i s i t e ∞ p a r a d o x

curious Letters look∞look shadow ADORNMENTS MY SHOP
love is still the answer
Iron Blow landscape (by thoughtfactory)
“ There is a great choice that awaits us every day: whether we go around carving holes in others because we have been so painfully carved ourselves, or whether we let spirit play its song through our tender experience, enabling us to listen, as well, to the miraculous music coming through others.
— ― Mark Nepo, Finding Inner Courage
Lighthouse (by Daniel R Thompson)
“ From the rotting tree felled by lightning to the water re-smoothing after the whale dives down, everything is of equal sanctity and grace. From the darkness we can’t see through to the tenderness of a grandfather afraid to speak, everything and everyone is a teacher. Each flower, each bird, each suffering, great and small, each eroded stone and crack in that stone, each question rising from each crack—every aspect of life holds some insight that can help us live. We can learn and deepen from anything anywhere.
— Mark Nepo, The Exquisite Risk
(via Josef Hoflehner Photographer | Canada & New York State)
“ All my life, I have made it complicated, but it is so simple. I love when I love. And when I love, I am myself.
— Hugh Prather, Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person
Tree (by ►CubaGallery)
“ The moments that hold mystery, whether dressed in pain or wonder, wait to be treated with respect and sincerity; as if a message was carved in stone for you before you were born, and a storm has washed it ashore just in time, and you need all the help you can get to decipher its meaning. And we will be found by our teachers repeatedly—be they the moon, the thief, or the tiger—until we can uncover their meaning.
— Mark Nepo, The Exquisite Risk
Australia (by ►CubaGallery)
“ Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
(via Josef Hoflehner Photographer)
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If you are going to be courageous, an example for all those who are ready to step into their power, then you must be willing to show the world all of who you are. You must have the guts to throw off the chains of modesty and mediocrity in order to be the light that the world needs.

A warrior’s daily prayer is to have the strength to love all of herself, the courage to listen to what she is guided to do, and the confidence to go out, stand tall, and deliver her gifts to the world.
— Debbie Ford
(via Icelands)
“ In a world that lives like a fist
mercy is not more than waking
with your hands open.
— ― Mark Nepo
Landscape (by ►CubaGallery)
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