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Beloved Tumblr community - I feel an apology is in order as I have neglected awake in the dream for many, many moons. There is, however, an excellent excuse for this:  A metamorphosis has taken hold and I have spent the last 9 months germinating and cultivating a magical childseed in my womb.  The journey thus far has been incredibly blissful, as I find myself in a state of perpetual gratitude to be a humble participant in this ancient rhythm of creation.  And now, with just a week or so before baby’s grand entrance, I prepare for the most mysterious and miraculous experience of my life.  I couldn’t have done it without the love and support of my partner.     with awe and wonder, Kadhi photo credit: STARLINGS (by kenny barker)
“ Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
— Elizabeth Stone
Grassy Fields (by Sandy Pogue)
“ It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.
— Wallace Stevens
mountain waters… (by Tamzin:))
“ Make it a point: whatsoever — sadness, anger — whatsoever — depression, unhappiness — be with it. And you will suddenly become surprised that if you remain with sadness, sadness changes into a beautiful thing, sadness becomes a depth. If you remain with anger, not thinking about, just being with, anger is transformed; it becomes forgiveness. If you remain with sex, sex takes on a different quality; it becomes love.
— osho
down by the river.. (by Tamzin:))
“ Who can free himself of achievement and fame
Then descend and be lost
Amidst the masses of men?
He will flow like Tao, unseen…
He will go about like life itself,
With no name and no home.
Simple is he, without.
To all appearances he is a fool.
His steps leave no trace.
He has no power.
He achieves nothing.
He has no reputation.
Since he judges no one,
No one judges him.
Such is the perfect man.
His boat is empty.
— Chuang Tzu, The Empty Boat
A Menace (by Olli Kekäläinen)
“ Misery is a by-product, so is bliss. Misery is a by-product of being asleep, bliss is a by-product of being awake. Hence you cannot seek and search for bliss directly, and those who seek and search for bliss directly are bound to fail, doomed to fail. Bliss can be attained only by those who don’t seek bliss directly; on the contrary, they seek awareness. And when awareness comes, bliss comes of its own accord, just like your shadow, unshakable.
—
Osho
Overwhelming Light (by Rinthe)
“ One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. The bamboozle has captured us. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.
— Carl Sagan
Night of the Birches (by Olli Kekäläinen)
“ This is the threat to our lives. We all face it. We all operate in our society in relation to a system. Now is the system going to eat you up and relieve you of your humanity or are you going to be able to use the system to human purposes? … If the person doesn’t listen to the demands of his own spiritual and heart life and insists on a certain program, you’re going to have a schizophrenic crack-up. The person has put himself off center. He has aligned himself with a programmatic life and it’s not the one the body’s interested in at all. And the world’s full of people who have stopped listening to themselves.
— Joseph Campbell, 2001
Splendour (by Shahriar Erfanian)
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