Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy.
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There are only three things you need to let go of: judging, controlling, and being right. Release these three and you will have the whole mind and twinkly heart of a child.
–Hugh Prather
I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments.
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If we don’t really possess things, how much less do we possess the people in our lives. The very nature of our relationship to them, if it is a truly loving human relationship, is freedom, even though it may include commitment and obligation. To really love someone—a spouse, a child, a colleague, or a friend—is to recognize that they are not us, that they have needs, aspirations, and lives that do not belong to us and that we cannot control. Can we appreciate and give our ourselves to them without fixating on what they will give us in return? Can we allow them their freedom and autonomy? Love like that may be the highest form of the practice of nonpossessiveness.
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Norman Fischer, on the Eighth Grave Precept inTaking Our Places: The Buddhist Path to Truly Growing Up (Reference: Everyday Zen - 3 Versions of the Zen Precepts) |
This is a cottage herb garden in Chelsea, London. I know I keep on about gardens lately but it is SPRING! and English gardens are marvellous and these purples are too lovely for words. (serendipity patch on pinterest.com)
Lakewold Gardens in Seattle area is an elegant garden, designed by Thomas Church in the 1950’s. There are 900 rhododendrons on site! See it here.
We saw this dress with a train, all of it made from plastic water bottles at the modern art museum in Nice, France. (Perhaps a new outfit for Lady Gaga)
The moon bridge at the Japanese Garden of Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California. See the newly renovated garden here.
This bluebird makes a splash at the Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens. Check out the newly renovated Japanese Garden at Huntington here.
Happy Mother’s Day! Spend it in a beautiful garden in Pasadena, California here. The Garden Conservancy’s Open Days Tour 2012 provided a rare peek into private gardens.
Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is Whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning
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| — | Joseph Campbell (via zenhumanism) |
