“There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.” — Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (via creatingaquietmind)
(Source: the-healing-nest, via zenhumanism)
A Lovely Joke about Cleaning One's Room
“I am in the middle of it: chaos and poetry; poetry and love and again, complete chaos. Pain, disorder, occasional clarity; and at the bottom of it all: only love; poetry. Sheer enchantment, fear, humiliation. It all comes with love.” — Anna Akhmatova, from “The Akhmatova Journals” (via violentwavesofemotion)
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Self-Awareness Helps You Celebrate Your Amazing Beauty
“I sit before flowers
hoping they will train me in the art
of opening up”
— Shane Koyczan, The Student (via loveyourchaos)
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“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” — Cicero (via thehouseofrisingsun)
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Self-Awareness and Simplifying Your Life
biosthete: We humans are dissatisfied and anxious because we’re inwardly at war.... -
We humans are dissatisfied and anxious because we’re inwardly at war. True inner peace eludes us because we’re disconnected from the compassion inherent to consciousness itself. This is much more than a feeling. It’s like an immense, unmovable background of friendliness, present at the root of…