"When I love / I feel that I am the king/ queen of time / I possess the earth and everything on it / and ride into the sun upon my horse." Nizar Qabbani
and remember: "One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being".
"Every day, you have to wade through a relentless surge of soul-less facts. The experience tends to shut down your sense of wonder.
Every day, you're over-exposed to cynical narratives that have been sucked free of delight and mystery. That's why you have to make such strenuous efforts to keep your world enchanted."
"The punk ethic is rebellious. It transgresses conventional wisdom through "a cynical absurdity that's redeemed by being hilarious." Brian Doherty. In the hippie approach, on the other hand, the prevailing belief is "love is all you need." It seeks a "manic togetherness and all-encompassing acceptance that are all sweet and no sour; inspiring but also soft and gelatinous." Ah, but what happens when punk and hippie merge? Each moderates the extreme of the other, yielding a tough-minded lust for life that's both skeptical and celebratory."
“This is a massive awakening. We’ve already seen an awakening taking place in the last few years. It will intensify. We’ve seen marvellous demonstrations in a variety of different cities... I think that we have to have a real sense of commitment to being a hope in such a bleak moment. And we can turn things around.”
Apply all this as you wish and create your own revolution to ripple through universally. The time is now, now is the time.
"To be wild is not to be crazy like a criminal or psychotic, but mad as the mist and snow." It has nothing to do with being childish or primitive, nor does it manifest as manic rebellion or self-damaging alienation.
The marks of wildness, are a love of nature, a delight in silence, a voice free to say spontaneous things, and a vivacious curiosity in the face of the unknown" Robert Bly
"You're a gorgeous mystery with a wild heart and a lofty purpose. But like all of us, you also have a dark side -- a part of your psyche that snarls and bites, that's unconscious and irrational, that is motivated by ill will or twisted passions or instinctual fears.
It's your own personal portion of the world's sickness: a mess of repressed longings, enervating wounds, ignorant delusions, and unripe powers. You'd prefer to ignore it because it's unflattering or uncomfortable or very different from what you imagine yourself to be.
Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event. If you disown a part of your personality, it'll materialise as an unexpected detour. Carl Jung
Everyone who believes in the devil is the devil . . . ."
"Be brave and forceful, gentle and graceful. Free your sublimely imperfect, riotously intelligent body. Allow it to be itself in all of its mysterious glory. Love your body exactly as it is.
Praise your body. Thank your body. Tell it you adore its uncanny majesty; you yearn to learn more of its secrets; you promise to treat it as your beloved ally.
Study your body's magic. Exult in the blessings it bestows on you. Celebrate and hone its fierce animal elegance.
"I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself." Friedrich Nietzsche
Summer Solstice. 21 June 2017. on the day of the national, if not national, protest, stay strong, stay together and stay focused, as the purpose is one.
"This is the time of the rose, blossom and thorn, fragrance and blood. Now on this longest day, light triumphs, and yet begins the decline into the dark. The Sun King grown embraces the Queen of Summer in the love that is death because it is so complete that all dissolves into the single song of ecstasy that moves the worlds. So the Lord of Light dies to Himself, and sets sail across the dark seas of time, searching for the isle of light that is rebirth. We turn the Wheel and share his fate, for we have planted the seeds of our own changes and to grow we must accept even the passing of the sun."
"To explore the secrets of becoming a wildly disciplined, fiercely tender, ironically sincere, scrupulously curious, aggressively sensitive, blasphemously reverent, lyrically logical, lustfully compassionate Master of Rowdy Bliss.
Foresight vs ignorance and exaggerated delusions; It's the understanding that the universe is fundamentally friendly. It's a mode of training your senses and intellect so you're able to perceive the fact that life always gives you exactly what you need, exactly when you need it.
Evil is boring. Cynicism is idiotic. Fear is a bad habit. Despair is lazy. Joy is fascinating. Love is an act of heroic genius. Pleasure is your birthright. Receptivity is a superpower.
Act as if the universe is a prodigious miracle created for your amusement and illumination. Assume that secret helpers are working behind the scenes to assist you in turning into the gorgeous masterpiece you were born to be. Join the conspiracy to shower all of creation with blessings.
"The secret of life," is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for your whole life. And the most important thing is; it must be something you cannot possibly do. henry moore. What is that task for you?
Brag about what you can't do and don't have. Confess profound secrets to people who aren't particularly interested. Pray for the success of your enemies while you're making love. Change your name every day for a thousand days.
Freedom is in the unknown. If you believe there is an unknown everywhere, in your own body, in your relationships with other people, in political institutions, in the universe, then you have maximum freedom. john c. lilly
You're invited to celebrate Unhappy Hour. It's a ceremony that gives you a poetic license to rant and whine and howl and sob about everything that hurts you and makes you feel bad.
During this perverse grace period, there's no need for you to be inhibited as you unleash your tortured squalls. You don't have to tone down the extremity of your desolate clamours. Unhappy Hour is a ritually consecrated excursion devoted to the full disclosure of your primal clash and jangle.
You dive into your darkness for no more than 60 minutes, then climb back out, free and clear.
That's where you let your pain tell you every story it has to tell you. You let your pain teach you every lesson it has to teach you. But then it's over. The ritual ordeal is complete.
If performed regularly, Unhappy Hour serves as an exorcism that empties you of psychic toxins, while at the same time; miracle of miracles; it helps you squeeze every last drop of blessed catharsis out of those psychic toxins.
You'll develop a knack for cultivating smart joy and cagey optimism as your normal states of mind."
a good reflection and a deep understanding never hurt anyone, on the contrary, it heals... let us all rejoice in true festive spirit for us, our people, our world...
"There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That's why you must walk so lightly. Lightly, learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you're feeling deeply." Aldous Huxley
"Be scarier than your fears. If an anxious thought pops into your mind, bare your teeth and growl, "Get out of here or will rip you to shreds! If a demon visits you in a nightly dream, chase after it with a torch and sword, screaming "Begone, foul spirit, or I will burn your mangy ass!"
Don't tolerate bullying in any form, whether it comes from a critical little voice in your head or from supposedly nice people who are trying to guilt trip you. I am a brave conqueror who cannot be intimidated! I am a monster of love and goodness who will defeat all threats to my integrity!"
Mercury is retrograde until August 18. And this what it really means, do not listen to the morons, who understand nothing about celestial activities:
Mercury Retrograde is a natural and even helpful recurrent cycle, 70 days each year, natural rhythm, just like the seasons. At these times, we get the opportunity to RETHINK, REVIEW, and REVISE our thinking and our written and spoken communication. If we use it to RE -EXAMINE the flow of our work and our day-to-day lives, these little mishaps can teach us something about Right Action. They can be a valuable corrective that helps us prevent more serious and ongoing errors in our work that might otherwise be compounded over time. Used correctly, these intervals can enhance our productivity and the quality of our work and life, in particular.
only 5% of the world's population lives in a complete democracy and it is not even correct.
apply democracy into your everyday lives and personal orbit. ensure that people you care about feel equal to you and have confidence that you will listen to and consider their needs, and believe they have a strong say in shaping your shared experiences.
and use any social platform with care and nous, empathy, love and education; not bullying, hate and bigotry.
times are demanding of more of our kindness and open mind; let's utilise this.
I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Love imperfectly. Be a love idiot. Let yourself forget any love ideal. Sark
Love is the only game where two can play and both win. Erma Freesman
Love is a great beautifier. Louisa May Alcott
Fall in love over and over again every day. Love your family, your neighbours, your enemies, and yourself. And don't stop with humans. Love animals, plants, stones, even galaxies. Mary Ann and Frederic Brussat
I love you between shadow and soul. I love you as the plant that hasn't bloomed yet, and carries hidden within itself the light of flowers. I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. Because of you, the dense fragrance that rises from the earth lives in my body, rioting with hunger for the eternity of our victorious kisses. Pablo Neruda
You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys and my day's wage. You are my divinity, my madness, my selfishness, my transfiguration and purification. You are my fellow vagabond, my tempter and star. George Bernard Shaw
love is healing and the answer and we all know that for sure. the healing won't happen, as one imagines. the healing will happen, if one tells the absolute truth. all with soft, tender, unruly, elixir kisses, crazy sweet cuddle wrestles, brisk lessons, deep appreciations and ingenious affectionate amazements.
lots of good work to be done and how fortunate we all are if we get down to it in furtive energy and anticipation.
i dedicate this little readings to ALL the lovers and love fighters in the everywhere.
I invite you to say any or all of the following lines out loud:
I love everything about me
I love my uncanny beauty and my bewildering pain
I love my hungry soul and my wounded longing
I love my flaws, my fears, and my scary frontiers
I will never forsake, betray, or deceive myself
I will always adore, forgive, and believe in myself
I will never refuse, abandon, or scorn myself
I will always amuse, delight, and redeem myself
So listen up. We'll make it brief. You're at a crossroads analogous to a dilemma that has baffled your biological line for six generations. We ask you now to master the turning point that none of us have ever figured out how to negotiate. Heal yourself and you heal all of us. We mean that literally. Start brainstorming, please.
Love thrives when neither partner takes things personally, so cultivate a devotion to forgiveness and divest yourself of the urge to blame.
Love is a game in which the rules keep changing, so be crafty and improvisational as you stay alert for each unexpected twist of fate.
Love enmeshes you in your partner's unique set of karmic complications, so make sure you're very interested in his or her problems.
Love is a laboratory where you can uncover secrets about yourself that have previously been hidden, so be ravenously curious.
Love is never a perfect match of totally compatible saints, so don't let sterile fantasies seduce you away from flawed but fecund realities. Love is not a low-maintenance machine, so work hard on cultivating its unpredictable organic wonders.
Love is not a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hollywood, so don't let your romantic story be infected by the entertainment industry's simplistic, sentimental myths about intimate relationships.
LET'S GET ON WITH IT; WE ARE ALL RIGHT AND LIFE IS AMAZING...
Whatever you choose to focus your attention on, you will get more of it. If you dwell on the good things you have already had the privilege to experience, you will expand your appreciation for their blessings, which in turn will amplify their beneficent impact on your life. You will also magnetise yourself to receive further good things, making it more likely that they will be attracted into your sphere. At the very least, you will get in the habit of enjoying yourself no matter what the outward circumstances are.
Bear in mind that you are a great wizard. You can use your powers to practice white magic on yourself instead of the other kind. The most basic way to do that is to concentrate on naming, savouring, and feeling gratitude for the blessings you do have—your love for your kid, the pleasures of eating the food you like, the sight of the sky at dusk, the entertaining drama of your unique fate. Don't ignore the bad stuff, but make a point of celebrating the beautiful stuff with all the exuberant devotion you can muster.
Speak the following lines out loud: I love everything about me I love my uncanny beauty and my bewildering pain I love my hungry soul and my wounded longing I love my flaws, my fears, and my scary frontiers
I will never forsake, betray, or deceive myself I will always adore, forgive, and believe in myself I will never refuse, abandon, or scorn myself I will always amuse, delight, and redeem myself.
and remember:
"Every act of genius, is an act contra naturam: against nature." Indeed, every effort to achieve psychological integration and union with the divine requires a knack for working against the grain. Carl Jung
The great secret to becoming enlightened, is "to walk in all things contrary to the world." Jacob Boehme
"The basis of the spiritual approach to life, the foundation of the everyday practice of a person who lives the life of obedience to esoteric law, is the reversal of the more usual ways of thinking, speaking and doing." Paul Foster Case
have a great week, full of focus, gratitude and love.
"If everything seems under control, you're probably not moving fast enough." Mario Andretti
1. If you're not pretty much always half-confused, most likely you're not thinking deeply enough.
2. If you're not feeling forever amazed, maybe you're not seeing wildly enough.
3. The truth is fluid, slippery, vagrant, scrambled, promiscuous, kaleidoscopic, and outrageously abundant.
4. Sometimes the truth is a glittering diamond and at other times it's a stream of smoke.
"I was like a mole in a suburban backyard. I had just one little path I trod each day: to the compost pile and back. I chewed on orange rinds and leftover cabbage. I was tamed by the comfort of my familiar environment, content to have a narrow vision. But then I was eaten by a hawk, and became part of a wild, free body. Now I perch on the tops of trees and the peaks of roofs. I survey giddy-wide horizons, from the river to the mesa and far beyond. I have a wealth of choices. Where to fly? What to hunt? Who are my allies? My thoughts breathe deep, like the slow explosion of sun on the morning lake."
freeing the heart; loving again and back... yes? xx
love rules - the love rules - the rules of love (some) from vincent, leo, emily, sark, rainer, blaise, erica, frederick and mary, pablo, emma, anais.
"I tell you the more I think, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people."
"Everything I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything exists, only because I love."
"Until you have loved, you cannot become yourself."
"Love imperfectly. Be a love idiot. Let yourself forget any love ideal."
"For one human being to love another is the most difficult task. It is the work for which all other work is mere preparation."
"If you do not love too much, you do not love enough."
"Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more."
"Fall in love over and over again every day. Love your family, your neighbours, your enemies, and yourself. And don't stop with humans. Love animals, plants, stones, even galaxies."
"To love is to tilt with the lightning, two bodies routed by a single honey's sweet."
"The most vital right is the right to love and be loved."
"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."
"There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don't work."
experiencing aloneness, i discover connection turn to face my fear, i meet the warrior in me open to my loss and pain and ignorance, i remind me of myself and purpose surrendering into emptiness, I find endless fulfillment if i flee, I am pursued if i welcome, i am transformed
"I do want to create art beyond rage. Rage is a place to begin, but not end. "I do want to devour my demons—despair, grief, shame, fear and use them to nourish my art. Otherwise they'll devour me." Sandra Cisneros
be alert for creative inspiration that strikes you in the midst of seemingly mundane circumstances. do not believe what your read in sold out to greed and immorality, papers. trust your gut. do your thing. be thankful. be grateful. and breathe. the sun is shining, times are challenging; stay safe.
emotional and spiritual food. the influences that make you stronger the people who see you for who you really are the situations that teach you life-long lessons the beauty that replenishes your psyche the symbols that consistently restore your balance the memories that keep feeding your ability to rise to each new challenge. then, pay it forward.
do your best in every single thing you do uphold the highest possible standards in every aspect of your life.
sustain impeccable levels of integrity be fiercely honest, fair and kind do not obstruct the flow of your natural intelligence respect yourself and others and try to do what you love from this day forward or later - goal set up - at least 51% of the time. at the very least, i would say 80%
deepen and intensify your commitment to the most important person in your life: you i am not promoting selfishness here, but encouraging self love and preservation, because: the most important person in the scenario is you no one is going to look after you better than you you cannot love anyone properly, unless you love yourself properly (very old news, this one and it does not need a shaman to master and understand fall in love with yourself, be your own perfect date
extending that love and more positive for thoughts if we focus on the bad, then we feel crippled in doing anything constructive and change things in our world but if we remain hopeful in bad and challenging times, we'll then resume the energy to act "The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvellous victory." H. Zinn
my heart and mind are racing with adrenaline ideas, pain, sorrow, faith, action, hope and love.
what happened in pittsburgh was an abomination of humanity, but we won't be broken what is happening in brazil, is beyond disgusting, but we shall resist
stay a revolutionary crusader and agitator, stay alert, stay faithful, stay kind and above all, stay lovers of the world. this is scorpio season, full of mystery and truth... we shall and MUST overcome. together.
it's a beautiful day. it's important to stay positive, active and pro active, as well as angry and disappointed.
i read somewhere:
"If I could have but one wish granted it would be
to live in a universe like this one
at a time like the present
with friends like the ones I have now
and be myself." Rand Howells
"Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected
as questions asked in the wrong way." Alan Watts
"Dedicating the merit, is an act of radical imagination that has a real impact.
Our radical imagining is that all beings are free, at peace, and awakened. Imagining this stretches our minds and creates the possibility for it to actually happen, because if we cannot imagine something, it's nearly impossible to actualise it.
In this radical imagining, our vision includes everyone equally in our love.
This develops our generosity, loving-kindness, and commitment to the equality of beings. This kind of beneficence does not condone anyone's
destructive actions. Rather it looks toward the possibility of liberating and transforming the ignorance that drives people's destructive actions." Lama Palden Drolma
love everything about yourself, your beauty, your pain, your longings, your hungry soul, your flaws, your fears, your issues, your power, your mysteries, your freedom...
escape your chains of suffering and discharge yourself from any debt...
have a great day and a good week, starting from yourselves.
"That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal, from which it follows that irregularity - that is to say, the unexpected, surprise and astonishment -- is an essential part and characteristic of beauty." Charles Baudelaire
"Life is a vast and intricate conspiracy designed to keep us well-supplied with blessings."
"But whether it's our time to ferment in the valley of shadows or rise up singing in the sun-splashed meadow, fresh power to transform ourselves is always on the way. Our suffering won't last, nor will our triumph. Without fail, life will deliver the creative energy we need to change into the new thing we must become."
"You don’t have to be anything you don’t want to be. You don’t have to live up to anyone’s expectations. There’s no need to strive for a kind of perfection that’s not very interesting to you. You don’t have to believe in ideas that make you sad or tormented, and you don’t have to feel emotions that others try to manipulate you into feeling."
"That's why it's so important to avoid wasteful infatuations and confounding manias. Please choose fascinations that are really good for you."
let the celestial lessons begin to manifest... as soon as possible.
To regain patience, learn to love the sour, the bitter, the salty, the clear." James Richardson Because if you enhance your appreciation for the sour, the bitter, the salty, and the clear, you will not only regain patience, but also generate unexpected opportunities. You will tonify your mood, beautify your attitude, and deepen your gravitas. Seek out the tangy, the smouldering, the soggy, the spunky, the chirpy, the gritty, and an array of other experiences you may have previously kept at a distance.
Here are three of our deepest spiritual aspirations:
1. to develop the capacity to thrive in the midst of raging contradictions;
2. to be discerning as we protect ourselves from people's flaws while at the same time being generous as we celebrate their beauty;
3. to refrain from dividing the world into two groups, those who help and agree with us and those who don't.
"A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home." Rumi. You will be invited to shed a host of wishy-washy wishes so as to become strong and smart enough to go in quest of a very few burning, churning yearnings. Are you ready to sacrifice the mediocre in service to the sublime?
have a great day everyone. everything is all right and you are amazing! x
