i read somewhere... 10 august 2016...

i read somewhere:

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... 

i read somewhere... 23 august 2016...

i read somewhere:

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. 

15 september 2013

i read somewhere:

"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

i read somewhere... 8 may 2018...

today's mood.
i read somewhere...

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.

i read somewhere... 19 february 2016

I read somewhere: "Life's always at a crossroads. Narrow is the path that leads to the way you want to go, and only a few people follow it."

Many thanks to my boxing posse last night: Fabiana Fernandes, Vicki Cooper and Anka Dabrowska.

And remember: Don't get stuck in. And do whatever you do, intensely.

❤️

i read somewhere... 29 october 2018

i read somewhere (thought and wrote accordingly):

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. 

i read somewhere... 17 april 2018

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.