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“There are cathedrals everywhere for those with the eyes to see.”

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Auguries of Innocence By William Blake

(a poetic excerpt)

Every night and every morn

Some to misery are born.

Every morn and every night

Some are born to sweet delight.

Some are born to sweet delight,

Some are born to endless night.

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Cabin by the sea

© Liz Carlson

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Happy Lion’s Gate 8/8

Happy Lions Gate Portal 8/8 🌿🌞��� The Lion’s Gate Portal is open: Brave Heart! The lions gate is an annual occurrence that happens during Leo season which reveals raw truth.

Those who aren’t living in truth are perpetuating more karma. It is a time of year when authenticity is embraced.

The energy of the lion is courage, creativity, and playful wonder!

How are you embracing ALL parts of yourself to allow more beauty and light in? How are you stripping away fear to create more room for courage?

This is a time of many retrogrades; specifically mercury retrograde, so it is NOT a time for force - only pure flow! Honors delays. Move where there’s an opening. Move in faith over fear. Observe. Be open. Just BE.

🦁🍃 Join my PATREON to unlock more convos like these!

~ B

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"Although he recites many sacred texts, if he does not act accordingly, that heedless man is like a cowherd who only counts the cattle of others - he does not partake of the blessings of a holy life.

Although he recites few sacred texts, if he puts the Dhamma into practice, forsaking lust, hatred and delusion, with true wisdom and emancipated mind, clinging to nothing in this or any other world - he indeed partakes of the blessings of a holy life."

-Dhammapada 19-20 , book: 365 Buddha #121

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"Nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love people die from.” ~ The Handmaid's by Margaret Atwood

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Rupi Kaur on Art

It’s poetic.

~ B

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A Nature Flow

Sometimes we fight the current, but it’s important to flow with the river. Artistic flow state is release of thoughts. Growing with the flow in gratitude.

~ B

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“The artist prays by creating.”

~ Flannery O'Connor

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Brette the Bright!

“I lived like a colorful butterfly in the sun.” ☀️ 🦋

~ B

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a daisy a day...

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Amor Fati; A Laugh of Fate

Amor Fati (Latin) - the simple acceptance of what comes to us regarding it as neither bad or good. Nothing more, nothing less. If everything is seen as evolution of your spirit you will never lose.

Nietzsche explored the concept of "amor fati," which is a Latin phrase meaning "love of fate" or "love of one's fate." This idea encourages a profound acceptance, even love, of everything that happens in life, including suffering and loss, as essential parts of one's journey. Nietzsche himself considered it his "formula for greatness in a human being".

Similar to, “werde der du bist” which is Nietzsche ‘s German translation, meaning: become who you are!

Become such as you are having learned what that is.

~ B

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Figure Drawing with the Org: ‘Artsy Black People’

lol I’m out of practice but this was fun, a great way to spend Juneteenth and it made me want to practice more! ✍🏾 Drawing ain’t like riding no bike. The less you practice the more dull your skills become, and then you have to rebuild them. Drawing takes consistency… like any other spiritual practice!

~ B

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pondering

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Sunshine Soul

☀️ Me to me: Shine Shine Shine! Stand fiercely and unapologetically in the light of everything you’ve survived.

~ B

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Craft Night at California Academy of Sciences…

Last night @heycalacademy was cool and all but the giant red Octopus was asleep & that made me sad 😂. The woman who worked there said he was torturing a star fish before he went to bed though. 😭🐙

lol I’m nah, it was a blast crafting the night away with Bay Area creatives! Thankful for new likeminded connections always!

~ B