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Be truthful, gentle and fearless.

Mahatma Gandhi (via thecalminside)

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Ta-ku Ft. Aline Baraz - Down For You

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Perhaps we should love ourselves so fiercely that, when others see us, they know exactly how it should be done.

Rudy Francisco (via youngfolksociety)

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An interesting read on Vice's "guide to making 2016 better than 2015". This article weaves in and out of personal and global perspectives proving the connect and sadly the disconnect between the personal and the political and the media that often is the chaotic road inbetween. "In 2016, mental illness and stigma are still a double helix that needs dismantling. The media must change its behaviour. Headlines are not just headlines; language is often how we form perceptions. And if that language is discriminatory, the trickle-down effect is seismic...We should be reading things and asking what we can do to help, not feeling burdened by someone's limitations. Human brains have infinite capacity for change and no-one's mental state is fixed - how many of us really know that?"

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“I’m different than other people. I’m never sad. I make my life happy through discipline. I don’t drink, I don’t smoke, and I eat lots of fiber. Every day I take a walk in the park to think about my balance. I’ve been a chef, a fashion designer, a painter, and now I’m learning martial arts. I do Tai Chi in the park every morning. It helps give me energy for my painting. I have already learned forty-two moves. I’m ahead of everyone. I’m almost eighty years old, but all the women in my group think I’m in my fifties.”

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This is so great. To me on one hand, this amplifies a lot of how our everyday lives are being lived, by us, somewhat unconsciously. Obliviously ignorant to the human's directly in front of us. On the other hand, I love this, because the author's concept forces the embodiment of our mind and body, something which some theorists explain can be a result of mindfulness, something which is slowly being lost among the chaos of modern life. This article provides some proof that we are actually living and breathing. Not just robotic and apathetic. I often forget to look around me, but the times I do, the times when I greet the neighbour, are the times I am reminded by some natural force that I am alive. That we relate, simply because we engage, we breathe the same air, we speak the same language (the Alchemist's language that is, not English). Anyway, life, man.

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"They might have guns but we have flowers"

This is something we can all learn from in our day to day lives. Tragedy and natural disaster is everywhere on an individual level from the death or illness of a loved one, to a global level, but so is beauty. Lets just take a moment to find gratitude in what's around us, in what we live for, in the flowers too. Lets take a moment to be graceful and impeccable with our words.

Just Love, passionately.

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Listen.

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"It's a book that says the same thing almost all the other books in the world say," continued the old man. "It describes people's inability to choose their own Personal Legends, and it ends up saying that everyone believes the world's greatest lie." "What's the world's greatest lie?" Asked the boy, completely surprised. "It's this, that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of whats happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie"

The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho

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“...it’s like watching glass breath”

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warriors, we went to war in our mind and walked through the storm

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“The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.” ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

Today I start reading The Alchemist. 

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“But the worst part was having to listen to his own heart”

Over the weekend I finished reading ‘The Color Purple’ by Alice Walker. Put into someone else’s moving lips, and still this quote burns holes through my skin and into my soul. 

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Just Breathe

Just breathe, I whispered. Our minds can create chaos, ferociously, abruptly. When in the woods. When surrounded by nothing but what life offers, when we’re stripped bare. We’re surrounded by sleeping bodies, no stars tonight, and the fire coals between us are eerily quiet, not at all crackling to the desire of distraction. They’re there. Enough to be mindful. But mindfulness hasn’t enlightened her yet and so I tell her to just breathe,,

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we found these weird metaphors for connection and how to ‘be better’ that doesn’t wholly consist of just ourselves, we are a part of something larger,