When you are compassionate with yourself,
you trust in your soul,
which you let guide your life.
Your soul knows the geography of your destiny
better than you do.
John O’Donohue
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The center that I cannot find
is known to my unconscious mind.
W.H. Auden
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Existence will remain meaningless for you if you yourself do not penetrate into it with active love,
and if you do not in this way discover its meaning for yourself.
Everything is waiting to be hallowed by you.
Martin Buber
photo harry rose
Can you imagine, if you really let it in, that you are not a problem to be solved in any way?
Imagine you knew that anything that tells you otherwise is just a movement of thought in the mind that says “Whatever is, isn’t the way it is supposed to be.” So the biggest act of compassion starts within. And when the self is no longer seen as a problem, this is called “the peace that passes all understanding.
Adyashanti.
photo julio nohara
Meaning does not come to us in finished form, ready-made; it must be found, created, received, constructed. We grow our way toward it. And sometimes the precious bit of true self, the unlived bit of soul, hides in psychological complexes, in illness, even in tragedy, even in sin…Some mysterious power uses what we see as horrific as as the defeat of all our hopes to bring about our salvation.
Ann Bedford Ulanov, The Wizards Gate
photo jose antonio bielsa arbiol
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To reach the sea and be happy with a jug of water is a waste
The sea that has pearls…
And a hundred thousand other precious things.
Rumi
photo opheliarosetti