Creation is always happening.
Every time an individual has a thought they’re in the creation process.
Something is going to manifest out of those thoughts.
// Michael Bernard Beckwith
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MIND: Gluttonous
There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
// Maya Angelou
MIND: Afloat
An entire sea of water can’t sink a ship unless it gets inside the ship.
Similarly, the negativity of the world can’t put you down unless you allow it to get inside you.
// Goi Nasu
MIND: Small Joys
Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.”
// Pearl S. Buck
MIND: Exceptions
Take it all back.
Life is boring, except for flowers, sunshine, your perfect legs.
A glass of cold water when you are really thirsty.
The way bodies fit together. Fresh and young and sweet.
Coffee in the morning. These are just moments.
I struggle with the in-betweens.
I just want to never stop loving like there is nothing else to do, because what else is there to do?
// Pablo Neruda
MIND: Storms
I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.
Little Women // Louisa May Alcott
MIND: Withheld
Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.
// Dalai Lama XIV
MIND: Beggin’
I beg young people to travel. If you don’t have a passport, get one. Take a summer, get a backpack and go to Delhi, go to Saigon, go to Bangkok, go to Kenya. Have your mind blown, eat interesting food, dig some interesting people, have an adventure, be careful. Come back and you’re going to see your country differently, you’re going to see your president differently, no matter who it is. Music, culture, food, water. Your showers will become shorter. You’re going to get a sense of what globalization looks like. It’s not what Tom Friedman writes about, I’m sorry. You’re going to see that global climate change is very real. And that for some people, their day consists of walking twelve miles for four buckets of water. And so there are lessons that you can’t get out of a book that are waiting for you at the other end of that flight. A lot of people — Americans and Europeans — come back and go, ‘Ohhhh.’ And the light bulb goes on.
// Henry Rollins
MIND: Luggage
Don’t let your luggage define your travels, each life unravels differently.
// Shane Koyczan
MIND: Fate
There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdiction. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with. I can select what I can read and eat and study. I can choose how I’m going to regard unfortunate circumstances in my life – whether I will see them as curses or opportunities. I can choose my words and the tone of voice in which I speak to others. And most of all, I can choose my thoughts.
// Elizabeth Gilbert
