(Source: light--the--fire)
We live our lives on the surface.
Where the waters are still.
This is what lies beneath.
Where the waters are still.
This is what lies beneath.
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Distance
Don’t you know that distance is in only your mind
Like the adrenaline of fire works bursting on the 4th of July
You can almost touch them with your fingertips
And the electricity of a first kiss, a last kiss, and the kiss
Does it ever really exist
or do we chase them like figments of our imagination
We race into the dark with a lit match and a single prayer
We make out shadows in the night and count stars like it matters
As if we could fit each star and each burst and each kiss into a box
Could we hold them close and never feel their absence
Never let them further than the front door
the drive way or the street corner of the neighborhood
For in the small spaces where everything can be seen is safety
And beyond those picket fences lies the unknown
This is the illusion that is made to be believed
That only the surface of my skin can touch yours
That only your eyes can tell you what is out there
Believe not the stars that cannot be seen in city lights
Think not of the ones you cannot touch tonight
And want not to be closer to all that could exist
Simply because it is to far away
For distance is resistance and not gravity
You are always here with me
Is that really so hard to imagine -
An old Cherokee told his grandson...
Grandfather: My son, there’s a battle between two wolves inside us all. One is Evil. It’s anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, inferiority, lies and ego. The other is Good. It’s joy, peace, love, hope, humility, kindness and truth. Son: Grandfather, which wolf wins? Grandfather: The one you feed. -
"In the end
these things matter most:
How well did you love?
How fully did you live?
How deeply did you let go?"Siddhartha Gautama
(Source: theblackroad, via loveyourchaos)
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"Forgive yourself for not being at peace. The moment you completely accept your non-peace, your non-peace is transmuted into peace. Anything you accept fully will get you there, will take you into peace. This is the miracle of surrender."
Eckhart Tolle (via nezua)
(Source: ashramof1, via loveyourchaos)
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(Source: skrinkles3, via loveyourchaos)
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"For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Francis Bacon, On Friendship
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Daily I try to tiptoe on the tops of Lilly pads
Not to stir up the sediment that lays beneath
But today disturbed the tranquility of ignorance
And now I wade through the murky water of my mind -
