I Want To Be Astonished
"i want to feel tectonic shifts.
i want to be. i want to be astonished."
~ Sleeping at Last
When I Feel At Home
"When I feel at home (or when someone else truly makes me feel at home), I feel comfortable, supported, safe, and relaxed, like I don’t need anything. At those times, my past ceases to be a neon marquee of regrets, and my future is no longer an unending to-do list, bullet-pointed by unrealistic expectations. Feeling at home is the feeling that I can just be myself."
~ Ethan Nichtern
A Work In Progress
We’re nothing less than a work in progress,
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Feeling It for Yourself
"If I could explain what the one biggest shift has been from when I was 17 and suicidal to today and 22 and a lot healthier place, it's just that before I used to try to run away from my pain and tell no one about it, and now I try and run right into it and tell the people closest to me about it."
~ Kevin Breel
Deep-Sleep Awareness
"The moment of awakening reveals two kinds of self-experience." ~ Evan Thompson
Benefits Before Mastery
Mindfulness meditation is extraordinarily simple to describe, but it isn't easy to perform. True mastery might require special talent and a lifetime devotion to the task, and yet a genuine transformation in one's perception of the world is within reach for most of us. Practice is the only thing that will lead to success.
~ Sam Harris
Our Desire to Transcend Isolation
"Creation seems to come out of imperfection. It seems to come out of a striving and a frustration. And this is where I think language came from."
Without Being Completely Swallowed Up
"The world is an illusion, but it is an illusion which we must take seriously, because it is real as far as it goes, and in those aspects of the reality which we are capable of apprehending. Our business is to wake up." ~ Aldous Huxley
The Path Home
"The search may begin with a restless feeling, as if one were being watched. One turns in all directions and sees nothing. Yet one senses that there is a source for this deep restlessness; and the path that leads there is not a path to a strange place, but the path home." ~ Peter Matthiessen
Fast Asleep
“Your eyes are open,
Your body's moving,
Your lips are speaking,
But you're far from awake.”
From Sleepwalker by Cloud Cult