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We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic.

— E. Merrill Root  (via nirvikalpa)

(via crystal-river)

Your soul doesn’t care what you do for a living - and when your life is over, neither will you. Your soul cares only about what you are being while you are doing whatever you are doing.

—Neale Donald Walsch (via lucifelle)

(Source: illuminatedbeing, via crystal-river)

If you are around people or energies you aren’t comfortable with, see them as offering you opportunities for spiritual growth by teaching you more about becoming transparent. The thoughts and feelings of people you have the most trouble harmonizing with are the very ones that will give you the most growth when you do learn to be transparent to them. That is why you have attracted these people into your life.

—Orin (via terramantra)

(Source: nirvikalpa, via crystal-river)

light-essence:

A Mental Shift: 5 Strategies to Get Unstuck From Negative Thinking

Strategies to improve how you feel by changing how you think:

1. Don’t approach interactions with the goal of explaining or convincing someone of your point of view. When you disagree with someone, instead of attempting to prove…

(Source: cosmosophie)

Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.

—Rumi (via light-essence)

(Source: nirvikalpa, via crystal-river)

If you are around people or energies you aren’t comfortable with, see them as offering you opportunities for spiritual growth by teaching you more about becoming transparent. The thoughts and feelings of people you have the most trouble harmonizing with are the very ones that will give you the most growth when you do learn to be transparent to them. That is why you have attracted these people into your life.

—Orin (via terramantra)

(Source: nirvikalpa, via crystal-river)

jaimen:

Wearing: Forever 21 top, earrings and bracelets; Poof faux-leather pants; vintage pumps; Farah Rocker bag c/o Elly Clay.

Today marks the final post in my ongoing Coney Island Summer Series, in partnership with photographer Bri Johnson. If you haven’t seen the previous posts: