la natura

“Above all, be at ease, be as natural and spacious as possible. Slip quietly out of the noose of your habitual anxious self, release all grasping, and relax into your true nature.”

—	Songyal Rinponche

I was thinking about this yesterday.

What is this thing that humans do.
Something is unbalancing all of this.

And then I realised that the one thing that lacks in Nature is comparison.

Lion A most definitely does not look at Lion B, and think: "...he's mane looks so good...I wish my mane looked that amazing..."
Or "...her legs are much longer than mine. I wish my legs were as long." ..and then carry on thinking about this and turn this into a prohibiting complex that will hold said lion back in its life.
Y'know?

What is that even about.

A tree will grow as it grows, according to its own call and urge, in accordance with the light and water and air it gets.
Grow and grow and grow.

We are all a part of La Natura. And I'm am so tired of being so nasty to myself.

“A flower does not think of competing to the flower next to it. It just blooms.”

—	from Zen Shin Talks

Everything feels too heavy.


I will buy a kaleidoscope tomorrow.





I know Light is where I need to be and grow, but I feel so unsure, that I just stay here in the dark.

I'm coming through the fire.

grace and choice

This lyric from this song absolutely kills me.
I love it, beyond beyond.



And usually these lists of nice -insert something- don't work for me, but this is truly wonderful.
And I am inclined to agree with all of it.

le feu

Here's some fire.
For you.
For your Tuesday.

I mean, I think this is just delightfully fierce.

Le feu.

Yours truly.
M.

fan the fire

This is just so true, and also something we don't often think about.
We're not alone in whatever we do.
We are always surrounded by the people we choose to be surrounded by.
Not only when they are actually present around us, but these people never truly leave us, by choice.
Our own choice.
They are there, in the back of our minds and in the corners of our heart.

So choose wisely.
Because we are never truly alone.
And even if and when we do feel so utterly alone and lost, maybe it would be time to look at the people who surround you.
Who you have chosen to surround you.

Because nothing is external, and nothing is happening TO you (okay, let's stick this at 99%).
Most of the stuff in our lives including the negative and the emotional and the baggage and the thought patterns, all of it, is so open for change.
And that, of course, lies with us.

We need people to fan our flame.
Otherwise the flame will go out.
And keeping your flame alive all by yourself is nearly impossible.
Anyone who has gone camping knows this.
So apply the same thing in life.
We need people to fan our flame.

So choose very wisely.

Who fan your flames.
M.

bare

I just don't have the vocabulary to talk about how much I like this image.
I like how dynamic it is, the light and shade and the black-and-white-ness of the image.
It is bare and powerful and naked and cold and explosive in its warmth at the same time.

Great caption, superb shapes.

Bare.
M.

grateful

Something happens.

You follow your path. You wake up, go to sleep, wake up, go to sleep.
You go through the steps and the motions. Think your thoughts and do your thing.
Swim and swim, and it's all fine.
You walk the path.
And then something happens.
Suddenly something just happens.
Something happens to you or around you that just flicks a switch.

Something
happens

And then you kind of, notice.
Suddenly you notice the path, the track, the flow, the motions, and the steps.
Then after that you see what's happened.
You see you, on this track, that is not even yours.
You see the steps, that are not even yours.
And then you see, that this you is not even you.

All because something happened.
A little insignificant something that should've been added and drowned in the white noise that is life.

But it doesn't.
It won't fade out. This feeling stays with you.
It won't disappear, because it made you look up and see that this is not your path.
It nudged you off this course, that only you know how you got onto anyway.
It gives you back the greatest gift, the belief that you can do anything.
You can do what you choose. Become what you choose.
It gives you back your fire.
And oh my, it makes you so grateful.

Something
happens.

So have the courage to go again.
Throw the dice, again. Start, again.
Have the courage to tread a new path.
Because it will pay off.
And you will have people to help you and to care about you.
And at the end of this you will be a more balanced, grateful, content version of you.
The you that is strong and not scared and doesn't just dodge. But instead faces things head on, because why not. Because being a frikkin pirate of life is great, and courageous.
And so much better than being like a halfway version of yourself.
Because let's be honest, that can go and suck d*ck.
Be the pirate, be the Beyonce, be the adventurer, the traveller.
The poet, the painter, the dancer, the singer.
The child, the successful business woman.
The linguist, the acrobat.
The warrior and the wolf.

Because, WHY NOT.

The Devil still doesn't play fair.
M.

Frida

Frida Kahlo.

The trailer doesn't do it justice, but there you go.

Frida (2002).
M.

your head and your heart

live with peace in your heart

and fire in your eyes

With love.
M.

a series

just a series of sights and sounds
sensations
images and memories

life
is just a series
like a collage in a notebook
of textures
silk and velvet
cold and warm
soft and smooth
feeling it over and over
fingertips and all

to think too much
and feel too little

iron in your soul
but fire in your eyes