Don’t follow past thoughts, don’t anticipate the future, and don’t follow illusory thoughts that arise in the present, but turning within, observe your own true nature and maintain awareness of your natural mind, just as it is.

If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you always got, and you’ll always feel what you always felt.

Depression is useful—it signals that you need to make changes in your life, it challenges your tendency to withdraw, it reminds you to take action. To reclaim body consciousness tienes que moverte—go for walks, salir a conocer el mundo, engage with the world.

—Thomas Carlyle

(via redbabyearth)

The Light you carry in Your Heart
Is the Light you Hold in Your Hands

(via redbabyearth)

Happiness isn’t something you stumble upon, or something that you get. It is something that you are. But not in the sense that you need to be enlightened. Let it move through you, let it happen to you, and let yourself become a part of the slow moving movement that is true happiness. It really is simple. Whatever you are feeling right now, whatever you are thinking just be with it. Let it be who you are, feel it, live it, and with that experience comes the calmness which allows you to move through it and into a state that is above mere feeling and thinking. But don’t let it define you. Let yourself be that vessel, through which emotions flow.

Most of the pain you’re dealing with are really just thoughts.. ever think of that?

Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth.
Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously…

Your value doesn’t decrease based on someone’s inability to see your worth.

(via jessicaclark)

At certain times, a silent mind is very important, but ‘silent’ does not mean closed. The silent mind is an alert, awakened mind; a mind seeking the nature of reality.

When you recognize that there is a voice in your head that pretends to be you and never stops speaking, you are awakening out of your unconscious identification with the stream of thinking.

Be contemporary. Have impact. Strive for it. Be of the world. Move it. Be bold, don’t hold back. Then the moment you think you’ve been bold, be bolder. We are all alive today, ever so briefly here now, not then, not ago, not in some dreamworld of a hypothetical future. Whatever you do, you must make it contemporary. Make it matter now. You must give us a new path to tread, even if it carries the footfalls of old soles. You must not be immune to the weird urgency of today.

Symptoms of inner peace: