Toby Sapp

Be wary of the clinch (and the stench) of certainty.
Delight in the spaciousness of curiosity.
See without seizing.

...you're just recognizing the world we're in desperately needs wholeness and you can't give what you don't have. Those who are meant to be your people will want to see you thrive.

... and start the healing.

You're learning to be your own best friend. You're putting together your self care toolbox. You're learning to regulate your emotions and your emotional response and you're setting boundaries with those who refuse to regulate their own. You're not giving up on anyone...

There comes a point where you realize the degree to which you are suffering, weary and wounded. And you see clearly that you can make the choice either to continue spiraling into the misery and dysfunction of the status quo being amplified on social media and the like — or, to rise above it all...

"Peace isn’t a fabricated state, repressing all woes and challenges. It is tuning into our fundamental nature."

~Sharon Salzberg

“In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.”

― Blaise Pascal

One cannot experience agitation and awe simultaneously, as one dissipates in the presence of the other. (2/2)

Fri, Mar 7
The nature of the mind is chaos, while the nature of the soul is tranquility. When the mind dominates, the soul is impoverished. The mind seeks, feeds, and breeds certainty, whereas the soul breathes and emanates curiosity and wonder. (1/2)

Hermanos Gutiérrez Hermanos Gutiérrez is a two-piece band formed of the brothers Alejandro and Estevan Gutiérrez. 
Taking influence from 1950's Latin America Sound they transfer the listeners to journeys through beauti...

Here's a sonic soul bath after a tough day or when you just need a meditative backdrop to fall into. Thank me later.

Sometimes loving someone means watching them navigate their own wilderness, knowing you can't draw them a map or clear their path. You can only be the campfire they return to when they need rest, offering warmth without demanding they stay, understanding that their journey is their own.

Brené Brown

Happiness that is pursued is ever elusive but genuine happiness ensues when we let go and cease all our grasping and aversion.

"One of the great challenges in life is knowing enough about a subject to think you're right, but not enough about the subject to know you're wrong".

– Neil deGrasse Tyson

the older I get
the less I know
and the more wary I am
of those who pretend to

"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth."
~ Albert Einstein

"I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this."

– Emo Philips

Thus it is only natural for todays Christian nationalists to act offended when they have become that power being spoken to by the alleged "woke" Christians and others being subjugated by their delusional agenda

Christianity lost its moorings and meaning long ago by prioritizing moral victory and alignment with power over favoring the weak and loving our neighbor. As long as aligning with power and having power is championed, the responsibility of speaking to power is relinquished.

“If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears.”

~ Glenn Clark

Sunday snoozing on the grandkids Frozen sofa

"Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness."

Alejandro Jodorowsky

"Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness."

Alejandro Jodorowsky

"You are not healing to be able to handle trauma, pain, anxiety, and depression. You're used to those. You are healing to be able to handle joy and to accept happiness back into your life."

- Unknown

"The best criticism of the bad is still the practice of the better. Oppositional energy only creates more of the same.." – Richard Rohr

Don't let the bad and the ugly keep us from continuing to pursue the Good Stuff. Love never fails ☮️💜☯️🏳️‍🌈

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

☮️☯️💜🏳️‍🌈✊🏾

LOVE is Letting Others Voluntarily Evolve.

I heard this today and it blew my mind.

I've never seen any life transformation that didn't begin with the person in question finally getting tired of their own bullshit.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert

Research Hit: Your Brain Responds Differently to Live Music Live music generates a larger emotional response in brains of audience and performer - and brain synchronisation is an added bonus.

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"What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness."