Expedition Self

'The fears we don't face become our limits.'

"Life is stressful.
It's busy. We fill the space.
We have to breathe. We have to apologize. We have to remember to be kind when we don't have time. Hardest of all, we have to be kind to ourselves. As they say in Buddhism, if we lose our mind, come back. We will lose our minds. We won't, ever, be perfect. All we can do is get back up and come back to this moment and do our best, and better. And sometimes our best, and better, means giving ourselves a break, or being kind to someone else, or finding our joy in a moment of gap, instead of filling the space."
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'Please know this: ♥️ & joy & fun
are your original factory settings
in a 🌎 filled with tragedy and pain
to commit to your joy
is a revolution —
and you were born to be
a revolutionary.’
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‘If you ask why we meditate,
I would say it’s so we can become more flexible and tolerant to the present moment.’

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There is something fundamentally wrong in treating the Earth as if it were a business in liquidation. --

'In the Celtic tradition, there is a beautiful understanding of love and friendship. One of the fascinating ideas here is the idea of soul-love; the old Gaelic term for this is anam cara. Anam is the Gaelic word for soul and cara is the word for friend. So anam cara in the Celtic world was the "soul friend."

In everyone's life, there is a great need for an anam cara, a soul friend. In this love, you are understood as you are without mask or pretension. The superficial and functional lies and half-truths of social acquaintance fall away, you can be as you really are. Love allows understanding to dawn, and understanding is precious. Where you are understood, you are at home.

The anam cara experience opens a friendship that is not wounded or limited by separation or distance. Such friendship can remain alive even when the friends live far away from each other. Because they have broken through the barriers of persona and egoism to the soul level, the unity of their souls is not easily severed. When the soul is awakened, physical space is transfigured. Even across the distance, two friends can stay attuned to each other and continue to sense the flow of each other's lives. With your anam cara you awaken the eternal.'

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'Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.'
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'You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control.'

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🎨 Christian Schloe