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I don't know if there is a word for this, but my beliefs are complicated. While I am a follower of Norse and Celtic paganism, I don't have any disbelief in most of the other cultures. Does anyone else feel this way?

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“suffering feels religious if you do it right” no shut up it doesn’t. my friends laughing in the kitchen while i make dinner feels religious. the sun on my face after a long winter feels religious.

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“I sit here on a day where the sunrise led to a gray haze of a sky. On days where sunshine is hard to come by, I often look for the beauty that remains. The flowers that bloom despite the darkness. The birds that fly because their freedom persists. The water that flows through or past every obstacle. Reminders that the little things can help keep hope alive. The hope for a sunrise that leads to blue skies and a sunset so colorful you wonder if anything could be more beautiful.”

— Christina Hamdan

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Happy Ostara everyone! 🐣🌼🌱

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Everything is temporary.

We all go through our metamorphosis. Some of us build cocoons and emerge unfamiliar, some of us grow legs and lose our tails, some simply shed our skins and become larger versions of our former selves. But we are all constantly changing, and the things we know are temporary. And its up to us to decide whether that is a comfort or a threat.

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i think the thing that makes me the most emotional in life is the realization that everything i have and everything i see has been touched by other people. someone designed the logo of my favorite tea bags and someone decided which paintings should go in the calendar hanging on my wall. someone built the roof above my head and someone paved the street outside my house. someone made this pair of glasses specific for me, someone picked the pear i ate with my lunch and someone designed my favorite sweater. every book i read, every song i listen to, every film i watch, tens, if not hundreds of people had to be there to make it happen. even if i am alone, i am always surrounded by other human beings - a fact that makes my heart squeeze in on itself everytime i remember it.

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me seeing purple flowers on a lawn: that’s the prettiest thing i’ve ever seen

me seeing sunlight hit the waves of the sea: that’s the prettiest thing i’ve ever seen

me seeing raindrops sparkle colorfully on a bus stop bench at night: that’s the

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Girls who say "yeah yeah I hear ya" When the oven beeps to show its done preheating

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You Are Not Wasting Time; It Was Given To You As A Gift, Freely and Generously; Is Rain Wasted Because It Falls On Gardens, Grass, Disgruntled Birds, and Umbrellas All The Same?

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that’s the good stuff

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i offer u a flower 🌻 im proud of u for making it through the day.

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Oh hey btw, while “totem animal” and “spirit animal” are native american concepts far more complicated than simply looking at a creature and going “mood.”, there’s a finnish concept of sieluneläin, soul animal, a creature that is alike to you in soul (in the finnish pagan spirituality, one’s soul is actually three things, henki, luonto and itse/sielu, out of which the last one is what is distinctly you, personality and temperament). The term soul animal no longer has ritual or religious meaning, and it can’t really be appropriated. If you see a corgi laying down in a creek just fucking letting water run over her because she can’t bother to move and think “same”, that’s your soul animal, and you’re completely free to use the term unless you’re swedish.

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October by Mary Oliver