#aliveness

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

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"Each one of us, and every action we make, has a quality of aliveness to it, a fragrance or vibrancy uniquely its own. If the outer form of who we are in this life is conveyed by our physical bodies, the inner form - our real beauty and authenticity - is conveyed in the quality of our aliveness. This is where the secret of our being lies. Quality is the innermost, energetic essence of our own life, shining through the outer skin of our being….

Jesus taught that "the Kingdom of Heaven is within you" (Luke 17:21) — not later but lighter. To realize the Kingdom of Heaven here and now (which is what enlightenment means in virtually all the spiritual traditions) is really a matter of developing a kind of X-ray vision that can look right through the physical appearance of things and respond directly to their innermost aliveness and quality."

~ Cynthia Bourgeault, 'The Wisdom Way of Knowing'

#quotes #Cynthia Bourgeault #The Wisdom Way of Knowing #aliveness #The Kingdom of Heaven is within you

[ourinternallandscapetarot]

"Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower." 🌻

– Hans Christian Andersen

#tarot #tarotdeck #dailytarot #dailytarotreading #fun #warmth #success #summervibes #positivity #vitality #pleasure #joy #aliveness #radiance #celegratory

[innervoiceartblog]

#jeff brown #relationships #restoration #hope #aliveness #wholeness #life #love #inspiration #heart and soul

[mayamantrin-artist-storyteller]

I AM !

#i am #art #painting #limitless beingness #beingness #vibrating aliveness #aliveness #knowingness

[unwelcome-ozian]

#the vitality affect #aliveness #living #trauma recovery #abuse recovery #healing from trauma

[optimisticfutures]

I’ve always enjoyed philosophical exploration and wondered in the wake of Roe v. Wade what cultures around the world define life, consciousness, or the “moment of aliveness” as. I was bored one weekend and decided it’d be interesting to map at a high level what the idea of being alive is from the perspective of history.

I was surprised to discover that a lot of old cultures worked from the same definition, this idea of The Divine Breath. It is the thing that animates the soul, the thing that separates us from our dream halves, the inner is-ness of who we are.

With that idea planted across cultures around the world historically, the notion that abortion is murder becomes pretty fucking stupid doesn’t it? Sure, this is a pretty high level take on things but its also a pretty great unifying belief of life. To live is to breathe the divine breath of life.

"BUT FETUSES BREATHE” some may say.

“No they don’t” you can respond. Fetuses practice breathing in the womb but never take a breathe of their own until they are born. They are entirely reliant on their mothers lungs functioning until that moment of birth.

There is no doubt a bunch of issues from everyone’s personal perspective when you look at something from such a high level but when you’re discussing things that cast their net over millions and millions of people - the only vantage point you have is a high one.

Just some food for thought.

#life #alive #roe versus wade #roevwade #roe v. wade #ai #artificial intelligence #historical fantasy #philosophy #philosophical #religious #religion #consciousness #conscious #animate #aliveness

[runningfromadream]

I see perfection as a complete aliveness; being alert and eager, wanting all things to mean growth and intensity.

Martha Gellhorn

#Martha Gellhorn #quote #quotes #perfection #complete #aliveness #alert #eager #wanting #mean #growth #intensity

[protoslacker]

We often think of wholeness only in the optical sense, right—what’s missing from the picture? But I think of wholeness as containing all the histories that lead to the visual moment of fracture, and the challenge is that this takes more work to envision such an ephemeral wholeness. It can be easy to put something that is broken back together, but it is incredibly difficult to expound and expand on all the violences that accumulated into that breaking. Queerness is, in many ways, vital to innovation because it operates as a space where permission is offered as change. That is a very rare and radical idea in American thinking and politics—people say, “Oh, you’re a flip-flopper,” but actually, this means that a person is thinking, corresponding, and changing—why would anyone want to stay in one place? And yet, we emphasize stability as progress, the unchanging form, and queerness rejects that and offers a wild, often chaotic yet expansive lesson in what is possible.

Ocean Vuong in interview with Alexandra Barylski in The Marginalia Review. Ocean Vuong: Poetry, Bodies, and Stillness

#bodies #history #aliveness #futures

[dduane]

A brief moment of rationality from the bird place.

#“being alive is as special an occasion as it gets”

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

“I can see that there are moments when I am more alive than others. To what extent does that touch me? How to receive this impression: I Am Alive? Can you say that this taste exists? That implies that the rest of the time you are as if dead, that’s a given. When you are as if dead and you engage in so-called inner work, what quality do you think the work will have? What is the value of the sensation, the collectedness that you call “trying?” This is not at all to make you sad but to invite you to recognize that there is only one taste that would illuminate your inner movement: “I Am Alive.””

~ Michel Conge, 'Life'

[h/t Ian Sanders ]

#Ian Sanders #Michel Conge #Life itself #quotes #aliveness

[stuckinapril]

guys i actually beg of you to not let palestine become an unpleasant flashback, a transient tumblr trend, a hasbeen subject that just faded away. as an arab—and specifically iraqi—girl, i know what it feels like to have family displaced all over the world as a result of western imperialism. i know what it feels like to not be able to step foot into your homeland because it’s no longer safe. as an american iraqi, raised in the us and insulated from my roots, it wasn’t until last summer that i was able to visit iraq for the first time, and even then my family was worried for my safety—in my own blood country. although nothing like what palestinians are experiencing right now, it might be the tiniest semblance of what it feels like to watch your country disintegrate in front of you.

and this is a universal arab experience. i volunteer weekly at a refugee center that serves middle eastern refugees, and every day i see the longing in their eyes when they speak of where they hail from. it’s safe to say that we will be getting a wave of palestinian refugees very soon: just another generation of arabs who can’t inhabit their own country.

arab culture is so rich, so profound, so beautiful. i am tired of being told by the world—through literal genocide—that it doesn’t mean anything. please never let this be forgotten. free palestine. free palestine. free palestine.

#i can’t describe the way being alive through this has changed me but i will never be the same #palestine #israel #gaza

[lesbianralzarek]

"life doesnt get better, you just get stronger" does NOT include ages 11-17. life does in fact just get better from there. those years are dogshit. like, you do get stronger but its mostly just a factor of not being 11-17 anymore. positive thinking helps but it doesnt fix whatevers going on at 15, you have to brute force through that one raw

#i originally posted this as just a 'hey remember how fuckin bad middle/highschool was? shit was wild' type post but now #there are a bunch of teens in the notes being like 'oh my god are you serious? it gets better? im not stuck in hell forever??' #and im reminded that the only people who told teenage ella 'it gets better' were speakers at mental health assemblies #aka the least relatable people alive who were seemingly born to lie to you #so. uh. yeah im a certified adult who isnt here to lie or sugarcoat the realities of being a teenager #the only thing more certain than the pain is the transcience

[mayamantrin-artist-storyteller]

Orchestra within

#chakrameditation #chakraalignment #chakra art #psychedelic art #painting #art #sound and color #soundhealing #soundiseverything #sound and vibrations #soundhealingexperiment #limitless beingness #aliveness #beingness

[whats-this-mustelid]

I just think that 'animals are living intelligent creatures that have feelings and deserve to be respected' and 'when done properly farming is beneficial to both people and animals and there's nothing wrong with raising and killing animals for food, clothing, and other products' are concepts that very much can and should coexist

#i think a lot of people get too carried away in farming discourse to actually remember both of these things #some people are so aggressively anti-farming that they forget that meat and fur are necessary for some people #and that farming helps prevent overhunting of certain species #but some people are so aggressively pro-farming that they begin to think of animals as objects #that only exist to provide them with a product #animals deserve to be treated with respect and be given the best care possible while they're alive #but that doesn't mean that its a bad thing for them to die

[sexhaver]

cannot even begin to imagine the Blade Runner cyberpunk shit this ladybug i found on my RGB keyboard was going through

#it was alive! i herded it onto a magic card and released it outside #yes i know i need to dust

[cemeterything]

obviously people steal things from other people it's one of the oldest tricks in the book but it still always surprises me to learn that people plagiarise because my introduction to the concept was basically being told that if i ever plagiarised anything i would be executed by firing squad and my head would be removed and displayed on a spike outside the walls of the hallowed academic institution i was attending as a warning to others

#🐉 #like they were not fucking around they were like you will be BLACKLISTED we will EXILE you there may be FINANCIAL RESTITUTION OWED #if our plagiarism software detects anything suspicious we will FLAY YOU ALIVE IN THE TOWN SQUARE #i still wake up in a cold sweat sometimes wondering if i cited my sources correctly