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Jungian/depth psychology, mythology, spiritual ecology, mysticism, mindfulness, philosophy, art, literature, social justice. Display picture: Ragazza con petunia by Joaquín Sorolla Bastid. Header image: Fyodor Dostoevsky (1872) by Vasily Perov.
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But Father Reason says, No need to announce the future! This now is it. This. Your deepest need and desire is satisfied by the moment's energy here in your hand. Rumi Coleman Barks translation

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Here's a poem to honour and re-memeber "...the step you don't want to take," that first step that makes entire worlds available to you, that makes you stand before the fears you would rather keep locked, that breaks you open.

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"But love itself is eternally young and always manifests some of the folly of youth. So, maybe it is better not to become too jaded by love's suffering and dead ends, but rather to appreciate that emptiness is part of love's heritage and therefore its very nature."

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Pale sunlight, pale the wall. Love moves away. The light changes. I need more grace than I thought. (Rumi, Coleman Barks translation)

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The cracks and the scars are where light enters.

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"Never ignore those intuitions. When you feel some slight repugnance about doing something, listen to it. These premonitions come from God." Rumi (Coleman Barks translation)

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Happy Earth Day 🌍

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"Is there someplace wet in me, not the place of dry intellectualism but rather of moist feeling and green, fertile, shady imagination, far from human influence?" | Care of the Soul in Everyday Life, Thomas Moore

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I've waited for this bougainville to bloom for years. This year, she is in bloom. It's her way of saying, it takes time — to emerge, to show your beauty, and for you to become who you are. She finds her way into my conversations easily, as if she is a friend, and I love that this is my life.

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Join us in wishing Nikai a HAPPY BIRTHDAY! The charismatic and playful wolf is celebrating his 11th birthday + we couldn't be more excited! Nikai has embraced many roles throughout his life + we're so grateful that we're along for the journey. We love you, Nikai!

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"It is in the nature of things to be drawn to the very experiences that will spoil our innocence, transform our lives, and give us necessary complexity and depth." | Care of the Soul in Everyday Life, Thomas Moore

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"The philosopher Martin Buber describes the conflicting ways human beings view themselves and others in his book I and Thou. He describes two attitudes, that of I–It and that of I–Thou."

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"If we understand The Odyssey as one of the stories of the soul's fatherhood, then at that very moment when we feel the confusion of a fatherless life and wonder where he could be, the father has been evoked. As we wonder where he is, he is finding his way back." | Thomas Moore

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