Om Shakti Om ॐ

“What we call love is really a whole spectrum of relating, reaching from the earth to the sky. At the most earthy level, love is sexual attraction. Many of us remain stuck there, because our conditioning has burdened our sexuality with all kinds of expectations and repressions. Actually the biggest “problem” with sexual love is that it never lasts. Only if we accept this fact can we then really celebrate it for what it is—welcome its happening, and say good-bye with gratitude when it’s not. Then as we mature, we can begin to experience the love that exists beyond sexuality and honors the unique individuality of the other. We begin to understand that our partner often functions as a mirror, reflecting unseen aspects of our deeper self and supporting us to become whole. This love is based in freedom, not expectation or need. Its wings take us higher and higher towards the universal love that experiences all as one.” -Osho

“Many people I’ve met believe that plants are made up of soil—that the tree outside your house, for example, is mostly made from the soil in which it grew. That’s a common mistake. That tree is mostly made up of one of the gases in our air (carbon dioxide) and water (hydrogen and oxygen). Trees are solidified air and sunlight.”

-Thom Hartmann

“Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.” 
― John Muir, A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf

“Modern schools and universities push students into habits of depersonalised learning, alienation from nature and sexuality, obedience to hierarchy, fear of authority, self objectification, and chilling competitiveness. These character traits are the essence of the twisted personality-type of modern industrialism. They are precisely the character traits needed to maintain a social system that is utterly out of touch with nature, sexuality, and real human needs.”  -Arthur Evans

(via vital-energy)

“Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.”

—Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions

“Meditation is the art of enjoying your aloneness, the art of transforming loneliness into aloneness, solitariness into solitude. Ordinarily you are not alone, you are lonely and of course loneliness is a state of misery. There is a constant hankering to be with the other, to be together. The lonely person is constantly asking for love.

Asking simply means that he is not at ease with himself, he wants somebody else to be occupied with. And of course this kind of love is not true love. If it is a need then there is a motive, if there is a need then it is businesslike. The other is being used as a commodity and the other is using you as a commodity; hence the continuous conflict between lovers.

Nobody wants to be reduced to a thing, nobody wants to be used as a means. That is a humiliation, it is a great insult, it is disrespectful. But that’s what lovers are doing, hence anger arises. They are constantly at each other’s necks. Excuses may be different but the fundamental thing is that both are incapable of being alone. Out of that incapability they are trying to be together. But if you cannot enjoy yourself in your aloneness you cannot enjoy yourself in togetherness either. Hence meditation is a first stop towards love.”

—Osho

I am a child of love. I accept my darkness and I accept my light, as I know they are one and the same. I am loved no matter what. My dreams are supported and my fears are vanquished. I have faith in my mother earth and father sky. I ask from them with the purest of intentions and without hesitation. I receive all their beauty and magic graciously. I am thankful for everything - for beauty, for creativity, for life in all its forms. I am thankful for the obstacles in my path as they make me stronger. I am blessed. I respect myself and every living being. I do not hate, judge, or hurt anybody. I understand that the power of my thought is limitless, and with that power comes responsibility. I change, as change in my life is as natural as the turning of seasons. Things must die to be born anew. I let go of that which has served its purpose and accept the new without fear. I dream, as anything I can imagine, I can become.

“By my intimacy with nature, I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the sun and the moon, in the morning and the evening, compels me to solitude.” -Henry David Thoreau