#vin

As much as we look up at the stars and know there is more than life on earth, the divinity of dogs is just as unexplainable and profound. They may be the purest example of divine love in an earthly soul many of us ever experience. If we take their lead, open our hearts, and embrace their love, we may just find our own journey a lot more enlightening. ↗

— Jennifer Skiff

#dogs #enlightenment #journey #love #experience

In meditation we discover our inherent restlessness. Sometimes we get up and leave. Sometimes we sit there but our bodies wiggle and squirm and our minds go far away. This can be so uncomfortable that we feel’s it’s impossible to stay. Yet this feeling can teach us not just about ourselves but what it is to be human…we really don’t want to stay with the nakedness of our present experience. It goes against the grain to stay present. These are the times when only gentleness and a sense of humor can give us the strength to settle down…so whenever we wander off, we gently encourage ourselves to “stay” and settle down. Are we experiencing restlessness? Stay! Are fear and loathing out of control? Stay! Aching knees and throbbing back? Stay! What’s for lunch? Stay! I can’t stand this another minute! Stay!” ↗

— Pema Chödrön

#loving-kindness #meditation #mindfulness #wisdom #experience

Zuko: This city is a prison. I don't want to make a life here. Iroh: Life happens wherever you are, whether you make it or not. ↗

— Uncle Iroh

#life-and-living #life-experience #life-lessons #life-philosophy #experience

My environment reflects the life I've led, the places I've visited and the people I've loved. ↗

— Virginia Nicholson

#living #experience

Life is sweet or bitter depending on where your attention is, at that moment. ↗

— George Alexiou

#experience #life #living #experience

.....no man should be without those moments of reality, those experiences that tell him that he is only a mortal and not a god ↗

— Belinda McBride

#experience

The important thing is to be able to live in a place or a situation where you must use your sixth sense all the time. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#sixth-sense #life

Being alive, if you had to define it, meant emitting a variety of smells ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#life

It's easy to win. Anybody can win. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#life-and-living #loser #winning #life

These guys fart a lot as well. I'm not saying that girls don't. We just aren't as passionate about them. The smell is sometimes overwhelming and I want to gag. They don't just limit these attacks to the classroom-they can come at you from anywhere around the school. The corridor, the stairwell, the canteen line. There's one area we call Fart Corridor because it belongs to the Year Eights and Nines, who are the biggest perpetrators. They make no apologies and feel no embarrassment. If a girl did one at St. Stella's she'd be an outcast for the rest of her natural life. Here, it's a badge of honor. ↗

— Melina Marchetta

#francesca-spinelli #melina-marchetta #saving-francesca #life