Los Angeles, Ca.
It is what it is.
Get free.
I don’t know why but long socks are so damn attractive
I am not a brand. Nor am I an influencer. I am simply a human who is living, learning, and being. I tried to coax myself into doing the brand thing. I tried to build up and pump out content. But every time I would sit down to create content, my mind would go blank. I felt empty and void of creativity. My words were cliche and redundant, and my themes misguided. The whole time I felt like I wasn’t myself.
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I recently talked about this with a very good friend of mine, and after our conversation I realized that I was trying to fit a mold. I was trying to copy (my perception of) what others had done. But what I wasn’t doing was being my true organic self. And because of that, I starved myself of the very thing that feeds my soul. And that is living my own path; my dharma.
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Life can become very clouded and murky when you attempt to be anything besides who you are. But when you embrace your light, harmony follows closely behind. Not harmony in the sense of perfection and easiness, but harmony in the sense of simplicity and self alignment.
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I know some people are really into this whole wave of turning your life into a brand that you can then sell to people, and if you can do it, then more power to you. I hold the view that there is already enough garbage in the world and digital content is just a new form. I’d rather post for the sake of truly sharing, and not just to give people something to look at. This doesn’t mean that I won’t try to expand my locus of connection. It just means that if/ when I do, it will be because I’m doing my thing.
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For now, I’m just going to sit here and enjoy the view.
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#getoutside #getoutdoors #enjoylife #nobaddays #pma #qualityoverquantity #nature #outdoors #mountains #thewrittenwild
Listen closely. Listen deeply. You will find what you always were.
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Journalgram 4/13.
Last week, I experienced a moment where I became aware of my passing thoughts. In this moment, my thoughts were separate from me. I was a watcher, and they were a movie. I watched as my mind spun; thinking and thinking and thinking and thinking. It was at this moment I realized, “the mind is always trying to figure something out.”
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The mind is always going; it is always processing and relaying input, and the input is not always necessary, needed, or relevant.
The mind is like a sense; a sixth sense, a sense of thought. We are not the mind, but it is when we trick ourselves in to believing that we are the mind that we cause ourselves suffering.
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You see, the mind is always thinking, and it is not always thinking about the present moment, which means if we relate to the mind as being us, and engage in the thoughts instead of watching them, then we are pulled out of the current moment we are living. This separation brings with it anxiety and disharmony.
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Have you ever caught your mind planning the way future events will go down, or reminiscing on past events as if you could change them? The mind plays out the whole scenario, exactly how it will go, or should have gone. When we catch ourselves following this mental chatter, it is easy to recognize how silly it is. But when we are caught up in the mental chatter, it can consume us is a false reality.
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But if we learn to take our rightful place as the watcher of these thoughts, instead of believing that we are the thoughts, then we can come to observe the flow of thoughts much like the flow of the river. We can come to watch our thoughts flow by, without feeling the need to grab at each and every thought as if they were a true representation of who and what we are.
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#getoutdoors #getoutside #nobaddays #enjoylife #thewrittenwild #pnw #oregon #mindfulness #meditation #journalgram (at Bridal Veil Falls)
Be careful not to lock yourself in.
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I used to post yoga related images quite often. Then, over time, I grew self conscious and doubtful of my posts. I compared my practice to the practice of others who posted on IG; my body, my stretchiness, my strength. I grew to believe that there wasn’t any space for me in the new age IG yoga community, and for two years I stunted and doubted my growth. Last week, I was reminded that I didn’t start yoga for the likes, the attention, the fit body, the aesthetically pleasing photos, or the popularity. I started yoga because it made my body feel good. It started yoga because of what it did for my mind and my heart. And I started sharing yoga and teaching because I wanted to inspire the growth and exploration of these very things. I am so thankful for reconnecting to this truth. To my truth.
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Just a friendly reminder, do it for yourself. If you want it and it means something to you, then do it, and go full flex. Forget what others are doing. What they eat don’t make you shit.
#yoga #thisismyyoga #asana #makeitfeelgood
Life is but a collection of miracles and magic. Anything is possible.
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Do you believe in a life purpose? Do you believe that you have a life purpose? Do you believe that all living beings have a life purpose?Do you believe that this waterfall has a life purpose? The rocks? The moss? The plants? The water?
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For years, I have contemplated my life purpose. Filling my head with answerless questions, like “what is my life purpose?” and “am I living my life’s purpose?” Every time I have felt like I found my life purpose, I would exclaim to myself, “yes, this is definitely my life purpose. Now I have found it.” Only to at some point have that life purpose shifted, abandoned, and changed. I wrapped myself up so tightly in my search for a life purpose that I cut myself off from the very truth of life. That truth is that the sole purpose of life is life; living. There is no sole purpose in life for me. There is no purpose for me to live; no God sent path or destiny for me to live. There is just me living. It is that simple.
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I believe that we have come to grossly entangle ourselves in the idea that we must live some grandiose purpose, and that we must fulfill that purpose in order to be something, in order to be someone important; in order to achieve our greatness, or worth, or spiritual fulfillment. This complicated all of life as we know it. Instead of just fulfilling our simple purpose of life by living, we set rules and barriers that we must adhere to and follow in order to finally reach a life where we consider ourselves as fulfilled.
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I realize now that I am much like the waterfall in this picture. A moment in time, and life in motion. That is it. My purpose is to live. My purpose is to be the moment. Nothing more, and nothing less.
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I hope that more people will come to relinquish this burden and shed the weight that is needing to live some universal purpose. You were born, and now you live. This is your purpose.
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Namaste.
#enjoylife #getoutdoors #getoutside #thewrittenwild #waterfalls #nature #justbe (at Mount Wilson)
We humans are great at over complicating life. We make up silly rules to our lives, and set terms to our ability to be okay. We mistaken the attainment of happiness as the doorway to being okay, planting ideas in our mind that “once we have x,y, or z, we will then be happy and everything will be okay.
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The truth is, everything will be okay as soon as we are okay with everything. We can be okay in our happiness, and in our sadness; in our highs, and in our lows. But for us to be okay, we must not struggle against life. Instead, we must come to move with life.
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What comes will come, and you will be okay.
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It is from the depths of the muck and mire that the lotus seed grows, breaking through the muddy waters and emerging as a beautiful flower.
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The Pacific Northwest sure is pretty.
#latourellfalls #oregon #pnw #getoutside #getoutdoors #enjoylife #thewrittenwild (at Latourell Falls)
urbanoceanix
wolvesandwaves
Fact: tunnels are rad.
#getoutdoors #getoutside #themountainsarecalling #zion #zionnationalpark #snowday #adventuretime #nobaddays #enjoylife #weekendwarriors #roadtrippin #timeoutsociety #rei #tunnel (at Zion Canyon)
