Our Birth Is But a Sleep | A Collection of Wondrous Insight #9

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Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come.

— William Wordsworth

We are pieces of ancient Earth, bits of sacred story soaked in intellect and dirt.

— Oak Chezar

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief, and unspeakable love.

— Rumi

You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

And from then on, I bathed in the Poem of the Sea, star-infused, and opalescent, devouring green azures.

— Arthur Rimbaud

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Washi Tape Collection

Keeping a personal paper planner has influenced me to buy lots different washi tapes to decorate with. All of these rolls I own came from different shops on Etsy, both U.S. based and international. They are typically very cheap and can be used for a variety of crafts and projects, hence my seemingly excessive collection.

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And I Still Wonder | A Collection of Wondrous Insight #8

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The Buddhists say if you meet somebody and your heart pounds, your hands shake, your knees go weak, that's not the one. When you meet your 'soulmate' you'll feel calm. No anxiety, no agitation.

— Monika Drake

Sometimes you meet someone, and it's so clear that the two of you on some level belong together. As lovers, or as friends, or as family, or as something entirely different. You just work, whether you understand one another or you're in love or you're partners in crime. You meet these people throughout your life, out of nowhere, under the strangest circumstances, and they help you feel alive. I don't know if that makes me believe in coincidence, or fate, or sheer blind luck, but it definitely makes me believe in something.

— Unknown

When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time. You'd be shocked at how many adults are really dead inside - walking through their days with no idea who they are.

— Laurie Halse Anderson

And I still wonder, how someone can feel so lonely while loving and being loved.

— t.k.

When somebody provokes your anger, the only reason you get angry is because you're holding on to how you think something is supposed to be. You're denying how it is. Then you see it's the expectations of your own mind that are creating your own hell. When you get frustrated because something isn't the way you thought it would be, examine the way you thought, not just the thing that frustrates you. You'll see that a lot of your emotional suffering is created by your models of how you think the universe should be and your inability to allow it to be as it is.
— Ram Dass

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