charcoalalley

It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.
It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive.
It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain! I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it or fade it, or fix it.
I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own, if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, to be realistic, to remember the limitations of being human.
It doesn't interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself; if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul; if you can be faithless and therefore trustworthy.
I want to know if you can see beauty even when it's not pretty, every day, and if you can source your own life from its presence.
I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand on the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, “Yes!”
It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up, after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done to feed the children.
It doesn't interest me who you know or how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back.
It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you, from the inside, when all else falls away.
I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.
– Oriah Mountain Dreamer

Autumn shows us how beautiful it is to let things go.

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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience. – Paul Cezanne

There are people in my life that I am convinced are angels born without wings. @sundays_are_for_lovers 💗

everything was so beautiful, It felt like I had opened my eyes for the first time. . .

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Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things. Take nothing for granted. Be grateful for all the gifts that are here today.

…and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?

Let it go, let it leave, let it happen.
Nothing in this world was promised or belonged to you anyway.
– Rupi Kaur

The world is a reflection of your mind. Do you choose to see things as beautiful or ugly? Good or bad? There is no inherent meaning in anything. It is all your own projection. Time to wake up darling, and be free. xo Paris