Don't brace for the storm, embrace the storm

Don't brace for the storm, embrace the storm. Become the storm. Powerful, uncontrolled, pure.
Get hurt without becoming bitter.
Get angry without becoming vengeful
Get jealous without being offended.
Love without expectation or condition
Find joy even if there is no one around
Be weak in front of a crowd.
Don't revel in how much you know or what you know
Become humble
Recognize the existence of another
Respect another's space and decision
Loose your self- importance
Loose your mind in the now
It is the only way to find home
To become one
To be light

Magic

Without belief there is no trust. Without trust there is no faith. Without faith there in no magic, no connection, no existence.
Blind faith is the web that feeds existence.
Trust in what we cannot see, what we cannot touch.
Believing despite all the signals that scream I should't believe.
Conviction that what you do is right even when it seems it isn't.
The only thing you need to mke something happen is believe in it

Love is not something you can do

Those others who go on saying they love you, they can't love because love is not something you can do- it is a quality of your being.

Osho
The mustard seed

Control

What is control?
Getting what you want?
Controlling the outcome of any situation ?
Having control over the circumstances?
Being in agreement with everything around, being in agreeement with everyone around you?
Isn't the illusion of control simply holding back, staying in the place where you think you have control?
What happens when you loose control? And how can you loose it when in reality you never had it.
The only thing you have some control over is yourself. But if you are grippng so tight in fear that you may loose it, then it is the control that has power over you.
There are two options in life.
Let go of control willingly and taste te beauty of freedom.
Let go of control unwillingly and destroy your freedom in the process

Take a deep breath

When you feel like you have nowhere to go invite people in your heart.
When you feel like the world has nothing to give you, give it all you got
When you feel like everything is ending, go back to the things you never finshed
When you feel like everythig is crashing down, start building anew
When you feel there is no one there to hold you, revel in your own company
When everything seems too complicated, take a step back, a deep breath and see how simple it is.

The gap

Pay attention to the gap- the gap between two thoughts, the brief, silent space between words in a conversation, between the notes of a piano or a flute the gap between the in breath and out-breath.

Eckhart Tolle

What sustains you?

"Tell me, can you love life and let love find you when you are lost? What sustains you, what helps you sit without hope and wait, opening your heart to love when you have no faith that Love exists?"

The Invitation
Oriah

What gives you the hope, what keeps you going, what gets you up in the morning after a teary night and gets you through the day?
It is not something outside of you.
It is not something anyone can give you.
It is not the comfort of someone's hand or touch or embrace.
Those are all momentary things that pass.

What keeps you is your own heart, your own love, your own strength and beauty and light.
It's all the love that is inside you that you want to share with the world, it is all compassion that you have for those you care about and for those you don't know.

Everything you are looking for, you already have.
You just have to look inside.