Kylie Bax Vogue US (December 1996) ph. Ellen von Unwerth

© Jean-Philippe Piter

“The most important thing a human being can learn is how to be a human being, is how to be. How to be with what there is. How to be when emotions arise, how to be with those emotions. When thoughts arise, how to be with those thoughts and recognise that you’re not your thoughts and you’re not your emotions.

… and you work on yourself and you create a space in your life so that when you’re engaging with another human being you can actually be with them exactly how they are, not have an agenda, not have resentment, not have resistance, not have anxiety, not be reactive.”

— Gabor Maté, The Biology of Loss and Recovery

The Other Side- Dean Cornwell; 1918

The Snake Prayer: a blueprint to embodying the Left Hand Path.

been too long since ive slipped on a mossy rock and fell into a body of water

Tumblr isn't social media, it's a habit. Like smoking. We're all gathering by the dumpster in the cold, reblogging posts.

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

ANIS MOJGANI x ALEXANDER HARDING

‘For Those Who Can Still Ride In An Airplane For The First Time’, spoken word, uploaded on Youtube on 20 Apr. 2009;

Visible Light series (2010), photography

Michael Gungor, The Crowd, The Critic And The Muse: A Book For Creators (via sacred-dwellings)

Ikebana is the ancient Japanese art of flower arranging.

“The art of ikebana is to listen to the spirits of flowers and plants. It is how to make the voice or sentiment of the flower a visual combination with your feelings. Ikebana allows the heart of the arranger to touch the heart of the viewer.”

~Kasen Yoshimura

Vāstu śāstra

“Vastu is a system of architecture, design, and sacred space. It is both architecture and the art of how to honor and fill the space enclosed within that form. Vastu’s purpose is to align our architectural spaces with the beneficial effects of subtle laws of nature and earth and cosmic energies. Vastu works with prana, or universal life energy, to enhance the freshness, vitality, and life-supporting qualities of our environment. Vastu is the yoga of design, which enables us to live lives in harmony, balance and wholeness. Like meditation and yoga, Vastu is a part of our planetary heritage: it is universal and belongs to all of us.

Vastu design requires beauty, comfort and practicality; the use of natural materials; and attunement with nature through the honoring of the five elements and the nine directions. It contains guidelines for an extraordinarily wide range of arts and practical design, including the creation of vehicles, gardens, and dance. The Sanskrit word “Vastu” is translated as “energy,” “the space that fills that form or dwelling,” and “substance that exists eternally.” “Vaastu” refers to the humanly built forms that are filled with that space energy. Vastu views a building as a living entity that harmoniously supports our lives. It has the potential to revolutionize lives by creating buildings that, as living organisms, fully support our health, growth, and happiness.“

- Sherri Silverman., Ph.D. ‘Vastu: Transcendental Home Design in Harmony with Nature’

“Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive. Ambition is only understood if it’s to rise to the top of some imaginary ladder of success. Someone who takes an undemanding job because it affords him the time to pursue other interests and activities is considered a flake. A person who abandons a career in order to stay home and raise children is considered not to be living up to his potential — as if a job title and salary are the sole measure of human worth. You’ll be told in a hundred ways, some subtle and some not, to keep climbing, and never be satisfied with where you are, who you are, and what you’re doing. There are a million ways to sell yourself out, and I guarantee you’ll hear about them. To invent your own life’s meaning is not easy, but it’s still allowed, and I think you’ll be happier for the trouble.”

— Bill Watterson

Mir Sayyid Manjhan Shattari Rajgiri, Madhumalati: An Indian Sufi Romance (via sacred-dwellings)

John Blofeld, The Chinese Art of Tea (via sacred-dwellings)