BLISS

"Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls"

- Joseph Campbell 

KEEP MOVING FORWARD

I dream A LOT. When I wake up, I usually remember my dreams, so if I have time I write them down. 

Of course there are days/nights when I don't remember anything. But sometimes tiny visions of dreams pop into my head late in the afternoon, or during meditation. 

That's exactly what happened today. I remembered someone mentioned Herman Hesse's book Siddhartha in my dreams tonight. What could that mean? I don't know. 
It's been a while since I read that book, so I guess I am going to have to read it again if it has any deeper meanings to my surreal situations in the land of my dreams. 

I'm pretty sure I'll understand this book a bit differently now than years ago when I first read it. 

I remember when I first read Little Prince. I was just a kid and reading that book was a school necessity, so it didn't bring me anything. Maybe just a joy of reading it SO FAST, cause it's so thin and letters are big. (I was never into books that my teachers said I must read, even though I absolutely LOVE BOOKS). 
Anyways, years after that... I've read it again. This time it was not a school necessity, it just happened to be sitting near me. Even though I was holding the same book, everything about it was different. Actually it was me, I was different. And I felt it so hard I started crying. I felt so shocked how could I not see the beauty of this story back then. I still remember that day like it was yesterday. 

It's good to read certain things again and again, of course with long pauses in between years. The books we are holding and the stories we are reading throughout the years - they are all the same. It's just us. We change. 

A lot of times certain books come to me very unexpectedly, very unplanned. Like somebody's trying to tell me something. And usually they do. I've had a lot of these strange coincidences, that I don't take them as a coincidence anymore. These are little dots in my story. 

Every person, every book, every situation that comes to me spontaneously (not planned) - means something. 

Wisdom, story, a chance to grow, a chance to move to another direction (the RIGHT direction), a chance to teach us something,... When you are ready, things just start happening >> "When the student is ready, the teacher will appear." 


We like to have things planned. Everything on a schedule. But by far the best things and the most powerful ones happen UNPLANNED. 

Speaking of unplanned. This photograph is my autoportrait that I did yesterday. It happened so spontaneous. Nothing was planned. I came back home after yoga class, thinking about all my tensions that I have in my body, especially in my back. With yoga I've learned that all the emotions in our bodies are also written in our muscles, tissues,... basically our whole bodies. I was a bit scared that I am not going to handle all the hard work of letting all my tensions go. Or be persistent enough to NOT GIVE UP. 

So I spontaneously turned on my camera and... time stopped. Everything just started happening. I was in the zone. It was just me, the evening and Robyn's "Monument" blasting out of the speakers - on repeat (I know creepy, but can't help it). 

When I finished and checked the photos... this picture was the one that happen to catch my attention. If you look closely at the centre of my back you can see a bit of upward-pointing triangle (well I see it). 

The upward-pointing triangle is also alchemical symbol of the element of fire. I've read somewhere that this symbol, "signifies upward mobility, forward motion, rising flames and aspirations to solar embodiment (in both literal and philosophical senses). To move into the energy of fire is to be utterly consumed, transformed and lifted out of limitation". 

I know I am a bit of a dreamer, but I find this spontaneous, unplanned picture a good reason to just KEEP MOVING FORWARD. 

To stay strong and practice, persist, breathe,... and let go. 

Let it all flow. Spontaneously..

Love. 

“I want to learn from myself, want to be my student, want to get to know myself, the secret of Siddhartha.”

― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

DANCING IN THE MOONLIGHT

Yesterday's full moon was magical. I was hypnotized. I just couldn't stop staring at the sky. 

I wish I could have a better lens on my camera to capture the moment.   

This time "moon rising" was special. It brought me something new into my personal journal. A new wisdom to let things >> keep moving forward. Some kind of a new awareness, that I hope I will keep close to the heart. It let me (spontaneously) look at things from another perspective. And it all came all of a sudden. All natural. A beautiful experience. 

It was a special moon rising. 

"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better." 

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-  Albert Einstein

DIVING IN ....

... to dive within. 

MAGIC

Yesterday's evening beauty. 

Sky was blue and white and pink and orange... Perfect. 

Silence all around, just natural evening sound was present. Refreshing. 

Moon slowly taking the sky... Growing. 

"Man is a universe within himself"

- Bob Marley 

"The Sleep Schedules Of 27 Of History's Greatest Minds"

zzZZzz

PHOTO by "Daily Rituals: How Artists Work, by Mason Currey"

EXACTLY

WHERE THE WILD ROSES GROW

I don’t know why I wrote this title. It’s just came to me all of a sudden. I wrote it and maybe something will come out of it. Today I let my free writing take over this blank space. 

Through writing these first letters I think the title has a deeper meaning. A place where the wild roses grow in nature is truly a pure place. A place that is ALL natural, all spontaneous. Living free.

You can put that into human perspective as well. 
A place where the wild roses grow is also in all of us. The wild rose is our HEART.

That special space opens widely when we stare into sunrises, sunsets, night sky... That’s when we feel that our wild rose is growing. And it’s growing even faster when our minds are calm. 
It’s located in space where thoughts are light and imagination runs free. Lots of creative people know it, because they find ideas there. Ideas that are sometimes even crazier from their wildest dreams. 
I believe that everybody can find answers to their questions there. Because it’s coming from that SPECIAL place – your wild rose – HEART. 

It’s impossible to get to that place if we run around nervously, with brains overloading with information… 
What is important is to have moments for ourselves. Have moments to just breathe and look around. Maybe the answers are in front of our eyes and we can’t see them, because we are running lost from one place to another. 

Antoine de Saint Exupéry in his novel Le Petit Prince wrote, “… what is essential is invisible to the eye…”. If you enter to your invisible wild garden, you can get a clearer picture. 

Freeing feeling can be if you take a walk, smell the flowers, nature all around you. Take a swim in the lake/ocean, dance in the middle of room on your favorite song, sing, laugh deep from the heart even though you’re going to be loud and people will notice you. Maybe you’ll make them laugh as well (my neighbor laughs really loud and every time he does it, it makes me smile. Because I can feel that his laughter comes from the heart, a place where his wild roses grow, and it’s a beautiful laughter). 

Just remember the times when you’re sitting at home and boredom takes over you. You start to become pain in the ass.  And then for some reason, you go for a walk, stretch a little bit … After that you feel like another person. Yes, nature is healing and it even makes your hidden wild roses grow. 

Don’t neglect your wild roses. Water them with moments of beauty around you. Moments where you don’t rush. In the world of mass information we keep forgetting about ourselves, we keep thinking about time, we keep rushing. We want to do everything at once… and that’s wrong. Everything will wait if it’s meant to be. Just take time for yourself. No phones, no computers. Everything will wait. 
Old philosopher and a poet of ancient China, Lao Tzu once said/wrote: "Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished". 

So for couple of minutes per day, don’t hurry. Calm down. And the wild rose will grow and grow. 

Can you feel it? 

Photo: Personal arhive 

BE DARING

MY HAPPY PLACE

Water. Sea. Summer. Sun. Relax. Breathe. Inhale. Swim underneath the clear blue water. Exhale. Laugh. Let the tensions flow away. Kiss the sun rays. Touch the waves. Happy. Grateful. Living in the present moment. Calm. No worries. No pretending. 

Pure. 

Photo: My personal archive