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jane | 20 | chi-town

“When you plant seeds in the garden, you don’t dig them up every day to see if they have sprouted yet. You simply water them and clear away the weeds; you know that the seeds will grow in time. Similarly, just do your daily practice and cultivate a kind heart. Abandon impatience and instead be content creating the causes for goodness; the results will come when they’re ready.” —Bhikshuni Thubten Chodron (via wolfandmay)

(Source: slychedelic, via yesdarlingido)

“Hey: let’s have room in our heart for people who are “behind” or stuck or struggling or messed up. Not everyone is paced at your tempo. Not everyone can just change at the drop of a hat. Please do not judge what doesn’t make sense in your eight lb. brain. It might be something you’d never struggle with, but this other human being DOES, and you don’t have to understand to love them. Just love them. Do not coerce a therapeutic ideology that rushes someone into an idealistic mirage. This will kill them. I get this wrong too, and I regret every moment I’ve dragged a friend into a forced epiphany. Be patient, be there, be engaged, and be at ground level.” —J.S. (via jspark3000)

I am in love with you, Lord.

It is no longer a feeling.
It is no longer a clichéd string of words.
It has become a state of being that has invaded the very root of my soul.

I have fallen for you.
I am in love with you.

“So often we try to make other people feel better by minimizing their pain, by telling them that it will get better (which it will) or that there are worse things in the world (which there are). But that’s not what I actually needed. What I actually needed was for someone to tell me that it hurt because it mattered. I have found this very useful to think about over the years, and I find that it is a lot easier and more bearable to be sad when you aren’t constantly berating yourself for being sad.” —John Green

(Source: fishingboatproceeds, via yesdarlingido)

ohsimplelife:

I don’t want to step out of this cool watery air or this dancing laughter. It weaves itself into my veins like little threads of music, beating in tune to the rain drops and the sound of our barefeet on the pavement.
I asked for some kind of magic, and with graceful smiles and outstretched hands I got just what I needed in this sporadic song of thunder.

It is well with my soul.

(via hislivingpoetry)

humansofnewyork:

“After this I go to work at a pizza shop. My wife and I were college professors in Bangladesh. I taught accounting. But one dollar in America becomes eighty dollars when we send it back home.”

(via hislivingpoetry)

(via all-things-bright-and-beyootiful)

Sheep, Wolf, and Shepherd

hammereddrunkwithfaith:

thepoorinspirit-writings:

There was a young sheep who loved her herd. She was born and grew up in this small, tight-knit community.

One day, she was out for a walk by herself when she found an injured wolf, alone and crying. She stayed and watched over the wolf and gave him some food. However, a few of the sheep came by and reprimanded her:
“Wolves are ravenous beasts!”
She refused to give up on the wolf, and decided to take care of him and find his family. Her family of sheep abandoned her.

A wandering shepherd found her and the wolf a few days after the incident. The shepherd quickly attended to the wolf. He then told the sheep, “Thank you for taking care of this wolf. He’s an old friend.”

He picked up the wolf, put him across his shoulders and said,
“Rejoice with me; I have found my lost sheep.”

This is beautiful.

(via hislivingpoetry)

“Let this be thy whole endeavour, this thy prayer, this thy desire,—that thou mayest be stripped of all selfishness, and with entire simplicity follow Jesus only.” —Thomas a Kempis (via yesdarlingido)

(Source: breanna-lynn, via yesdarlingido)

“But there’s a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. ” —Mitch Albom

(Source: seabois, via yesdarlingido)

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