expand your sense of the possible.
~John Perry Barlow

Love is the only sane + satisfactory answer to
the problem of human existence.
~Erich Fromm
(via this read that I loved)

We're all spinning on blue
Watching the same clouds
Breathing in, breathing out
​~Bien

The difference between happiness + joy
can be equated to the difference between
a human emotion connected to circumstances
+ one that has a spiritual way of engaging with the world.
​~Brene Brown (a beautiful read)

When joy is a habit,
love is a reflex.
~Bob Goff

In ordinary life, we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give,
and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.
​~Deitrich Bonhoeffer

All that can save us is the sustained awakening of the human heart.
​~Jason McLennan

The universe is a single reality...one long sweeping spectacular process of interconnected events. The universe is not a place where evolution happens: it is evolution happening.
It is not a stage on which dramas unfold;
it is the unfolding drama itself.

This [great cosmological] story shows us in the deepest possible sense that
we are all sisters + brothers
fashioned from the same stellar dust, energized by the same star, nourished by the same planet, endowed with the same genetic code + threatened by the same evils.

This story...humbles us before the magnitude + complexity of creation.
It bewilders us with the improbability of our existence,
astonishes us with the interdependence of all things
​+ makes us feel grateful for the lives we have.
​And not the least of all,
it inspires us to express our gratitude to the past by accepting a solemn + collective responsibility for the future. 
~Loyal Rue

Minimalism isn't about subtracting joy from life, 
it's about adding
purpose, meaning + passion.
~Joshua Becker