“You are the artist of your own life. Don’t hand the paintbrush to anyone else!” I saw this quote online and it made me smile, I’m not sure who wrote it but I’m thankful they did. What will you create on the canvass of your weekend? #friday #weekend #inspiration #quotes

Expecting the worst, you look, and instead, Here’s the joyful face you’ve been waiting to see. Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding. The two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birdwings. Rumi Wishing you a weekend of opening and closing, of natural rhythm, of expanding and contracting, of beautiful balance. #weekend #

May you recognize in your life the presence, power, and light of your soul. May you realize that you are never alone, that your soul in its brightness and belonging connects you intimately with the rhythm of the universe. May you have respect for your individuality and difference. May you realize that the shape of your soul is unique, that you have a special destiny here, that behind the façade of your life, there is something beautiful and eternal happening. John O'Donahue I

“My formula for greatness is a human being is amor fati; that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it...but love it.” Fredrich Nietzsche This touched me so deeply, the sense of nothing lacking, nothing more needed or wanted, completeness right here, right now in whatever is present. Wishing you a weekend filled with presence and contentment. #inspiration #friday #weekend #phi

“Being in our bodies is not about performance or results, it's about coming home. It's a pleasurable, sensual connection that reminds us that life is worth living even when we are in pain or struggling.” Esther Perel Wishing you a weekend of vibrant, connected being, at home in your body. #inspiration #friday #weekend

“Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island for boats to save; they just stand there shining.” Anne Lamott This quote really made me smile. It reminds me of Marianne Williamson’s words from A Return to Love when she says “as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” Sometimes it can be hard to simply shine your light, without apology, cav

"People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child — our own two eyes. All is a miracle." Thich Nhat Hanh Wishing you a weekend filled with the miraculous that is within and around you. #fridayfeeling #friday #weekend #in

When I opened my copy of Matt Haig’s new book The Comfort Book, it was with some excitement, I am a big fan. A few seconds later these words in the initial notes brought tears to my eyes: “The theme is connection. We are all things. And we connect to all things. Human to human. Moment to moment. Pain to pleasure. Despair to hope. When times are hard, we need a deep kind of comfort. Something elemental. A solid support. A rock to hold on to. The kind we already have i

“Most people are afraid of suffering. But suffering is a kind of mud to help the lotus flower of happiness grow. There can be no lotus flower without the mud.” Thich Nhat Hanh Wishing you a weekend in which you notice happiness growing through whatever mud may be part of your life. #inspiration #weekend #friday

“I’m not looking to escape my darkness, I am learning to love myself there” Rune Lazuli Wishing you a weekend of self-love, of shade, and of light. #friday #weekend #fridayfeeling #inspiration

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline There’s no point pretending life is all sunshine and flowers, it isn’t. A life well lived is about truly seeing the darkness, and knowing that it is the contrast that shows us the light. Wishing you a weekend of slaying dragons, or noticing shadows...in your own way of both speaking truths and transcending them. #friday #