Nirvana By Nature
Nirvana by Nature: Practical Spirituality & The Authentic Human experience. In Buddhism, "nirvana" is the ultimate state of peace and happiness.
Nature shows us this state is ours by divine birthright, & through simply accepting "being," we arrive there.
01/02/2024
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“Generally I try to avoid discussing consciousness, since it's, like, hard.”
― Robert Kurzban
13/01/2024
Existential curiosity sparked by a sprout. 🌱
08/01/2024
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01/01/2024
Happy new year. 🎈
24/12/2023
We only get one life. How are we using it?
19/12/2023
Without contrast, there is nothing to experience. Without dark, there is no light. Without down, there is no up. Without hunger, there is no satiation. Without grief, there is no love. Accepting these paradoxes is the key to unlocking the fullness of life without attaching to ideas of unfairness. It is all necessary, and it is all beautiful.
16/12/2023
We are ALIVE.
15/12/2023
We are all co-creating this life experience, led only by faint memories of our soul's purpose through inner callings, intuition, dreams, and mysterious recognition of other souls. How beautiful it all is, the spiderweb of existence.
14/12/2023
"Do not worry about anything. Instead, pray about everything."
11/12/2023
Without 𝗽𝘂𝗿𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗲, we are 𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘵𝘺.
Without 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 of that purpose, we are 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴.
Avoiding our fullest self-expression in alignment with our purpose results in a lifetime full of 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘶𝘭𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘥𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴.
This is how we waste our lives.
10/12/2023
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04/12/2023
💭
03/12/2023
You're doing great. 💙
19/11/2023
Mother Teresa wrote,
"𝘗𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘶𝘯𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦, 𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘥;
𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘸𝘢𝘺.
𝘐𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘥, 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘺 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧𝘪𝘴𝘩, 𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴;
𝘉𝘦 𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘸𝘢𝘺.
𝘐𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘧𝘶𝘭, 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘸𝘪𝘯 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘦𝘴;
𝘚𝘶𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘸𝘢𝘺.
𝘐𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘬, 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘺 𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶;
𝘉𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘬 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘸𝘢𝘺.
𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘣𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘺 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵;
𝘉𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘸𝘢𝘺.
𝘐𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘮𝘢𝘺 𝘣𝘦 𝘫𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘶𝘴;
𝘉𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘸𝘢𝘺.
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘥𝘰 𝘵𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘺, 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘵𝘰𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘸;
𝘋𝘰 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘸𝘢𝘺.
𝘎𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘺 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩;
𝘎𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘷𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘸𝘢𝘺.
𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘦𝘦, 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘺𝘴𝘪𝘴, 𝙞𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙗𝙚𝙩𝙬𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙂𝙤𝙙;
𝙄𝙩 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙣𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙗𝙚𝙩𝙬𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙢 𝙖𝙣𝙮𝙬𝙖𝙮."
Do good anyway.
15/11/2023
🎨 ✍🏼 🖤 👁️
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20/10/2023
💚💛🧡❤️🩷🩵💙💜🖤🤍
20/10/2023
💚💛🧡❤️🩷🩵💙💜🖤🤍
16/10/2023
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11/10/2023
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07/10/2023
🦋 Lessons.
05/10/2023
God's promise to us is that it is our birthright to be the recipients of abundance in every form to experience "heaven on earth," if we simply place our faith in him to put the pieces together and deliver.
Only God knows the divine plan for our lives – the experiences, people, relationships, and things that will truly serve our highest good and fulfillment.
This means we have to let go of our fearful grip and expectations about exactly who those people are, what those experiences will be, what opportunities present themselves, and so on and let the universe connect the dots, sort things out, and manifest that which is for the highest good of all.
God is our shepherd, and if we trust his guidance rather than the pulling of our own hearts and minds (which are often misled by fear, doubt, thoughts of lack, etc.), he will provide and supply everything we need in love, health, wealth, and life.
Have faith, keep putting one foot in front of the other, and let God surprise you and pour out his love and blessings on you as you trust the divine plan for your life to unfold right on time in perfect ways.
04/10/2023
✔️ To do.
PS - Thanks for the swag 🤓
20/09/2023
I'm definitely guilty of being unkind and even hateful toward my body. How much do we all take our bodies for granted?
Every cell in our body is working for us 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, while we're awake and while we're sleeping, to make sure we can turn food into energy, heal wounds, grow our hair, see the world around us, and wake up with a beating heart and breathing lungs every morning.
And yet, we criticize our thighs or chins. We poison ourselves with alcohol and poor nutrition to "celebrate" or to "relax" or "socialize."
We sent ourselves the rest and exercise we need to function well.
We overeat, we undereat, we call ourselves ugly, we compare ourselves to photoshopped images of strangers on the internet.
It is a beautiful thing to reframe your relationship with your body with immense gratitude, awe, and appreciation of all its functions and recognize how it serves us every single day, even when we are cruel to it.
How can you begin loving your body more today? Start by simply acknowledging and thanking it for the amazing things it does for us every second of every day. Then begin caring for it properly as a reflection of your gratitude.
18/09/2023
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17/09/2023
Just what I needed to hear this morning. 🍳 🥚
(𝘓𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘍𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘎𝘰𝘥 by Ivan Tait)
15/09/2023
When you've done all you can do, it is necessary to let it go.
Release the burden of overthinking, worrying, analyzing, hoping, or checking to your higher power.
Cast the burden of the situation on God, and release the situation to him.
Then, let time – the secret ingredient – do its part.
Remember, a watched pot never boils. If you keep opening the oven to see if the cake is baking, it will never rise.
Look at releasing situations to the universe like letting go of meddling with natural process.
Our fearful grip on our desired outcomes often interfere with the miracles or plan God has in store for us.
Practice trust, patience, and faith that the outcome that serves your highest good and the highest good of all involved will come to fruition. That may look differently than what you are picturing, and that has to be okay.
Let go. God is already working on it.
14/09/2023
In the past, when books, spiritual teachers, therapists, or other advisors have said,
"𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧! 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧," these suggestions seemed abstract and lacking in substance.
What does that really mean anyway? I thought, puzzled.
I've been reading 𝘊𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘕𝘰 𝘔𝘰𝘳𝘦 by Melody Beattie, and it's finally clicking for me.
She writes about how really loving and accepting ourselves means TRUSTING ourselves, our feelings, and our thoughts.
How often do we know something or someone isn't good for us, but the thought of letting go is so painful that we continually deny our own intuition and feelings?
We deny ourselves the thing we need most and keep ourselves trapped in painful situations and cycles. This is not honoring ourselves and our needs.
We shame ourselves for not being happy, for wanting "too much," for being "needy," for not being grateful for the crumbs we 𝘢𝘳𝘦 receiving.
We deny and gaslight our internal messaging system that is begging for something better, for our needs and hopes to be validated. We shut down the inner child that is telling us "this isn't enough."
Loving and accepting ourselves means accepting the reality of our situation, even if it means accepting disappointment and letting go.
It means loving and honoring our thoughts and feelings that are telling us something isn't okay.
It means taking action aligned with those feelings, even if it means facing frightening change.
This is what it means to accept and love ourselves: to 𝗵𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗿 ourselves.
13/09/2023
If we have been raised in chaos, perhaps at the hands of someone cruel, dysfunctional, angry, drunk, blameful, compulsive, codependent, or any other unhealthy situation, we are molded by it, consciously & subconsciously.
These situations influence our thoughts about ourselves, our behaviors, how we relate to others, our feelings, & our reactions, many of which remain unconscious and habitual, primed and automatic in an effort for the traumatized parts of us to self-preserve, defend, or protect ourselves.
It takes a lot of work, humility, grace, and self reflection to gain insight and awareness over these hardwired behaviors so we can begin living our lives according to our true nature, which is benevolent.
It can be difficult to acknowledge and recognize these flawed – and even harmful – behaviors in ourselves without carrying immense guilt along with it, feeling bad about ourselves, worrying if we are bad people, feeling like we can't get things right.
It is so important to offer ourselves grace, forgiveness, and compassion as we embark on the journey of self discovery to improve our lives and relationships. Your upbringing greatly affects your behavior, but does not dictate who you really are.
If you were raised by monkeys since birth, someone who meets you as an adult is going to see a screaming, impulsive, ill-mannered, sometimes even violent wild animal. 🐒
You 𝗮𝗰𝘁 like a monkey because that's all you've ever experienced in your core developmental years and the majority of your life. You don't know any better. You've never seen another way to be, act, respond, or behave.
But you're 𝘯𝘰𝘵 a monkey, and you're not doomed to act like a monkey for the rest of your life if you choose to change how you relate and show up in the world.
Self reflection and healing allows us to pick up the banana peels, trade howling for gentle communication, impulses for manners, survival for harmony, and learn a new way of relating. 🍌
Your journey is sacred. You are exactly where you are meant to be. You are getting better every day.
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