get ritzy with it

a collection of my daily findings, things that inspire and fascinate me. art. fashion. design. music. photography. color. sounds. dreams. food. anything and everything. a place to think out loud. random thoughts, musings, obsessions, and ideas.

note to self

Relationship means adjustment, it is giving. But at the same time leave some room for the other partner to give. This needs a little skill - to make the other also contribute without demanding. If you demand, the relationship is not going to last long. Demand and blame destroy love.

-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

on entitlement

Entitlement and complaining are two clear-cut indicators that we are experiencing Bread of Shame. We’re being the effect. We’re waiting for someone else to fulfill us. We’re expecting the world, our parents, our employers, our teachers, our spouses to do it for us. We make “the other” the source of our fulfillment (and when they don’t live up to our expectations, we destroy them.) 

What is the consequence of entitlement? Unhappiness. Frustration. In truth, only we can be the source of our own happiness. We must be aware when we are in this state of consciousness. And we all fall into it – especially when we’re not balanced. The way out is taking more initiative and doing more.

on procrastination

You can’t put things off until tomorrow and expect life to give you what you want today.

if you are frightened, you are likely on a
path that means something to you—
and one that you don’t want to fail at Debbie Millman

› Ninja Yoga: Crazy Love

ninjayoga:

Oh, grasshopper, I might as well say it now so I don’t have to say it later: it’s not your heart that’s suffering, it’s your ego. Your heart can only love; and by “heart” I mean your truest self, that state of being that is nothing but all things arising, subsiding, arising, subsiding. And by…