28. When Pam Rose Every Morning
Happy Sunday friends,
Sit for a second and imagine what your dream job looks like. You can close your eyes if you wish. Breathe into the feeling that when you wake up tomorrow and start your Monday, you’ll be doing something that is not just about a pay check, not spent with people you don’t even like that much, not just endless emails that exhaust you but something that feeds your soul and makes you feel just like this.
Now go out and start creating that as your reality.
But first, here’s five things I found on the internet this week.
1. A Quote
“The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences. When love and hate are both absent everything becomes clear and undisguised. Make the smallest distinction, however, and heaven and earth are set infinitely apart. If you wish to see the truth then hold no opinion for or against. The struggle of what one likes and what one dislikes is the disease of the mind.”
― Sengstan, Hsin Hsin Ming
2. How To Be Alone
This beautiful little video from The New York Times via Hiut Denim on how to be alone.
Also, a little gem from The School of Life if you are wanting to harness solitude as a superpower.
“In How to Be Alone, Sara Maitland asks how we have arrived in a culture that values individualism, personal autonomy, independence and fulfilment higher than ever before in human history -- but at the same time is terrified of solitude. Delving in to history to answer this question, she examines our changing culture through the ages and asks why and how we have periodically praised and then feared the practice of being alone, and those who seek it.”
3. We will always have Paris
HoY Paris (House of Yoga) is a new hotel with no TVs in rooms, an in-house yoga studio, plant-based restaurant and a Japanese florist (be still my heart!) just opened in central Paris.
"HoY's philosophy and purpose is to be a caring and soothing place, a door away from the street dim, for the traveller to reconnect with their energy," explained the hotel's founder, De Orozco.
"The spirit of the place is comforting, simple and allows visitors to slow down and take full advantage of the present moment, without outside distraction."
4. How powerful was the Beirut blast?
*keep scrolling to see how it compares to the size of the atomic bomb called ‘Little Boy’ dropped on Hiroshima, Japan in 1945.
5. Reading
Making my way through this lovely book on Plant Medicine by Erin Lovell Verinder.
She’s based in Australia but you can buy the book via her website or from independent bookshops near you.
Here’s an easy recipe for a night time tea from her book.
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Sweet Dreams
A gentle supportive trio to soothe
the nervous system and welcome
in a zen state of mind, heart and
spirit. Full of calming nerviness,
perfect to take the edge off and
yield to the yin energy of the
evening.
2 parts oat straw
2 parts lemon balm
1 part camomile flowers
Best prepared as a tea or infusion
See you next Sunday.