Nature Nurtures

Sometimes rather than looking to escape reality to chase happiness you can attain it by choosing to immerse yourself in it, even if you do it only for a few moments. 

Calvin and Hobbes have a strip that talks about how if more people looked at the stars they would live differently...but it isn't just limited to the stars. If you look at the sky at any time of day carefully, you will notice how many different brushstrokes of colour have gracefully been slid across it's surface. 

Even within the same colour there are so many different shades to let your eyes live through. Even within the concrete jungle in the midst of winter, if you breathe in the outline of a tree that stands naked with her leaves swept away till the dawn of spring, the patterns the branches make against the skyline will astound you. There is beauty all around you, everywhere you go. 

Judging Me Judging You

Perfection and imperfection are negative judgments we have given birth to and hoisted upon ourselves. These labels set a narrow precedent, that loom over our heads like impending doom. 

For many of us,we set standards for ourselves which if we don't achieve immediately we consider it to be a failure. Perfection becomes the ideal that must be achieved in order to achieve nirvana. 
These standards of perfection we impose upon ourselves cause us to become attached to an outcome. 

When a person gets attached to an outcome, regardless of what that outcome is, they stop living in the moment and enjoying the process or journey of getting there. It's not about getting it right the first time- as soon as you'd get it right you'd move on to the next thing, and then you'd never be able to stay still and appreciate any one thing in particular, and always look towards the next.

Bringing the Truth Within to Surface.

Speaking your truth and honouring it is one of the most liberating experiences one can undergo in this lifetime. Rather than worrying about how it will be perceived by others or how they will react to it or judge you on it, when you stand your ground for what you believe in and who you are, you are showing profound respect for yourself.