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“This strangely
Still pause
Between summer
And autumn,
Greenery and gold,
And the heat
And rising wind
That is once again
Readying itself
To rush it all away
In a climactic symphony
Of colour and scent
Is in my opinion,
One of the best parts
About living on earth.”
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~ Victoria Erickson : 📷 Unknown
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I know I am not alone in my love for this special time of year - the energy, the quality of the light, the gentleness, the anticipation of new things coming…….
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For all of the above reasons, this is why I love taking a holiday in early September and I’m looking forward to spending nourishing time in the Derbyshire Peaks and the Yorkshire Dales.
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I wish you all a wonderful new month. Enjoy this time of transition and shall be back here when it is officially Autumn.
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Love Sarah 🧡xxx

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“In order to
Sort out the chaos
And complications
And confusions,
We must come back
To the simplest thing
We do know.
What feels like
Nourishment?
Begin with That.”
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~ Victoria Erickson : 📷 Unknown
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Wishing everyone enjoying the August Bank Holiday next Monday a nourishing long weekend. I shall be back here the week after that.
With love Sarah 🤍xx

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“Do not try to serve
The whole world
Or do anything grandiose.
Instead, create
A clearing
In the dense forest
Of your life
And wait there
Patiently,
Until the song
That is yours alone to sing
Falls into your open cupped hands
And you recognize and greet it.
Only then will you know
How to give yourself
To the world
So worthy of rescue.”
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~ Martha Postlethwaite : 📷 Francesco Mastalia

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“Stillness is an act of rebellion. It is activism against a culture that has perpetuated speed, productivity, perfectionism and results, at all costs. ‘Just’ being still and quiet with ourselves is an act of rebellion against the things that make us miserable, sick, exhausted and broken. Stillness is a way of rewilding ourselves. Of shaking free of the ‘civilized’ cultural constructs that keep us from our inner knowing, our inner wisdom and our inherent wholeness. All the ‘doing’ in the world doesn’t do that. Just ‘being’ is the thing that frees us.”
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~ Caitlin Cady : 📷 Unknown

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“If you are circling around the same lesson, that doesn’t mean you haven’t healed or progressed. It probably means that you are trying to access a new level, a new paradigm, a new experience of life. Healing is not an arrival, a destination. The same lesson might come up over and over, to strengthen the muscle of not being limited by it. Your healing is in the freedom of letting life be what it is—not controlling every aspect of life to fit a narrow definition of what you imagine it ‘should’ be. Healing is knowing you will not abandon yourself any longer. Healing is trusting that you won’t create new stories about what is or isn’t possible for you based on external circumstances. Healing was never going to be a destination. It’s a constant becoming, and unfolding. It’s your ability to be alive to all of your life. To be present to it all. To exist without needing an escape hatch. Healing was never about arriving, but about continually freeing yourself to be in your life while you’re in it. What a gift.”
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~ Jamie Varon : 📷 Unknown

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“We need to stop seeing life in such strict binaries. It was a success or a failure. It was good or it was bad. Life so often lives in the unexplainable. How do you measure an experience when that experience will have inevitably pushed you, made you grow, taught you something invaluable about yourself? How do you compare one unique life to another? What if success is you trying and honoring yourself on a daily basis? What if you don’t have to be a household name to feel you have made a difference in the lives of others? What if you felt significant simply because you exist and are here? Your ambitions can be big or small. I believe the only real risk of failure is failing to ever listen within and find what is true and still and honest there. Everything else is information. Everything else is your life, full of lessons and growth and moments of backtrack followed by moments of easy forward momentum. Failing to hear yourself, getting to know yourself, and becoming aware of yourself is the only real risk. Get outside the binaries. They don’t define you. You define you.”
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~ Jamie Varon : 📷 Unknown

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“Sometimes you must realize
That your perception
Is simply past pain
Overshadowing the view.
Old traumas create
Clouds over lands
You now cannot see clearly.
Rest your eyes.
The past is not the present.
Begin from your breath.
There is light. There is light.
You don’t have to remain stuck
In stories of old storms
When it is now a new morning.”
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~ Victoria Erickson : 📷 Unknown

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“Don’t give up on yourself. Ever. Believe in change. Believe in fresh starts. Believe that an hour, a month, a year can change anything and everything. Believe in a transformation. A breakthrough. A breakdown leading to a breakthrough. Keep healing and growing, not so you can be a ‘better’ version of yourself, but so you can be a freer version of yourself. Free yourself from limits, and limiting beliefs, and limited personal narratives. Believe that you can change your story, see your past through a new filter, let go, and find yourself in a future full of magic and synchronicities and right places, right time. Let go of plans, control, grasping, clenching. Sometimes you have to let life lead you. Sometimes you have to take a deep inhale, a big exhale, and admit to yourself that you still have hope. Don’t let the world harden you, try as it will to do so. Believe in you. Start within. Free yourself. Listen to yourself. Honour yourself. Let that still voice within be the guiding light for a while. Exhale.”
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~ Jamie Varon : 📷 Unknown

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“That we are here is a huge affirmation; somehow life needed us and wanted us to be. To sense and trust this primeval acceptance can open a vast spring of trust within the heart.”
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~ John O’Donohue : 📷 Unknown

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“When you see gentle people, watch how they turn their words into blossoms when they speak. They plant entire gardens with the softness in their hearts. When you see gentle people, watch how they do not hide their scars because scars are evidence of wounds that healed. And wounds that healed are evidence of pain endured. And pain endured is evidence of a life well lived. And a life well lived is evidence of a soul on fire for things like grace and love and overcoming. When you see gentle people, look inside their eyes. Watch how light swirls wildly amongst the slivers of darkness. They have learned that living is hard but that nothing will take away the very essence of what they were made for. There is a reason for their gentle spirit. When you see gentle people, be gentle too.”
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~ Ullie Kaye : 📷 Unknown

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“Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it’s a feather bed.”
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~ Terence McKenna : 📷 Unknown
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I’ll shortly be spending a few nights away and shall not be here next Monday. I wish you all a lovely couple of weeks and look forward to being in contact when I return.
Much love Sarah 🛌 🪶xx

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“The reason you are worthy is not because of anything you have or have not done. It is because you were woven together. Stitch by stitch. Detail by detail. And because your body carries a soul that extends much deeper than your skin. It is because you have the ability to think and feel and choose and love and believe. To live with intention. To soak yourself in both sunlight and rain and come to understand that you need equal portions of warmth and water to grow. How beautiful to know that we are not measured by what holds us captive but rather by what sets us free - amazing grace.”
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~ Ullie Kaye : 📷 Unknown