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“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself. When you let go of the frantic search for validation, you find yourself exactly where you are meant to be, with the tools you need to go forward. It is from this place of quiet assurance that the most beautiful things emerge.”
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~ Virginia Woolf : 📷 Unknown

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“Your soul knows the geography of your destiny. Your soul alone has the map of your future, therefore you can trust this indirect, oblique side of yourself. If you do, it will take you where you need to go, but more important it will teach you a kindness of rhythm in your journey.”
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~ John O’Donohue : 📷 Unknown

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“The water in your body is just visiting. It was a thunderstorm a week ago. It will be the ocean soon enough. Most of your cells come and go like morning dew. We are more weather pattern than stone monument.”
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~ Jarod K. Anderson : 📷 Unknown
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Ready to welcome some rain and cooler temperatures…. 🌧️☔️

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“She saw how the tall grasses danced so beautifully in the wind and she chose that for her own life, to stand tall and still be moved in the presence of invisible things.”
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~ Flying Edna : 📷 Unknown
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Next Monday will be the second bank holiday in May. I’ll be in Venice for the biennale. Wishing everyone enjoying the long weekend a wonderful few days and I’ll be back here the following week.
With love
Sarah 🤍xx

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“Sometimes, I think—I hope it works out. I hope it’s for me. I hope this happens and that happens. I hope the path leads to where I want it to go. And I feel myself getting attached to certain outcomes. Things I have no control over. So I pause and take a deep breath and remember—I can’t control it all. I can’t control what happens tomorrow. I can’t control what people do or how they feel. I can’t control where this path leads me. And that can feel scary at times, but then I also remember—none of that really matters. It doesn’t matter. Because this is what I can do: I can stay aligned with my authentic self. I can follow my joy and give it away. I can be brave when I’m called to and pour my whole mind and body and soul into every new experience that finds me. I can keep connecting with my innermost self. I can allow life to flow through me. And I don’t need to control what’s out there. I just need to stay true to what feels right. I just need to keep cultivating my own inner peace. I just need to trust my heart’s deepest wisdom. That’s what I can do. That’s my power. That’s my magic.”
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~ Zanna Keithley : 📷 Unknown

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“What if the most beautiful offering you could ever make... was your peace?

Not your perfection.
Not your performance.
But your presence.

The way you pause
Before you speak.
The way your eyes soften
When you listen.
The way your hands
Move with reverence
Not for the task alone,
But for the life humming within It.

This is what it means to act
From the sacred space within.
Not to do more - but to be here:
Anchored, empty, alive.”
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~ Feel Peace Meditation : 📷 Paolo Roversi
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Next Monday is the first of the May Bank Holidays. Wishing all those who are enjoying the long weekend a lovely time. I’ll be back here the Monday after that.
With love
Sarah xxx

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“I go in and out, don’t you?
Into flow and gratitude,
And out of it again.
Into grief and hopelessness,
And out of it again.
Into routine; cooking, walks,
Connection
And then into bed, the bath,
My head, my tears.
These days call for
The ability to sway,
Sway into reality,
Sway into empathy,
And back again.
Dip toes into fear,
Anxiety, awareness
And rest in creativity,
Distraction, comfort.
We go in and out, like tides
Creating our own slow rhythms -
Finding the pulse of survival.”
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~ Alix Klingenberg : 📷 Unknown
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Last week I had the delight of being involved in a two day event for the launch of the new fragrance ‘Musc Nurāsana’ from the French perfume house @maisoncrivelli. I was asked to demonstrate the art of hand massage to the seated guests before each of the masterclasses given by founder @thibaud.crivelli and @gael.perfumer.
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The joy of spending time with such easy going people was a gift. It is so refreshing to meet wonderful human beings who are gentle and humble with no trace of any ego.
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I love how Thibaud describes that the inspiration for his new parfum comes from his life experiences - memories of early morning stretches on a terrace at sunrise - and the sensations that arise from such moments.
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The event took place on the helideck of @harrods. The attention to detail for every aspect was something to behold. Guests literally gasped when they walked into the space.
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You should be so proud @lottiewright @knowingcomms of all that you achieved. Thank you so much for asking me to be part of your beautifully crafted new perfume launch. My gratitude to all the Maison Crivelli team and the Harrods Events staff for showing me such care and kindness.
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I’ll share some images on stories for you to see how the beautiful vision became manifest and then they’ll be saved on my ‘Events’ highlights.
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With love Sarah 💗 xxx

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“Leave guilt on the floor
By your slippers and robe
Your worries may nestle there too
Let shame and embarrassment
Slip through the door
There’s no place for such things
Here with you.

Let memories of laughter
Words aimed to warm
Fill up any space in your head
Remember the smiles
Of the people you love
Let those treasures
Come with you to bed.

You did all you could
With the day that you had
You led with that heart full of love
You toil and you care
And that’s always enough
So release that dark load to above.

Now rest, close your eyes
Let your fears melt away
Give in to the slumber you crave
You are giving your all
To this cycle of life
Welcome dreams and
Await a new day.”
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~ Donna Ashworth : 📷 Unknown

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“Is tenderness
A practiced thing,
Hours of struggle
Before it falls into place?
Maybe it’s born in us,
And the practice comes
After the forgetting of it all,
Maybe It, like grace,
Gets lost and buried
Under time and ache
And regret and excuse.
Maybe It’s not practice we need,
But excavation.”
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~ Tyler Knott Gregson : 📷 Gregory Colbert
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There will be no post next Monday as I’ll be in Paris for the Easter Holidays.
I wish you all a beautiful Easter and many blessings for Holy Week.
With much love
Sarah 🐰🐣🌷xxx

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“At any time you can ask yourself: At which threshold am I now standing? At this time in my life, what am I leaving? Where am I about to enter? What is preventing me from crossing my next threshold? What gift would enable me to do it? A threshold is not a simple boundary; it is a frontier that divides two different territories, rhythms and atmospheres. Indeed, it is a lovely testimony to the fullness and integrity of an experience or a stage of life that it intensifies toward the end into a real frontier that cannot be crossed without the heart being passionately engaged and woken up. At this threshold a great complexity of emotion comes alive: confusion, fear, excitement, sadness, hope. This is one of the reasons such vital crossings were always clothed in ritual. It is wise in your own life to be able to recognize and acknowledge the key thresholds: to take your time; to feel all the varieties of presence that accrue there; to listen inward with complete attention until you hear the inner voice calling you forward. The time has come to cross.”
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~ John O’Donohue : 📷 Unknown

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“When you’re hard on yourself because you think you should be doing or completing or achieving more, remember this: if all you do in this life is stay true to yourself, create meaningful connections, give people a safe place to land, cultivate your unique gifts and offer your wholehearted presence to every new experience that finds you —you’re doing so much more than you’ll ever realise. And if all you ever do is have one honest conversation each day. If all you ever do is show one person that they’re truly seen. If all you ever do is make someone laugh. If all you ever do is remain brave and open and curious and kind. If all you ever do is honour your beating heart. If all you ever do is sit with your pain and give yourself compassion and heal and keep healing over and over again. And if all you ever do is lean deeper into grace. If all you ever do is offer love and acceptance in rooms where it feels like there is none—then, I promise, you are doing so much more than you think.”
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~ Zanna Keithley : 📷 Unknown

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“Tears are a river
That takes you somewhere…
Tears lift your boat off the rocks,
Off dry ground,
Carrying it downriver
To someplace better.”
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~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés : 📷 Unknown