Put your heart at ease

via Arianna

I've been remiss dear reader, but as the faint breathe of spring touches the New York air, perhaps so will be time on this blog x

Flawless finish

via Serendipitous Romance

Love, love this article of a father writing to his daughter from the makeup aisle via The Huffington Post: "When you have a daughter, you start to realize she's just as strong as everyone else in the house -- a force to be reckoned with, a soul on fire with the same life and gifts and passions as any man. But sitting in this store aisle, you also begin to realize most people won't see her that way. They'll see her as a pretty face and a body to enjoy. And they'll tell her she has to look a certain way to have any worth or influence."

This is my favourite:

"Naked. The world wants you to take your clothes off. Please keep them on. But take your gloves off. Pull no punches. Say what is in your heart. Be vulnerable. Embrace risk. Love a world that barely knows what it means to love itself. Do so nakedly. Openly. With abandon."

Not to mention the concept of infallible grace.  So good.

Sit. Feast on your life.

Love After Love

The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other's welcome,

and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you

all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,

the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life. 

Derek Walcott

Meet me in the field

via Serendipitous Romance

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing

and rightdoing there is a field.

I'll meet you there.

-- Rumi

Do not be afraid.

via Serendipitous Romance

Do not be afraid of your difficulties.  Do not wish you could be in other circumstances than you are. For when you have made the best of an adversity, it becomes the stepping stone to a splendid opportunity.

- H.P. Blavatsky

Attachment drops away

via Arianna

Feeling philosophical  but this one means a lot to me at the moment.  In so many different ways.  

Grace

via Arianna

Rumi is my favourite.  This quote makes me think of a beautiful set of lines from a song in Little Women (which my friend Elise appeared in a few years back in Sydney): 

"Some things are meant to be, the tide turning endlessly,
the way it takes hold of me, no matter what I do..."   

Tell me.

via Serendipitous Romance

"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" - Mary Oliver, The Summer Day.

(Thanks Tick Tock for this one.)

Sailing

Even if you think the seas are calm, those waves can rise up any time.  Still, as my favourite meditation man Kabat Zinn says, "you can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf."    

My heart dances

via Arianna

It's so rare to add another quote to my list of favourites.  But when one hits you, it does.  And Rumi tends to be pretty high on the list.  It's an incredibly powerful time when you have presence of soul and a dancing heart.  It's been a while and it's good to be here.  New York, I love you.  

Breathe it in

via Places to See in Your Lifetime

Feeling a little fuzzy this weekend, but this image is so vivid you can almost breathe in that lavender and inhale away all the madness.  You know I love me some deep purple.

Reminders to meditate

"Don’t let your mind get weary and confused. Your will be still, don’t try. Don’t let your heart get heavy, child; inside you, there’s a strength that lies. Don’t let your soul get lonely, child; it’s only time, it will go by. Don’t look for love in faces, places; it’s in you, that’s where you’ll find kindness. Be here now, here now. Be here now, here now. Don’t lose your faith in me and I will try not to lose faith in you. Don’t put your trust in walls, ‘cause walls will only crush you when they fall. Be here now, here now. Be here now, here now."▼

--  Be Here Now // Ray LaMontagne 

Whitman

via someone's Tumblr somewhere

I've been thinking 'bout you lately

New York, I love you.

It turns out.

Some things are meant to be.

Heal yourself

via Lost in the Moment

"Take a day to heal from the lies you’ve told yourself and the ones that have been told to you." --Maya Angelou 

Hiatus: good for the soul

Devour Beauty has been on a bit of a hiatus thanks to many a life change of late. But rest assured we'll be back in business slowly but surely and now as a New York correspondent!

Smell the rain

via Dangerously Debonair

Reflections: Anish Kapoor

Anish Kapoor, Museum of Contemporary Art

 

“The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion; and so let all young persons take their choice.” 

- William Makepeace Thackeray

 

Kite dreamer

via Spr1ngfever

 

"Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country."

 

- Anais Nin