#edit

The greatest gift we can give to another person is our love. ↗

— Swami Dhyan Giten

#life #love #meditation #spirituality #love

After a long moment, the Countess sat back down. "So," she said. "You … do love her. I must say, you look peculiarly resigned to it." He shrugged. "It is not fresh news for me." "And for Emma?" "Neither welcomed nor openly acknowledged." "But acknowledged all the same, you believe." "Perhaps," he said. "I cannot know. Not anymore." -Delphinia, Lady Chad and Julian ↗

— Meredith Duran

#emma #julian #meredith-duran #love

April Michelle Davis's motto on freelancing in the publishing industry: Like it, love it, live it. Like your genres, love what you do, live your profession. ↗

— April Michelle Davis

#inspirational #publishing #inspirational

Observing your thoughts, feelings & sensations is the grist of the practice. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#inspirational #meditation #psychology #art

We can understand the inherent radiance & purity of our minds by understanding metta. Like the mind, metta is not distorted by what it encounters. ↗

— Sharon Salzberg

#inspirational #love #meditation #psychology #art

The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms. ↗

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#meditation #mind #peace #step #beauty

Romance From The Heart! ↗

— Helen Lacey

#marriage

For all of us, love can be the natural state of our own being; naturally at peace, naturally connected, because this becomes the reflection of who we simply are. ↗

— Sharon Salzberg

#meditation #art

I am not beautiful, I am beyond it ↗

— Anita Ounalom

#beauty

Editors can be stupid at times. They just ignore that author’s intention. I always try to read unabridged editions, so much is lost with cut versions of classic literature, even movies don’t make sense when they are edited too much. I love the longueurs of a book even if they seem pointless because you can get a peek into the author’s mind, a glimpse of their creative soul. I mean, how would people like it if editors came along and said to an artist, ‘Whoops, you left just a tad too much space around that lily pad there, lets crop that a bit, shall we?’. Monet would be ripping his hair out. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#creative-process #creative-reading #creative-thinking #creativity #editing