BarbaraLinde

Sharing glimpses of the light I see inside

[BarbaraLinde @linde_barbara]

Touch the world lightly, don't lean all the way into it, neither all the way out of it. Stay in the sweet spot where you feel its aches and joys intimately, while being equally intimate with the space that embraces it.

[Rupert Spira @RupertSpira]

Happiness is not a pleasant feeling; it is the absence of any distance between our self and our feelings. – Rupert Spira, Transparent Body, Luminous World

[BarbaraLinde @linde_barbara]

If I could I'd be a space
in which you can come up
for breathing,
where it is silent enough
for you to hear
your own depth.
A space wide enough
for you to extend in,
unfurl in,
allowing you to be
as boundless
as you really are.

[BarbaraLinde @linde_barbara]

Indifference is not an absence of care, it is caring about everything at once. Attending to the totality of your experience impartially and therefore equally.

[BarbaraLinde @linde_barbara]

Suffer totally, suffer intelligently. The total weight of your suffering is the gravity of your longing. Longing is the feeling of insistence on a deeper wellbeing. You can only insist on a deeper wellbeing if you know it to be there. To suffer totally is to include this knowing.

[BarbaraLinde @linde_barbara]

When reading or hearing another's words, remember it is not the sender but the listener having the lead role. It is the listening itself that breathes life into a message, giving it gravity and permission to mean anything at all.

[BarbaraLinde @linde_barbara]

Have you heard that song inside of restlessness and discontent? Reach out and lend it your hand, but not your eyes. It only knows how to clutch, not how to look.

[BarbaraLinde @linde_barbara]

I'm not writing to shock, soothe or entertain, to inform, to impress, or even to draw your attention. Much rather do I type a row of letters that do not move you in any direction. That are only for experiencing how it is to have no demand placed upon you.

[BarbaraLinde @linde_barbara]

Don't buy into your own misery, it's not quite the end. Don't buy into your own fortune, it's not quite the end.

[BarbaraLinde @linde_barbara]

Having no followers, following no one, going viral amongst yourself. That's the type of fame I'm in for. Being known to every part of myself and knowing every part fully in return.