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JET SET ZERO Thailand: Episode 3

The buck stops in Chiang Mai

After learning I had $9.92 to my name, we found out all four of us were broke in Bangkok. With nothing working out, we head to Chiang Mai where we settle in and saddle up… with some tigers. And a “cave monk”. 

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LESSON #128: Check your messages For the past couple months since I’ve been back in the US, I have been delighting in the fact that I feel good! True, I was looking forward to being back home, but I wasn’t 100% sure I was ready to stop traveling - and the truth is, I’m not. Not by any means. But whereas I felt a disconnect between my self and my city before I began my epic world tour, now that I’m back it just feels right.  I believe in messages. When I first got back, a hummingbird came to my window for 3 days straight. In stillness it sat, perched on a branch - a rarity in and of itself. The symbolism of the presence of a hummingbird, is that of beauty, calm, and peace. It’s humbling presence told me I was where I was meant to be.  Last week a praying mantis came to my door (above). Upon research I found this:  An appearance from the mantis is a message to be still, go within, meditate, get quite and reach a place of calm. It may also be a sign for you to be more mindful of the choices you are making and confirm that these choices are congruent. I have been doing just that and every day I wake up more renewed and more grateful for the present moment, no longer caught up in the future of wishing for the past.  Everything and everyone has meaning. Be mindful. The signs are there. Some hum, some pray, you can’t fit them all into your wallet, you may not be able to hold them close, but that doesn’t make them any less valuable. It just makes them more valuable than you are yet to know. 

LESSON #128: Check your messages

For the past couple months since I’ve been back in the US, I have been delighting in the fact that I feel good! True, I was looking forward to being back home, but I wasn’t 100% sure I was ready to stop traveling - and the truth is, I’m not. Not by any means. But whereas I felt a disconnect between my self and my city before I began my epic world tour, now that I’m back it just feels right. 

I believe in messages. When I first got back, a hummingbird came to my window for 3 days straight. In stillness it sat, perched on a branch - a rarity in and of itself. The symbolism of the presence of a hummingbird, is that of beauty, calm, and peace. It’s humbling presence told me I was where I was meant to be. 

Last week a praying mantis came to my door (above). Upon research I found this: 

An appearance from the mantis is a message to be still, go within, meditate, get quite and reach a place of calm. It may also be a sign for you to be more mindful of the choices you are making and confirm that these choices are congruent.

I have been doing just that and every day I wake up more renewed and more grateful for the present moment, no longer caught up in the future of wishing for the past. 

Everything and everyone has meaning. Be mindful. The signs are there. Some hum, some pray, you can’t fit them all into your wallet, you may not be able to hold them close, but that doesn’t make them any less valuable. It just makes them more valuable than you are yet to know. 

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“All your educational systems and all your cultural beliefs, force you to be ambitious, to be somebody. But to be somebody means creating anxieties in a silent pool, ripples and waves. The greater the ambition, the more tidal is the wave of anxiety. You can become almost insane desiring. Trying to be somebody, you are trying the impossible, because basically you are nobody. Zen has an absolutely unique perception into the nothingness of everyone. It does not teach you any ambition, it does not teach you to be someone else. It simply wants you to know that in the deepest part of your being you are still nothing, you are still carrying the original purity which is not even contaminated by an idea of “I.”
— Osho  (via terramantra)

(Source: illuminatedbeing, via terramantra)

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“Don’t let your mind stop you from having a good time.”
— Jason Mraz
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“Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don’t have to like it… it’s just easier if you do”
— Byron Katie (via heartmindspirit)

(Source: heartbloodspirit, via iadorelife-deactivated20120610)

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“I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion—and where it isn’t, that’s where my work lies.”
— Ram Dass (via thesoundstheymake)

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