"Everything has a beginning and has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well."

~ Buddha

Rock. Paper. Scissors.

Lama Yeshe - Mind Training

If your spiritual practice and the demands of your everyday life are not in harmony, it means there's something wrong with the way you are practicing. Your practice should satisfy your dissatisfied mind while providing solutions to the problems of everyday life. If it doesn't, check carefully to see what you really understand about your religious practice.

Religion is not just some dry intellectual idea but rather your basic philosophy of life: you hear a teaching that makes sense to you, find through experience that it relates positively with your psychological makeup, get a real taste of it through practice, and adopt it as your spiritual path. That's the right way to enter the spiritual path.

When Buddha spoke about suffering, he wasn't referring simply to superficial problems like illness and injury, but to the fact that the dissatisfied nature of the mind itself is suffering. No matter how much of something you get, it never satisfies your desire for better or more. This unceasing desire is suffering; its nature is emotional frustration.

Be gentle first with yourself - if you wish to be gentle with others.

Darkness Falls - MFW: Gucci AW 12

“A dramatic sensuality, a dark glamour. With subtle games of provocative intellect,” ~ Frida Giannini. Beautiful darkness takes place in Milan Fashion Week, Frida Giannini has an eye for creativity and seduction all in one shade.

Wearing and Tearing

It starts out like a murmur
Then it grows like thunder
Until it bursts inside of you
Try to hold it steady
Wait until you're ready
Any second now will do
Throw the door wide open
Not a word is spoken
Anything that you want to do
And then you ask for medication
Who cares for medication
When you've worn away the cure

~ Led Zeppelin

Video Games

Kissing in the blue dark
Playing pool and wild darts
He holds me in his big arms
Drunk and I am seeing stars
This is all I think of

Heaven is a place on earth with you
Tell me all the things you want to do
I heard that you like the bad girls
Honey, is that true?

"When love is not madness, it is not love."
Happy Valentine's Day!

Sometimes, you just need to love someone without question. Without questioning their worth, their future, their purpose. Just love – that’s all you have to do, for love makes someone worthy, builds someone’s future, and gives someone their purpose.

- MF

Everything around you is to be
rebuilt, remade, and renewed
Do not look for experience, create it.
Do not look for who you are,
create who you want to be.

- MF

Lookbook: Ellery AW 12

Get lost in a galaxy of gold bodices,
icy blue coats and black leather chokers.





Source: russhmagazine

On Wisdom & Kindness

"If people offer their help or wisdom as you go through life, accept it gratefully. You can learn much from those who have gone before you. But never be afraid or hesitant to step off the accepted path and head off in your own direction, if your heart tells you that it's the right way for you. Always believe that you will ultimately succeed at whatever you do, and never forget the value of persistence, discipline, and determination. You are meant to be whatever you dream of becoming."

~ Edmund O'Neill

"At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done. We will be judged by "I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in." Hungry not only for bread - but hungry for love. Naked not only for clothing - but naked of human dignity and respect. Homeless not only for want of a home of bricks - but homeless because of rejection."

~ Mother Teresa

Wasted Youth

“Doing all the little tricky things
it takes to grow up,
step by step,
into an anxious and unsettling world.”

youth is loud & clear

On My Wall

I bought a piece of damaged art.  Art so complex and abstract, with dark colours and rough textures, broken faces and trapped doors. What in past may have been naïve, has now become jaded, corrupted by ideas and devoured by hungry rage.  The tunnel of fate has flushed this paintings’ nature, seduced the purity of its essence.  A master piece has been molded.  The price has gone up.  The wall space needed for this work of art is massive, secure, and bullet proof.  The nails will dig deep, this piece will sooner or later feel heavy.

But the pride of showing off this commitment is precious.  It’s tempting and full of promise.  A piece so desirable and unique, others wonder how it was hung so high.  Like a crystal brick in the wall, so rare and contagious, persuasive and mysterious. Perhaps I fell in love with this foggy picture, I adjusted the lens of my perception - clarity now being a boring adventure. 

So what stops me from taking this heavy, disturbing painting down?  Do I fear the ladder, panic I will drop this estranged beauty on the ground?  Maybe I enjoy viewing it from such a distance, I neglect what it really contains.  I detach myself from its reality, only to live on in our own anxious dream.  For what exists in this fantasy, is not eternally destructive, it’s illusory and… incredible. 

I know the day will come.  The day my walls wear thin.  The nails will get rusty and break, the painting will slip and surrender, and I will catch it… only to realize how much smaller and light it really is.  How beautifully innocent it has come to be.  Colours will be vivid, broken faces turning into blameless smiles, and trapped doors now unlocked.  With its temper diminished and bliss established, it will look vulnerable and foolish, not suitable for my passion craving mind. And I will take this small, uninteresting painting, and throw it away.

And look for a new damaged one to hang on my wall.    

- MF