"The Santa Cruz Mountains are a region of large biological diversity, encompassing cool, moist coastal ecosystems as well as warm, dry chaparral. In valleys and moist ocean-facing slopes some of the southernmost coast redwoods grow, along with Douglas fir, which is at the southern extent of its range. Coast live oak, Pacific madrone, wax myrtle, and California bay laurel also occur in the Santa Cruz Mountains. There do exist several small and isolated stands of old growth forest, most notably at Henry Cowell Redwoods and Portola Redwoods State Parks and one sizeable old-growth redwood forest at Big Basin. At higher elevations and on sunny south slopes a more drought-resistant chaparral vegetation dominates: manzanita, California scrub oak, chamise, and chaparral pea. Spring wildflowers are also widespread throughout the range. The area welcomes a tremendous number of species of birds. Black-tailed deer, a subspecies of Mule deer are common, as are gray squirrels, chipmunks and raccoons. Foxes, coyotes, bobcats, mountain lions and human-introduced opposums [and many other animals] also inhabit the region."

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This is the reality of God. So, if the thought does not appear to translate this into its terms, into its conditions, into its evaluations, the conflict does not arise, the suffering does not arise and fear does not arise. ~M. Gualberto ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Quando se identifica com o pensamento, você perde a visão da realidade, a simples e direta visão daquilo que acontece.⠀ ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Essa é a realidade de Deus. Portanto, se o pensamento não aparece para traduzir isto em seus termos, em suas próprias condições, dentro de suas avaliações, o conflito não surge, o sofrimento não surge e o medo não se levanta. ~M. Gualberto ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Foto: Nascer do sol no Ramanashram Gualberto, Campos de Jordão/SP.⠀ ⠀⠀⠀ ▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #ramanashramgualberto #satsang #mestregualberto #ramana #ramanamaharshi #prana #gratitude #mindfulness #asana #namaste #selfrealization #selfinquiry #om #awareness #inspirationalquotes #mind #shiva #meditacao #meditation #paz #harmony ##eckharttolle #prembaba #samadhi #silence #enlightenment #buddha #gangaji #guruji #satchitananda

.....Most of us came along ever so slowly. We went from one world into another that was almost exactly like it, forgetting right away where we had come from, not caring where we were headed, living for the moment. Do you have any idea how many lives we must have gone through before we even got the first idea that there is more to life than eating, or fighting, or power in the Flock? A thousand lives, Jon, ten thousand! And then another hundred lives until we began to learn that there is such a thing as perfection, and another hundred again to get the idea that our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth. The same rule holds for us now, of course: we choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome.”

Sullivan speaking to Jonathan in Richard Bach’s Jonathon Livingston Seagull

"Become more and more innocent, less knowledgeable and more childlike. Take life as fun - because that's precisely what it is!"

Ashram in Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu, India

"Nobody is here to fulfill your dream. Everybody is here to fulfill his own destiny, his own reality"

It is only when the subtle mind is externalized through the activity of the intellect and the sense-organs that gross name and form constituting the world appear. When, on the other hand, the mind stays firmly in the Heart, they recede and disappear.