Midsummer

Strawberry Moon rising

Celebrated on June 24 as a day meant to appreciate all the gifts of nature. The summer solstice marks the longest day of the year and it lands on June 20, but due to the fact that the old Julian calendar marked it differently, the date for Midsummer Day remains June 24. Though the holiday originated in Sweden it is now celebrated almost everywhere else. This year, a full Strawberry Moon rises on this very Thursday, June 24, 2021

• Free to let go of the unhappiness the moment we recognize it as unintelligent.
• Negativity is not intelligent.
• It is always of the ego.
• The ego may be clever, but it is not intelligent.
• Cleverness pursues its own little aims.
• Intelligence sees the larger whole in which all things are connected.
• Cleverness is motivated by self-interest, and it is extremely short-sighted.
• Whatever is attained through cleverness is short-lived and always turns out to be eventually self-defeating. 

— Eckhart Tolle

Michael Parkes

“I must find the place inside myself where nothing is impossible.” 

— Deepak Chopra