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Though this may have become a lost art, it doesn't have to become forgotten. Giving your shoes a good shine makes them look great but can also extend the lifespan of your shoes. After getting comfortable with this process, who knows you may even spring for a pair of quality dress shoes.

This "Festival of Love," is one of the most lively, eagerly-anticipated festivals of the year. What I appreciate most about Holi is that it is about living and enjoying the moment, a beautiful moment in time to meet people, play and laugh with friends, and most importantly to forgive and forget those that have wronged us, and to help us possibly repair any broken relationships. So if anything, have fun today, spring is here!

If one shows kindness with a clear mind-
Even once! - for living creatures, By that one becomes wholesome.

Say goodbye to dry and dehydrated looking skin with our Hydration Facial and Body Oil. This hydrating oil is a fast-absorbing, nourishing and luxurious 24-hour treatment for the body. This unisex oil will target maturing skin, helping to give you a more youthful appearance while leaving your skin feeling fed and cared for. Our Skin Hydration Oil has an exotic, enlivening scent profile and every drop delivers concentrated hydration while providing potent antioxidants and vital nutrients to the skin with an elegant, liquid velvet feel.

Learn why people tend to reactively treat their weirdness as a dangerous liability. Perspectives will be shared on how weirdness is actually one’s greatest asset, serving as a bridge into one’s authenticity. How to take action on finding the courage to say YES! to weirdness will be presented so that more meaning and fulfillment can be encountered by reclaiming the asset of weirdness.

What is intimacy? What fidelity of closeness are we referring to and we talked about having an intimate moment with someone? To know someone so completely to be seen by them and to see them fully, to be felt and to feel the other person. Intimacy is a kind of nakedness beyond measure. Intimacy is a glimpse of what it's like when we let our guard down.

Service jobs do take skill, and patience, and a whole lot of love. Standing on your feet for eight hours while running after the needs and wants of other people and doing it all with a smile is seriously draining. The rest of society often looks down on people who work the fast food joints and the cafes and the fish and chip shop. There’s no prestige in those jobs at all.

Breathing is a necessity of life that usually occurs without much more thought than that. When we breathe in the air around us, our blood cells take in that oxygen and release carbon dioxide (which is a waste product that's carried back through your body and exhaled).

Our West Bench Beard & Mustache Oil is an homage to our beautiful City of Tree's, Boise Idaho. The West Bench is an area that developed the moniker “the other Boise.” This catchy name came from the idea that it was the part of town overlooked by the city’s policymakers, but now, it's a lively place, so life on the West Bench is good.

“The biggest misconception people have about psychedelics is that these are drugs that make you crazy,” says Michael Pollan, author of the new book How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence. “We now have evidence that that does happen sometimes — but in many more cases, these are drugs that can make you sane.”

Noah is a Buddhist teacher, addiction-recovery advocate, psychological counselor and the founder of several non-profits that provide buddhist-based resources to diverse populations including addicts (Refuge Recovery), incarcerated youth (the mind body awareness project), He offers retreats, trainings, lectures and meditation classes internationally.

What is the Revolution of Consciousness, in a nutshell? Like all great movements in human history, it is based on a single insight: in this case, that we are not separate from one another. We are not material beings limited to the physical body, but beings of consciousness limited by nothing. Like waves in the ocean or sunbeams to the sun, there is actually nowhere where one of us stops and another one starts. On the level of bodies, we’re all separate of course. But on the level of consciousness, we are one.

When you order from Thirteen Thieves, we want you to be confident in your purchase. Every year we compile our "Top Sellers" to hopefully offer some assistance as to what other people have ordered from us and show the most popular items sold.

Don’t take anything personally.

That’s the second agreement of Don Miguel Ruiz’s classic, “The Four Agreements.”

I need a reminder today. So I open his book to that chapter and read:

Whatever happens around you, don’t take it personally…Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves. All people live in their own dream, in their own mind; they are in a completely different world from the one we live in. When we take something personally, we make the assumption that they know what is in our world, and we try to impose our world on their world.

My 2018 reading challenge was to read 30 books

May your 2019 be filled with Love & Gratitude, My wish for you is that you find what makes you happy. That you love the people, you are surrounded with, and that you love without limitations. Find something to be grateful for every day. Live without fear of judgment or punishment. Live your authentic self and allow the real you to come out and play. You are awesome.