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I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
~Tony Robbins |
I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
~Henry David Thoreau, "Solitude," Walden, 1854 |
the bee's are a buzzing
“Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.” - Ashley Smith |
When the world tells you to "give up" Hope whispers " try one more time"
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"The measure of a society can be how well its people treat its animals." ~Gandhi
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From a very wise and dear friend: I know that Spirit is guiding me at all times. I feel this Divine Flow within me right now. I stay aware of the fact that I am being guided and led in exactly the right way. I follow what I know is my path. I stay calm and serene regardless of what is happening on the outside of me. I view these events as exactly what they are: Events. They really have nothing to do with me. What is important is my inner state. Today I feed my inner self the soul food that I need to live and breathe from a mode of peace and harmony. I can do this because I completely trust my inner guidance. And so it is... Peace :ohm: |
"My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?"
— Virginia Woolf |
"If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it,"
- Toni Morrison |
Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
~Albert Einstein |
From my friend: SELF-FORGIVENESS Today I practice self-forgiveness. I realize that I am human being and that I will have human experiences. As I forgive myself I release any and all negative thoughts and feelings that I may be harboring about me, about you or really about anything. As I do this I create a vacuum within myself that is quickly within myself that is filled with love, peace and joy. This is where I want to be and this is where I go and this is where I remain. The most important thing for me is to have my life filled with love, peace and understanding. Today this is this most important thing for me to remember and I do so. And so it is. :ohm: |
~ You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on. ~
Oprah Winfrey |
Not preaching, but if you haven't checked out the veg thread...
Buddha: To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.
"For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love." -- Pythagoras (circa 582-507 B.C.)Greek philosopher, mathematician, mystic"Father of Vegetarianism" I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look on the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men. ~Leonardo da Vinci "Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances of survival for life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet." ~Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel Prize 1921 "I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being." ~Abraham Lincoln, 16th U.S. President "My refusing to eat meat occasioned an inconveniency, and I have been frequently chided for my singularity. But my light repast allows for greater progress, for greater clearness of head and quicker comprehension."~BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1706-1790)American statesman, inventor and author I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other.... ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854 -Blue :blueheels: |
I am not bound to win but I am bound to be true. I am
not bound to succeed but I am bound to live up to what light I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right; stand with them while they are right and part with them when they go wrong. Abraham Lincoln |
As I experience it, appreciation of beauty is access to the
soul. With beauty in our lives, we walk and carry ourselves more lightly and with a different look in our eyes. To look into the eyes of someone beholding beauty is to look through the windows of the soul. Anytime we catch a glimpse of soul, beauty is there; anytime we catch our breath and feel "How beautiful!," the soul is present. Jean Shinoda Bolen |
I Am Not I I am not I I am this one Walking beside me whom I do not see, Whom at times I manage to visit, And whom at other times I forget; Who remains calm and silent while I talk, And forgives, gently, when I hate, Who walks where I am not, Who will remain standing when I die. From Lorca and Jimenez: Selected Poems by Juan Ramon Jimenez, translated by Robert Bly |
Friends are like bra's, close to your heart and there for support.
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“That’s the night I slept on a cheese sandwich to keep my dignity.”
- Liz Tuccillo: Unpopular In Jail, The Moth podcast |
No one as yet had approached the management of New York in a proper spirit; that is to say, regarding it as the shiftless outcome of squalid barbarism and reckless extravagance. No one is likely to do so, because reflections on the long narrow pig-trough are construed as malevolent attacks against the spirit and majesty of the American people, and lead to angry comparisons.
-Rudyard Kipling |
The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
~Fran Lebowitz |
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
~Paulo Coelho |
God bless you Elizabeth Taylor.
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The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!”
Thank you Jack Kerouac. Forever your ghost gives me a feeling of not being alone amongst the shelves. |
My Mom's favourite poem. DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rage at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night. Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night. Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. And you, my father, there on the sad height, Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray. Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Dylan Thomas |
Emily Dickinson (1830–86) Part One: Life XXXIII DARE you see a soul at the white heat? Then crouch within the door. Red is the fire’s common tint; But when the vivid ore Has sated flame’s conditions, Its quivering substance plays Without a color but the light Of unanointed blaze. Least village boasts its blacksmith, Whose anvil’s even din Stands symbol for the finer forge That soundless tugs within, Refining these impatient ores With hammer and with blaze, Until the designated light Repudiate the forge. |
How dare they..............
Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.
~Jack Kerouac |
“The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.” Maureen Dowd “Living with integrity means: Not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values. Making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe.” Barbara De Angelis “If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life, you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviors and attitudes or a quality of life that's far below what you deserve.” Anthony Robbins “The eyes shout what the lips fear to say.” William Henry |
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indeed. i flippin <3 you my sistah. xo |
Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
C. S. Lewis |
I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.
Maya Angelou |
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
Maya Angelou |
Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again.
~Alex Tan |
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone. ~G.B. Stern |
If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out. -Rabindranath Tagore, poet, philosopher, author, songwriter, painter, educator, composer, Nobel laureate (1861-1941)
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"Boxing is the only sport you can get your head shook, your money took, and your name in the undertaker book,"
- Joe Frazier |
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
~Jack Kerouac |
"Avoid the world. It's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end." Jack Kerouac
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Dao De Jing
thirty spokes unite in one hub
it is precisely where there is nothing that we find the usefulness of the wheel we fire clay and make vessels it is precisely where there is no substance that we find the usefulness of clay pots we chisel out doors and windows it is precisely in these empty spaces that we find the usefulness of the room therefore, we regard having something as beneficial but having nothing as useful Lao Zi |
The PrajnaParamita Hrdaya Sutra (The Heart Sutra)
form does not differ from emptiness
emptiness does not differ from form that which is form is emptiness that which is emptiness form |
from my father
"An intelligent person will never be bored."
namaste, DamselFly |
"I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once, and cannot add up the sum. I am incapable of determining ultimate worth or worthlessness; I have no judgment about myself and my life. There is nothing I am quite sure about. I have no definite convictions -- not about anything, really. I know only that I was born and exist, and it seems to me that I have been carried along. I exist on the foundation of something I do not know. In spite of all uncertainties, I feel a solidarity underlying all existence and a continuity in my mode of being."
- C. G. Jung, "Memories, Dreams, Reflections", p. 392, published 2 years after his death |
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