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"If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die." - Maya Angelou
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But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure,
Then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing-floor, Into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears. Gibran |
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust |
Kahlil Gibran
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. |
The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year. -- Mark Twain
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Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other. ~Henry David Thoreau
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“Writing is my time machine, takes me to the precise time and place I belong.” Jeb Dickerson
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Received yesterday from a dear and wise old friend: I AM MY OWN PERSON Today I know that I am not at anybody else’s mercy. Nobody has power over me unless I give it to them. And today I absolutely chose not to allow that to happen. This goes for people, places, organizations and things. Nobody can control me unless I say so. Nobody determines what I do or where I go unless I willing to let that happen. In order to become a victim one first must assume the position. Today I take pride that I am my own person. This does not mean that I do not consult with people or even depend on them on certain things in certain ways. What this does mean is that I am my own person and I do tap into my own personal Power and exercise my right to do so. It is not only my right - it is my Spiritual responsibility. And So It Is. |
This morning from the same friend: I LOVE MY BODY Today I embrace the health that I have. I know that my body is “picture perfect”. I embody all the qualities that God is therefore, I AM the same as GOD IS. I know that I AM all that GOD IS. My expressions are pure and perfect. I praise the health that I have. I embrace the wholeness that I am. God is good, so am I and so it is. |
From "Dust"
Our dead skin is flaking away and leaving us, our cells dying and vanishing. More silver in my hair daily. Dust of our lives, eye grit, detritus - we are too lost in its swirl to notice how many worlds there are within two people. And how, when those worlds touch, the whole web lights up, every strand. And it was dust we fought about so bitterly: dust on the piano keys, under the coffee table, insinuating itself into the computer keyboard. Dust that may be vanquished for a day or two but always returns, creeping, seeping, too humble to be humiliated and thus invincible. Dust of our own bodies, their seat and longing, illuminated in a stream of sunlight just for a moment. Alison Luterman |
Ode to the Daffodil...
I wonder'd lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales & hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. This is from William Wordsworth's "Daffodils". |
Luck is what happens when Fate gets tired of waiting.
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She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind. ~Toni Morrison, Beloved
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Yes we are [friends] and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't mind washing up beside you, dusting beside you, reading the back half of the paper while you read the front. We are friends and I would miss you, do miss you and think of you very often. I don't want to lose this happy space where I have found someone who is smart and easy and doesn't bother to check her diary when we arrange to meet. ~Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body, 1992
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Friends are relatives you make for yourself.
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There is a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them. - Orson Welles |
True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed.
Tom Robbins |
Stolen from Papa!
Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.
~Anne Sexton |
"'come to the edge', he said.
they said, 'We are afraid'. 'come to the edge', he said. they came. he pushed them... and they flew." - - Guillaume Apollinaire |
utmost care
words are energy
gather, store, and offer them with utmost care (Taoist saying) |
Why try to be someone you're not? Life is hard enough without adding impersonation to the skills required. ~Robert Brault
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anger
holding onto anger is like grasping a hot coal to throw at someone-only you get burned.
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work
your work is to discover your work
and to pursue it with all your heart. (Buddha) |
blessings
blessings are not enough
they must come from within else they are not blessings at all (H.H.The Dalai Lama) |
A picture is a poem without words. ~Horace
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A poet can survive everything put a misprint.~Oscar Wilde
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We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
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"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be a stronger man." JFK |
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. -aka Melody Beattie
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"You have plenty of courage, I am sure," answered Oz. "All you need is confidence in yourself. There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have in plenty."
- L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz |
Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something. Anton Chekhov
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"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go."
-- William Feather |
The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.
~ Gooderham Acheson |
More words of wisdom from my friend: I Am Moved By Spirit. Today I know that I am moved by Spirit. I center myself with this Powerful Source. I stay connected and centered with It. I know that I am being led by Spirit. I surrender anything and anybody that does not enhance my life and does not reflect the same Good Stuff that I do. I am grateful that I am centered with this Divine Flow. It is wonderful to feel this power emerge in my life. And so it is |
"In the spring, at the end of the day, your hands should smell like dirt." (Margaret Atwood)
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A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you. Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965) |
“The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty and bloody-mindedness.”
Terry Pratchett |
Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu |
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