“The power of imagination makes us infinite.” ~John Muir

Found posted on Facebook friends page, thought it was pretty good.

Forgive people in your life, even those who are not sorry for their actions.
Holding on to anger only hurts you not them.

ENTRANCE OF THE RIVER


Beloved of the rivers,beset
By azure water and transparent drops,
Like a tree of veins your spectre
Of dark goddess biting apples:
And then awakening naked
To be tattoed by the rivers,
And in the wet heights your head
Filled the world with new dew.

Water rose to your waist,
You are made of wellsprings
And lakes shone on your forehead.
From your sources of density you drew
Water like vital tears
And hauled the riverbeds to the sand
Across the planetary night,
Crossing rough, dilated stone,
Breaking down on the way
All the salt of geology,
Cutting through forests of compact walls
Dislodging the muscles of quartz.


Pablo Neruda

I love this....
 

Your Feet


When I cannot look at your face
I look at your feet.
Your feet of arched bone,
your hard little feet.
I know that they support you,
and that your sweet weight
rises upon them.
Your waist and your breasts,
the doubled purple
of your nipples,
the sockets of your eyes
that have just flown away,
your wide fruit mouth,
your red tresses,
my little tower.
But I love your feet
only because they walked
upon the earth and upon
the wind and upon the waters,
until they found me.


Pablo Neruda

"People come and go. Some are cigarette breaks, others are forest fires."

From the film Almost Famous
 

a Facebook picture....
 

Friends are like snowflakes...if you pee on them, they go away.

Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine

Mario Fernandez

Be crumbled so wildflowers will come up where you are.
You've been stony for too many years.
Try something different.
Surrender.

--Rumi

"If you feel like others aren’t treating you with love and respect, check your price tag. Perhaps you subconsciously marked yourself down. Because it’s YOU who tells others what you’re worth by showing them what you are willing to accept for your time and attention. So get off the clearance rack. If you don’t value and respect yourself, wholeheartedly, no one else will either."

Touched by an Angel

by Maya Angelou


We, unaccustomed to courage
exiles from delight
live coiled in shells of loneliness
until love leaves its high holy temple
and comes into our sight
to liberate us into life.

Love arrives
and in its train come ecstasies
old memories of pleasure
ancient histories of pain.
Yet if we are bold,
love strikes away the chains of fear
from our souls.

We are weaned from our timidity
In the flush of love's light
we dare be brave
And suddenly we see
that love costs all we are
and will ever be.
Yet it is only love
which sets us free.

“Upon awakening, let the words Thank You flow from your lips, for this will remind you to begin your day with gratitude and compassion.” ~ Wayne Dyer

"People are scared to empty their minds
fearing they will be engulfed by the void.
What they don't realize is that
their own mind is the void."
~ Huang Po

One of my favorite quotes...
 

“If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.”
~ Meister Eckhart

“Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.” ~ Thích Nhất Hạnh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

Wild Geese
by
Mary Oliver

You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting —
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.

"For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile." ~ Elie Wiesel

Hang in there.
Even the worst weeks have Fridays in them.

Don't Settle For Scraps
 

"If someone won't lift a finger to call you, see you spend time with you, it's time for you to lift 5 fingers and wave goodbye."

An all time favourite...
 

6:59 AM
by
Shane Koyczan

I’ve been told
that people in the army
do more by 7:00 am
than I do
in an entire day
But if I wake
at 6:59 am
and turn to you
to trace the outline of your lips
with mine
I will have done enough
and killed no one
in the process.

Goodbyes are not forever
Goodbyes are not the end
They simply mean I'll miss you
Until we meet again


See you on the other side

In memory of a friend that fought illness for many years