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RUMI - Happy International Women's Day!!!
Happy International Women's Day. (Heaven is under the feet of mothers ) (Be respectful to women, for they are the mothers of mankind.) (Woman is a ray of God.) Some say that a woman is for sleeping with Long winter nights.. Some say that a woman is for play-like Like a sexy dancer on a green harvest ground To make her dance with nine-castanets… Some say she is my spouse.. Some say she is the spiritual debt That I carry around my neck Some say; she’s the one who leavens my bread, Some say; she’s one who gives my children birth… She’s neither this nor that, not a sexy dancer, not a spouse, not a debt, none of that! She is my arms and my legs and my head.. My mother, my wife, my sister, my lover-confidant She is My Lifelong Bosom Friend.. |
"Yet, it is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule."
JRR Tolkien, Return of the King |
Does your reputation bother you? But look at how soon we’re all forgotten. The abyss of endless time that swallows it. The emptiness of all those applauding hands. The people who praise us – how capricious they are, how arbitrary. And the tiny region in which it all takes place. The whole earth a point in space – and most of it uninhabited. How many people there will be to admire you, and who they are. “The world is nothing but change, our life is only perception.”
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Single...
"You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation ... and that is called loving... - Herman Hesse |
Enlightenment
“Do not think that enlightenment is going to make you special, it’s not. If you feel special in any way, then enlightenment has not occurred. I meet a lot of people who think they are enlightened and awake simply because they have had a very moving spiritual experience. They wear their enlightenment on their sleeve like a badge of honor. They sit among friends and talk about how awake they are while sipping coffee at a cafe. The funny thing about enlightenment is that when it is authentic, there is no one to claim it. Enlightenment is very ordinary; it is nothing special. Rather than making you more special, it is going to make you less special. It plants you right in the center of a wonderful humility and innocence. Everyone else may or may not call you enlightened, but when you are enlightened the whole notion of enlightenment and someone who is enlightened is a big joke. I use the word enlightenment all the time; not to point you toward it but to point you beyond it. Do not get stuck in enlightenment.” - Adyashanti |
Find it...
"All you need is deep within you waiting to unfold and reveal itself. All you have to do is be still and take time to seek for what is within, and you will surely find it." - Eileen Caddy |
Soul
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Pursue
"Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence." - Henry David Thoreau |
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No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be good. Like gold or emerald or purple repeating to itself, “No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be emerald, my color undiminished.” |
“In your life, you meet people. Some you never think about again. Some, you wonder what happened to them. There are some that you wonder if they ever think about you. And then there are some you wish you never had to think about again. But you do.”
~C.S. Lewis |
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Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over. Octavia Butler
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Another Melba, Melba Pattillo
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Twelve days before Reagan was elected president in November, 1980, Christians for Reagan, a supposedly independent lobby organized to capture the fundamentalist vote for the Republican nominee, announced that it would pay for a barrage of advertisements throughout the South, which attacked President Carter for “catering” to homosexuals. Citing the language of the Democratic party platform, Gary Jarmin, national director of Christians for Reagan, described the purpose of the campaign this way: “If there's any reason at all they should oppose Carter, this is it.” On one spot, an announcer intoned, “The gays in San Francisco elected a mayor; now they're going to elect a president.” Before the ads began, polls had shown that Carter, a born-again Christian, still had considerable support among the Evangelicals. But the hard-hitting TV spots were extremely effective, and they helped Reagan carry every Southern state except Georgia, where Carter had been governor. Partly because the commercials never aired in New York or Washington, most people outside the South were never aware of them.…
From The Real Record of the Reagans on Gays and AIDS by Charles Kaiser |
"Sometimes, you just have to bow your head, say a prayer, and weather the storm."
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Life is full of beautiful moments and imperfect people |
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Happiness...
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"Every thing we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Every thing we see is a perspective, not the truth." Marcus Aurelius |
Confine yourself to the present. -Marcus Aurelius- |
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A great many women can feel and behave like men. Very few of them can behave like gentlemen.
—Radclyffe Hall |
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Grow...
"We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, of fix us in the present. We are made of layers, cells, constellations." - Anais Nin |
Song from the Mother...
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We realize the importance of our voice when we are silenced. —Malala Yousafzai
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Confidence is not, "Will they like me?"
Confidence is, "I'll be fine if they don't." -I don't know who said it, but I live it. |
Be you...
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Let go...
She let go. The author of this poem is unclear. A few sites list Ernest Holmes as the author, another Jennifer Eckert Bernau and still another Rev. Safire Rose....Without a thought or a word, she let go. She let go of the fear. She let go of the judgments. She let go of the confluence of opinions swarming around her head. She let go of the committee of indecision within her. She let go of all the ‘right’ reasons. Wholly and completely, without hesitation or worry, she just let go. She didn’t ask anyone for advice. She didn’t read a book on how to let go. She didn’t search the scriptures. She just let go. She let go of all of the memories that held her back. She let go of all of the anxiety that kept her from moving forward. She let go of the planning and all of the calculations about how to do it just right. She didn’t promise to let go. She didn’t journal about it. She didn’t write the projected date in her Day-Timer. She made no public announcement and put no ad in the paper. She didn’t check the weather report or read her daily horoscope. She just let go. She didn’t analyze whether she should let go. She didn’t call her friends to discuss the matter. She didn’t do a five-step Spiritual Mind Treatment. She didn’t call the prayer line. She didn’t utter one word. She just let go. No one was around when it happened. There was no applause or congratulations. No one thanked her or praised her. No one noticed a thing. Like a leaf falling from a tree, she just let go. There was no effort. There was no struggle. It wasn’t good and it wasn’t bad. It was what it was, and it is just that. In the space of letting go, she let it all be. A small smile came over her face. A light breeze blew through her. And the sun and the moon shone forevermore... ~*~*~*~*~ |
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