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Beautiful...
"To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself." -Thich Nhat Hanh |
Whole...
"To be great, be whole; Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you. Be whole in everything. Put all you are Into the smallest thing you do. So, in each lake, the moon shines with splendor Because it blooms up above." - Fernando Pessoa |
Clouds...
"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky." - Rabindranath Tagore |
Speak...
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Feelings...
"The feelings we live through in love and in loneliness are simply, for us, what high tide and low tide are to the sea.” - Kahlil Gibran, Letters in the Sand, The Love Poems of Khalil Gibran |
Fragrance...
"There is a presence, a silence, a stillness which is here by itself ... It is simply here in you, with you. It is the fragrance of your own self ... it is naturally present. This fragrance of peace, this spaciousness, it is the fragrance of your own being." - Mooji |
Courage...
“It takes courage to push yourself to places you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to stay tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” - Anaïs Nin |
The Edge...
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Struggling...
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Vulnerability...
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Your own self...
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You are whole...
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it was beautiful...
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Strawberries...
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Grow...
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"There are places in the heart that do not yet exist, so into them enters suffering, in order that they may have existence."
Leon Bloy |
"Books are a uniquely portable magic."
~ Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft |
"Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself."
~ Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's |
"Do they sense it, these dead writers, when their books are read? Does a pinprick of light appear in their darkness? Is their soul stirred by the feather touch of another mind reading theirs? I do hope so." ~ Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
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“i am a museum full of art
but you had your eyes shut” ~ Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey |
“Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.”
~ Allen Ginsberg |
Whole...
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Belonging...
“Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.” - Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead |
Belonging II...
I awoke this morning in the gold light turning this way and that thinking for a moment it was one day like any other. But the veil had gone from my darkened heart and I thought it must have been the quiet candlelight that filled my room, it must have been the first easy rhythm with which I breathed myself to sleep, it must have been the prayer I said speaking to the otherness of the night. And I thought this is the good day you could meet your love, this is the black day someone close to you could die. This is the day you realize how easily the thread is broken between this world and the next and I found myself sitting up in the quiet pathway of light, the tawny close grained cedar burning round me like fire and all the angels of this housely heaven ascending through the first roof of light the sun has made. This is the bright home in which I live, this is where I ask my friends to come, this is where I want to love all the things it has taken me so long to learn to love. This is the temple of my adult aloneness and I belong to that aloneness as I belong to my life. There is no house like the house of belonging. - David Whyte |
Approach...
"When we approach with reverence, great things decide to approach us. Our real life comes to the surface and its light awakens the concealed beauty in things. When we walk on the earth with reverence, beauty will decide to trust us. The rushed heart and arrogant mind lack the gentleness and patience to enter that embrace.” - John O'Donohue, Beauty: The Invisible Embrace |
Widlfire...
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After a while...
After a while you learn the subtle difference between holding a hand and chaining a soul and you learn that love doesn’t mean leaning and company doesn’t always mean security. And you begin to learn that kisses aren’t contracts and presents aren’t promises and you begin to accept your defeats with your head up and your eyes ahead with the grace of woman, not the grief of a child and you learn to build all your roads on today because tomorrow’s ground is too uncertain for plans and futures have a way of falling down in mid-flight. After a while you learn that even sunshine burns if you get too much so you plant your own garden and decorate your own soul instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. And you learn that you really can endure you really are strong you really do have worth and you learn and you learn with every goodbye, you learn… - Veronica A. Shoffstall |
Wholistic...
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Secret Heart...
"My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
I feel as though I have lived many lives, experienced the heights and depths of each and like the waves of the ocean, never known rest. Throughout the years, I have looked always for the unusual, for the wonderful, for the mysteries at the heart of life. Leni Riefenstahl
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We were lowered into this bondage of vanity, NOT willingly. We didn't want to lay down our lives and die for You. And what was once said was no greater love? So, we agreed to lay our life down here, as a means to return to You, and the place we were before, with the experience of what that means.- My Rabbi
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A single heart...
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Restless...
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See...
"Once you are able to look at another being and see no difference at all, there is no need for harmony. For here there is only Oneness. This is the place the story began. And this is the end toward which all consciousness strives to return … for in truth, there is only One of us here." - Buddha |
Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one’s side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed itself in seeming prose, until some sudden shaft of illumination flung athwart its pages betrayed the rhythm and the music, perhaps… perhaps…love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath. Lucy Maud Montgomery
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scalded cat fears cold water
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Words...
Tender words we spoke to one another are sealed in the secret vaults of heaven. One day like rain, they will fall to earth and grow green all over the world. - Rumi |
Love...
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Questions...
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Listen...
"Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person. You can call it compassionate listening. You listen with only one purpose: to help him or her to empty his heart." - Thich Nhat Hanh |
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