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Mindfulness of oneself cultivates wisdom.
Mindfulness of others cultivates compassion. Stonepeace |
"I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable."-- Joseph Addison |
"Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours. Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious."-- Phillips Brooks |
"Patience is the art of caring slowly."-- John Ciardi |
Truth is rarely writ in ink; it lives in nature. ~Martin H. Fischer . |
A woman in love can't be reasonable,
or she probably wouldn't be in love. ~Mae West |
MOMENTS
Strung together like your pearl neckless, touched by sunlight,
reflecting the light in your eyes as you gaze upon me, melting my hard shell into a pool, that holds the moonlight, inviting divinity in and demanding our attention 10' :glasses: |
"Smile, breathe, and go slowly." Thich Nhat Hanh "To sit in shade on a fine day, & look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment." Jane Austen "Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are." Chinese Proverb |
Ignorance is bliss.
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Swans~ Sarah Teasdale
Night is over the park, and a few brave stars
Look on the lights that link it with chains of gold, The lake bears up their reflection in broken bars That seem too heavy for tremulous water to hold. We watch the swans that sleep in a shadowy place, And now and again one wakes and uplifts its head; How still you are- your gaze is on my face- We watch the swans and never a word is said |
". . . it is not enough to believe what you see. you must also understand what you see . . ."
-- leonardo da vinci |
Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood.
- Erica Jong |
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
- Erica Jong |
Clip Clop Clack ~ ani
a girl with the sun of her youth at her back and the shadow of her womanhood before her on the stones is approaching with a delicate clip clop clack her sandals full of toes that i suppose are headed home :blueheels: it's early in the evening and up and down the river people begin to gather pearls of laughter on a strand :blueheels: i thought solitude would save me it was pious it was grand :blueheels: but the monk that walked beside me just let go of my hand |
"I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't."
— Marilyn Monroe |
For Ravfem...happy belated, girl!
32 Flavors ~ ani
squint your eyes and look closer i'm not between you and your ambition i am a poster girl with no poster i am thirty-two flavors and then some and i'm beyond your peripheral vision so you might wanna turn your head cuz some day you are going to get hungry and eat most of the words you just said both my parents taught me about goodwill and i have done well by their names just the kindness i've lavished on strangers is more than i can explain still there's many who've turned out their porch lights just so i would think they were not home and hid in the dark of their windows 'til i passed and left them alone and god help you if you are an ugly girl course too pretty is also your doom cuz everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room god help you if you are a phoenix and you dare to rise up from the ash a thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy while you are just flying past i never tried to give my life meaning by demeaning you and i would like to state for the record i did everything that i could do i'm not saying that i am a saint i just don't wanna live that way no i will never be a saint but i will always say squint your eyes and look closer i'm not betwen you and your ambition i am a poster girl with no poster i am thirty-two flavors and then some and i'm beyond your peripheral vision so you might wanna turn your head cuz some day you might find you are starving and eating all of the words that you said |
Time is the fire in which we burn. ~ Delmore Schwartz
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"If given the choice, choose what makes your life larger rather than smaller."
~Clarissa Pinkola Estés |
Then you should have died! Died, rather than betray your friend, as she would have done for you!
~Diane Kathleen Rowland |
Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
~Arthur Miller |
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me. ~ Pastor Martin Niemoller |
"When I dare to be powerful--- to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid." ~Audre Lorde (Feb.18, 1934 - Nov. 17, 1992) |
"Because we're a marginalized group, we end up having an external perspective on society. It gives us some freedom, some levity to rise above the basic mode of thought and contemplate outside of the system." ~ Alix Olson
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He who understands you is greater kin to you than your own brother. For even your own kindred neither understand you nor know your true worth.
Khalil Gibran ~ |
Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.
~From a headstone in Ireland |
Chemicals, n: Noxious substances from which modern foods are made.
~Author Unknown |
"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye."
- Miss Piggy |
“If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything.” - Win Borden |
“In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.” - Author Unknown |
“One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.” - Author Unknown |
"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me eight times, I must be a f--king idiot." ~ Jon Stewart :)
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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.
- Anais Nin |
A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all pains, the greatest pain it is to love, but love in vain.
- Abraham Cowley |
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief. . . and unspeakable love.
- Washington Irving |
"Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire." - Bern Williams
"Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil" -unknown |
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
~Sigmund Freud . |
The harder you fight to hold on to specific assumptions, the more likely there's gold in letting go of them.
John Seely Brown |
It is easier to disintegrate an atom than a prejudice
~Ricky Martin |
Live simply so others can simply live. :praying: |
“Be sincere, be brief, be seated."
Franklin D. Roosevelt |
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