The impermanence of life.... so love like a hurricane
The impermanence of life is all too bittersweet. We hoard our sorrows; we stifle our tears of pain; and we are stingy with our unfiltered love. Why? Because love is a powerful liability. It's strong enough to make you feel a bevy of possibilities. It can give you confidence, it can make you feel beautiful. When love's lost it can be debilitating, it can destroy you. So why be stingy with love? Why not open your heart to TRUE love? With true love there are no strings or expectations of reciprocation. True love knows no ulterior motives except to simply be love. Before the seasons change and the leaves of this existence flitter away,
Love BIG,
Love RESPONSIBLY,
Love like a HURRICANE!!!
~Wild Thing from rachelanna_yoga
Expressing gratitude
Practicing gratitude will help us more fully appreciate what has been offered us. Being grateful influences our attitude; it softens our harsh exterior and takes the threat out of most new situations.
~unattributed
~*~
Expressing gratitude ignites the light within us and is a sure path to joy. Gratitude is one of the highest vibrations of energy we can create, it's free, and anyone can give it. It can be as simple as being thankful for soup, being thankful one can see, walk, wiggle a finger, or tap to a beat. One can be grateful for happy children, good neighbors, good luck, and simply being alive. . . . Part of the journey toward joy involves not waiting around for trouble, but being continuously aware of our blessings.
~Charlotte Davis Kasl
Always try to serve others
Always try to serve others.
Don't even call it helping,
call it service
because you are benefited by that.
If someone begs from you
and you give them something,
you shouldn't think you are helping them.
Instead, he or she is helping you.
~Satchidananda
Doing nothing for others is the undoing of oneself .....
Doing nothing for others
is the undoing of one’s self.
We must be purposely kind and generous,
or we miss the best part of existence.
The heart that goes out of itself,
gets large and full of joy.
This is the great secret of the inner life.
We do ourselves the most good
doing something for others.
~Horace Mann
Wisdom about anger and hate - let it flow and not stagnate
“Anger is like flowing water;
there's nothing wrong with it
as long as you let it flow.
Hate is like stagnant water;
anger that you denied yourself the freedom to feel,
the freedom to flow;
water that you gathered in one place
and left to forget.
Stagnant water becomes dirty, stinky,
disease-ridden, poisonous, deadly;
that is your hate.
On flowing water travels little paper boats;
paper boats of forgiveness.
Allow yourself to feel anger,
allow your waters to flow,
along with all the paper boats of forgiveness.
Be human.”
~C. JoyBell C.
Before you speak to me about your religion, first show it to me how you treat others
Before you speak to me about your religion,
first show it to me in how you treat other people;
before you tell me how much you love your God,
show me in how much you love all His children;
before you preach to me of your passion for your faith,
teach me about it through your compassion for your neighbors.
In the end,
I’m not as interested in what you have to tell or sell
as in how you choose to live and give.
~Cory Booker
Wisdom of being yourself and the beauty of being you
Close your eyes
and imagine
the best version of you possible.
That’s who you really are,
let go of any part of you
that doesn’t believe it
~C. Assaad
~*~
The sign of a beautiful person
is he always sees the beauty in others.
~Omar Suleiman
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Your vibe is contagious.
Make sure that’s a good thing.
~Mod Sun
I do not care if you are male or female, old, fat or thin... am only interested in your heart
I do not care at all
if you are male or female,
young or old, fat or thin, tall or short.
I do not care what you call yourself
or how you dress.
I do not care what language you speak
or what you make important in your life.
I am interested only in your heart,
in your love, in your compassion.
It is here, in this place
that we are truly the same
and share the beauty of our awakening.
~Michael Kewley
Time is not measured by the years that you live.....
Time is not measured by the years that you live
But by the deeds you do and the joy that you give--
And each day as it comes brings a chance to each one
To love to the fullest, leaving nothing undone
That would brighten the life or lighten the load
Of some weary traveler lost on Life's Road--
So what does it matter how long we may live
If as long as we live we unselfishly give.
~Helen Steiner Rice
The tree which needs two arms to span its girth sprang from the tiniest shoot....
The tree which needs two arms
to span its girth sprang from the tiniest shoot.
Yon tower, nine stories high, rose from a little mound of earth.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
~Lao-tzu
Your light is always present and willing to guide you if you allow it.....
Your light is always present, and willing to guide you if you allow it. No matter what circumstance you are living, no matter what you have done, or have lacked to do, you are a being of light, you are the essence of love, and within you shines brightly the spark of life, and passion to become.
~The Divinity Within
Give space to life, give time to sprout your potential .....
“Give space to life.
Give time to sprout your potential –
the potential to awaken the beauty in you.
Awaken the beauty of your heart –
the beauty of your spirit.
There are infinite possibilities.”
~Amit Ray
(Nonviolence: The Transforming Power)
There is no need for us all to be alike, neither do we a need a common enemy to force us .....
“There is no need for us all to be alike and think the same way, neither do we need a common enemy to force us to come together and reach out to each other. If we allow ourselves and everyone else the freedom to fully individuate as spiritual beings in human form, there will be no need for us to be forced by worldly circumstances to take hands and stand together. Our souls will automatically want to flock together, like moths to the flame of our shared Divinity, yet each with wings covered in the glimmering colors and unique patterns of our individual human expression.”
~Anthon St. Maarten
Wisdom of music - courtesy of AOM
Music
gives a soul to the universe,
wings to the mind,
flight to the imagination
and life to everything.
~Plato
~*~
If a composer
could say what he had to say in words
he would not bother trying to say it in music.
~Gustav Mahler
~*~
Take a music bath
once or twice a week
for a few seasons,
and you will find
that it is to the soul
what the water bath
is to the body.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes
~*~
"Music washes away from the soul
the dust of everyday life."
~Berthold Auerbach
~*~
"Music is the language of the spirit.
It opens the secret of life
bringing peace, abolishing strife.”
~Kahlil Gibran
The path of the spiritual warrior is not soft and sweet...
It is benevolent and it is fiery and it is cuttingly honest in its efforts to liberate itself and humanity from the egoic ties that bind. Shunning strong opinions in the name of spirituality is anti-spiritual. Spirituality that is only floaty soft is a recipe for disaster, allowing all manner of manipulation to run amok. Real spirituality is a quest for truth, in all its forms.
Sometimes we find the truth on the meditation cushion, and sometimes we find it in the heart of conflict. May all spiritual warriors rise into fullness. This planet is lost without them."
- jeff brown,
Castiglione - that which we call art
That which we consider to be art is that which appears not to be art at all
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