art source: anon
“Imagine what would happen if each time we took something, we gave something back.”
Deborah Adele, The Yamas & The Niyamas
An Abiding Calm
“The Buddhists speak of an abiding calm.
A centeredness that is unshakeable.
Like a tall tree so rooted in the earth that the great winds cannot topple it.
This for me is the image of contentment.
It means not riding the waves of the ups and downs of life.
It means that we not only agree to what is in the moment, but we actually welcome it.
It means that in all the noise and demands of modernity, we stay in the abiding calm center.
This is the mastery of life that contentment invites us into.
The practice of gratitude and “non-seeking” can help us stay rooted in this jewel.”
Deborah Adele, from her book The Yamas & The Niyamas
Spontaneous Contemplation-- 2 28 22
John Batiste-- listen to this for a lifted spirit.
Vienna Teng
Rockwell Kent-- Painter, Philosopher
Hope--Have it.
art source: tallahasse.com
Happiness?
“Organizing your life around trying to become happier, making happiness the primary objective of life, gets in the way of actually becoming happy.”
Todd Kashan, Psychology Prof George Mason University
Happiness
“Organizing your life around trying to become happier, making happiness the primary objective of life, gets in the way of actually becoming happy.” Todd Kashan, Psych Prof— George Mason Univ.
Virginia Woolf (Copy)
Maria Popova on Love
Today
Today is the day we have.
Lao Tzu Quotes
“When you accept yourself, the whole world accepts you.”
“Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.”
“Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.”
Days Are Getting Longer!
The seeds you have planted are stretching out, establishing roots, excited to show their blooms. The days are getting longer and eventually, no matter how impossible it may seem in the throes of a frigid day, your blossoms will sprout and reveal your own unique beautiful self.
Embrace her.
Tricia
Thic Nhat Hahn on Personal Storms
James Baldwin, 4am Terror
Love After Life, Derek Walcott
LOVE AFTER LOVE
by Derek Walcott
The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other’s welcome,
and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to yourself, to the stranger who has loved you
all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,
the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.
Dr. Dorothy Martin-Nevile
“We are creating the future no matter our past or perhaps because of it.”
