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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 |
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