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A person can live for about forty days without food, and about three days without water, about eight minutes without air ... but only for one second without hope. - Hal Lindsey
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unskillfulness
in an email from a friend that stuck in my mind...
"One of Thich Nhat Hanh's stories I read this summer was about a beautiful white moth that came into the circle of children he was leading. While the group was admiring it, one boy went and stomped it into the ground. Thich Nhat Hahn's response was to offer a prayer that began, "Dear white moth, please forgive us for not recognizing your beauty, your gift to us, your sacrifice to our ignorance, our violence, and our unskillfulness..." It was the word "unskillfullness" that struck me. In considering our three lifelines, "Opening to life's gifts" seems on the surface the easist of practices, but I think as a parent, the most challenging skill of all. In the midst of the chaos and everyday stuff of family life, to be able to hold off any urge to crush, miss, or allow other forces to take an experience of beauty and grace- now that is a challenge we need each other for!" |
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
~Albert Camus |
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
~George Eliot |
Beautiful people do not just happen…
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern… Beautiful people do not just happen…~Elizabeth Kubler Ross |
“Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold, but so does a hard-boiled egg.” -unknown
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"Contempt is a weapon of the weak."
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“Every day give yourself a good mental shampoo." - Dr. Sara Murray Jordan
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Everything except writing poems and making love ends up by finally boring me ~ Irving Layton
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"May the blessings of each day be the blessings we need the most."
- Paulo Coelho |
when I'm down to nothing, you can bet the universe is up to something.
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This was sent to me recently and I can't tell you how closely I am able to relate what's going on in my life right now with these written words. I printed it out and hung it on the fridge as a daily reminder. :)
She let go. Without a thought or a word, she let go. She let go of the fear. She let go of the judgments. She let go of the confluence of opinions swarming around her head. She let go of the committee of indecision within her. She let go of all the 'right' reasons. Wholly and completely, without hesitation or worry, she just let go. She didn't ask anyone for advice. She didn't read a book on how to let go... She didn't search the scriptures. She just let go. She let go of all of the memories that held her back. She let go of all of the anxiety that kept her from moving forward. She let go of the planning and all of the calculations about how to do it just right. She didn't promise to let go. She didn't journal about it. She didn't write the projected date in her Day-Timer. She made no public announcement and put no ad in the paper. She didn't check the weather report or read her daily horoscope. She just let go. She didn't analyze whether she should let go. She didn't call her friends to discuss the matter. She didn't do a five-step Spiritual Mind Treatment. She didn't call the prayer line. She didn't utter one word. She just let go. No one was around when it happened. There was no applause or congratulations. No one thanked her or praised her. No one noticed a thing. Like a leaf falling from a tree, she just let go. There was no effort. There was no struggle. It wasn't good and it wasn't bad. It was what it was, and it is just that. In the space of letting go, she let it all be. And a small smile came over her face. |
"You know "that look" women get when they want sex? "Me neither".
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Consistent effort no matter how small, sparks magic, fills sails, butters bread, turns tides, instills faith, summons friends, improves health, burns calories, creates abundance, yields clarity, builds courage, spins planets, and rewrites destinies.
No matter how small, The Universe |
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“The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt |
Another mindless ramble that leaked out when the term 'Only the Shadow knows' was brought up :deepthoughts: "Shadows are like your immediate history, as reviewed in your moments of hindsight should your movements halt. The thing to remember is, those moments are afforded only when you have reach a plateau. Stay there too long, and your Shadow stagnates along with your history. Your Shadow awaits you..." ~ DW ~ :vampirebat: :daywalker: |
today's fave
"Take it or leave it'
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Warren Buffett, in a recent interview with CNBC, offers one of the ... best quotes about the debt ceiling: "I could end the deficit in 5 minutes," he told CNBC. "You just ... pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election". The 26th amendment (granting the right to vote for 18 year-olds) took only 3 months & 8 days to be ratified! Why? Simple! The people demanded it. That was in 1971 - before computers, e-mail, cell phones, etc. Of the 27 amendments to the Constitution, seven (7) took one (1) year or less to become the law of the land - all because of public pressure. Warren Buffet is asking each addressee to forward this email to a minimum of twenty people on their address list; in turn ask each of those to do likewise. In three days, most people in The United States of America will have the message. This is one idea that really should be passed around. _*Congressional Reform Act of 2011*_ 1. No Tenure / No Pension. A Congressman/woman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they're out of office. 2. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security. All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the American people. It may not be used for any other purpose. 3. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do. 4. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%. 5. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people. 6. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people. 7. All contracts with past and present Congressmen/women are void effective 1/1/12. The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen/women. Congressmen/women made all these contracts for themselves. Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, so ours should serve their term(s), then go home and back to work. If each person contacts a minimum of twenty people then it will only take three days for most people (in the U.S.) to receive the message. Don't you think it's time? THIS IS HOW YOU FIX CONGRESS! ~Warren Buffett |
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
T. S. Eliot |
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