"bliss"

"bliss"
 nature’s kiss
silent white
a flight into fantasy...
erratic
erotic
unpredictable

calm
within
breath

stimulating
without
exertion

frozen toes
piercing cold
sweltering inside

let
burn control
put
sound on hold

silent white
whispers

though the night
calls
for answers
pronounce a pause

slide into fantasy
exotic
hypnotic
unpredictable

lukewarm
won’t do
stir the ash
ignite the ember
fuel the fire
pour something cool
sipping ever
………………ever
so slow
leave the light low

silent white
………………… bliss

~Gwynneth Green~

Our children

"Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts,...
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.”

~ Khalil Gibran

Love thoughts

When we learn to stop...and be truly alive in the present moment - we are in touch with what's going on within and around us. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

My wish for you is that you are held, witnessed and appreciated for all that you are in a way that heals all the times that you weren't. May you be totally seen..., heard, and cherished. May you be so adored, that all your hurt and longing is forever washed away in a flood of endless love, flowing over from deep within your heart. And may you find a way to truly make the best of every experience, in the spirit of continuously improving the quality of your life, and the quality of the people in it. May you choose to only go up from here. ~ Thierry Maurel

Love
Embracing Tao, you become embraced.
Supple, breathing gently, you become reborn.
Clearing your vision, you become clear.
Nurturing your beloved, you become impartial.
Opening your heart, you become accepted....
Accepting the World, you embrace Tao.
Bearing and nurturing,
Creating but not owning,
Giving without demanding,
This is Love.
~ Lao Tzu 

Circles

"May we rediscover the power of circles, of sitting in council to listen and learn; the power of trusting the wisdom that emerges from the voices that are quietest, least valued or that we least expect to learn from. May we recall the power of listening patiently for the intelligence of the whole to emerge, without rushing toward conclusions.

May we risk that first step of standing on behalf of what we most love and value— knowing that the first step is the hardest, and trus...ting that once we take it we will be met tenfold.

May we practice growing ourselves, cultivating our capacities to connect and curbing our habituated tendencies toward comparison, hierarchy and isolation. May we be willing to feel the depths of our despair so that we may dream ourselves into the possibility of soaring together. May we be informed by our wounds but not defined by them.

May we remember the power of empathy and practice seeing the world through others' eyes. In this great interdependent web may we remind ourselves that whatever befalls others happens to us.

May art remind us that it can reveal and awaken new possibilities as we look to our artists to reveal pathways forward.

May we recall, celebrate and invoke our belonging to our one and only home.

May we make this migration together, finding our ways through obstacles, habits and fears. Guided by the beauty, love and truth that surround us. May we liberate the pathways, for them and for us. May we remember to reach out for each others' hands, to ask for the guidance of those who came before us, to listen for the guidance of those who walk, swim, fly and crawl among us.

Amen, Awomen, Aho and Ashe."

by Nina Simons, of Bioneers

 

Perspective

Life would be boring if we were not challenged every now and again. Setbacks occur to be overcome. Mistakes happen so that you can learn from them. But at the moment when you have to deal with something, it is not always easy to stay positive. Even though you know that there is a lesson to be learnt, you prefer not to hear it. It’s ok to be fed up, but be careful that you are not unnecessarily hard on yourself. If you hang a...round in this misery you pull yourself down and make the situation worse. What really helps is to look at the problem from a different angle. Bring the scales back in balance. Change your perspective by paying attention to things that are going well. Then you will see that everything actually is all right. The way in which you look at reality affects how your life goes. What you experience is a fact; how you experience it is your choice. The frequency of Perspective helps you to re-direct set backs by looking at things differently.

~ Janosh Art

Happy New Year

“Respond to every call that excites your spirit.”

~ Rumi ~

 

A kind heart

For those that feel that being kind hearted to people got you nothing but rejection and hurt, do not let that change the person that you are. If you are a thoughtful person who does nice things, don’t stop just because these people failed to see the goodness inside you.  It’s their reaction or lack of response that is the problem, not yours. Don’t change yourself. They need to change. They need to work on themselves. Keep being the wonderful kind you. ~Brigitte Nicole

Letting go

Food for Thought

It's not what you look at that matters; it's what you see.
Henry David Thoreau

The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply. Khalil Gibran

The truth is, every moment of life is special, and you can be completely open to life most of the time. You have to see the truth to see true life.
 
“Know thy self,” as Socrates said.  

All perspectives are unique.

We do not see things the way they are; we see things the way we are.

You cannot control life, but you can control the way you see life.

Perception and perspective determine how clearly and truly you see life and how fulfilling or unfulfilled life is for you.

Fulfilled: It is the way we feel when our minds are completely open to life; we become “filled” with life. Being filled with life makes you feel the way you want to feel all the time. Fulfillment is true happiness.  


The truth: You now know “the truth” part of the truth and life. There are only five fundamental things you need to know, and they are the following:

1. Our true history.
2. You are immortal.
3. Everything will balance.
4. You are a spiritual being.
5. The present is everything.


As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
Henry David Thoreau

See things like you are seeing them for the first time.

True religion is real living.
Albert Einstein

Behind your thoughts and feelings, my brother, there stands a mighty ruler. An unknown sage - whose name is self. In your body he dwells. There is more reason in your body than in your best wisdom. Friedrich Nietzsche

We need an age of the spirit now. Our spirit must be seen as the more important part of us. Spirit is the real part, the eternal part, what we have always been and always will be; the real us.

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
Henry David Thoreau

the goal of your life is to be more aware of it. How can that not be the most important and most worthwhile thing to do?
 

True happiness is… to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future. Lucius Annaeus Seneca


You should devote your life to life, because life is the only thing that exists.


Every moment in the present is perfect and complete in and of itself.


Getting into life completely should be the obvious goal,

All you need is love, but not carnal love; you need love of the truth and life.

There is no time but the present.


My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists. Nikola Tesla

The good life is living true life, and that is the simple and absolute truth.

Wherever you look, there is something to see.
The Talmud


Divine awareness, divine love, is mostly just your total attention to life and everything and everyone in it.


Love is just knowing the truth, and being in the present. It is that simple.

Yesterday, we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today, we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
Khalil Gibran

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler. Solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness, weakness. Henry David Thoreau

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with the old nonsense. Ralph Waldo Emerson     

            

I come to her

I come to her,she that weeps-her stories,spill on me,like tears-woman to woman,we send them up-like crystal stars,unto the sky ofour hearts.
I listen t...o her,hold her ache,as mine-in my heart,
I hold her hand-gently,as she silently-comes to her resolve,
I come with her,to the edge of,her deciding.
I laugh with her,I hold her song-as it rises with mine,my voice swells as
I –sing with her.we dance-to the melody of,our lives-mingled to the music-of our souls.woman to woman,heart to heart-weaving our lives,together-giving voice,to our power-through her breaking away,
I sit with her-in her still waiting,
I will hold her-in the arms of comforting grace.
By Maureen Kwiat

Christmas past