These are words to live by. My guess is when I walk this way my footprint is quite small, but impactful.
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Simplicity
Simplicity sometimes is so simple we miss it completely. I see many squirrels on my walks around the campus. They sometimes make a great show of hiding behind trees when I walk to close. More often, they stay out in the open, continue to attend to their work, and keep a close eye on me. It is one of the simple things I can enjoy that sometimes flies under the radar when I am not paying attention.
Life, Love and Happiness are all so very simple.
Their simplicity is the only thing that makes them genuine and real.
Enjoy them as they are, when they come.
Be grateful for the blessings that you have.
Be aware that YOU are the Love and YOU are the Happiness and this will make you feel alive too.
Be blessed and don’t forget to smile. 🙂
Ela
Photo: memyselfandela, 2014
The eyes are useless, when the heart is blind.
I recently found this blog. I am not sure why I missed it for so long, because it is well followed. The messages are simple and to the point like this one about opening our hearts which allows our eyes to see differently. The message is profound and similar to Proust’s quote about seeing with new eyes as we find new shores.
Today you are you, that is truer than true…
Dr. Seuss had a way with words that just make sense. I only recently came across a biography that suggested a purpose behind his writing was to help children be more socially just. It seems there is a message in there for adults.
Rumi About Today
Rumi is one of my favourite writers. His words resonate through the centuries and offer thoughtful insight and inspiration in the 21st Century. When we open our sails and catch the wind, life is much simpler and rewarding.
I Hope…
We need a spirituality that binds all humans together with their universe. Religion comes from the Latin ligio which means to bind together. In this sense, a new spirituality would bind us together and accept the differences that are so exquisitely revealed.
SILENT MUSIC
I spent a weekend a couple of years ago at a weekend retreat. There was some talking allowed, but it was generally not much more than a whisper. At the end I was surprised to hear my voice and how loud it sounded to me at that moment. The silence of the weekend showed me, as Simon suggests here, that stillness is a space where our soul opens up. That message is central to the writing of Parker Palmer and Thomas Merton. It seems at odds with the busyness and cacophony of our early 21st Century. Each morning I spend time in our small chapel meditating. It began with a struggle to achieve 30 minutes. Now, I walk out and realize I was there closer to an hour most days. Silence is an exquisite space to begin my day.
a success unexpected in common hours…
Thoreau had it right. We need to keep moving towards what we think makes a better world and a better life. Those two things are not mutually exclusive, but require a meditative stance the busyness of the world does not always allow. So, we must seize it even when the busyness is oppressive.
The List – a poem for World Book Day
I enjoy Naomi Shihab Nye’s poetry. Similar to Mary Oliver she finds ways to bring to light things we often overlook and how we calculate the path we want to follow. This stands against a mindful, meditative stance that allows us to just be present to what our life is.
The List
By Naomi Shihab Nye
By Naomi Shihab Nye
A man told me he had calculated
the exact number of books
he would be able to read before he died
by figuring the average number
of books he read per month
and his probable earth span,
(averaging how long
his dad and grandpa had lived,
adding on a few years since he
exercised more than they did).
Then he made a list of necessary books,
nonfiction mostly, history, philosophy,
fiction, and poetry from different time periods
so there wouldn’t be large gaps in his mind.
He had given up frivolous reading entirely.
There are only so many days.
Oh, I felt sad to hear such an organized plan.
What about the books that aren’t written yet,
the books his friends might recommend
that aren’t on the list,
the yummy magazine that might fall
into his hand at a silly moment after all?
What…
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Choosing A Bad Attitude
This is great advice with a humourous picture that one can smile with.
I came across this picture and quote and could not resist posting it. It is amazing what we can or cannot accomplish just because of the attitude that we choose.
Do not lose one moment or one opportunity because you have chosen the wrong attitude…. We only have one life to live and no matter how long you are here it is too short!!!
ivonprefontaine
Teacher as Transformer 