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Life is Like … riding a bike
Enjoy the re-blog of this light hearted Life is Like … post. When times are tough, the wise get lighter. Life is like riding a bike. If you want to live fully, there are three things to be aware of. (1) You have to steer. (2) You have to pedal (3) You have to keep…
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All we can do
All we can do is to accept where we are. Where we are now is not there, but here. Let go of resisting what has already passed and embrace this moment. All we can do is to create what feels right for beings to thrive, to follow life’s purpose, to grow and be kind especially…
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The Secret Saving Grace
The secret isn’t hidden,esoteric, or opaque.Right here, in all myincompletion; right now,with self doubts nippingat my shins like crazedchihuahuas, I can drawa breath and let love in.The simple act of breathingchanges everything.I shift from closedto open the momentI let breath connectme with my quiet depths.The fact that love isfreely available,just waiting to flow in, is…
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Don’t Struggle Against Your Feelings
Inspiring words for those experiencing some stormy waves right now. “Just as the depth and stillness of the ocean lie hidden beneath the stormy waves on its surface, so the power of your essential nature lies concealed behind all of your turbulent feelings. Struggling against your feelings only keeps you tossing around on the stormy…
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Dealing with Stress and my Inner Teenager
This is a re-blog of a post that was powerful for me to work through. As we continue through these difficult times, more and more stress and distress will impact us all. May we all find our middle ground in the waves of life. On Tuesday I had a stressful day. A dip in the…
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Nature’s Way of Beeing
We discovered last weekend that the second of our three bee colonies had died out. When the queen bee either leaves the hive or dies, the colony will collapse, unless there is a new queen ready to be hatched. Alas, with winter approaching there is no new bee making, and so the colony runs its…
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The Natural Life
“The natural life is not A life without warts.” ~ Wu Hsin Translated by Roy Melvyn from “The Lost Writing of Wu Hsin” These words brought a smile today. Ah yes, we may want life to be flowing and “natural”, yet we tend not to accept the very nature of it. Warts happen. Embrace the…
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* Inspiration – Like a Giant Tree
“Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and sorrow come and go like the wind. To be happy, rest like a giant tree in the midst of them all.” ~ The Buddha Let the winds of change move through your branches. After all, that is what this season is about. Namaste
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* The Obstacle is the Path
I wrote this some time ago when my husband was diagnosed with cancer. I didn’t publish it at the time, because of the uncertainty and tumultuous emotions that came up for us both. The treatments are over now and life is beginning to get back to normal. We are grateful. When I read this post…
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* Inspiration – change and clouds
“It is the nature of the world of form that nothing stays fixed for very long – and so it starts to fall apart again. Forms dissolve; new forms arise. Watch the clouds. They will teach you about the world of form.” Eckhart Tolle Whether your world is falling apart or bursting open .. or…
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* Paradox
Fear and love seldom stand, shoulder to shoulder; Its rare to laugh and lie in the same breath. But strength and weakness, failure and success, faith and desolation – they are different ends of a single stick. To pick one up is to receive both poles – stark contrasts contribute to a knowledge of the…
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* Change What You Can …
We all face difficult situations and emotions that make it hard to come to a decision about some of them. Our analytical brain goes into overdrive and we seem to go round in circles! I’ve written about finding our middle ground, calming our mind, letting go and dealing with incessant thinking. I have taken…
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* Your Breath is How you Live your Life
Do you know how are you breathing right now? Take a moment and simply notice your breath. Perhaps place your hand on your navel and the other above your heart. Notice the movement as you inhale and exhale. We breathe in and we breathe out. And for the most part we take it completely for…
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* Dealing with Stress and my Inner Teenager
On Tuesday I had a stressful day. A dip in the highs and lows of life day. It wasn’t surprising. I had some concerning news that took the wind out of my sails, and I developed a pressure cooker of a sinus headache. I was in a trough. I know how my mind and body…
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* Off the Path
In the pendulum of life … when we find ourselves off our path Remember every moment is an opportunity to re-commit Don’t let your thinking get you down and disconnect you from what matters most Remember you are not your thinking and the past is over Let go of the thoughts and come into the…
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* Inspiration – Your Season
I have been a follower of Ihsan’s poetry over at iithinks.wordpress.com and was delighted to buy and download his first book of poetry called Finally Back Home. While he is on vacation I wanted to share a haiku from the book, which really resonated with me and touched my heart and soul. In the highs and…
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