Friends left for new life!

I have fond memories of you
my friend you made me laugh
remember our walks of hope
taking an hour or two

you were like a breeze that entered the room
a room that was dull ~

suddenly, filled with life and light

stunningly beautiful

a spiritual rose unfolding under the sun

and then one day

a knock!

at the door of your soul
crucified by cancer
your body became frail and torn
as if you had been within a raging storm

you were strong you fought it all the way

alone

you cried

you knew you could not run or hide

I saw you a few days before
a tear in your eye
like a

pearl, we treasure in our minds and heart



"I came like water. and like the Wind I go." by omar khayyam


Thank you Jacquie for being my friend
I miss you.

Thoughts

There is a sacred place where one often goes
the air is hushed and silence flows

and out of the blue you fall within
as if you were a floating silver pin

it is here one connects with the Whole
a resting place for ones roaming soul

seek just a moment, away from your confusions
bring to a halt your thoughts that are intrusions

gently like the sun going down free your mind
focus on love and listen, be still and find

The Divine within you

Quotes:

"When your sense of self is no longer tied to thought, is no longer conceptual, there is a depth of feeling, of sensing, of compassion, of loving, that was not there when you were trapped in mental concepts. You are that depth."- Eckhart Tolle

"As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the 'atomic age' - as in being able to remake ourselves."- Gandhi

"If you could get rid of yourself just once, the secret of secrets would open to you. The face of the unknown, hidden beyond the universe would appear on the mirror of your perception."- Rumi

"When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others."- Peace Pilgrim

Acceptance of others, their looks, their behaviors, their beliefs, bring you an inner peace and tranquillity -- instead of anger and resentment."- Unknown

ponderings

We discover what
works

by finding
out

what doesn't
work

those who
never

made a
mistke,

never made a
discovery

Samuel
Smiles

Failure is
success

we learn from
it

Malcolm
Forbes

Have a wonderful weekend to all!

Trying to get back to some kind of normality here ...

Great weekend to you all. Excuse my lack of posting and commenting.

see you all soon :o)

Thank you everyone.

Little one has made great improvements I am pleased to say.

Thank you all. Those far and near.

Lovely weekend Everyone!

For those that was interested in the work below ... it came from an original photograph that I took last weekend ... and then turned it to a pen & ink drawing ... and a one colour shot.

Have a wonderful weekend ... Bank Holiday Weekend!

Pondering thoughts

To the questions of your life

you are the answer

To the problems of your life

you are the solutions.

by Jo Coudert

“You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never lose.”
santiz
Jo Coudert quote

ooooopa sorry folk!

Sorry folks facing some busy days ... trying to get round.
Everyone have a wonderful day :o)

Hide behind the mask

In those special times
Have I not been like a blade of grass moving and bending gently in the breeze?
In those times when my ego was being bruised I still tried to please
Did I not try to make acceptance for my imperfections
Was I not happy to follow all your directions?
Did I not close my eyes and hold my tongue?
So as not to express any judgement when they were doing me wrong
Did I not try to look the other way with unseen tears in my eyes?
When truly it was only the Spirit that could hear my silent cries
As others laughed and ignored my shadow on the wall
In those times did I not try to walk with my head high and tall?
Did I not try to ignore the whispering of my name a thousand fold?
How alone I felt as if I were standing outside in the cold
Weaving your web to hold me down
I smiled with a mask the frown of a clown
I hid myself beneath the cloak of the night so that you could not see
How I long to be loved and long to set myself free
In my realization my error was to focus on you and your actions
When I should have been more aware of my re-actions
I thank you all for the opportunity that you have given me
As I travel forward on the spiritual life journey.

Beautiful Mind!

The camera of my mind can encapsulate an image in time
This thing we call time, fragmented into years, months, and days
Is nothing more than a temporal clock ticking away in life
Yet, the mind has a memory that holds a life-time of images,
It can invoke the very feeling of happiness or sadness that one may have felt so long ago
This is the wonder of mind.

The God Theory



Quotes:

“I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish He didn't trust me so much.”
Mother Teresa of Calcutta quotes

“Whatever you hold in your mind will tend to occur in your life. If you continue to believe as you have always believed, you will continue to act as you have always acted. If you continue to act as you have always acted, you will continue to get what you have always gotten. If you want different results in your life or your work, all you have to do is change your mind.”
Similar Quotes.


“Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people”
Eleanor Roosevelt quotes


“I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.”
Vincent van Gogh quotes


“I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief”
Gerry Spence quotes

The Rain

Water is H2O, hydrogen two parts, oxygen one, but there is also a third thing, that makes water and nobody knows what that is.
D.H. LAWRENCE (1885-1930), Pansies, 1929




The man that travelled through time

THE LEAPING SALMON

KEEP TRYING YOU WILL SUCCEED!

A pondering thought

If you speak badly

of someone,

don't speak it,

but write it

in the sand

at the water's edge,

near the waves

Anonymous

Life is like a game of snakes and ladders

I have lived my life like a lottery
Tossing the dice on the ocean waves
Within the surge and swell of mockery

How wonderful it is to wake up and not know
Like a game of snakes and ladders
What life will bring you today, its your throw

What would life be if we knew our future?
Without trial and error, nor experiences
Bland, plain, no colour, nor magical conjure

Enjoy life it is a joy.

Have a wonderful weekend everyone.

Quotes

"God’s dice always have a lucky roll

"The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in this vast gambling den where I have spent more than sixty years, dicebox in hand, shaking the dice."- Denis Diderot (1713–1784) (Elements of Physiology, “Conclusion

"The gold-digger in the ravines of the mountains is as much a gambler as his fellow in the saloons of San Francisco. What difference does it make whether you shake dirt or shake dice? If you win, society is the loser."- Henry David Thoreau

"I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world" - Albert Einstein ("Einstein, His Life and Times", Philipp Frank (1947))

"God does not play dice [with the universe" - Albert Einstein (Quoted by Banesh Hoffman in "Albert Einstein")

Focus

lay your focus
in what you value most
in that moment

place your sight
in what you believe in
do it with Love

always try to
do your best
God will do the rest





When walking in the afternoon sun
I came across an audience of flowers
Basking on the hillside
Sitting up in the stalls
The flowers laughed and giggled
As I sneaked by feeling like an intruder
I bowed at those sitting in the front seats
Face blushing from their glares.
Little spirits of nature

Sunset

In my silent stillness I gazed upon the sun setting inside my heart

And I knew that at last I could let this day descend into oblivion

A progression of events of discontent that had torn me apart

That had presented me lifeless and full of sadness

Who dared to attack my very beauty and challenge it to a duel?

Who dared to question the Universal rules of Love

I faced my perpetrators that chewed and gnawed at my emotions

As if they were thieving wolves, feasting on every morsel of my mind

I stood back for sometime and gazed into the recess of my soul

To suddenly become aware that the day was actually a process of learning

And although I had encountered discomforts up till my awareness

My beauty was not marred, nor scathe, but full of gratefulness

I had been given the chance to apply love, and forgivness to my day

And ultimately be at peace to catch the beautiful sun setting inside my heart.

Quotes:

“If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.'”
Ann Landers quotes

“Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom

My favourite

“If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace”
Thomas Paine quotes

“Trouble is a part of your life and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough.”
Similar Quotes

To the Poets

Bit behind with comments ... playing catch up with everything.Thank you everyone for paying a visit ... will get round to everyone gradually in the next few days.hugs to :
a special hug for you.




gautami tripathy
Margie
Polona
Barbara
Janice
Ann
Gel
Kai
Shammu
Liz
Mystic Rose
Angeldust
Floots
Quasar
DonPat
Andrew
Magiceye
.anyone I have missed please forgive me.
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Dusted with Dawns Beauty

The awakening of dawn opens a new chapter
Sleeping ambition comes to its close
The sun rises on the horizon of hope
Life errupts like the spleandor of a volcano
Flowers fill the air with their sweet fragrance;
Opening their petals to be embraced by the sun
Clocks tick madly in the fissures of your mind
Flashes of past problems demanding attention.
Stop in your tracks, do not miss the beauty of now
For NOW waits for no soul to decide its fate
Let your eyes absorb the visions present of passing beauty
Be in the present, presents is a gift from God
Dawning dusts the day with hope, love and beauty




“Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn! Look to this Day! For it is Life, the very Life of Life. In its brief course lie all the Verities and Realities of your Existence. The Bliss of Growth, The Glory of Action, The Splendor of Beauty; For Yesterday is but a Dream, And To-morrow is only a Vision; But To-day well lived makes Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness, And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope. Look well therefore to this Day! Such is the Salutation of the Dawn!”
Kalidasa quotes (Indian sanskrit poet and dramatist, 5th century ad


“The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.”
Jim Rohn quotes (American Speaker and Author

Have a wonderful weekend everyone! :o)

THOUGHTS

thoughts on my mind
pressing the door bell
waiting for an answer

no expectations
no frustrations
no complications

ticking of the clock
the moving hand
another year passes by



Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

Unknown Source
Thinking things has been done through the ages; knowing things remains to be done.

Unknown Source
To know the true reality of yourself, you must be aware not only of your conscious thoughts, but also of your unconscious prejudices, bias and habits.

The dead of midnight is the noon of thought. Author: Anna Letitia Barbauld

Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking. Author: Susan Taylor

I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me. Author: Sara Teasdale

Spring is here and Summer is in the air!

The photographs were taken along the Cleveland Way, Yorkshire, between Runswick Bay and Port Mulgrave. For those that do not reside in the United Kingdom ... Yorkshire is situated on the east coast of the island. There are still many unspoilt areas for people who desire to walk.

I love sitting on the clifftops pondering ... watching cloud formations ... shadows being formed
Have you ever watched how graceful a seagul flies, so elegant.
This area is know for Black Jet (Whitby Jet) You can always find little fragments of it on the beach. Black Jet is used for making Jewelery.
Sit for awhile and gaze out to sea.












Vivaldi's Summer played by Nigel Kennedy.

Happy Easter Everyone!

Just like to say thank you very much everyone for your good wishes. Breaking off for approx 10 days. See you soon.


Quotes on Easter:

The resurrection gives my life meaning and direction and the opportunity to start over no matter what my circumstances. ~Robert Flatt

Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life. ~S.D.

GordonCelestial spirit that doth rollThe heart's sepulchral stone away,Be this our resurrection day,The singing Easter of the soul -O gentle Master of the Wise,Teach us to say: "I will arise."
~Richard Le Gallienne



We live and die; Christ died and lived! ~John Stott

On Easter Day the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer. - Douglas Horton

Easter is not a passport to another world; it is a quality of perception for this one. - W.P. Lemon

Taking a break see you all after Easter.
Hope you all have a wonderful Easter.
hugs to everyone.

Have a wonderful weekend.

Sunset by trinity The Divine expression. Gorgeous isnt it? Captured in the Canaries



Have a wonderful weekend ... full of love and joy and most of all let each moment be a wonder!

I am so, so very honoured when you come here ... but most of all I am most honoured to read such wonderful things that you write and share with all.

You all have the gift of expressing the Divine Spirit in you ... Love you all

Huge hugs for you all.
Trinity.

No Fear!

NO FEAR!















We walk alone along the desolate avenues so blind
Concealed by our flesh, superficial beauty
The ego and the age of time

Beyond that, hidden within the walls we find
A private property resides
Thoughts misconstrued in the complexities of our mind

At times a shadow falls like a veil of doom
Like a wretched prisoner shackled
In the darkness of a unearthly tomb

We wallow, longing to be free of this life
Fears grow like a rapid disease of discomfort
Until we become aware, we then see the light

It is with awareness that we can face our fears
For spiritual strength is beyond all this world
Fears are nothing but past experiences over the years

Were we to let go of our fear
We would feel the safety of Gods hands
And the whispers of His Love we would hear.

Fear is Limiting!

Quotes on Fear:

James Thurber:
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.
Jane Addams:
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win, by fearing to attempt.
Louisa May Alcott:
I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.
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Marcus Aurelius:
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Marianne Williamson: This is my favourite
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Marianne Williamson:
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.This entry continued ...

Marie Curie:
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Marilyn Ferguson:
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.

Sit beneath my bower.

Credit for photograph to Marklea Flickr

Sit beneath my bower

Let the dawn break in my deepest dream night
Lift my vision rise to exhilarating heights
Let me gaze upon the greatest Mystic with starry eyes
That sparkles and dazzles throughout the cosmic skies
The wind will blow with laughter chasing the tail of a breeze
Spiralling round and round the majestic evergreen trees
Gently the branches twist and bend, in love they sway
The brilliance of the sun shines through to lead the way
Sit with me my darling and ponder beneath my bower
Whilst we pass away more of the non physical hour
Let me cradle you within the warmth of my soul
We are Sacred fragments of the eternal Divine whole
Mystic you have placed me in this enchanted warm trance.
Take my hand to commence our long perpetual love dance
Join me in the beauty of my dream for it is alive.

For it is you my beloved that has given me strength to survive.

dedicated to Master S.

Below artwork of The Mystic Rose by http://www.damselflymoon.org/

my own drawing interpretation of The Mystic

Quotes on Mystics

Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.

“An enchanted world is one that speaks to the soul, to the mysterious depths of the heart and imagination where we find value, love, and union with the world around us. As mystics of many religions have taught, that sense of rapturous union can give a”
Thomas More quotes

“I have sought love because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven the saints and poets have imagined”
Bertrand Russell quotes

Street Children of Calcutta

The children of Calcutta, 50,000 of them on the street

Wandering hopelessly hungry, half naked in bare feet

Born of poor families, runaway from home

To escape emotional abuse ... to be free to be alone

They have been beaten and tortured, abused and bruised

Forced to live a life of uncertainty, misused and confused

Like sheep in a field of waste and grime

Tarnished and stained, many live a life of crime

Hoping for a vital spark, a new breath of life

Instead of washing souls in the gutters of strife

What is the purpose of our Being when we allow this to take place

Is this what we present ourselves as the loving human race

Allow the Love of God in you to expand and arise

Listen to the weepin of their hearts, remove the tears from their eyes.

Be a Sentient Being.

Quotes on Gratitude

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude --Friedrich Nietzsche

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls --Aesop

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it --Richard Bach

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some. --Charles Dickens

Pondering

The u.tube is worth a watch ... it is a animation on Fear. :o)

F= False
E= Evidence
A= Appearing
R= Real

credits to worldwide enlightenment

A little something to ponder on.

Quotes

Anne Frank:
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.

Bonaro W. Overstreet:
Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves, to like themselves.

Don Miguel Ruiz:
Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive -- the risk to be alive and express what we really are.

Dorothy Thompson:
Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.
Dorothy Thompson:
The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness.
Dorothy Thompson:
There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings.

May you all have a wonderful weekend. Hugs for everyone. :o)

In Search

The lady journeyed from afar
In search for the Truths reservoir
The Mystic came with rose in hand
Like a cloak of love as destiny planned
He took the lady’s hand and led her ashore
The quest of love and life he did restore
He gave her pearls from the depths of the ocean
Flames of love within her heart was set in motion
As they made love in the celestial sky
And eternity unhurriedly passed them by
The moon shone a grace of ice cold light
As the stars sparkled in the velvet of the night
Tears that glistened in her eyes he did gently wipe away
Their love grew with each conceived light of the dawning day
The lady and the Mystic live their life by the beauty of ancient laws
Intoxicated by the dance of love they Spiral through Heavens doors
Hand in hand their star merges into eternity.

A pondering Sufi message on yesterdays post

Pondering

Sufi Message

Rather than wanting to master others, therefore, let us start by working on ourselves. Let us stop wondering what others could do for us, but rather ask ourselves what we could do for others. What could we really do for others? This question is already answered when we realize that the first effort to be made is to vanquish our own shortcomings, doubts, fears and worries, and to put into practice the basic principles of love, harmony and beauty, accommodating these to all circumstances.

Beggar or Prince?

Beggar or Prince?

I walk the littered and unswept streets of home

Every step I take in my silence amidst the drone

A face of joy, a face of weeping sorrow

Where will the bread come from the morrow?

The beggar free from attachments and worldly ways

Freedom is his whole life a lonely soul that strays

Amongst the men of rich and opulent suits

Adorned with garbage, money their tasteless fruits

The drunk intoxicated lost days of illusions

Sailing on a sea of empty bottles with no conclusions

The man with a drug filled syringe shooting highs

Whilst his inner soul glances, weeps and cries

He is a lost and lonely soul that roams the land

Reaching out for the highest spiritual helping hand

Not really knowing what is within that is so profound

A past memory hidden patiently waiting to be found

We are all roses in this great world of tormented and twisted thorns

Respect for all our brothers and sisters that are here to be reborn

Let us remember that we do not know who the beggar is

Beneath the pain, he is the prince and Heaven is his.

Quotes:

“When you share your last crust of bread with a beggar, you mustn't behave as if you were throwing a bone to a dog. You must give humbly, and thank him for allowing you to have a part in his hunger.”
Funvini
Giovanni Guareschi quote

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God. Mother Teresa

It is a kingly act to assist the fallen. Mother Teresa

It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish. Mother Teresa

It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start. Mother Teresa

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go. Mother Teresa

Arthas Destiny ~ Loreena McKennitt

Dedicated to Master S.

A new day is dawning

There is this sudden eerie moment just before dawn, when everything is so still and silent. Then suddenly this part of the world starts to yawn. Stretching the expanse of the sky.
The dawning of the day.
A new day.
A new begining.
A child is born each moment.
Life!
The birds sing their song.
Let it be that we live life each moment.

Quotes:

“One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever. One knows it sometimes when one gets up at the tender solemn dawn-time and goes out and stands alone and throws one's head far back and looks up and up and watches the pale sky slowly changing and flushing and marvelous unknown things happening until the East almost makes one cry out and one's heart stands still at the strange unchanging majesty of the rising of the sun—which has been happening every morning for thousands and thousands and thousands of years. One knows it then for a moment or so...”
cle27
Frances Burnett quotes

Whether I retire to bed early orlate, I rise with the sun.- Thomas Jefferson

Be yourself ...

Ponderings

We all want to be accepted for who we really are.
You do not have to be anything but yourself ... only change what you do not like about yourself, on doing so this will enhance your life. Everyone is a unique being. So be true to yourself and be yourself. Those who do not accept you for who you are ... Let go.

We can hurt our self by listening to the talking voice inside our mind, which can distort the real truth from us. Distortion can lead you to loosing your freedom.
Your feelings are real ... what we perceive causes emotions. Emotions causes reactions which is the effect. Thus, we make judgements upon our self and on others from what we believe.
Our judgments can be of hate, jealousy and selfishness.

Distortions we create in our mind ... which we believe to be true ... And are not, and thus, takes our freedom away from us.
We can abuse our self as much others can ... But even in the case of others abusing us in whatever way it is within the situation ... We can still turn that round should we choose to ignore it ... And instead believe in our self ... Faith and love. Forgiveness plays a huge part in healing and allowing clarity to enter our thoughts.

There seems to be a whole knock on effect when we choose to listen to lies about our self. If we believe them ... We become them. We can listen to people attentively ... but, we can choose not to believe what people say. If we allow it to seep into our minds ... And distort our dream ... We are then filled with emotions.
You will come across daily valid nourishment for you ... A gift ... If you are aware of it ... That you can choose to feed your soul. Valid nourishment will enhance your life ... Lies will not.
You can make that choice ... For you will know that truth just is.

I have chosen Love as an example ... It is here where we judge our self more. It is here where we constantly create more pain.

Every time I love, my heart is broken. This is not true, because nobody can break your heart if you love yourself. If your heart was broken in the past, you broke it with the lies you believed about love. Love makes you strong; selfishness makes you weak. Love doesn't hurt. What hurts is the fear, selfishness, and control that come from the lies you believe in. If you no longer believe in lies, automatically love starts coming out of you.

Emotional pain is a symptom of being abused; the pain is letting you know that you have to do something to stop the abuse. The emotions are the most important part of our dream because they are telling you how you are doing in your life. By following your emotions, you can change your circumstances.

Extract above by Don Miguel Ruiz The Voice of Knowledge

Just as in Spring new growth reaching out towards the light ... Choose to be free and grow towards love and BE ... BE YOURSELF

Quotes

Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don't realize this because almost everyone is suffering from it, so it is considered normal. This incessant mental noise prevents you from finding that realm of inner stillness that is inseparable from Being.
Eckhart Tolle

Your seed has been covered with so many layers of culture, etiquitte, education, religion, country, that you have completely forgotten that you are here to grow, that you have become a lush green bush full of flowers, fragrance, dancing in the wind and in the rain and in the sun.
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

Favourite one!

be the change you want to see
Ghandi

Try it!

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Thank you everyone for your sweet comments.
I was hoping to get back to posting this evening ... schedule change.
Never mind ... see all soon. :o)

Folks!

FOR EVERYONE

Taking a couple days out ... see you all soon. :O)

Essence of Love

These recent days seem to span into each other

Like a river which flows into the sea

Only the moon and stars tell me the day has ended

And the sweetness of birds that chirp at dawn

tell me a new day has been born.

The blanket of the night covered me like the cloak of love

As I walked the streets of home
My breath and shadow took up company with me

Not leaving me alone

The black velvet space transfixed me

As if I was under the Illusionist, mystified and mesmerized

Gazing up at the stars that sparkled bright

Divine burts of spleandor in the sky

immortalized

Each sparkle carried the essence of your love.

I love you my Beloved.

Quotes on Stars

“When it is darkest, men see the stars.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

“To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your own path, and don't worry about the darkness, for that is when the stars shine brightest”

“God's promises are like the stars; the darker the night the brighter they shine”
David Nicholas quotes

“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”
ren1219
Harriet Tubman quotes

“The stars are the street lights of eternity.”

Natures Ways.

Credit Photograph flickr by the product of

Natures Ways

How wonderful natures beauty can be
Reflecting God's sacred love for all to see
How grateful I am that I have eyes that can gaze
Upon the changing seasons ways
That I can feel the breeze, blowing in my hair
A feeling of freedom and free of care
To gaze upon a soft moving cloud
Towering white galleons that look so proud
Vivid visions of everything aglow
Comes the showers, then a colourful rainbow
Minstral of love delights the earth with a kiss
Upon the ever constant moving ocean of bliss

Quotes on nature.

Anne Frank:
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.

Claude Monet:
The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration.

Galileo:
The sun, with all those plants revolving around it and dependent upon it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.

Henry David Thoreau:
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.


Luther Burbank:
A flower is an educated weed.

Make your dream a reality

Make your dream a reality

don't allow your fears

to enter and lead you into the abyss of self doubt

where your dream will dissolve into the sea of what might of been.

fear comes with a penalty

within the fear you feel safe

it is an illusion

because you lose your freedom

Let Love be your guide

actions is your safety

within the safe Hands of God

and gently allow your dream to unfold.

Live your dreams.

The journey of apathy is resolved by seeing the import, the journey of futility is resolved by seeing the value, and the journey of fear is resolved by seeing the strength within, for all fear is a fear that one is unable to deal with what is ahead. (Master S.)

Don Miguel Ruiz:
Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive -- the risk to be alive and express what we really are.

Dorothy Thompson:
Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.

Eleanor Roosevelt:
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.

Jane Addams:
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win, by fearing to attempt.

Goodnight

Thank you everyone for popping in. I tried to get to as many of your posts as I could before going to bed. For those that I have missed accept my apologies. I have just had a busy week not had time to do any posts. Hugs for everyone.

May write a post about dreams.

Dream Quotes

Anais Nin:
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

Dom Helder Camara:
When we are dreaming alone it is only a dream. When we are dreaming with others, it is the beginning of reality.

Henry David Thoreau:
I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Hobbes (of Calvin and ...):
I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each others dreams, we can be together all the time.

Anatole France:
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

Walking and Climbing.

Sunday afternoon took me out with my camera.
Here it shows you how the moods of the weather changed from being still to vivacious and wild.

Blackstone Edge is a bleak rocky outcrop overlooking the Lancashire towns of Rochdale and Littleborough to the north east of the Manchester conurbation.
The A58 passes close by, en route from Halifax and Sowerby Bridge in West Yorkshire's Bronte Country.

Sun trying to smile

through the clouds

that tumbled down

silently caressing the earth

like the Divine Lover

that gently strokes

the spine of the horizon

sitting on a rock

pondering and

gazing into the eyes of nature

a glimpse of the sun

and a sudden outburst of laughter

filled the heavens

the mood changed

and dropped a shroud

and bequethed us with a frown

Are we not like the moods of the weather?

Quotes:

It is one of the secrets of Nature in its mood of mockery that fine weather lays heavier weight on the mind and hearts of the depressed and the inwardly tormented than does a really bad day with dark rain sniveling continuously and sympathetically from a dirty sky. ~Muriel Spark, Territorial Rights, 1979

I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood.”
Bill Watterson quotes

Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.
George H. Allen (1922 - 1990)

Life! we've been long together, Through pleasant and through cloudy weather; 'Tis hard to part when friends are dear, Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear; Then steal away, give little warning; Choose thine own time; Say not 'Good-night'; but in some brighter clime Bid me 'Good-morning'.

Aikin Barbauld (1743 - 1825)

My favourite

Waves of a serene life pass over us from time to time, like flakes of sunlight over the fields in cloudy weather.
Henry David Thoreau

The Magic of Your Heart.

The above painting is the symbol of Sufism as Hazrat taught it is a "heart with wings." It is considered by many Sufis that the heart holds the key to consciously living life in the presence of God.

Poem by Rumi

No longer!

No Longer



No longer do I mourn in the mirror at the reflection of my waning youth
But gaze within the depths of my eyes in raptures at my pending eternal joy
No longer shall I be saddened and weighed down by the desires I do not hold within my grasp
But rejoice in the richness of the fruits of life that are laid before me to feast and fulfil my appetite
No longer will I thirst for the material possessions of life that are temporal and inanimate
But be quenched by Love pouring abundantly from within my heart that has be filled with aliveness
No longer will tender sentiments and nostalgia rule my life, shackling and seizing my illusions like grieving trophies.
But let me relish in my arousal of wonder at every aborning moment that is bestowed upon me and be grateful that I have a choice
No longer will my stumbling in the alleys of despair and becoming downhearted over take me
But I shall be triumphant that it has strengthened my very spirit and made me aware
No longer will the shroud of darkness obscure my view of the Beauty that resides within my ageing body
But I shall increase my vision and express the Beauty upon all I meet.
No longer will walls and frivolities of the mundane world steal my energy and entomb me
But let every stone wall I have built be clawed down till my fingers bleed and I rejoice in the pain of my long last awaited freedom
No longer will false idols of society impress me with their sad and tasteless life
But the visions of Nature …the air that I breathe … the whisper from a passing breeze … the sun as it kisses the earth … and the taste of wine and passion shall be my intoxications of love

Life is simplicity … be still and silent and listen

the above poem is a very old one of mine ... it may of appeared on earlier post.


Quotes on Simplicity

John V. Cheney
The happiest heart that ever beat Was in some quiet breast That found the common daylight sweet, And left to Heaven the rest

Hans Hofmann
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

John Morley, 19th-century British statesman
Simplicity of character is no hindrance to the subtlety of intellect.

E. F. Schumacker
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage—to move in the opposite direction.

Albert Einstein
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

Being

This beautiful photograph was taken by a friend on Flickr. Natasha 86's
A wonderful photographer.









There is a kind of stillness that surrounds our silence
A mute secrecy
Soundless, boundless tranquility
Expanding blushings of ecstasy
That reach so far within the abyss of our heart
It is in this moment,
The Divine touches the soul and fills it with grace
Like the bursting of the sun at dawn
As it opens and greets the world.
It is in this stillness and silence
Being is born


Quotes on Being:

Edith Wharton
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Doris Mortman
Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have.

Coco Chanel
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

William James
Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.


Addison Walker
It's not true that nice guys finish last.
Nice guys are winners before the game even starts.

Always my Love

flowers sway to and fro

the flickering of the mind

cradles past and present

Among the mist of daylight dawning,
The sun rises to embrace and kiss the earth
As the trees and birds awake from their dream
Your image impressed on my stirring mind

I cannot hide this love I have for you
Whispering I eternity waits for your return
Hours pass in the warmth of the afternoon sun
As lazy spring flowers tease and kiss
Intoxicated by the gentle breeze

I let my thoughts travel across the seas
Sailing upon the crowning crest of a wave
The ebb of life will not steal you from me
As I gently and safely hold you in my arms
Listen my darling to my heart beats
It speaks volumes of love for thee.

Dedicated to the one I love, always my darling!