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2007-08-08 17:54:14 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I'm thinking of a gallery, a display if you will,
With statues and pictures both animated and still.
There is one which holds me, keeps my attention in rein
Its powerful image entrances my mein
The image is clear, no trick of the light
It gives me pause for reflecion at this wonderful sight
This gallery of art, it's beauty, it's might
Was constructed by people, from them this wonderous delight
If people can build such a wonder then behold
It is within us this wonderous beauty to unfold
This beauty I've seen with such poor insight as mine
Must surely be the same beauty such that all have in kind.
A Buddhist...
2007-08-09 21:25:28 · answer #1 · answered by Gaz 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Fear is not of the present, but only of the past and future. There is no fear in the present when each instant stands clear and separated from the past, without it's shadow reaching out into the future. Each instant is a clean, untarnished birth, in which Perfect Love emerges from the past into the present. And the present extends forever. It is so beautiful and so clean and free of guilt that nothing but happiness is there. No darkness is remembered, and immortality and Joy are Now.
Okay Jon C wait just a golly dern moment! This is just TOO much! I just recently bought, at my favorite treasure hunt thrift shop, a picture, (roughly 10 by 14 inch) of Julian of Norwich sitting with a cat, with the kindest look ever and I had never heard of her but the paper on the back told about her. I would love for you to have this picture, so if you send me your mailing, she is yours. Funny little Universe!
Peace to you Jon....and to you dear Chameleon!
2007-08-09 01:34:23 · answer #2 · answered by Valerie C 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Invincible
The rushing river is unstoppable because it is neither trying to get somewhere, nor trying to stop from getting somewhere. It is not attached to being a river, not committed to riverness, not falling in love with wetness, not racing with the clouds to see who is the fastest. It's just being what it is....a river.
It can't fail to produce an intended outcome, can't have it's heart broken by the rocks along the shore and it can't lose the race with the wind. Nothing can stop it from being what it is because it can't be anything else. In this way, it becomes absolutely invincible.
2007-08-09 03:38:23 · answer #3 · answered by philmeta11 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Julian of Norwich was a Christian anchorite. A hermit who dived so deeply into the true nature of God that she saw compassion where others had only seen judgement and a kind face where others had seen a harsh and demanding tyrant.
Her cell is still preserved in Norwich and, right at the crazy start of my spiritual journey, I had a 'moment' there in which I was shown that, with great kindness, that we are led along our journey at our own safe pace. It was very intense, scary even, and what was actually said is not for public display. Suffice it that Julian is still one of my most loved spiritual teachers.
She once said, "All will be well and all will be well and all manner of things will be well".
Thankyou my friend for reminding me of this truth!
~*~
2007-08-09 01:15:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
You've heard of TEAM (Together Everyone Achieves More)
How about
TEAMWORK
Together Everyone Achieves More With Outstanding Results Known
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You may not be able to end world hunger, but you can help the person down the street who needs something.
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I want to be the person who's worthy of being a dog's best friend
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(My favorite sites for inspiration are the motivational posters that you often see on office and factory walls)
Here is a website with some wonderful thoughts.
http://www.allposters.com/gallery.asp?aid=1027743993&c=c&search=50469&GCID=s15100x001&KEYWORD=Motivational+Posters
2007-08-09 01:12:09 · answer #5 · answered by Searcher 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Be angry but don't sin, get wisdom but above all get understanding. Love one another and hate evil and warn your brother man of his evil ways. I guess these quotes pulled from the Bible have place to a better heart. but the one who says he knows the way doesn't tell, and the one who tells the way doesn't know. I find peace in hope, love and giving alms to my brother the best practice. There is only path you can do (YOURS) One Love (God, Universe, Humankind, Nature) We're all linked in some kinda strange way, I esteem many higher than myself and give honor.
2007-08-09 14:32:27 · answer #6 · answered by Grateful Will 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My brother-in-law opened the bottom drawer of my sister's bureau and lifted out a tissue-wrapped package. "This," he said, "is not a slip. This is lingerie." He discarded the tissue and handed me the slip. It was exquisite; silk, handmade and trimmed with a cobweb of lace. The price tag with an astronomical figure on it was still attached. "Jan bought this the first time we went to New York, at least 8 or 9 years
ago. She never wore it. She was saving it for a special occasion. Well, I guess this is the occasion." He took the slip from me and put it on the bed with the other clothes we were taking to the mortician. His hands lingered on the soft material for a moment, then he slammed the drawer shut and turned to me. "Don't ever save anything for a special
occasion. Every day you're alive is a special occasion."
I remembered those words through the funeral and the days that followed when I helped him and my niece attend to all the sad chores that follow an unexpected death. I thought about them on the plane returning to California from the Midwestern town where my sister's family lives. I thought about all the things that she hadn't seen or heard or done. I thought about the things that she had done without realizing that they were special. I'm still thinking about his words, and they've changed my life.
I'm reading more and dusting less. I'm sitting on the deck and admiring the view without fussing about the weeds in the garden. I'm spending more time with my family and friends and less time in committee meetings. Whenever possible, life should be a pattern of experience to savor, not endure. I'm trying to recognize these moments now and cherish them.
I'm not "saving" anything; we use our good china and crystal for every special event-such as losing a pound, getting the sink unstopped, the first camellia blossom.
I wear my good blazer to the market if I feel like it. My theory is if I look prosperous, I can shell out $38.49 for one small bag of groceries without wincing.
I'm not saving my good perfume for special parties; clerks in hardware stores and tellers in banks have noses that function as well as my party-going friends'.
"Someday" and "one of these days" are losing their grip on my vocabulary. If it's worth seeing or hearing or doing, I want to see and hear and do it now. I'm not sure what my sister would have done had she known that she wouldn't be here for the tomorrow we all take for granted.
It's those little things left undone that would make me angry if I knew that my hours were limited. Angry because I put off seeing good friends whom I was going to get in touch with-someday. Angry because I hadn't written certain letters that I intended to write-one of these days. Angry and sorry that I didn't tell my husband and daughter often enough
how much I truly love them.
I'm trying very hard not to put off, hold back, or save anything that would add laughter and luster to our lives. And every morning when I open my eyes, I tell myself that it is special. Every day, every minute, every breath truly is...a gift from God.
2007-08-09 01:03:58 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Thinking gives off smoke to prove the existence of fire. A mystic sits inside the burning. There are wonderful shapes in rising smoke that imagination loves to watch. But it's a mistake to leave the fire for that filmy sight. Stay here at the flame's core.
Rumi....
I have been in the presence of fire for a month now....there is a literal fire, burning close enough that everything outside is literally covered in ash...and there is a fire burning between my beloved and myself, firing up our passions, our visions, our insights.....and there is a fire burning within me, causing me to Know that there is nothing more significant than to be enmeshed in life, full force, vibrant, take no names take no prisoners. Risk all for the brush with, the whisper, the scent of the Divine within ~ stay in the fire, burn it all away, and know yourself as truly loved and truly free...
2007-08-09 03:49:03 · answer #8 · answered by cosmicshaktifire? 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I will throw myself at first from the carriage for you and when they lowered your body into the ground they lowered my heart too people have all come and gone seen the grand funeral show they're all in their warm homes tonight I'm still here I'll never let go I will stay forever here by your side snow falling down I can't feel my heart but I will stay your snow white frozen in time sound asleep by your side I'm bleeding and screaming I'm crying and dying for you to open your eyes can you feel me are you near me I'm still alive I will stay forever here by your side snow falling down I can't feel my heart but I will stay your snow white frozen in time sound asleep by your side
2007-08-09 06:01:03 · answer #9 · answered by ♥Come Break Me Down♥ 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
If you don't like what is going on in your life, change.
Take four days off -- from work, family, friends. Go to someplace you've never been before. Take time to be your own best friend again.
Go help someone who's worse off than you. That will help your perspective.
2007-08-09 01:00:20 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋