By: Pamela Leavey On: June 15, 2011 at 7:10 am
J. Krishnamurti…
Without passion how can there be beauty? I do not mean the beauty of pictures, buildings, painted women, and all the rest of it. They have their own forms of beauty. A thing put together by man, like a cathedral, a temple, a picture, a poem, or a statue may or may not be beautiful. But there is a beauty which is beyond feeling and thought and which cannot be realized, understood, or known if there is not passion. So do not misunderstand the word passion. It is not an ugly word; it is not a thing you can buy in the market or talk about romantically. It has nothing whatever to do with emotion, feeling. It is not a respectable thing; it is a flame that destroys anything that is false. And we are always so afraid to allow that flame to devour the things that we hold dear, the things that we call important. ~~ The Book of Life
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By: Pamela Leavey On: June 10, 2011 at 7:18 am
J. Krishnamurti…
In most of us there is very little passion. We may be lustful, we may be longing for something, we may be wanting to escape from something, and all this does give one a certain intensity. But unless we awaken and feel our way into this flame of passion without a cause, we shall not be able to understand that which we call sorrow. To understand something you must have passion, the intensity of complete attention. Where there is the passion for something, which produces contradiction, conflict, this pure flame of passion cannot be; and this pure flame of passion must exist in order to end sorrow, dissipate it completely. ~~ The Book of Life
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By: Pamela Leavey On: April 22, 2011 at 7:56 am
Passion is the fertilizer for the fruits of your labor. ~ Pamela J. Leavey
(Photo: In the Secret Garden, August 2010 ~ © Pamela J. Leavey)
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By: Pamela Leavey On: April 15, 2011 at 10:45 am
I am reminded in this quote, of a dear friend (a Scorpio sister) who passed away yesterday… She had a deep and abiding passion for life…
“A passion for life is a passion for completeness.” ~ The Path To Love – Deepak Chopra
Time passes. Even as time and distance separate friends, the memories of a joy filled friendship never fade. Life is short… Live with passion.
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By: Pamela Leavey On: March 8, 2010 at 10:31 am
Today is International Women’s Day. Given that, I wanted to share a poem I wrote in 1994:
Watch Us Stand Strong
Long have we walked
Through the valley of our sadness,
Searching for a way
To end all the madness.
Long have we toiled,
Silent and unnoticed,
Suppressing our knowledge
And our gift to heal the world.
We are large by number,
We are small through the ages,
There are few that have spoken,
Few that dare to read
Our pages.
We are mothers,
We are daughters,
We are sisters,
We are friends;
We contain the lifeblood,
And the passion
Of all the universe
In our souls.
We are women,
Full of knowledge,
And beauty;
The Queens of our planet.
We are home now,
Watch us stand strong,
It is time to heal
Our world.
c. Pamela J. Leavey 1994
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