words and pictures....
January 28, 2012
When left bereft, we must each rise up and find the majesty within our weary souls.
Tired, void of energy to carry on, we must re-mind ourselves that each set-back, leads in time to steps forward.
(Photo: White Egret in the Marsh ~~ c. Pamela J. Leavey 2012)
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January 27, 2012
Via Neale Donald Walsch on Facebook…
There is nothing that is permanent. There is nothing that stays. Everything goes. Which is an interesting fact about life. Everything goes. And when you under stand this, everything goes. There are no restrictions anymore. You can do anything you wish, say anything you wish, think anything you wish, because you’re not trying to hold onto anything anymore.
Let go… Live and let go…
January 26, 2012
The path to enlightenment often leads us down some very strange roads. Alas, it is all good, for every road reveals a lesson. ~~ Pamela J. Leavey
January 25, 2012
Via J. Krishnamurti…
The Flash of Understanding
I do not know if you have noticed that there is understanding when the mind is very quiet, even for a second; there is the flash of understanding when the verbalization of thought is not. Just experiment with it and you will see for yourself that you have the flash of understanding, that extraordinary rapidity of insight, when the mind is very still, when thought is absent, when the mind is not burdened with its own noise. So, the understanding of anything -of a modern picture, of a child, of your wife, of your neighbor, or the understanding of truth, which is in all things- can only come when the mind is very still. But such stillness cannot be cultivated because if you cultivate a still mind, it is not a still mind, it is a dead mind. The more you are interested in something, the more your intention to understand, the more simple, clear, free the mind is. Then verbalization ceases.
After all, thought is word, and it is the word that interferes. It is the screen of words, which is memory, that intervenes between the challenge and the response. It is the word that is responding to the challenge, which we call intellection. So, the mind that is chattering, that is verbalizing, cannot understand truth -truth in relationship, not an abstract truth. There is no abstract truth. But truth is very subtle. Like a thief in the night, it comes darkly, not when you are prepared to receive it.
January 24, 2012
Reflections on now…
I find myself now in a place forced to stay some what less mobile (an understatement), than this fiercely independent woman is accustomed to enduring. My bottom line has always been, I just don’t stay down well. I’ve always had to do for myself in life, and my daughter, as I raised her alone. So what to do now that I am in this forced state of limited mobility?
The universe sometimes gives us a shove when a gentle push doesn’t work anymore… I’ve now been gifted with the time to clean up some serious procrastinations that have been hanging up my life.
That’s the blessing… If there is one to be seen in this mess…
First, I am taking some time and heeding the message that sometimes when the going gets tough, the tough do need to slow down and take some time to heal.
(Photo: Reflection Through the Trees at Hellcat Swamp ~ c. Pamela J. Leavey 2012)
Today’s Food For Thought is via Marianne Williamson on Facebook…
Fear is to Love what darkness is to light. It’s not a thing, but the absence of a thing. So when our minds are filled with love, we’re less vulnerable to fear. This translates on a practical basis into: In any situation where I’m upset, who could I be kinder to, who could I forgive, where can I be more open-hearted in my thinking and my responses?
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