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Daily Affirmations: Powerful and Strong

Today, I re-mind myself that my will is powerful and strong. I am confident that my intent is capable of manifesting my desires and I know that my desires are healthy and positive, serving only to empower my good intent. ~ Pamela J. Leavey

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(Photo: Immature Red Tail Hawk at Parker River National Wildlife Refuge ~ c. Pamela J. Leavey 2012)

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Daily Affirmations: Goals

In setting and then manifesting my goals, I focus clearly on my desires and intentions. My clear heart is my most powerful ally in manifesting my goals and intent. ~ Pamela J. Leavey

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(Photo: Immature Red Tail Hawk Landing on Tree ~ c. Pamela J. Leavey 2013)

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Daily Affirmations: Powerful and Strong

My will is powerful and strong. I am confident that my intent is capable of manifesting my desires. My desires are healthy and positive, serving only to empower my intent. ~ Pamela J. Leavey

(Photo: Turtles at Maudslay State Park ~ c. Pamela J. Leavey 2012)

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Daily Affirmations: Patience

Today, I practice patience, for I know that there is time for everything to come to fruition. The goals I have set, the desires I intend, will all come in time. Patience is required to see these things through. ~ Pamela J. Leavey

(Photo: Mourning Dove Waiting Out the Rain ~ c. Pamela J. Leavey 2012)

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Love Be Not of Reason

There’s no better day than Valentine’s Day to share a love poem. I have long been a great fan of romance poets, including Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Edna St. Vincent Millay.

Love Be Not of Reason is from my own journals…

Love Be Not of Reason
 
Love be not of reason,
No right nor wrong,
Love be of the season
For which there is no song.
No sense be made of desires
That once can cripple
But, the strongest tree
And, bring mere mortal man
Down to his knee.
Who sayeth that love must be so,
Who speak the words
Of Love and Woe
For truly as the sun doth shine
Your touch upon my lips
Be pleasure that is,
 But, yours and mine.
Who knows what aching
Upon thy breast
Does bring your soul to lay and rest;
Weary in the arms of love,
That heal the questions
For which there be no answer.
Love be the stars that shine,
In darkest night
Bright in your eyes;
Love be the sun that rises
To seek a new day
Of pleasure in your arms.
Love be the song of ecstasy
When in its throws
We merge as one.
Love be not of reason
No right nor wrong,
Love be of the season
For which there is no song,
But that only of two hearts
That beat as one
In it’s sweet pleasing.

c. Pamela J. Leavey

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Inspirations: Kahlil Gibran on Love

On this Valentine’s Day I am reminded of this beautiful and inspiring passage from Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet…

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. And when he speaks to you believe in him, Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden.

For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun, So shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.

Like sheaves of corn he gathers you unto himself. He threshes you to make you naked. He sifts you to free you from your husks. He grinds you to whiteness. He kneads you until you are pliant; And then he assigns you to his sacred fire, that you may become sacred bread for God’s sacred feast.
All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life’s heart.

But if in your fear you would seek only love’s peace and love’s pleasure, Then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love’s threshing-floor, Into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears. Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

When you love you should not say, “God is in my heart,” but rather, “I am in the heart of God.” And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving; To rest at the noon hour and meditate love’s ecstasy; To return home at eventide with gratitude; And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.

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