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Food For Thought: A Mind Rich with Innocence

J. Krishnamurti

Truth, the real God- the real God, not the God that man has made- does not want a mind that has been destroyed, petty, shallow, narrow, limited. It needs a healthy mind to appreciate it; it needs a rich mind -rich, not with knowledge but with innocence- a mind upon which there has never been a scratch of experience, a mind that is free from time. The gods that you have invented for your own comforts accept torture; they accept a mind that is being made dull. But the real thing does not want it; it wants a total, complete human being whose heart is full, rich, clear, capable of intense feeling, capable of seeing the beauty of a tree, the smile of a child, and the agony of a woman who has never had a full meal.

You have to have this extraordinary feeling, this sensitivity to everything -to the animal, to the cat that walks across the wall, to the squalor, the dirt, the filth of human beings in poverty, in despair. You have to be sensitive -which is to feel intensely, not in any particular direction, which is not an emotion which comes and goes, but which is to be sensitive with your nerves, with your eyes, with your body, with your ears, with your voice. You have to be sensitive completely all the time. Unless you are so completely sensitive, there is no intelligence. Intelligence comes with sensitivity and observation. ~~ The Book of Life

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Daily Affirmations: Forgiveness in My Heart

There are times in our lives when we get stuck belaboring a slight or a truly painful experience that we feel is attributed to another. It is in those times that I re-mind myself:

Today, I ask that I may find forgiveness in my heart. I seek not to judge and ask that I be led to acceptance. ~~ Pamela J. Leavey

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My Evening Sky: Shades of Spring

Last week on a rare sunny day here along the Merrimack River I was outside with my camera, watching the birds in my yard. The sun was slowly sinking to the west and the light on the new Spring leaves caught my eye and my lens.

I love the Shades of Spring

The red maples are among my favorite trees and I’m blessed with two old beauties in the front of my house: (more…)

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Food For Thought

If your life is not filled with joy, it is because you have chosen not let it in… Open the door, open your heart and let joy in. It’s that simple. Happiness is a choice. Joy is the art of living life filled with happiness. You make that happen. Money can’t buy it. No one can gift it to you. Choose to live joyously, in the moment. Today, tomorrow and every day.

(Photo: In The Garden, August 2010, © Pamela J. Leavey)

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Daily Affirmation: Grounded and Confident

“My heart knows who my true self is. Nothing that anyone says or feels about me, can take that away. I am grounded and confident in who I am.” – Pamela J. Leavey

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Like Aged Redwood

Like Aged Redwood

Rise woman in your restlessness
Take solace in the strength
You covet;
For in your glory
If it be you alone who see,
You know not any man
Shall rescue thee.
Stand tall and firm,
Like aged redwood,
Leaves gracefully blowing
Upon the winds of change,
Be caged not like wild cat in capture,
For within you is
No soft tamed feline
To those who would make prey upon you.
Do not be ruled by fears
Meant to blind you,
For within your heart
You see truth and beauty.
Yours is the pinnacle of love’s creation
Let no pinion tie you down.

c. Pamela J. Leavey 1993

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