When I finally learned to let go of
having to totally control everything
around me and let my life unfold,
I was stunned by the results…
~ ` ~ Geri Larkin
A wise man once said
Nothing…
~ ` ~ zen saying
One of the more difficult paradoxes to accept
is that this abundance of gifts is always quietly
present and it is we who drift in
and out of seeing it…
~ ` ~ Mark Nepo
( Niagara Falls…)
Every day is a new day.
It is better to be lucky…
but I would rather be exact.
Then when luck comes
you are ready…
To hell with
luck…
I ‘ll bring the luck
with me…
My big fish must be
somewhere…
As wave is driven by
each wave…
The world breaks everyone..
and afterward…
some are strong at
the broken place…
But man is not made
of defeat …
a man can be destroyed..
but not
defeated…
Men go fishing all their
lives..
without realizing,
its not the fish
they are after
(~ ` ~ Henry David )
Fishing is much more than
fish…
It is the great occasion when we may
return to the fine simplicity
of our forefathers…
( ~ ` ~ Herbert Hoover )
( Words: Ernest Hemingway )
Since we are the youngest children of creation,
our accumulated wisdom is young, too, and so I
search outside of the tiny and fragile box of
humankind’s insight and understanding for the
older wisdom, the more ancient and enduring
healing.
…I have documented the rich insights and mercies
brought to my life by my animal kin…I write about
the empowerment of meaningful and healing
relationships.
Many of mine are with animals and nature.
~ ` ~ Susan Chernak Mcelroy
To look for a form or search
for a
sound
is to stumble down the
wrong path .
The wisdom that cannot be thought,
alone reveals that which
is enduring and
real…
~ ` ~ Zen
Breathe in with the deep awareness that you are a
human being.
Then breathe out and touch the earth,
a non-man element, as your mother.
Visualize the streams of water beneath the Earth’s
surface.
See the minerals .See our Mother Earth, the Mother of
us all.
Then bring your arms up and breathe in again, touching the
trees, flowers, fruits, birds, squirrels, air and sky– the
non-elements.
When your head is touching the air, the sun, the moon,
the galaxies, the cosmos–non-man elements that have
come together in order to make man possible–you see
that all of the elements are coming into you to make your
being possible.
Breathing in again, stretch your arms and be aware that you also penetrate other
elements.
Man helps make the other elements possible.
( Words : Thich Nhat Hanh )
The journey is into the wildness of your greater life.
The wilderness is your soul.
To merge with your destiny, you must locate,
liberate and live what is truly wild.
The soul is here to live its joy.
The uninitiated ego is here to keep things familiar,
safe and predictable.
Which path will you choose?
~ ` ~ Bill Plotkin
” We lose ourselves in the
things we love…
We find ourselves there
Too…”
Zen is an effort
to become
alert &
aware.
~ ` ~ Osho
I am pretty sure that
when we sparkle
individually, we
Heal + shine
collectively.
~ ` ~ Tanya Markul
Wishing you all a happy &peaceful
new year ❤ ❤
I am That I am..
I am that which I have created myself to be.
~ ` ~ The Gita
I am the answer you were not
expecting…
I exist
As I am.
That is enough.
~ ` ~ Walt Whitman
Knowing yourself is the beginning of
all
wisdom.
~ ` ~ Aristotle
Many have an Image of me.
Few get the
picture…
I regret opening up to
some people.
They didn’t deserve to
know me like that.
~ ` ~ Gold-Kushkloudz
Wondering on
myself,
by myself,
for myself…
I am a thinker
Not a talker…
I have travelled
through madness
to
find me…
Don’t ask
anyone
but me,
about me…
I am shy at first but…
I do the stupidest random
things when I
get comfortable
with someone…
I
hate being
Shy…
Never have I dealt with
anything more
difficult than my
own soul…
You don’t know me…
I put back my pieces,
differently.
( words: Internet )
The ways of these
gentle giants &
how they
heal us are
mysterious…
From the clamor of crowds I flee,
my heart seeks
The kind of silence that would
mesmerize speech itself.
~ ` ~ An Urdu poem
Connect with nature..”silence the mind”
&the soul will know what to do
to heal itself…
The soul always knows what to do
to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind.
~ ` ~ Caroline myss
Healing doesn’t mean the damage never
existed.
It means the damage no longer controls
our lives.
~ ` ~ Akshay Dubey
Healing yourself is connected
with healing
others.
~ ` ~ Yoko Ono
Anything covered up
won’t get
healed…
It has been said “time heals “all wounds.
I do not agree.The wounds remain.
In time , the mind , protecting the sanity , covers
them with scar tissue & the pain lessens.
but it is never gone.
~ ` ~ Rose Kennedy
As soon as healing takes place.
go out & heal somebody else.
~ ` ~ Maya Angelou
Mourning is love with
no place to go…
We do not heal the past by dwelling
there; we heal the past by living fully
in the present.
~ ` ~ Marianne Williamson
some days the memories still
knock the wind out of
me…
Not all scars show
not all wounds heal
sometimes you can’t
always see the pain’
someone else feels…
Your own healing is a powerful
contribution to the healing of
everyone…
When you can tell your story &
it doesn’t make you cry, you
know you have healed…
They say time heals all wounds , but
that presumes the source of the
grief is finite.
~ ` ~ Cassandra Clare
Sometimes your heart needs
more time to accept what
your mind already knows…
Music is a journey.
Jazz is getting lost.
~ ` ~ john O’ Farrell
Jazz is
Freedom…
~ ` ~ Thelonious Mark
Don’t play the saxophone..
Let it play you..
~ ` ~ Charlie Parker
If you ain’t got it
in you
you can’t blow
it out.
~ ` ~ Louis Armstrong
To jazz ,
or
not to jazz,
there is no
question.
~ ` ~ Louis Armstrong
Seemed to me drumming was
the best way to get
close to
god.
~ ` ~ Lionel Hampton
keep calm…
Jazz dance on…
jazz is something that you
have to feel
It’s something that you have
to live.
~ ` ~ Ray Brown
Life is about
rhythm.
We vibrate,
our hearts are pumping
blood,
we are a rhythm machine.
That’s what
we are.
~ ` ~ Mikey Hart
The memory of things gone
is important
to a jazz
musician.
~ ` ~ Louis Armstrong
If you ask
what jazz is
you’ll
never know.
~ ` ~ Louis Armstrong
My whole life, my whole soul,
my whole spirit
is to blow
that horn…
~ ` ~ Louis Armstrong
What we play
is
life.
~ ` ~ Louis Armstrong
( Location d.b.a Bar, Frenchmen street,New Orleans )
The way of these gentle giants..
&
how they heal us are
mysterious…
They are some of the most
accomplished
&
accessible
healers we may
ever
meet…
there is power that resides
in the heart of
a
species…
that..is
exponentially
higher than ..the power of any
individual…
The desire to know your
soul
will end all
other desires.
~ ` ~ Rumi
My soul is my
guide.
~ ` ~ Rumi
( words adapted from; “Animals as healers “.. pictures taken at Kaziranga national park,India )
Art is the journey of
a
free soul.
~ ` ~ Alev Oguz
take your journey
change your body
find your
soul
U don’t have a soul
you are a soul
You have a body
~ ` ~ C.S Lewis
Quiet the mind
&
the soul will
speak
~ ` ~ Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati
In a world where
everyone wears a
mask,
It’s a privilege to see
a soul.
~ ` ~ Anon
You have a
soul…
You were born to be a fisherman as the
fish was born to be a
fish…
You loved him when
he was
alive…
and you loved him
after…
Fishing kills me exactly
as it keeps me
alive…
( words: Ernest Hemingway ~ ` ~ The old man & the sea )
What you
see
is seeking
YOU.
~ ` ~ Rumi
The deep layers
of art contains
the soul of the
artist
~ ` ~ Vladimir Kandelaki
I like the way
that feels…
It’s as if you know
me better…
Than I ever know
myself…
I love how you can
tell…
All the pieces, pieces, pieces
of me…
( words; Ashlee Simpson )
Truth is one
&
the true path is one.
It does not belong to
anybody.
Its nobody’s
property.
it is only one!
there are not many paths really.
Many people walk on the
path,
but the path is one.
And it is so vast
they may not meet
each
other
( words: Osho’s teachings )
There is no greater
Ecstasy
than to know who you
are
~ ` ~ osho
Art is both love and friendship and
understanding:
the desire to give.
It is not charity, which is the giving
of things.
It is more than kindness, which is
the giving of self.
It is both taking and giving of beauty, the turning
out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness
of the spirit.
It is the recreation on another plane of
the realities of the world;
The tragic and wonderful realities of earth
and men…
and all the interrelations
of these.
(words: Ansel Adams)
A wise man
Once said
Nothing…
Clouds heap upon clouds & it
darkens…
I keep gazing on the far away gloom
of the sky, & my
heart wanders wailing with the
restless mind.
~ ` ~ Rabindranath Tagore (Gitanjali)
Lead the mind…
By the mind…
bring it to silence…
In the quiet…
state of mind…
when all the sound..
ripples cease…
The job is done…
( location: Eravikulam National Park , Kerala, South India )
(Words : Adapted from an article by Bramachari Chaitanya )
On GLOBAL TIGER DAY…
No one will protect what they don’t
care about ; & no one will care about
what they have never experienced.
~ ` ~ David Attenborough
( At Kanha National park, central India )
When words run dry,
he does not try,
nor do I.
We are on par .
He just is.
I just am
& we just are.
~ ` ~ Lang Leav
I smell with my ears
I taste with my eyes
I see with my hands
I touch with my tongue
I hear with my nose
I know
I am in my senses now.
( Poem : Kabir das < location : Kodaikanal, a small hill town near Madurai, Tamil nadu, South India )
If you are
falling
dive…
~ ` ~ Joseph Campbell
There is something fierce &
terrible in me,
eligible to burst forth.
I dare not tell it in
words.
~ ` ~ Walt Whitman
Being with you & not
being with you
is the only way I
have to measure
time.
~ ` ~ Jorge Luis Borges
On a cloudy day, the clouds hide the sun,
but the sun is always there in
the sky…
Like the sun, happiness is often hidden by
the clouds of thoughts & worries…
You have to scatter &dissolve the clouds to
experience it…
All you have to do is calm down your mind &
feelings, because when there is a quiet mind
& inner peace, happiness emerges
from within you…
You don’t have to create happiness, because though
you may not believe it, it is a part of your
essence , but is just hidden…
…happiness is there within you.
just calm your mind & stay relaxed...
…what you need to do is strive not to allow
your feelings get upset by
your memories...
Inner peace & happiness are inter connected.
you want more happiness ?
Learn to calm your mind make
it less restless…
It is an inseparable part of your consciousness,
of your essence, & comes out
where your mind
is free from disturbing &
constant thinking…
...when the mind gets quiet you experience the
happiness in you…
...the treasure is there , whether you see it
or not. so is happiness.
…it is always here , only hidden by
constant thinking
& worries…
Do not let worries
hide
your
Happiness…
Location : Samanar Hills ( Jain hills) keelakuilkudi, Near Madurai, Tamil Nadu. India (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samanar_Hills)
Words: adapted from an article by Remez Sasson
Witness & stand back
from nature,
that is the first step to
the soul’s
freedom.
~ ` ~ Sri Aurobindo
What does it take to actually be a
yogi, really?
Not spiritual attainment or Asana performance,
but the beautiful embrace of your
own reality.
~ ` ~ Mark Whit well
Life in itself is an empty canvas, it
becomes whatsoever you paint on it.
You can paint misery,
you can paint bliss.
This freedom is your
glory.
~ ` ~ Osho
You are born with wings
why prefer to crawl through life?
~ ` ~ Rumi
You must love in a way that
the person you love feels
free.
~ ` ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Freedom is the oxygen
of the soul.
~ ` ~ Moshe Dayan
And then something happened.
I let go. Lost in oblivion.
Dark & silent and complete.
I found freedom.
losing all hope was freedom.
~ ` ~ Fight club
I can feel the gentle breeze beneath my
wings.
I can feel the warmth of the sunrise in
my face.
It’s great to be free exploring
the world.
I can be myself, contended & at peace.
~ ` ~ Unknown
I was surrounded by extraordinary women
in my life who taught me
about quiet strength & dignity.
~ ` ~ Michelle Obama
One day I stopped, I listened and
I heard the most beautiful sound
…My soul.
~ ` ~ Zen
Souls recognize each
other
by vibes…
not by
appearances…
Where ever you
stand
be the soul
of the place.
~ ` ~ Rumi
Friendship is composed
of a single soul.
Inhabiting
two bodies.
~ ` ~ Plautus
The soul
cannot
live without love.
You are a spirit , you
have a soul and you
live in a body.
~ ` ~ Pedro Okoro
( Picture : Indian Gaur )
I exist as I am, that is enough,
if no other in the world be aware,
I sit content,
and if each and all be aware,
I sit content.
~ ` ~ Walt Whitman
May be you are searching
among the branches
for what only appears
in the roots.
~ ` ~ Rumi
If art is to nourish the roots of our
culture, society must set the artist free to
follow his vision wherever it takes him.
~ ` ~ john. F. Kennedy
Everything you see has its
roots in the unseen
world.
The forms may change, yet the essence
remains the same.
~ ` ~ Rumi
You can have more than
one home.
You can carry your roots with you & decide
where they grow.
~ ` ~ Henning Mankell
Each person leaves a legacy — a single,
small piece of herself, which makes richer
each individual life & the collective life of
humanity as a whole.
~ ` ~ Unknown
To be rooted is perhaps
the most important
and least recognised need
of a human soul.
~ ` ~ Simone Weil
Life, it seems, will fade away
Drifting further every day
Getting lost within myself
Nothing matters, no one else…
No one but me can save myself, but it’s too late
Now I can’t think, think why I should even try…
(~ ` ~ Metallica—fade to black)
May be
The journey isn’t so much about becoming anything.
Maybe it’s unbecoming everything
that isn’t you
….so that you can
be who you were meant
to be
in the first place…
~ ` ~ Unknown
…I heard a song, a morning as I walked…
It came on as I passed…a song from far away, about a lost love. At least so I imagined,
I didn’t understand the words,
only the melody.
But in the low notes I could hear the loss one had suffered.. And in the
high notes understood too that it was a song about
something that could never be.
I had not wept in years.
But I did, there and then, on the side of a dusty street,
surrounded by strangers.
The melody stayed with me for years….
~ ` ~ (adapted from The memory of love, by Aminatta Forna)
To love is to suffer.
to avoid suffering one must not love.
But then one suffers from not loving.
Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer;
to suffer is to suffer…
~ ` ~ Woody Allen
It’s a love
affair
with
the unknown
~ ` ~ Osho
You should sit in meditation for
twenty minutes every
day – unless you’re too busy;
then you should sit for an hour.
~ ` ~ Zen
The torn boughs trailing
O’er the tusks…aslant
The saplings reeling in the path
He trod,
Declares his might- our lord
The Elephant
Chief of the ways of
God…
~ ` ~ Tom Alter
