Journey…
Maybe the journey isn’t so much about becoming anything. Maybe it’s
about un-becoming everything that isn’t
really you, so you can be who you were
meant to be in the
first place.
~ ` ~ Paulo Coelho
Fishing…
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 )
Older wisdom…
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
Enduring & Real…
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…
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 )
Soul menders…
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 )
Born Fisherman…
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 )
Art…
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)
Heart Wanders…
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)
Standing still…
” …every creature on the face of the earth seems to know how to be quiet and
still…..
but we seem to have lost the ability just to be quiet, to simply be
present in the stillness that is the basis of our existence……”
~~john daido loori
Stillness is very natural
and uncomplicated..
.
it is incredibly
Profound…
“…still , calm ,even
in the midst of chaos……”
” To be still means…
to empty yourself from the incessant flow of thoughts
and create a state of consciousness that is open and
receptive….”
” The stilled mind is like a mirror.
It doesn’t process ; it just reflects.
at any moment it is free…”
Living with a damaged skull 