ZeN mOdE 📿📿 LoCk dOwN diaries–1
Deep in
their
roots all
flowers
keep the
light…
( words ~ ` ~ Theodore Roethke, Flower:Crepe myrtle 💜💜)
The Muse…
One must give himself completely
To his art and not hold back.
Throw caution to the
Wind.
Embrace the muse.
•~• Harley King
Apply Within…
You once told me
You wanted to find
Yourself in the world –
And I told you to
First apply within,
To discover the world
within you.
You once told me
You wanted to save
The world from all its wars –
And I told you to
First save yourself
From the world,
And all the wars
Through.
( words : APPLY WITHIN by Suzy Kassem” )
The songs of trees…
We are all
Trees…
.
The Green
smoke…
Listen to
it’s songs
…your own soul…
All our wisdom
is stored
in the Trees…
~`~ Santosh Kalwar
..Universe in
ecstatic
motion…
~`~ Rumi
Our most intimate
contact with
Nature…
~`~ George Nakashima
Let go…
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
Gift…
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…)
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 )
Wildness…
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
Sparkle…
I am pretty sure that
when we sparkle
individually, we
Heal + shine
collectively.
~ ` ~ Tanya Markul
Wishing you all a happy &peaceful
new year ❤ ❤
Heart seeks…
From the clamor of crowds I flee,
my heart seeks
The kind of silence that would
mesmerize speech itself.
~ ` ~ An Urdu poem
To heal…
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…
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 )
True path…
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 )
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)
Silence within…
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 )
He & I
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
Senses…
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 )
Burst forth…
There is something fierce &
terrible in me,
eligible to burst forth.
I dare not tell it in
words.
~ ` ~ Walt Whitman
Time…
Being with you & not
being with you
is the only way I
have to measure
time.
~ ` ~ Jorge Luis Borges
Happiness…
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
Soul’s Freedom…
Witness & stand back
from nature,
that is the first step to
the soul’s
freedom.
~ ` ~ Sri Aurobindo
Yoga…
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
Soul…
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…
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
Roots…
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
Unbecoming everything…
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
To Love…
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
Too Busy…
You should sit in meditation for
twenty minutes every
day – unless you’re too busy;
then you should sit for an hour.
~ ` ~ Zen
Chief…
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
Faithful…
I meant what I said,
and I said what I meant.
An elephant is faithful,
one hundred percent.
~ ` ~ Dr Seuss
New course…
We lead our lives like water flowing
going more or less in one direction
until we splash into something
that forces us to find a
new course
( At corbett National park, India )
Forest…
How impossible it is to walk though the forest
without telegraphing
your presence…
~ ` ~ Zen
Mother…
A mother’s love for her child is like
nothing else in the world.
It knows no law, no pity
it dares all things & crushes
down remorselessly
all that stands in
its path.
~ ` ~ Agatha Christie
Being a full time mother
is one of the highest salaried jobs
in my field,
since the payment is
pure love.
~ ` ~ Mildred B Vermont
A mum’s hug
lasts long after
she lets go…
A mother is not a person
to lean on,
But a person to make
leaning unnecessary.
~ ` ~ Dorothy canfield Fisher
Poetry…
There are poems
inside you
that paper can’t
handle
Painting is silent
poetry
&
poetry is painting
that speaks
~ ` ~ Nikos KAzantzakis
You have your brush
you have your colors, you
paint paradise,
then in you go.
~ ` ~ Adrienne Rich
Breathe…
When you Breathe ,
It’s because
Y O U
are a
T R E E
Happy Earth Day…
Every day is E A R T H day
Set Free…
…I see within your heart
of hearts
where no masks are
A spirit waiting to be set free
as it always meant to be…
` ~ ` Mary Merrell
Journey…
The journey to understand the
true nature of reality requires no paper map,
no metal compass, and no breadcrumb
left by others.
The true journey is one that is travelled
with an inner GPS fully activated,
and a mind as open as a parachute
… perfectly capable of landing exactly
where you’re meant to be.
` ~ ` Alex Brooks
The Bud…
And the day came when the risk
to remain tight in a bud was more
painful than the risk
it took to blossom.
~ ` ~ Anais Nin
