Just because...

"Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have."

~unknown

The Creative Person

The Creative Person is both primative, more cultivated, a lot madder & a lot saner than the average person.

 

Creative thinking may mean simply the realization that there's no particular virtue in doing things the way they always have been done.

                              ~ both unknown

"What is really there is what is there to me

My whole entire world is made up of what it is I see

Give us all a brush & tell us to paint a view

No two will ever be the same for what you see is you."

                                    ~lheintz~

One of my favorites

The Invitation

 

It doesn't interest me what you do for a living.

I want to know what you ache for

& if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.

 

It doesn't interest me how old you are.

I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool

for love

for your dream

for the adventure of being alive.

 

It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon...

I want to know if you have touched the centre of your own sorrow

if you have been opened by life's betrayals

or have become shriveled & closed

from fear of further pain.

 

I want to know if you can sit with pain

mine or your own

without moving to hide it

or fade it

or fix it.

 

I want to know if you can be with joy

mine or your own

if you dance with wildness

& let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers & toes

without cautioning us to

be careful

be realistic

Remember the limitations of being human.

 

I want to know if you can see Beauty

even when it is not pretty

every day.

And if you can source your own  life

from its presence.

 

~Oriah Mountain Dreamer  from the book The Invitatition

 

Me

"Some people are just not meant to be tamed. Some are just meant to run free until they find someone just as wild to run with."

~unknown

This quote fits me so well. All my life people have tried to tame me & I have tried to please them. It has taken me 40 (plus) years to finally admit that I have a wild streak, a passion that most people don't understand and you know what ~ I can finally say I feel great about that! I finally feel alive & not repressed. Now I'm learning that I am in control of me. What an eye awakening that was!

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Guess who

    

   "Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."

                               ~Abraham Lincoln

Words

"So many people don't understand that when the words "I'm sorry" are used, their actions are what backs up the sincerity of their words." 

                                 ~ I never forgot this very profound statement from someone I had known about 20 years ago.  It was one of those aha moments.  It's too bad so many people don't understand this very simple concept. 

 

Tags: sorry, actions

Reminder #8

People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering.

                                      ~ Saint Augustine