Great reminder! We can’t always help what happens to us but we can choose how we react to it. 😀 Let’s choose to be the victor, not the victim.
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Compassion is a Powerful Protector
Compassion can be a feeling we experience once in a while, which I think most of us do, but it can also be a way of life that’s on a whole other plane. It’s a state of being. A deep state of consciousness beyond the usual basic compassion we almost all experience off and on. I think when most of us look at people we don’t know, we really think nothing of them. But living in a state of compassion in a deeper way, we feel it even for “strangers,” insects, animals, all sentient beings. Through compassion we begin to not see anyone as a stranger but someone we feel a deep connection to. ❤ We can deepen our compassion and make it more frequent by practicing showing love to others and contemplating their joy & suffering.
True Love
The world would be so much more peaceful and happier if we all practice love in its purest sense. Demanding nothing in return for our love. Pure love is non-conditional. ❤
Empathy
Let’s remember to treat everyone with love & kindness even if those people are doing things we don’t care much for. We don’t always know what their story is. They can be suffering and we never even know. Showing lovingkindness to them can be all they need to brighten their day even if just a little bit. Let’s try to see life through someone else’s eyes. ❤
The Pay Phone
Beautiful post about living in the present while also appreciating old mostly forgotten things like pay phones and the stories surrounding them. 😀 ❤
Deity in Diversity
Breathtaking poem & photo!! ❤ I can feel the love and beauty seeping through the screen as I read!
Maybe someday we will
have written about humanity
and grace so much
that the paper we scribble on
will burn down
the forest of hate
that grows in casket-closed minds,
eradicating words like
racism, hate, bigotry.
The fire cleansing away
evil and ignorance.
Strike a match with
your pen.
Let’s try at least to
direct the language toward love.
Let’s keep moving the
adjectives higher and higher.
Trust the verbs to lead us,
the pin of light, to the fire.
Maybe as the trees come undone,
leaves igniting,
branches bursting with truth,
charity and clarity will rise.
Rustling beneath skin.
Love rising, tapping deep.
Opening eyes and cleaning tongues
in the dialect of compassion.
Hope slipping into the core.
Porous and large.
Looking out in every direction
until it is inside the sky,
the rocks, the moon.
Lacing the night and hearts with promise,
the rainy season finally over.
Until…
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My Painting
Beautiful & inspiring! Check it out & put some color in your world! 😀 ❤
SELF-REFLECTION
DAY 9
ART IS MY PASSION
HERE IS ANOTHER PIECE BY ME
What is your passion? If you do not know, find it and pursue it. It will make you a happier person. Trust me.
Love lived first
This is a heartbreaking and beautiful tribute by a loving mother to her beautiful son who has left this Earth much too soon. It’s a beautiful reminder to see love & beauty even through the agony and tears of grief. Like she says, if grief exists then so does love. Grief is incredibly painful but grief itself is an indication of love. So whenever we grieve, let’s not forget to see the beauty in it also, the love we had and still will always have for the ones we have lost. Grief shows how those we lost have touched us deeply and always will. ❤ ❤ I'm thankful for this amazing reminder to see the light & beauty that still exists through the pain. It will never take the pain away but it's still great to honor the love we have for the ones no longer on Earth with us and to honor them. ❤
Thursday 21st January
“grief only exists
where love lived
first”
Every morning when I awake
I look upon your smiling face.
Your photograph is close to me.
But all I feel is an empty space.
Excitement is not what it was.
Grief is always in the shadows,
Biding its time before a strike,
Where and when, no one knows.
The pain stops you in your tracks.
In the midst of cheerfulness: boom.
Painful emotions and floods of tears,
Fill the atmosphere with gloom.
Yet, the anguish is there for a reason.
Our love for you was so immense,
Your loss is just so indescribable,
Our love was unbelievably intense.
So, every night before I close my eyes
I look upon your smiling face.
Your photograph looks back at me
Sending love from a higher place.
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Bloggers that Blog
Two great blogs here, both this one I’m reblogging & the one being promoted in this post! I love this attitude of wanting an active blogsphere, stepping outside of our own little world and wanting to support others! A great blogging community is one where we are all connected and engaged. I plan to get better with this and visit & promote more blogs than I have been! 😀
