Month: December 2017
you are…
Don’t try to be someone else…
the cosmos has come together
and helped you manifest in this way, and you are beautiful just as you are.
To be beautiful means to be yourself.
~
Thich Nhat Hanh
you are. simple as that.
it takes courage to be authentic, to settle into who we are and all we have to offer through our talents and our open hearts, yet continue to open and grow. but it is our authenticity that benefits the world and connects us to others in a genuine way.
be you, be beautiful. it is your gift to this world.
~j
#YouAre #BeYou #BeBeautiful #authenticity #courage #presence #gift #OpenHeart #beauty #PlantingSeeds #TheLongArc #Zen #enso #JMWart
light and darkness…
I will love the light
for it shows me the way,
yet I will endure the darkness
for it shows me the stars.
~
Og Mandino
#light #darkness #balance #meditation #JustSit #breathe #JMWart
#TheShapeOfThings
just this…
“Light, landscape and sky.
There is no language of the holy.
The sacred lies in the ordinary.”
~
Ming-Dao Deng
#JustThis #presence #sacred #Tao #nature #life #Zen #Buddhism #enso #JMWart
#TheShapeOfThings
Rise…
we are interconnected…
get out of your head, and into your heart. or better yet, find the balance between the two.
~j
#interconnection #interdependence #OpenHeart #AllInTheSameBoat #InThisTogether #relaxed #open
#TheShapeOfThings
love is it…
The message of Christmas is so much more radical than the welcome and beneficial sentiments of warmth and familial love.
That a small refugee infant with parents trying to find safe haven in a foreign country, fleeing from their home and the danger there, poor and homeless, would become a symbol of divine and sacred love, a messenger of peace and generosity of heart, speaking truth to power, standing up for the vulnerable and powerless, giving space and attention to the outsider, the outcast.
An incredible message and life changing if we open our hearts to it.
We need this Christmas message today.
May it strike our hearts at their core, opening us to love all, including and most especially the refugee, the homeless, the foreigner, the poor, the vulnerable and outcast.
May it be so.
And may you and your family and friends have a Merry Christmas.
Wishing you all that is beautiful and beneficial today and everyday.
May you be happy, may you be safe and at ease, and may you be free from suffering.
~j
12.25.17
#Christmas #NoBansNoWalls #TheLongArc #PlantingSeeds #LoveWins
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