“Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.”
– Rabindranath Tagore
Category Archives: Sweet Breathing
Melting into Music
“The snow is melting into music.”
-John Muir
Earth Like a Child
“It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.”
-Rainer Maria Rilke
Awakening, illuminating, unfolding, empowering… Spring begins in all her glory today! Every day new and glorious, seen from new eyes like those of a child instills wonder and awe. Like a poem. Like the heart itself.
The Wonder of the Universe
Thank you Stephen Hawking for never giving up. It did matter and we won’t forget. We’ll continue to try to unravel your brilliance…
“So remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes a universe exist.
Be curious.
And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don’t give up.”
-Stephen Hawking
Driven by the Spheres
“I saw eternity the other night,
like a ring of pure and endless light,
All calm as it was bright;
And round beneath it, Time in hours, days, years,
Driv’n by the spheres…”
-Henry Vaughan
A Little Parenthesis in Eternity
“We are travelers on a cosmic journey, stardust swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment. A little parenthesis in eternity.”
-Paulo Coelho
Not Goodbye
For Paul
Thank you for allowing me to say goodbye,
But it isn’t.
I’ll miss knowing you’re on the planet,
But I’ll feel you on the evening breeze
And always hear you in my Heart.
Saying it out loud.
Soul endures.
And eternity is eternal.
Energy is not destroyed, only and always transformed.
Here’s to your transformation!
Teach me from the other side.
And know I will hold you close.
I celebrate your Life and your New Beginning.
I will always celebrate You.
Live! (And Run Away From Sensible Advice)
“You start dying slowly
if you do not travel,
if you do not read,
if you do not listen to the sounds of life,
if you do not appreciate yourself.
You start dying slowly when you kill your self-esteem,
when you do not let others help you.
You start dying slowly if you become a slave to your habits,
walking everyday on the same paths… if you do not change your routine.
If you do not wear different colors or you do not speak to those you don’t know.
You start dying slowly if you avoid to feel passion & its turbulent emotions, those that make your eyes glisten & your heart beat fast.
You start dying slowly if you do not change your life when you are not satisfied with your job, or with your love, or with your surroundings. If you do not risk what is safe for the uncertain, if you do not go after a dream,
if you do not allow yourself,
at least once in your lifetime
to run away from sensible advice.”
-Pablo Neruda
The photos below speak to me of these themes of LIVING:
The Miracle in Everything
“To walk quietly until the miracle in everything speaks is poetry, whether we write it down or not.”
~ Mark Nepo
Within My Heart
“I looked in temples, churches and
mosques; but I found the Divine within
my heart.”~ Rumi
