“What the forest knows and can teach each of us as we walk and pause quietly among the still trees, is that the light always returns.”
-Andrea Fereshtek
For Arlisa and Shannon – showering you with Light, Love & Healing Warmth!!
Tag Archives: Simple Life
The Listening Heaven
“Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.”
– Rabindranath Tagore
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.
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.
Light the Way for Love
LIGHT THE WAY FOR LOVE by Susan Frybort (from Open Passages: Doors and Windows to the Soul)
They say beauty comes from a spirit that has weathered many hardships in life and somehow continues with resilience. Grace can be found in a soul who ages softly, even amid the tempest.
I think the loveliest by far is the one whose gentle heart bears
a hundred scars from caring, yet still finds a way to pick up the lamp, one more time, to light the way for love.
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
One Vast Awakened Thing
“I have lots of things to teach you now, in case we ever meet, concerning the message that was transmitted to me under a pine tree in North Carolina on a cold winter moonlit night.
It said that Nothing Ever Happened, so don’t worry. It’s all like a dream. Everything is ecstasy, inside. We just don’t know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever. Close your eyes, let your hands and nerve-ends drop, stop breathing for 3 seconds, listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson you forgot, which was taught in immense milky way soft cloud innumerable worlds long ago and not even at all. It is all one vast awakened thing. I call it the golden eternity. It is perfect.”
-Jack Kerouac
