“Come with me into the woods where spring is advancing, as it does, no matter what, not being singular or particular, but one of the forever gifts, and certainly visible.”
-Mary Oliver
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to bloom.”
-Anais Nin
“Every spring is the only spring – a perpetual astonishment.”
-Ellis Peters
“In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.”
—John Muir.
“Kindness is like snow –
It beautifies everything it covers.”
-Kahlil Gibran
“When sleeping women wake, mountains move.”
-Chinese Proverb
“Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.”
-Alice Walker
There is solace to be found, always.
May you find your solace even amidst chaos and uncertainty, at the abiding center of yourself, deep inside.
My solace is found in silence, writing, books, animals, simplicity, music, friendship, laughter and nature, yes, these are my places. Those sweet things that resonate to the core of being.
Yes, there is solace to be found.
“..i spill into
the kind of silence
only Khalil Gibran would understand.”-Sanober Khan
“Writing is the supreme solace.”
-W. Somerset Maugham
“Find joy and solace in the simple, and cultivate your utopia by felling the Tao in every cubic inch of space.”
-Wayne Dyer
“Books can be a source of solace…”
-Michael Dirda
“I find solace in animals. I have a stray dog at home called Candy. I picked it up while I w as waiting at the airport one day. I always wanted to have a “macho” dog but got this sweet little thing instead.”
-Randeep Hooda
“Music has always been a great solace for me. It’s still something that gives me far more joy than movies, I must say. I love movies too. But somehow, music can transport you. There are so many different kinds of experiences you can have with music.”
-Allison Anders
“Is solace anywhere more comforting than in the arms of a sister?”
-Alice Walker
“Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion.
-Lorraine Anderson
“I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.”
-Anne Frank
“Laughter heals, gives solace, and is life enhancing.”
-Liz Carpenter
How lovely to find quotes for each and every one of my special solaces….
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”* * * * *“We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.”* * * * *“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”* * * * *“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”* * * * *“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”-Martin Luther King
“We do not become healers.
We came as healers. We are.
Some of us are still catching up to what we are.
We do not become storytellers.
We came as carriers of the stories
we and our ancestors actually lived. We are.
Some of us are still catching up to what we are.
We do not become artists. We came as artists. We are.
Some of us are still catching up to what we are.
We do not become writers.. dancers.. musicians.. helpers.. peacemakers. We came as such. We are.
Some of us are still catching up to what we are.
We do not learn to love in this sense.
We came as Love. We are Love.
Some of us are still catching up to who we truly are.– A Simple Prayer for Remembering the Motherlode
by Clarissa Pinkola Estes from The Contemplari
“Death is nothing at all.
It does not count.
I have only slipped away into the next room.
Nothing has happened. Everything remains exactly as it was.
I am I, and you are you,
and the old life that we lived so fondly together is untouched, unchanged.
Whatever we were to each other, that we are still. Call me by the old familiar name.
Speak of me in the easy way which you always used.
Put no difference into your tone.
Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow. Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes that we enjoyed together.
Play, smile, think of me, pray for me.
Let my name be ever the household word that it always was.
Let it be spoken without an effort, without the ghost of a shadow upon it. Life means all that it ever meant.
It is the same as it ever was.
There is absolute and unbroken continuity.
What is this death but a negligible accident? Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight?
I am but waiting for you, for an interval,
somewhere very near,
just round the corner.All is well.
Nothing is hurt; nothing is lost.
One brief moment and all will be as it was before.
How we shall laugh at the trouble of parting when we meet again!”-Henry Scott-Holland
Remembering Samantha, Ben, Stephanie, Nancy, and two of my friend’s Dads (Heidi and Judi)…. until me meet again!
“For all that has been,
Thank you.
For all that is to come,
Yes!”
-Dag Hammarskjol
“For last year’s words
belong to last year’s language
and next year’s words
await another voice.”
-T. S. Elliot
Here’s to celebrating and reflecting on all of the words, events, moments, hours, learning, growth and love of 2016,
and
to our deepened, more attuned, and newly aware voice of 2017!
Radiance, Love, Light
and True Being
in 2017 ya’ll!!!!
