A journey begins… traveling south away from these northwest wonders and into new ones. Open to each and every experience and opening.
“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.”
-Henry Miller
“Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.”
-Miriam Beard
“We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world.”
-Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
There is SO much more to be aware of! Take a minute. Allow several long sweet breaths. Notice the depth that is possible in this moment. Be aware of the wonders – the possibilities – the connections – the expansion and the deepening….
Explore the endless landscape of awareness.
“The treasure that you are seeking, is inside you.
The beauty of the sound is that it opens doorways for you to go inside…
to make contact with that which you already have”.
~Tom Kenyon
“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
-Carl Jung
…”Your still, quiet waters run deep. Go to the water. Ask. Listen. The advice you seek is in YOU.”
-Kris Carr
The inner world is a big, ever and all knowing universe. As huge as the expanding cosmos, a lifetime of exploration contained there. The vibration of atoms and quarks and bosons constantly moving and creating. As the movement of the Milky Way, constellations, star nebulas so the movement and vibrations of particles that make up everything. We are made of stardust!
“The cosmos is within us. We are made of star stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.”
-Carl Sagan
“The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.”
-Chief Joseph
“Happy day to all those who mother- whether or not you have ever given birth. Some of the best mothering I have received has been from friends, some of whom do not have children. They have fed me, held me, listened to me (endlessly! ) & given me strength. I bow to all those who tend & befriend. And I bow to our shared Mother, the Earth- who supports & sustains us.”
-Oriah Mountain Dreamer
“Breathing in I Feel Gratitude…
Breathing out I Give Thanks…
Breathing in I Feel Joyful…
Breathing out I Celebrate…
Breathing in I Know Compassion…
Breathing out I Am Compassion…
Breathing in I Feel Loved
Breathing out I Offer Love…
Breathing in I Am Still…
Breathing out I Am At Peace…
Breathing in I am Enough… “-Aunty Nania, Molokai
Sweet breathing indeed!
*The photo at the top of this post is of Nanaistako, Chief Mountain, a most sacred place of the Blackfeet Nation. It radiates power and masculinity for miles and is quite beautiful in myriad ever changing light blessings and in every season. Love spending time with the Chief.
“Earth’s crammed with heaven…
But only he who sees, takes off his shoes.”
–Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh
“Truth is not something outside to be discovered,
it is something inside to be realized.”
–Osho
“Thought can organize the world so well that you are no
longer able to see it.”
-Anthony de Mello
I see wonders everywhere! From tiny stills in the forest, to the incomprehensible star majesty, these gifts surround us, asking nothing but our attention. Power, calm, wind, clouds, big trees, rocks, the creatures… so much – just so very much, to mesh with us and take in. In gratitude and with a long sweet breath, the day is embraced, the wonders absorbed…
“There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
–Albert Einstein-Albert Einstein
“The world is full of magic things,
patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
-W.B. Yeats
May your day and night be filled with wonder, miracles and magic!
“Everything is energy and that’s all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics.”
-Bashar? (many times attributed to Einstein, but from what I researched, most likely Bashar?)
I get lost in the concepts, connections and potentials of the Energy that makes up all of us – makes up everything – from our planet, to the animals, to the rocks and mountains. It is a mesmerizing subject that compels endless hours…
Einstein did say this,
“Matter is energy. Energy is Light. We are all Light Beings”.
-Albert Einstein
These are not touchy-feely statements – these are tenants of physics. The implications are empowering and staggering in the ways we can be here in the world as energy beings. We are energy, we are connected, we are powerful beyond measure in the creation of our life. Change your vibration and you change your world.
In this Spring Time of unfolding life, this energetic nature that we share with all the creatures and with our planet, seems more pronounced, closer to the surface, easier to feel and touch.
Think good thoughts, feel your energy, touch your connections, direct your intentions. Be in love with life!
Life will love you back!!
“We’re fields of energy in an infinite energy field.”
–e.e. cummings
The video below provides ten minutes of beautiful images, wisdom filled words, and a simple and profound perspective that may change your days. Take a minute (well, ten minutes). I promise it will be worth it…
Time and a sense of wonder. Amazing what depth they bring to your hours and your sense of gratitude.
Time and wonder – I hope you can give those gifts to yourself today.
“I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting as it were, into the system of beings, in identifying myself with the whole of nature.” -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Everywhere water is flowing, moving, seeking new adventures. Awakening the earth, trees, sprouts, bushes and bears. The melting brings a sweet song and a green promise.
What will you make of the promise of Spring?
“Because when the spring comes,
it melts the snow one flake at a time”
-Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
“Spring rain conveyed
under the trees in drops”
-Matsuo Basho
“Daughter of heaven and earth, coy Spring,
With sudden passion languishing,
Teaching barren moors to smile,
Painting pictures mile on mile,
Holds a cup of cowslip wreaths
Whence a smokeless incense breathes.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
