Posted on September 17, 2009 by Shiny Things
If patience is a virtue, then I must not be a very virtuous woman! Sigh…
Peace,
~me
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“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves…
Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given to you
because you will not be [...]
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Posted on September 14, 2009 by Shiny Things
I’ve had sick kiddos lately. But sometimes it allows me more time to meander through the pages of books! While reading several very good books, what I’ve BOUGHT is poetry. And I ran across this beautiful passage:
The Great WorkLove
Is the great work
Though every heart is first an
Apprentice
That slaves beneath the city of Light.
This [...]
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Posted on August 14, 2009 by Shiny Things
You’ll seldom experience regret for anything that you’ve done.
It is what you haven’t done that will torment you.
The message, therefore, is clear.
Do it!
Develop an appreciation for the present moment.
Seize every second of your life and savor it. ~Dr. Wayne Dyer
I have spent the summer months taking this message, in its [...]
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Posted on August 1, 2009 by Shiny Things
“You will find meaning in life only if you create it.
It is not lying there somewhere behind the bushes, so you can go and you search a little bit and find it.
It is not there like a rock that you will find.
It is a poetry to be composed,
it is a song to be sung,
it is [...]
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Posted on July 20, 2009 by Shiny Things
To live content with small means…
to seek elegance rather than luxury…
refinement rather than fashion…
to be worthy, not respectable…
and wealthy, not rich…
to study hard,
think quietly,
talk gently,
act frankly;
to listen
to stars and birds,
to babes and sages,
with open heart;
to bear all cheerfully,
do all bravely,
await occasion,
hurry never;
in a word,
to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious grow up through the common.
This [...]
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