It's all about love.
“The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him… a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create — so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.” Pearl S. Buck
“…creative expression, whether that means writing, dancing, bird-watching, or cooking, can give a person almost everything that he or she has been searching for: enlivenment, peace, meaning, and the incalculable wealth of time spent quietly in beauty.” Anne Lamott
(visit: www.sunset.com/travel/anne-lamott-how-to-find-time-00418000067331 for more: “Time Lost & Found” from Sunset, April 2010 issue)
“Your soul doesn’t care what you do for a living – and when your life is over, neither will you. Your soul cares only about what you are being while you are doing whatever you are doing.” Neale Donald Walsch
“A perfectly kept house is the sign of a misspent life.” Mary Randolph Carter
“…the great value of art — making the ordinary extraordinary. We awaken ourselves to the life we are living.” Natalie Goldberg, from Writing Down the Bones, p. 162.
“…we forget when we are busy or frightened…Afraid of being lost, we become lost.” Natalie Goldberg, paraphrased from Writing Down the Bones, p. 83.
“…be still — some part of you, at least — and know where you are, no matter how busy you are.” Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones, p. 83.
“If pain, no gain.” Jane Hallowell, CSYT, RYT
“We see things not as they are, but as we are.” Kant
“Practing yoga poses does not involve competing with one’s classmates, nor does it involve competing with oneself.” Jane Hallowell, CSYT, RYT
“Did you know that trees talk? Well they do. They talk to each other, and they’ll talk to you if you listen…I have learned a lot from trees: sometimes about the weather, sometimes about animals, sometimes about the Great Spirit.” Walking Buffalo (From Recovering the Soul: A Scientific and Spiritual Search by Larry Dossey, M.D., p. 100.)
“Our relatedness with other living forms provides us something we sorely need: a reverence for the life of all creatures great and small, and an expanded view of our place in nature–not as rulers over it, but as participants in it.” (From Recovering the Soul: A Scientific and Spiritual Search by Larry Dossey, M.D., p. 91.)
“I know I can’t compete with mother nature, but when I draw, it feels like it’s a big fan letter to her.” Jan Brett, author/illustrator of children’s books.
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive — to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.” Marcus Aurelius
“When instead of reacting against a situation, you merge with it, the solution arises out of the situation itself.” Eckhart Tolle
“Be” more, “Do” less. You are a human being, not a human doing. Stop trying so hard [and forcing everything].” Lissa Fountain
“The light within always shines. Nothing can dim that light. It’s a matter of allowing that light to shine through.” Phil Milgrom
“Happiness isn’t circumstance-dependent; it’s a frame of mind. You and you alone decide how to interpret everything that happens.” Marianne Williamson
“Accept the knocks of life as blessings in disguise.” Bhagavad Gita
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” Gandhi
“When your mind becomes peaceful, you discover the bliss of your own being.” From the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali.
“[Some scientific] experiments…tell us that what we consider the objective world depends in some measure on our own conscious processes. There is no fixed eternal reality……… true understanding is not to be achieved with the rational mind.” (From Space, Time, and Medicine by Larry Dossey, M.D., pp. 196 and 197)
