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"A book like a landscape, is a state of consciousness"
- Ernest Dimnet
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"A house without books is like a room without windows"
- Horace Mann
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Removing the barriers and allowing the power of intention to work with and through you.
1. Become conscious of your thoughts
2. Make meditation a regular practice in your life
3. Become conscious of the foods you eat
4. Retreat from low energy substances
5. Become conscious of the energy level of the music you listen to
6. Become aware of the energy levels of your home environment
7. Reduce your exposure to the energy of commercial and cable TV
8. Enhance your energy field with photographs
9. Become conscious of the energy levels of your acquaintances, friends and existing family
10.Monitor your activities and where they take place
11.Extend acts of kindness, asking for nothing in return
12.Be specific when you affirm your intention to raise your energy level and create your desires
13. As frequently as possible, hold thoughts of forgiveness in your mind
From the Book:
“ Intention” by Wayne Dyer
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This is one of the sacred duties of imagination: Honorably to imagine yourself…
The shortest distance in the world is the one between you and yourself.
No person is a finished thing, regardless of how frozen or paralyzed their self-image might be. Each one of us is in a state of
perennial formation. Carried within the flow of time, you are coming to be who you are in every new emerging moment.
The Gifts The Imagination Brings:
• The imagination is like a lantern. It illuminates the inner landscapes of our life and helps us discover their secret archaeologies.
• The imagination has retained the grace of innocence. This is no naïve, untested innocence.
• The imagination retains a passion for freedom. There are no rules for the imagination.
• The imagination keeps the heart young. When the imagination is alive, the life remains youthful.
• The imagination awakens the wildness of the heart.
• The imagination has no patience with repetition. The old clichés of explanation and meaning are unmasked and their trite transparency no longer offers shelter.
• The imagination offers wholesomeness: heart and head, feeling and thought come into balance. To follow the mind alone inevitably leads to an isolated and lonesome life.
• The imagination offers revelation. It never blasts us with information or numbs us with description.
• The imagination works through suggestion, not description. Description is always direct and frequently closes off what it names.
• The imagination has a deep sense of irony. It is wide awake to the limitation of its own suggestions and showings.
• The imagination creates a pathway of reverence for the visitations of beauty. It opens up diverse ways into the complex and lyrical
forest of experience.
The passion of the imagination is nourished from a deeper source, namely, Eros.
The force of Eros keeps the thresholds of our lives vital, dangerous and inviting.
Passages from the book “Beauty” By John O’Donohue
Chapter 6: “Imagination: Beauty’s Entrance”
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“If anything is sacred the human body is sacred”
Walt Whitman
The Summer Day
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
Mary Oliver
We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
Anais Nin, diarist
I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, from his journal(1843)
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Please call me by my true names
Thich Nhat Hanh
Do not say that I’ll depart tomorrow
Because even today I still arrive
Look deeply: I arrive in every second
To be a bud on a spring branch,
To be a tiny bird, with wings still fragile,
Learning to sing in my new nest.
To be a caterpillar in the heart of a flower,
To be a jewel hiding itself in a stone.
I still arrive, in order to laugh and to cry,
In order to fear and to hope,
The rhythm of my heart is the birth and death of all that are alive.
I am a may fly metamorphosing on the surface of the river,
And I am the bird which, when spring comes, arrives in time to eat the may fly.
I am a frog swimming happily in the clear water of a pond,
And I am the grass-snake who, approaching in silence, feeds itself on the frog.
I am the child in Uganda, all skin and bones,
My legs as thin as a bamboo stick,
And I am the Arms Merchant, selling deadly weapons to Uganda.
I am the twelve year old girl, refugee on a small boat,
Who throws herself into the ocean after being raped by a sea pirate,
And I am the pirate, in my heart not yet capable of seeing and loving.
I am a member of the politburo, with plenty of power in my hands,
And I am the man who has to pay his “debt of blood” to my people,
Dying slowly in a forced labor camp.
My joy is like spring, so warm it makes flowers bloom in all walks of life.
My pain is like a river of tears, so full it fills all four oceans.
Please call me by my true names, so I can hear all my cries and laughs at once,
So I can see that my joy and pain are one.
Please call me by my true names, so I can wake up and so the door of my heart can be left open, the door of compassion.
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“Yield and Overcome;
Bend and be Straight;
Empty and be Full;
Wear out and Be New;
Have Little and Gain;
Have Much and Be Confused”
Lao Tzu
“Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life’s ledger, there is no such thing as frozen assets.”
Henry Miller
“Polite conversation is rarely either.”
Fran Lebowitz
...respect one another, respect the privacy of the soul.
Henry Miller
Stand Still Like The Hummingbird
We must be willing
to get rid of the
life we planned, so
as to have the life
that is waiting for us.
–Joseph Campbell, author
What we must deide is perhaps how
we are valuable, rather than how valuable we are.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
To live content with small means,
to seek elegance rather than luxury,
and 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, babes and sages, with open heart,
to bear all cheerfully,
do all bravely,
await occasions,
hurry never—
in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious,
grow up through the common.
This is to be my symphony.
-William Ellery Channing
How Do You Measure Success?
To laugh often and much;
To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;
To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends;
To appreciate beauty;
To find the best in others;
To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, a redeeming social condition, or a job well done;
To know that even one other life has breathed easier because you have lived;
This is to have succeeded.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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