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While expecting hopefully that the environment will be changed by our collective efforts, we must also make sure...#quote Moshe #Feldenkrais

12 Jun

While expecting hopefully that the environment will be changed by our collective efforts, we must also make sure that everything amenable to human influence in each individual is used to facilitate adaptation. This will not only eliminate much misery in the present generation but also give a better chance to the next.

Moshe Feldenkrais
Body & Mature Behavior
A study of anxiety, sex, gravitation, & learning

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Today I pray...the power to act... #AA #bigbook

5 Jun

Today I pray, I ask, that I be given the power to act knowing that I have at least a half-chance to make the right decision and I can learn from a wrong one. 

For so long decision-making seemed beyond my capabilities. Now I can find joy in being able make choices.

Thank you God for courage.

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An AA reading shared this morning by a recovering alcholic. When we locate the source, will post.

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...Begin the day with love, spend the day with love, end the day with love....#quote #SwamiBuaji

29 May
Be kind,
be tolerant,
be peaceful,
be philanthropic,
radiate love and affection with whomever you come across.
Thanks be to God, the creator of this human body, the architect of this human machine.
You are not this body, you are not this mind.
You are something supreme, you are something divine.
Begin the day with love,
spend the day with love,
fill the day with love,
end the day with love.
That is the way to God.
 
Swami Buaji

 

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“God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. Jewish Proverb #mothers

8 May

“God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.

Jewish Proverb

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...Let him say not merely, "Christ is risen," but "I shall rise." read more #quotes #easter

24 Apr
Victory

Let every man and woman count himself  immortal. 
Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurrection. 
Let him say not merely, "Christ is risen," but "I shall rise."  ~Phillips Brooks

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If you have to let go of distractions and begin again thousands of times, fine. That's not a roadblock to the practice--that IS the practice.. #SharonSalzberg #meditation

17 Apr

If you have to let go of distractions and begin again thousands of times, fine. That's not a roadblock to the practice--that IS the practice.
That's life starting over, one breath at a time.

Sharon Salzberg on meditation
Getting Started
Shambala Sun, May 2011

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My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items I notice shape my mind. #WilliamJames #quotr

11 Apr

My experience is what I agree to attend to.
Only those items I notice shape my mind.

William James
Pioneering psychologist

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Earth was the jewel of our breathing...a wondrous cat's eye marble rolling. #poetry #TimNolan

10 Apr
We knew that the rising Earth was
the jewel of our breathing, the swirling of our weather,
a wondrous cat’s eye marble rolling across black velvet,
 
Excerpt from Words Can Describe by Timothy J. Nolan
 
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Found through Susan Glassmeyer from www.LittlePocketPoetry.org

For several years now, in honor of national poetry month, Susan sends a poem a day throughout April to poem lovers. She meticulously researches the poem, poet and permission rights the other 11 months as she prepares to share the gifts of poets, obscure or well known alike. This poem is about the first landing on the moon and the astronauts pure but inarticulate expression of what they saw. Nolan gives the description another go imagining instead the words of him, the poet flowing polished outward.

Visit www.LittlePocketPoetry.org.  There you will find the archives of past April Gifts.  Soon the 2011 selections and this poem, which is well worth reading in its entirety, will join the archives. Next to "Words can't describe" coming from the astronauts, Nick's blissful turn of words are a close second in describing the beauty of earth from deep space. Plus if you want a poem a day to ponder in April 2012, you can join the list for next year.
 
Thanks Susan for all the annual work in introducing us to a poem a day during national poetry month!

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If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. The #DalaiLama #quotes #happiness

7 Apr

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

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I stood still. I forgot who I was...My worldliness was gone... St John of the Cross | Among The White Lilies #poetry

3 Apr
Lillies

In my chest full of flowers,
Flowering wholly and only for Him,
There He remained sleeping;
I cared for Him there,
And the fan of the high cedars cooled Him.
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I stood still. I forgot who I was,
My face leaning against Him,
Everything stopped, abandoned me,
My worldliness was gone, forgotten
Among the white lilies.
 
Among The White Lilies by St John of the Cross (excerpt, version by Robert Bly)
Ten Poems to Change Your Life by Roger Housden

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