Sacred Ruminations: Haiku Friday #100

Food for Thought

(or reminders for myself)

Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.
Barbara De Angelis

"Whatever can come to a woman can come to me
Whatever can happen to anyone can happen to me."
Muriel Rukeyser

"I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much."--Mother Teresa

"It is better to ask some questions than to know all the answers." James Thurber

"Forgive yourself for everything you did not know in the past but do now. Don't waste any of your precious energy beating yourself, or anyone else, up. Your power to change your life is in the present, regardless of your past."
Dr. Christiane Northrup

"Your purpose is to heal yourself first in mind and intent. Declare this principle to yourself -- I intend to walk the highest path to my awakening. I am fearless in the face of learning to discipline my mind and actions so they are attuned to my true divinity." Doreen Virtue

"Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in this life has a purpose." Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

More thoughts ...

"It requires a direct dispensation from Heaven to become a walker." Henry David Thoreau

"It is no small task to change one's focus from what can go wrong to what can go right and to empower women to shift from destructive behaviors to those that are generally associated with health. I want to awaken that still, small wise, intuitive voice in all of us, that voice of our own body that we have been forced to ignore through our culture's illness, misinformation, and dysfunction. I want to give you the courage to listen to that voice and act on it." Dr. Christiane Northrup

"No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place." Maya Angelou

"I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. Diane Ackerman

"No one needs to know that you've shut the world out and are meditating as you stroll down the street. Twenty minutes to a half-hour every day is a good amount of time to restore a sense of serenity." Sarah Ban Breathnach

"One of the marks of an intelligent person is to be able to distinguish what is worth doing and what isn't and to be able to set priorities." Anne Wilson Schaef

"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love." Sophocles

More thoughts ...

"Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength." Sigmund Freud

"I need to understand the dynamics of effort & success. I will spend my energy on things & and activities that bring me the most fulfillment. I will spend less energy on the "stuff" that ultimately has no meaning to me." Dr. Christiane Northrup

"However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do if you do not act upon them?"
Buddha

"The greatest contribution that you can make is the aliveness that comes from simply being yourself, living your truth, and doing what you love. The passionate expression of who we are will heal the world." Shatki Gawain

"It is in solitude that we discover that being is more important than having and that we are worth more than the result of our efforts. In solitude we discover that our life is not a possession to be defended, but a gift to be shared." Henri H. Nouwen, theologian

"I am ready to supply the earth's needs with my riches. I seize upon my wealth within and give freely as I am replenished." Doreen Virtue

"... perception can be given a new purpose. ... Follow His Light, and see the world as He beholds it. Hear His Voice alone in all that speaks to you. And let him give you peace and certainty which you have thrown away, but Heaven has preserved for you in Him." A Course in Miracles

More thoughts

"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it." Rumi

"I believe I'm here to speak my truth and that's all I have to do. I don't have to make people understand it... I just have to speak the truth." ~Anne Wilson Schaef

"A woman is like a teabag-only in hot water do you realize how strong she is." Eleanor Roosevelt

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow.
Learn as if you were to live forever."
Mahatma Ghandi

"...We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us. ... And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." Nelson Mandela

“Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily. If a person does not invent herself, she will be invented. So, to be bodacious enough to invent ourselves is wise.” - Maya Angelou

“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”
Rumi

"A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place, but a seed to be planted and to bear more seeds toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea." ~ Henry David Thoreau

"I have lived long enough to learn how much there is I can really do without.... He is nearest to God who needs the fewest things." Socrates

Welcome to Sacred Ruminations

Milestone & Motivator
"It is one of the most beautiful
compensations in life ... that no man
can sincerely try to help another
without helping himself."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Milestone today
one hundred Haiku posts shared
in 2008 ...

Half are here and the
rest are at Small Reflections
with a few for good

measure at my new
Happily Retired Gal ...
All Haiku-Sky Watch!

I created this
Sky collage to put on my
Christmas card this year

illustrating the
varied views we see in my
So Cal neighborhood.

"Life can be complicated, but happiness is pretty simple."
from Simple Secrets

One more gift to share
I hope you will take the time
to view this brief clip

from Mac Anderson
found in Simple Truths email
early this morning

guaranteed to put
a smile upon your face
as it does on mine.

Click for a second
Haiku Sky Watch Friday
at Happily Retired Gal
and for others participating
in Sky Watch & Haiku Friday this week.

"The only things that stand between a person and what they want in life are the will to try it, and the faith to believe it's possible."
Rich Devos

18 comments:

Steffi said...: Fantastic Skywatch photos!Very beautiful!Happy SWF!; December 26, 2008 at 8:23 AM
George said...: You've made a beautiful collage for your cards. Absolutely gorgeous.; December 26, 2008 at 8:34 AM
Sandee said...: I love your collages. I need to learn how to do this.

Hope you had a wonderful Christmas. Have a terrific day. Big hug. :); December 26, 2008 at 9:03 AM
Mary Ann said...: I love your collages, too. The skies are beautiful.

"...the will to try it and the faith to believe it's possible" is how I feel about happiness in the new year.

Thank you for the ruminations!; December 26, 2008 at 10:21 AM
Anonymous said...: The oranges are my favorite! Very beautifully done. :D
I'm looking up at the skies here. Happy Friday.; December 26, 2008 at 11:53 AM
Anonymous said...: Beautiful collage of gorgeous skies! Very well done. :); December 26, 2008 at 12:11 PM
Pat - Arkansas said...: What a lovely collage! The recipients of your Christmas cards got quite a treat.

Wishing you a Happy New Year!; December 26, 2008 at 1:54 PM
Maude Lynn said...: One hundred haikus! Wow!; December 26, 2008 at 4:04 PM
Raven said...: Beautiful collage of skies. I had planned to do Skywatch this week but since I had no internet connection for two days guess my skies will have to wait. Hope you had a wonderful Christmas.

By the way, thank you for the award... I have a very difficult time dealing with those things... even acknowledging them. It's very rude of me and I apologize.; December 26, 2008 at 6:33 PM
Cloudia said...: Haikus, skies & inspiration. Cool!
Kinda what my blog is about (minus the haiku, I do post quotes daily)I'll be back, Aloha-; December 26, 2008 at 7:43 PM
SandyCarlson said...: This is a beautiful collage. So. Cal. sure is purty! Beautiful work from a beautiful person. Merry Christmas.; December 27, 2008 at 3:52 AM
Michelle said...: What a neat idea for a Christmas card. Beautiful pictures! Thanks for sharing the quote by Emerson. He was a wise man.; December 27, 2008 at 6:51 AM
Arija said...: It sure is a nice collage but my old eyes getlost in a supermarket selection, they allmeld together into a blur.; December 27, 2008 at 1:07 PM
ya ya's mom said...: beautiful collage
nicely crafted haiku too
simply amazing!

thanks for visiting my haiku friday...i actually just put my christmas cards in the mail today!!! wahoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1; December 27, 2008 at 2:49 PM
The Muse said...: Super~100, filled with meaning...filled with YOUR voice!
Congrats!; December 27, 2008 at 9:59 PM
maryt/theteach said...: storyteller, the collage is lovely and you're so lucky to have California skies! :); December 28, 2008 at 7:16 AM
RW said...: They all look so WARM! Great post!! :D; December 28, 2008 at 10:59 AM
Karen said...: Another lovely collage! And congrats on the anniversary--may you continue to haiku for thousands of posts...; December 30, 2008 at 10:28 AM