Sacred Ruminations: Happy Valentine's Day

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I appreciate all of you who visit, and I enjoy the comments many of you leave behind. I do my best to respond to any questions in a timely manner if your email is available. In addition, I do my best to visit your blogs and leave comments as time permits.

Click to learn ... How I Became a Blogger

Late in October of 2007, I started playfully exploring possibilities here and at Small Reflections. Initially I published daily on both sites, but in mid-January of 2008, I gave myself permission to rethink things.

Since committing to Blog 365 at Small Reflections, I've continued to publish daily there, but I'm considering alternating days and/or experimenting a bit with a variety of possibilities in an attempt to balance my online activities with my "real life" ... without giving "short shrift" to either blog. Therefore, it's all a work in progress, and I hope you'll bear with me.

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

Saturday, February 14, 2009

Happy Valentine's Day - PhotoHunt (Nautical)

This week's theme is 'nautical' ...

Walking in Long Beach
around the marina with
my new camera

snapping photographs ...
Serendipity? Perhaps
because I took these

pictures then collaged
them when TN Chick's email
arrived on Thursday.

Click to 'embiggen' for better viewing ...
& click for other Photo Hunters this week.

Click for
Camera Critters #45
HF#115 & Friday's Five Favs
HaikuFriday#114 & SkyWatch#29
HaikuSkyWatchFriday @ HappilyRetiredGal

If you need a 'shot of inspiration' here's a link to a lovely 3 minute video from Simple Truths sharing success secrets through awesome photos and powerful thoughts ... found in this morning's email.

This Valentine is for all my Bloggy Friends
and any visitors who leave me a comment ... just because.

Wishing you a delightful Valentine's Day

and wonderful weekend!

Thought for Today
"The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them." Stephen King

21 comments:

Mom Knows Everything said...: Thank you for the valentine! Happy Valentine's Day to you also!; February 14, 2009 at 11:00 AM
Mike Golch said...: I hope that you are having a great day and weekend,my friend.; February 14, 2009 at 11:48 AM
PowersTwinB said...: I loved your collage! Very beautiful subject! Happy Valentines Day...My hunt is up, please come and visit; February 14, 2009 at 1:21 PM
TorAa said...: Beautiful entries.

But you should consider how long time it takes to upload your site.

May be yiu have too many elements?

just some ideas from a blog friend in Norway; February 14, 2009 at 2:06 PM
Betty said...: Beautiful pictures. Lucky you in that you get to enjoy these views all the time.

Thank you for the Valentine card, and Happy Valentine's Day to you.

I hope you are enjoying your weekend.; February 14, 2009 at 2:09 PM
ApriltheScrapaholic said...: Great photos...so pretty and vibrant colors..........Happy Valentines Day!; February 14, 2009 at 2:26 PM
Anonymous said...: Happy Happy Valentine's Day!!!; February 14, 2009 at 4:05 PM
Geraldine said...: Ahhh...too cute for words(just don't let the cats hear that, ok!!!)

Hugs and Happy Valentine's to you. G; February 14, 2009 at 4:40 PM
SandyCarlson said...: Talk about perfect!; February 14, 2009 at 6:29 PM
Unknown said...: The collage is nice. The water looks so blue and beautiful.; February 14, 2009 at 8:30 PM
NicciN said...: Happy Valentine's Day. I love the photos of the marina.; February 14, 2009 at 9:16 PM
Karen said...: What a lovely looking day!; February 15, 2009 at 4:24 AM
Hootin Anni said...: What a gorgeous collage of 'nautical'!!! And such a sweet Valentine's Day gift.

Thanks for visiting me and viewing my Photo Hunt blog yesterday!!; February 15, 2009 at 6:32 AM
Anonymous said...: I love the collage take on the theme especially that bright red boat and the bicycles lined up by the boats. The sailboats look so naked without their sails.

Thanks for visiting my photohunt this week.; February 15, 2009 at 3:30 PM
Joyce said...: What lovely nautical shots you have collaged. And, Thank You for the delightful valentine!; February 15, 2009 at 3:35 PM
Unknown said...: Looks like you another perfect day for a walk photo safari. :); February 15, 2009 at 5:36 PM
Marites said...: beautiful pics and it's really nice to walk through all that:); February 15, 2009 at 6:12 PM
Dick said...: Nice pictures, the dogs are cute.
I hope your Valentine's day was great.; February 16, 2009 at 8:43 AM
Sandee said...: Boats, water and puppies. It doesn't get any better than that.

Hope you had a wonderful Valentine's day. Big hug. :); February 17, 2009 at 9:46 AM
Momisodes said...: Such beautiful views of the waterside. Those blue skies are such a nice backdrop. Hope you had a lovely weekend.; February 17, 2009 at 12:55 PM
Gattina said...: Looks like holidays to me !!; February 17, 2009 at 10:20 PM