Sacred Ruminations: Today's Flowers - Blog Your Blessings Sunday

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

Mellow Yellow and Camera Critters too ;--)

Bees & wasps enjoy
flitting hither & yon from
blossom to blossom ...

This bee prefers orange
Nastursiums over yellow ...
Click to biggify ;--)

Click to embiggen for better viewing ...
for other participants in
Today's Flowers & Camera Critters, & Mellow Yellow Monday
and for my other Camera Critters at Happily Retired Gal this week.

It's the one year Anniversary of ...
Misty Dawn started the meme and explains the rules here.

"Don't let yesterday use up too much of today."
Cherokee Indian Proverb

It's good to feel healthy again! I've moved my March sidebar Gratitude list to Happily Retired Gal and started my April list at Small Reflections. Taking time each day to add something to the list keeps me paying attention to the everyday blessings I encounter.

My sister and her husband left for Alaska on Wednesday so I should have more time for blogging in the days & weeks ahead, but I suspect it will take considerable time to catch up. I'll do what I can as time & energy permit.

I've enjoyed creating collages to share on each of my blogs look forward to doing more of the same with the many photographs I've taken over the past few weeks.

In closing, on this Palm Sunday, I submit for your viewing this brief video clip from Simple Truths ... One Solitary Life.

What are some blessings in YOUR life currently?

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go to My Blog Rolls and/or click on the
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Thought for Today
"The story of Easter is the story of God's wonderful window of divine surprise." Carl Knudsen

13 comments:

Anonymous said...: So, it's named Nastursums...I'm learning so much names today. Beautiful flowers.; April 5, 2009 at 5:08 PM
Maude Lynn said...: The bee may prefer the orange, but I'll take either one! Beautiful flowers!; April 5, 2009 at 6:36 PM
PERBS said...: Wef inally got a blue sky yesterday day after a month of dismal gray and no sky to be seen.

For soem reason I can't watch videos and u tube stuff on my computer.

It was nice to drop by anyway. Come and see my surprise. . .; April 5, 2009 at 6:52 PM
Ebie said...: Thats a nice collage of your flowers.; April 5, 2009 at 8:35 PM
Arija said...: Nasturtiums are a wnderful multi-purpose plant, the buds can be pickled, the flowers brighten the garden often when nothing else is in bloom and make a welvcome and so pretty addition to a garden salad.; April 6, 2009 at 12:39 AM
Mom Knows Everything said...: Beautiful flowers once again! I'm glad you grabbed the CC badge. :o); April 6, 2009 at 10:28 AM
Joyce said...: I think I'll purchase some nasturtium seeds today. I want to do all I can to encourage the bees, whose numbers have been declining.

So glad to hear you're feeling better!; April 6, 2009 at 12:12 PM
DeniseinVA said...: Such beautiful flowers so pleasantly presented. Thank you for sharing.; April 6, 2009 at 12:14 PM
Vixen said...: I love the color combo on your mosaic! So bright and cheery. I am glad you are feeling better.; April 6, 2009 at 1:45 PM
Gemma Wiseman said...: Love these brightly coloured nasturtiums. I only have the orange ones in my garden. They are so hardy, bouncing right back after a hot Australian summer!; April 7, 2009 at 1:10 AM
Ari_1965 said...: I like your collages.; April 7, 2009 at 7:28 AM
Luiz Santilli Jr said...: Great composition!
Fantastic colors and marvelous flowers!
Great post.
Thankd for sharing!

Luiz; April 7, 2009 at 9:49 AM
Karen said...: I'd forgotten how much I love orange flowers (I think treating myself to a bouquet is in order). Lovely collage!; April 7, 2009 at 10:45 AM

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