Sacred Ruminations: Blog Your Blessings and Today's Flowers

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

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

Really Good Things

1. I've enjoyed applying the new 'Digital Media' skills I'm learning in my evening Adult School classes ... most recently creating original templates for my collages as I did for my T-13 (featuring Molly and Ms. Kitty) at Happily Retired Gal, my Monochrome Maniac & Haiku Friday post at Small Reflections ... and again for Shadow Shots and Today's Flowers.

2. Tennis at the French Open this year has been exciting and unpredictable. I'm happy Svetlana Kuznetsova won the Women's Championship against Dinara Safina and am looking forward to the Men's Championship Match between Roger Federer and Robin Soderling tomorrow morning.

3. I published May's Sidebar Gratitude List from Small Reflections at Happily Retired Gal and started a new list for June. I'm looking forward to Monday's Retired Gal's Luncheon to see what everyone's been up to the past few weeks.

What are some blessings in YOUR life currently?

For others who 'Blog Their Blessings'

go to My Blog Rolls and/or click on the
Blog Your Blessings logo above.

The blossoms in the top collage are from two weeks ago ...

and the ones below from this past week ...
both on the same bush & straight out of the camera.

Click to embiggen for better viewing

and for others participating in Today's Flowers
You can see MORE Today's Flowers at Small Reflections.

Thought for Today
"Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower." Hans Christian Anderson

8 comments:

Inday said...: True to Christian Anderson's words that "living is not just enough but has to have freedom and a little flower." How you inspired my spirit today! Thanks for visiting my skywatch blog.

I want you to know how much I enjoy your reflective thoughts to awaken mind.; June 6, 2009 at 7:59 PM
Gemma Wiseman said...: Vibrant roses! They glow so beautifully with colour!; June 7, 2009 at 2:34 AM
VALKYRIEN said...: Gorgeous roses and great collages!

Wish you a nice Sunday!
Valkyrien; June 7, 2009 at 8:16 AM
Luiz Ramos said...: Flowers are necessary indeed.
Beautiful.
Luiz Ramos; June 7, 2009 at 10:37 AM
Carletta said...: Lovely blossoms and I love that proverb!; June 7, 2009 at 10:45 AM
PERBS said...: Nice collages! Your roses are beautiful! I have recently taken soem photos of the roses in our rose garden and even more that I don't have up yet. This is a nice time of year for flower photos!

I wanted to drop by and let everyone know my post today is my last for BYB Sunday. I will keep counting my blessings but not online. I have enjoyed your posts and will bookmark it to drop by on occasion still.; June 7, 2009 at 2:22 PM
Julie said...: Beautiful flowers, they are such a lovely color.; June 9, 2009 at 7:15 AM
SandyCarlson said...: That's a wonderful blessing, and those are beautiful flowers. I sure do love visiting your blog.; June 10, 2009 at 4:37 PM

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