Sacred Ruminations: Dona Nobis Pacem

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

6th Blog Blast for Peace
November 5, 2009

Today I join Mimi Lenox and many other bloggers in the 6th Blog Blast for Peace ... and invite YOU to join the wave today on your Blog. Just click Mimi's link and read the directions for getting your own Peace Globe to personalize and publish. Then follow the directions to share with others through her official sites ... and visit others blogging for peace.

Click to embiggen for better viewing

If you missed them, click for links to my Blog Blasts for Peace:

November 2008
Sacred Ruminations- The Strength of Gentleness
Small Reflections-A Revolution of Music,
Blog Rolls & Bling - What if? (a Colorful Alternative to Bombs)
and June 2008:
Thirteen Thoughts on the Topic of Peace
Peace in Every Step

and on September 21st, 2009
for the International Day of Peace

Whirled Peace - We Each Can Make a Difference

Click for others participating in
the 6th Blog Blast for Peace!

See my other 2009 Peace Globes at

Small Reflections
Happily Retired Gal
Blog Rolls, Bling and Blurbs

Thought for Today
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. Mother Teresa

26 comments:

Mike Golch said...: I love the Peace Globe.; November 4, 2009 at 4:40 PM
RA said...: Dona Nobis Pacem! I love your peace globe. Hope that one day, peace will really be all over the world.; November 4, 2009 at 8:56 PM
Raven said...: Lovely globe. Great quote.; November 4, 2009 at 9:30 PM
AngelBaby said...: I love your peace globe, so pretty. This is my 3rd year doing this and it just gets better every year! I love it!

Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment.

Have a wonderful day!

Love and Blessings,
AngelBaby; November 4, 2009 at 9:55 PM
Carletta said...: This is your second I've seen and I like it too!
The quote is beautiful!; November 5, 2009 at 12:06 AM
Carver said...: Beautiful globe and post. I love the quote you ended with. Dona Nobis Pacem.; November 5, 2009 at 2:50 AM
secret agent woman said...: Great peace globe. Happy Blogblast to you!; November 5, 2009 at 3:11 AM
Joe Todd said...: I blieve Mother Teresa
has it right; November 5, 2009 at 3:11 AM
Durward Discussion said...: Making the rounds as we celebrate another Dona Nobis Pacem blogblast. I love your scattered silliness and the globes are beautiful.; November 5, 2009 at 3:49 AM
Anndi said...: Peace is a gift we can give ourselves...

Wonderful!; November 5, 2009 at 6:15 AM
Marilyn said...: That's a great quote.

Peace be with you and yours.; November 5, 2009 at 6:34 AM
Vinny "Bond" Marini said...: Thank you for participating in the BlogBlast For PEACE!

Wonderful Globe!
VinnyBond; November 5, 2009 at 7:19 AM
j said...: Very pretty Peace Globe.

PEACE!; November 5, 2009 at 10:27 AM
Unknown said...: You have created a wonderful peace globe. May peace be with you and justice and peace be with our hurting world.; November 5, 2009 at 10:41 AM
Willa said...: Nice quote about PEACE.; November 5, 2009 at 11:39 AM
Travis Cody said...: Agreed...Peace starts within.

Peace to you and yours.; November 5, 2009 at 1:07 PM
maryt/theteach said...: Marvelous post for today, Storyteller! I love the quote from Mother Teresa! :) Thanks for visitiing my blogblast post.; November 5, 2009 at 2:01 PM
Ralph said...: Peace comes from within our hearts. We work with faith and love for all, as God commanded. We bring peace, perhaps we all need to pray for a peaceful world, for those who need peace, too, in their hearts...; November 5, 2009 at 3:27 PM
Desert Songbird said...: True, true words. It begins within.

The Ice Box – Dona Nobis Pacem; November 5, 2009 at 3:56 PM
Karen Jo said...: I love your peace globe and the quote on it is as true as can be. Peace to you and yours.; November 5, 2009 at 5:35 PM
Cinnamon Girl said...: Wonderful quote!; November 5, 2009 at 7:14 PM
Julia Phillips Smith said...: Very pretty peace globe!

Blessings to you.; November 6, 2009 at 8:19 AM
Cats~Goats~Quotes said...: Very pretty, colorful Globe this year. Your posts are always so thoughtful.
~ Noah; November 6, 2009 at 8:22 AM
Rambling Woods said...: You made a beautifully meaningful peace globe...Michelle; November 6, 2009 at 3:42 PM
Mimi Lenox said...: What a gorgeous globe and post. Thank you for participating.
You are #1516 in the Official Peace Globe Gallery.
blogblastforpeace.com

I love it!; November 7, 2009 at 10:45 AM
Michelle said...: That's a really beautiful Peace sign on your Globe picture and the quote is wonderful.

Belated Happy Peace Day wishes to you. :-); November 7, 2009 at 3:18 PM