Sacred Ruminations: Thirteen Sunsets at the Beach

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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

Thursday, December 17, 2009

Thirteen Sunsets at the Beach

Sunsets at the beach
extraordinarily
beautiful this week

Click to embiggen for better viewing ...
and for others participating in Thursday Thirteen,
Haiku Friday and Sky Watch
If time permits ...
see also my musical T-13 at Small Reflections today and
I've shared more Sunset Views at Happily Retired Gal

Thought for Today
"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated." Confucius

28 comments:

Irishcoda said...: I so love the beach and so I really enjoyed looking at your pictures!; December 17, 2009 at 2:06 PM
eden said...: Lovely sky pictures. I love all your pictures

Have a wonderful weekend; December 17, 2009 at 2:38 PM
Sylvia K said...: You do capture some stunning skies! These are absolutely gorgeous, marvelous colors!

Hope you have a lovely weekend!

Sylvia; December 17, 2009 at 3:07 PM
Diane AZ said...: Beautiful mosaic with lovely sky pictures. And I like your thought for the day, "Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated." :D; December 17, 2009 at 4:07 PM
Anonymous said...: Beautiful photos - most welcome to those of living in colder climates - what a simple, perfect haiku.; December 17, 2009 at 4:10 PM
Anonymous said...: PS - By funny coincidence, I heard of SNC for the first time about an hour ago, in an email from a long-time friend. "Hilarious" was her description as well.; December 17, 2009 at 4:13 PM
Carver said...: Those are all wonderful sunsets. I love the quote for the day too.; December 17, 2009 at 4:53 PM
Joe Todd said...: Your skies helped warm me up Thanks; December 17, 2009 at 5:14 PM
Regina said...: Beautiful skies as always!
Regards.; December 17, 2009 at 6:04 PM
Barb said...: Wow! So different from the view I have! Your vantage points for these shots are fabulous.; December 17, 2009 at 6:07 PM
Janie said...: Your sunset photos are just gorgeous. At first I thought the kites were birds until I took a closer look at the enlargement...
So different from my world!; December 17, 2009 at 6:38 PM
SandyCarlson said...: So very gorgeous.; December 17, 2009 at 7:35 PM
George said...: You're right -- the sunsets are gorgeous.; December 17, 2009 at 8:15 PM
eileeninmd said...: Gorgeous skies, love the colors of the sunset.; December 18, 2009 at 1:57 AM
Magical Mystical Teacher said...: Swallowing the sun,
ocean lies down for night’s rest
fully satisfied.

My Sky; December 18, 2009 at 4:16 AM
jabblog said...: I don't think I could ever tire of sunset over sea - your photos are simply stunning and very warming on this cold day :-); December 18, 2009 at 4:34 AM
Robin said...: Beautiful. It just doesn't get any better than sunset over the water. How lucky we are to live on west coasts.; December 18, 2009 at 4:47 AM
This Is My Blog - fishing guy said...: HRG: Beautiful CA skies, glad you got some rain.; December 18, 2009 at 6:05 AM
Anonymous said...: What beautiful skies - you've really captured some great shots & on the beach is even better!; December 18, 2009 at 7:19 AM
Kim, USA said...: I enjoy the singing and love the great shots!

Clear Sky; December 18, 2009 at 7:50 AM
Sandra Evertson said...: Beautiful photos!
Happy Holidays!
Sandra; December 18, 2009 at 11:57 AM
penny said...: Your sunsets are always so magical. I love the warm glowing colors.
Thank you for stopping by, have a wonderful weekend.; December 18, 2009 at 1:04 PM
Annie said...: some lovely sunsets here! Thanks for showing us. And thanks also for visiting my cold skies in NYC this week!; December 18, 2009 at 2:06 PM
The Quintessential Magpie said...: FABULOUS pictures. Every shot is stunning...

XO,

Sheila :-); December 18, 2009 at 3:17 PM
Eaglesbrother said...: Great skies...I also enjoyed "Straight No Chaser"; December 18, 2009 at 3:18 PM
Maurice Lauher said...: Great gallery of sunsets - how do you make the "frames?"; December 18, 2009 at 4:38 PM
Sara Chapman in Seattle, USA said...: Very, very beautiful. Thanks for sharing such lovely sunsets. Wish I was there!; December 18, 2009 at 5:20 PM
Victoria Tsavdaridou said...: Beautiful shots!!!Thanks for sharing. Have a nice SWF!!!; December 19, 2009 at 12:57 PM