Sacred Ruminations: BYBS#25 and Sacred Life 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

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Sunday, November 9, 2008

BYBS#25 and Sacred Life Sunday

NaBloPoMo-Day9

Because I've not taken any new Sunrise-Sunset photos
I won't be participating in that meme today,
but I offer this ... just because.

Photo source: Flickzzz.com

"The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they're gone." George Eliot

Blog Your

on Sundays ...

Really Good Things

This week I have much for which to be grateful.

1. The Presidential election has ended & there's optimism and change in the air even as our nation faces significant challenges ahead on many fronts. I pray often for the safety of Barack Obama & his family ... for a return to wise, purposeful & ethical actions on the part of all citizens as well as our political & corporate leaders ... and for sustainable peace within and between ourselves & others of all races, cultures, creeds, and/or individual differences.

Have you seen this fascinating Obama Mosaic?

2. I enjoyed creating three unique Blog Blasts for Peace and publishing one on each of my three blogs last Thursday. It's been wonderful visiting 'Peace Posts' on the blogs of so many others and I plan to visit more in the days & weeks ahead. Reading comments visitors have left about my own is heart-warming as well. If you missed them, you can click links below.
Sacred Ruminations- The Strength of Gentleness
Small Reflections-A Revolution of Music,
Blog Rolls & Bling - What if? (a Colorful Alternative to Bombs)
and last June:
Thirteen Thoughts on the Topic of Peace
Peace in Every Step

3. My writing buddy and my sister both called this morning (as I was creating this post actually, accounting for its late publication) ... and I enjoyed lengthy catch-up conversations with each.

4. Yesterday I met a couple of good friends for a pleasant visit over lunch at Duke's in Huntington Beach and we walked through the Craft Fair afterward. One is leaving town on Monday with her husband in their RV and plans to meet up with friends from North Carolina in Austin, Texas where my sister & her husband will join them as well.

5. I shared several awards recently with all my 'bloggy friends in
'All Over the World' & 'Bloggy Love Galore' ... and also in yesterday's Photo Hunt at Small Reflections. If you missed them, feel free to click on the links when time permits to gather them up to enjoy yourself and to pass along to others.

For others who 'Blog Their Blessings'

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

For those who participate in Sacred Life Sunday
click the logo below:

Blessed Be ... and so it is!

I hope you're all having a wonderful weekend!

Thought for Today
"Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!" Henry Ward Beecher

6 comments:

SandyCarlson said...: I love your blessings, Storyteller! And the mosaic is just wonderful.; November 9, 2008 at 4:27 PM
Joyce said...: Hello, Storyteller,
It sounds as if you are indeed enjoying a special day today.
Is that an unretouched photo of the dolphins leaping from the water? It's quite special. :); November 9, 2008 at 5:06 PM
Unknown said...: Love the dolphins! It's always great catching up with friends and I'm glad you had a couple of great conversations! :); November 9, 2008 at 6:53 PM
Mariposa said...: Lovely blessing there! And love your photo...

(((HUGS))); November 9, 2008 at 8:55 PM
PERBS said...: Love your blog wreath for BYB Sunday!

Looks like there have been several blessings in your life! I came by real early because I had a full day at church yesterday for a fund raiser for helping someone with hospital expenses. I came back because you usually write something. . .

Come and read about mine with several photos!; November 10, 2008 at 9:14 AM
Michelle said...: I love this sunset picture. Dolphins are my favorite animal. It's good to be thankful for the things in our life's. Thanks for reminding me of this. Take care my friend.; November 11, 2008 at 5:17 AM

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