Then there was Jim, who said that for many years he took walks that were ‘ranting’ walks. He would walk and contemplate all the things that angered him about the world. One day he decided to begin taking ‘gratitude’ walks. ‘Now while I walk I recount all the things I am grateful for in my life and don’t allow myself to think of negative things at all. I have found this simple practice to be a great gift.’
John Izzo, The Five Secrets you must Discover before Your Die
Those who are willing to be vulnerable
move among mysteries
Theodore Roethke, American Poet, Straw for the Fire
Only from the heart
can you touch the sky
Rumi
photo nojavan
Life is no passing memory of what has been
nor the remaining pages in a great book
waiting to be read.
It is the opening of eyes long closed.
Davids Whyte, The Opening of Eyes
Photo of Lake Leman from Nyon by Alexandra Lee
What I want most
is to spring out of this personality
then to sit apart from that leaping.
I have lived too long where I can be reached
Rumi
photo Glendalough June 18, 2015
As the wind loves to call things to dance
May your gravity be lightened by grace
John O Donohue, To Bless the Space between Us
photo ceridwen
