If you look for the truth outside yourself,
It gets farther and farther away.
Today walking alone, I meet it everywhere I step.
It is the same as me, yet I am not it.
Only if you understand it in this way
Will you merge with the way things are.
- Tung-Shan
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating listening, honesty and fusion...
letting go into coalesce; what is my truth today?
peace, love and joy...
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
- Peter Ustinov
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating compassion, goodwill and grace...
letting go into heart; what new expressions of love will be created today?
peace, love and joy...
Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, and eventually poisonous. I have no desire to make my own toxins.
- Neil Kinnock
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating release, forgiveness and health...
letting go into kindred spirit; am I willing to embrace another's perspective today?
peace, love and joy...
I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
- Abraham Lincoln
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating purge, enrich and sow...
letting go into lovingly cultivate; in which areas of my own life will tilling occur today?
peace, love and joy...
Happiness comes from spiritual wealth, not material wealth… Happiness comes from giving, not getting. If we try hard to bring happiness to others, we cannot stop it from coming to us also. To get joy, we must give it, and to keep joy, we must scatter it.
- John Templeton
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating sprinkle, fling and spray...
letting go into contribution; how will connectivity be deepened today?
peace, love and joy...
Today is World Suicide Prevention Day.
Take 5 to Save Lives!
An anxious heart weighs a man down, but a kind word cheers him up.
- Bible, Proverbs 12:25
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating thoughtfulness, courtesy and uplift...
letting go into empowering; am I willing to notice my own resistance today?
peace, love and joy...
Though a tree grow ever so high, the falling leaves return to the ground.
- Malayan proverb
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating aware, appreciate and evolve...
letting go into sacred; will there be listening from deep within the soul today?
peace, love and joy...
Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.
- Anonymous 18th century monk
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating genuine, openness and veracity...
letting go into authenticity; will thoughts and actions come from the heart today?
peace, love and joy...
Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself. You may be surprised at how easily this happens. Your doubts are not as powerful as your desires, unless you make them so.
- Marcia Wieder
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating aspiration, eagerness and focus...
letting go into visualization; how will I expand my world today?
peace, love and joy...
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
- John Muir
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating sustenance, refreshment and uplift...
letting go into nourishment; what will be generated today?
peace, love and joy...
Success is due less to ability than to zeal.
- Charles Buxton
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating desire, diligence and fulfillment...
letting go into stamina; where will the heart lead today?
peace, love and joy...
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibration of beauty.
- C. Morley
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating resonance, deep listening and revelry...
letting go into exquisiteness; how will beauty be acknowledged newly today?
peace, love and joy...
In the end, nothing we do or say in this lifetime will matter as much as the way we have loved one another.
- Daphne Rose Kingman
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating cherish, respect and vulnerability...
letting go into what really matters; where will affinities be noticed today?
peace, love and joy...
The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us,the less taste we shall have for destruction.
- Rachel Carson
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating reverence, fascination and beauty...
letting go into loving care; will miracles be recognized today?
peace, love and joy...
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
- Marcus Aurelius
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating awareness, gratitude and responsiveness...
letting go into appreciation; how will love be expressed fully today?
peace, love and joy...
Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.
- Mary Catherwood
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating connectivity, access and rapport...
letting go into vulnerability; where will kindred spirit lead today?
peace, love and joy...
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
- Marcel Proust
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating kindness, beauty and affection...
letting go into unconditional love; what will be noticed newly today?
peace, love and joy...
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
- Og Mandino
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating delight, enjoyment and contentment...
letting go into contributing; what will be shared freely without expectations today?
peace, love and joy...
By starving emotions we become humorless, rigid and stereotyped; by repressing them we become literal, reformatory and holier-than-thou; encouraged, they perfume life; discouraged, they poison it.
- Joseph Collins
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating flexibility, tolerance and empowerment...
letting go into the full spectrum; what will be discovered newly today?
peace, love and joy...
Simplicity is the outward sign and symbol of depth of thought.
- Garett Dimon
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating frankness, openness and ease...
letting go into naturalness; am I willing to be true to myself today?
peace, love and joy...
