Nothing without Faith

We have nothing if we do not have FAITH. I believe this with all my heart. No matter what religion you practice, we must have faith and believe in something greater than our need, problem, pain, etc.

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The Lonely Bird Does Fly

Some instagrams taken the past couple of days. This photo so matched a prose I wrote in 2007, that I felt the need to post them together. I don't like posting my poems or proses on the Internet, but they just seem to go so perfectly together.

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The Lonely Bird Does Fly

early dawn
and the lonely bird does fly across
an empty sky
carrying secrets from the night
here to there
wondering
asking why
questions
no one answers
the sky is empty

SPBM~28 january 2007

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A Real Estate building, pretty much in my backyard. :(

“There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.”

~ Deepak Chopra

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“If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal dialogue. Make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved, and the need to judge. Those are the three things the ego is doing all the time. It's very important to be aware of them every time they come up.”


~Deepak Chopra

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“The secret of attraction is to love yourself. Attractive people judge neither themselves nor others. They are open to gestures of love. They think about love, and express their love in every action. They know that love is not a mere sentiment, but the ultimate truth at the heart of the universe.”


~ Deepak Chopra

When the sky moves...

The sky was extrodinary today! I took these while in the car, going down the highway. (And no, I was NOT driving.) :)

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“I've always thought of wholeness and integration as necessary myths. We're gragmented beings who cement ourselves together, but there are always cracks. Living with the cracks is part of being, well, reasonably healthy.”

― Siri Hustvedt, The Sorrows of an American

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“The truth is that personality inevitably bleeds into all forms of our intellectual life. We all extrapolate from our own lives in order to understand the world.”

― Siri Hustvedt, The Shaking Woman, or A History of My Nerves

 

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“I remember thinking how easy it is to speak in clichés, to steal a line from pulp fiction and let it fall. We can only hover around the inexpressible with our words anyway, and there is comfort in saying what we have heard before.”

― Siri Hustvedt, The Blindfold

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“I've always thought of wholeness and integration as necessary myths. We're fragmented beings who cement ourselves together, but there are always cracks. Living with the cracks is part of being, well, reasonably healthy”

― Siri Hustvedt, The Sorrows of an American

If you are not familiar with Siri Hustvedt books, do yourself a favor and purchase one now. They're wonderful! She is as gifted as she is beautiful!

And, for another treat, enjoy this beautiful and melancholy music by her daughter.

It's Monday...again.

It's a beautiful morning! But how did it get to be Monday already?

The sun is but a morning star. ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden

I'll tell you how the sun rose a ribbon at a time. ~Emily Dickinson

To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning. ~Henry David Thoreau

Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.

~Jean Giraudoux

Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

~Elbert Hubbard

Through the blackest night, morning gently tiptoes, feeling its way to dawn. 

~Robert Brault

Mysterious Skies

The sky was so beautiful this evening...even though I really would like for the rain to go away and come back another week. We are floating around here.:(

Sometimes we see the past so clearly, and read the legend of its parts with such acuity, that every stitch of time reveals its purpose, and the kind of message enfolded in it. ~Shantaram

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Nothing in any life, no matter how well or poorly lived, is wiser than failure or clearer than sorrow. ~Shantaram

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"Be true to love where ever you find it, and be true to yourself and everything that you really are." ~Shantaram

Last night's moon

The moon looks lonely at times, while the stars play hide and seek.

The sky is that beautiful old parchment in which the sun and the moon keep their diary. ~Alfred Kreymborg