Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating attentiveness, fresh perspectives and heartfelt actions...
letting go into exploring; am I fully alive today?
peace, love and joy...
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating artistry, charisma and serendipity...
letting go into living fully; what will be experienced newly today?
peace, love and joy...
To me faith means not worrying.
- John Dewey
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating calmness, confidence and cheer...
letting go into trust; will uneasiness be consciously released today?
peace, love and joy...
Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.
- Albert Einstein
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating collaboration, synchronism and coexistence...
letting go into trust; will miracles be noticed today?
peace, love and joy...
Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
- Emily Dickinson
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating tenderness, appreciation and endearment...
letting go into full expression; will the depths of love be shared today?
peace, love and joy...
Explorers have to be ready to die lost.
- Russell Hoban
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating inquiry, testing and learning...
letting go into adventure; which experiments in living fully will be initiated today?
peace, love and joy...
Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.
- Sam Levenson
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating evolve, grow and breakthrough...
letting go into momentum; will inner strength be acknowledged today?
peace, love and joy...
If every year is a marble, how many marbles do you have left? How many sunrises, how many opportunities to rise to the full stature of your being?
- Joy Page
- watercolor by marie dudek brown
creating delight, possibilities and gratitude...
letting go into embracing all of life; where will outreach be generated newly today?
peace, love and joy...
I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
- Jackie Robinson
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating dignity, honor and acknowledgment...
letting go into loving spirit; who will I be today?
peace, love and joy...
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
- e. e. cummings
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating courage, determination and poise...
letting go into boldness; what will be discovered newly in myself today?
peace, love and joy...
We are all different. There is no such thing as a standard or run-of-the-mill human being, but we share the same human spirit.
- Stephen Hawking
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating distinctions, eccentricities and open-heartedness...
letting go into being offbeat; will my authentic self be shared unabashedly today?
peace, love and joy...
I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.
- Charles R. Swindoll
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating affinity, kindness and high regard...
letting go into connectivity; will friendships be acknowledged today?
peace, love and joy...
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating transparent, clean and straightforward...
letting go into simplicity; where can effortless be generated today?
peace, love and joy...
Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer.
- Sir Walter Scott
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating discipline, development and orderliness...
letting go into nourishment; will enjoyment be generated in self-restraint today?
peace, love and joy...
Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.
- Walter Lippmann
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating absorption, comprehension and visualization...
letting go into courageous; am I willing to express what's there for me and be attentive to the responses today?
peace, love and joy...
If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old.
- Edgar Watson Howe
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating snickers, chuckles and snorts...
letting go into humor; what belly laughs are just waiting to come out today?
peace, love and joy...
The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
- Helen Hayes
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating high regard, tenderness and affection...
letting go into everlasting; what will be generated entirely by love today?
peace, love and joy...
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
- Wayne W.Dyer
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating beauty, solitude and acceptance...
letting go into embrace; in the calm of each moment, what will blossom newly today?
peace, love and joy...
We judge others by their behavior.
We judge ourselves by our intentions.
- Ian Percy
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating recognition, mindfulness and farsightedness...
letting go into objectivity; how will my heart open newly today?
peace, love and joy...
A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
- Alexander Pope
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating reflective, contemplative and perceptive...
letting go into learning; will my heart be open to deeper understanding today?
peace, love and joy...