The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience ... not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.
- Leo Tolstoy
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating awareness, deep listening and appreciation...
letting go into source; will what really matters be my focus today?
peace, love and joy...
Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will be powerless to vex your mind.
- Leonardo da Vinci
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating calm, poise and open-heartedness...
letting go into equanimity; will forgiveness be embraced today?
peace, love and joy...
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating willingness, courage and respect...
letting go into magnificence; how bright will my light radiate out today?
peace, love and joy...
If you were somebody else, would you want to be friends with you?
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating affection, receptivity and kindness...
letting go into neighborly; how will friendship be generated freshly today?
peace, love and joy...
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
- Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
creating sparkle, zest and oomph...
letting go into energy; what will exhilarate newly today?
peace, love and joy...
Let the resurrection joy lift us from loneliness and weakness and despair to strength and beauty and happiness.
- Floyd W. Tomkins
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating vitality, elegance and peace of mind...
letting go into loving; will my words elevate another today?
peace, love and joy...
All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance.
- Theodore M. Hesburgh
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating involvement, influence and graciousness...
letting go into advocacy; where will my actions make a difference today?
peace, love and joy...
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
- Margaret Bonnano
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating presence, calm and welcoming...
letting go into now; how will being present in the moment impact living fully today?
peace, love and joy...
To find the universal elements enough;
to find the air and the water exhilarating;
to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter...
to be thrilled by the stars at night;
to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring;
these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
- John Burroughs
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating bountiful, satisfying and glorious wonder...
letting go into the simple life; which expectations will be released today?
peace, love and joy...
Don't go through life,
Grow through life.
- Eric Butterworth
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating expand, flourish and sprout...
letting go into thriving; how will growth be received today?
peace, love and joy...
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
- Denis Diderot
photo by marie dudek brown
creating honesty, integrity and credibility...
letting go into candor; what will be noticed around simple truths today?
peace, love and joy...
Living is being born slowly. It would be a little too easy if we could borrow ready-made souls.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
photo by marie dudek brown
creating calm, presence and openness...
letting go into develop; what will be learned newly today?
peace, love and joy...
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
- Joseph Joubert
photo by marie dudek brown
creating momentum, advancement and understanding...
letting go into accepting differences; what new world will be discovered today?
peace, love and joy...
Be not swept off your feet by the vividness of the impression, but say, "Impression, wait for me a little. Let me see what you are and what you represent. Let me try you."
- Epictetus
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating observe, measure and be patient...
letting go into experimentation; what will be tried newly today?
peace, love and joy...
People look for wonder-workings and surprises, for phenomena of all kinds. Yet the greatest phenomenon, the greatest surprise, and the greatest wonder is to be found in one's heart. If there is anything that can tune man to the highest pitch, that can tune the strings of his soul to the right note, it is only by the tuning of the heart. The one who has not reached his heart has not reached God.
- Sufi Teachings
photo by marie dudek brown
creating capacity, bravery and compassion...
letting go into heart-centered; will lessons learned be integrated into living fully today?
peace, love and joy...
love builds up the broken wall
and straightens the crooked path.
love keeps the stars in the firmament
and imposes rhythm on the ocean tides
each of us is created of it
and i suspect
each of us was created for it
- Maya Angelou
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating affection, esteem and brotherly love...
letting go into intimacy; how will I be vulnerable today?
peace, love and joy...
Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.
- Les Brown
photo by david knopfler
creating sparks, ardor and gusto...
letting go into serendipity; which catalysts will be embraced fully today?
peace, love and joy...
We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.
- Lynn Hall
creating simplicity, directness and brightness...
letting go into being; will openness be newly embraced today?
peace, love and joy...
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
- William Hazlitt
photo by marie dudek brown
creating elevate, enlighten and broad-mindedness...
letting go into illumination; how will insight be put into action today?
peace, love and joy...
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
- André Gide
photo by marie dudek brown
creating offering, endowing and conveying...
letting go into giving; what will be released newly today?
peace, love and joy...
