Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
- Baltasar Gracien
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating awareness, boldness and willingness...
letting go into unfolding; what will be embraced newly today?
peace, love and joy...
creating today oct 07 2014
Autumn is the eternal corrective. It is ripeness and color and a time of maturity; but it is also breadth, and depth, and distance. What man can stand with autumn on a hilltop and fail to see the span of his world and the meaning of the rolling hills that reach to the far horizon?
- Hal Borland
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating brightness, serenity and growth...
letting go into gathering; is there willingness to stop and take it all in today?
peace, love and joy...
creating today oct 06 2014
When I see you through my eyes, I think we are different. When I see you through my heart, I know we are the same.
- Doe ZaWntamata
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating connectivity, beauty and love...
letting go into kindred spirit; what will be seen newly through my heart today?
peace, love and joy...
creating today oct 05 2014
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.
- Philips Brooks
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating vitality, stamina and open-heartedness...
letting go into empathy; how will understanding another's perspective inspire necessary action today?
peace, love and joy...
creating today oct 03 2014
When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
- Madeleine L'Engle
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating readiness, tenderness and acceptance...
letting go into courage; which bold actions will be taken today?
peace, love and joy...
creating today oct 02 2014
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...
creating today oct 01 2014
It is a sign of strength, not of weakness, to admit that you don't know all the answers.
- John P. Loughrane
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating trust, authenticity and vulnerability...
letting go into heart-centered; how will loving spirit be nurtured today?
peace, love and joy...
creating today sep 30 2014
Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.
- Jean de La Bruyère
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating abundance, contentment and delight...
letting go into enough; am I willing to transform my point of view today?
peace, love and joy...
creating today sep 29 2014
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...
creating today sep 28 2014
A well-lived life is one which is resolved to remain open to novel possibilities and callings. A life lived in the truth is lived in a tension between letting-be-what-is for this time and in this place, and a resolve to remain open to the dawning of new possibilities.
- Sylvia Fleming Crocker
- photo by kevin knebl
creating access, spontaneity and without expectation...
letting go into new possibilities; how will the whole, as it is in this moment, be embraced today?
peace, love and joy...
creating today sep 27 2014
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...
creating today sep 26 2014
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...
creating today sep 25 2014
Just remember, there's a right way and a wrong way to do everything and the wrong way is to keep trying to make everybody else do it the right way.
- M*A*S*H*
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating openings, unconditional love and patience...
letting go into broad-mindedness; will I give up needing to be right today?
peace, love and joy...
creating today sep 23 2014
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
- John Ruskin
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating evolve, transform and flourish...
letting go into metamorphose; will the next step be boldly taken today?
peace, love and joy...
creating today sep 21 2014
Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary.
- Peter Minard
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating beauty, serenity and space to breathe...
letting go into alignment; will interludes be embraced fully today?
peace, love and joy...
creating today sep 19 2014
If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.
- Edith Wharton
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating presence, stillness and welcoming...
letting go into what is and what is not; is there willingness to just be with who I am today?
peace, love and joy...
creating today sep 19 2014
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
- Logan Pearsall Smith
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating vision, accomplishment and wisdom...
letting go into insight; which relationships will be recognized newly today?
peace, love and joy...
creating today sep 17 2014
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...
creating today sep 15 2014
Chance comes to everybody. Only those who are slow to acknowledge chance complain that life is unfair.
- Maurice Chevalier
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating awareness, opportunity and trust...
letting go into taking risks; what will be discovered newly today?
peace, love and joy...
creating today sep 14 2014
We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled.The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.
- Ray Bradbury
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating clarity, expression and release...
letting go into clearings; who will radiate outward today?
peace, love and joy...