The forest is magnificent, yet it contains no perfect trees.
- Gye Fram
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating acceptance, cooperation and respect...
letting go into expressiveness; will beauty and love surround today?
peace, love and joy...
creating today dec 08 2014
The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.
- Nadia Boulanger
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating distinction, cherish and devotion...
letting go into loving spirit; will the essentials be recognized today?
peace, love and joy...
creating today dec 03 2014
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...
creating today dec 02 2014
You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted.
- Ruth E. Renkl
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating unwind, loosen and soften...
letting go into flourish; what will be celebrated today?
peace, love and joy...
creating today dec 01 2014
love builds up the broken wall
and straigtens 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 appreciation, tenderness and full participation...
letting go into partnering; how will alignment be created today?
peace, love and joy...
creating today nov 30 2014
If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.
- Taisen Deshimaru
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating presence, peace and authenticity...
letting go into blessings; will grace and ease be embraced no matter what today?
peace, love and joy...
creating today nov 29 2014
A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world; everyone you meet is your mirror.
- Ken Keyes, Jr.
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating practice, reiterate and welcome...
letting go into open-heartedness; where will transformation occur today?
peace, love and joy...
creating today nov 28 2014
We live in a very tense society. We are pulled apart... and we all need to learn how to pull ourselves together.... I think that at least part of the answer lies in solitude.
- Helen Hayes
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating peace and quiet, sabbatical and liberty...
letting go into choice in the matter; will time be taken to align heart, mind and spirit today?
peace, love and joy...
creating today nov 27 2014
Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.
- W.T. Purkiser
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating gratitude, abundance and sharing...
letting go into being content; how will thanks be expressed fully today?
peace, love and joy...
creating today nov 25 2014
You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.
- John Ruskin
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating outreach, support and willingness...
letting go into being helpful; will I ask what's needed before acting today?
peace, love and joy...
creating today nov 24 2014
I would go to the library and borrow scores by all those great composers, like Stravinsky, Alban Berg, Prokofiev. I wanted to see what was going on in all of music. Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery, and I just couldn't believe someone could be that close to freedom and not take advantage of it.
- Miles Davis
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating boldness, absorption and enrichment...
letting go into blessedness; which resources will be used fully today?
peace, love and joy...
creating today nov 23 2014
Oh! the snow, the beautiful snow, Filling the sky and earth below, Over the housetops, over the street, Over the heads of the people you meet. Dancing, Flirting, Skimming along.
- J. W. Watson
- photo by dawn sirotti brown
creating fun, delight and pleasure...
letting go into play; what will be enjoyed newly today?
peace, love and joy...
creating today nov 21 2014
Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating familiarity, comfort and ease...
letting go into linger; will unconditional love be shared liberally today?
peace, love and joy...
creating today nov 20 2014
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
- Will Durant
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating keen observation, intellect and groundedness..
letting go into critical thinking; how will an open mind be utilized today?
peace, love and joy...
creating today nov 19 2014
Hatred is not diminished by hatred at any time. Hatred is diminished by love. This is an eternal law.
- Buddha
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating friendship, kindness and forgiveness...
letting go into good will; how will love radiate today?
peace, love and joy...
creating today nov 17 2014
Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.
- Anthony J. D'Angelo
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating tenacity, willingness and vitality...
letting go into steadfast; what learning will present itself today?
peace, love and joy...
creating today nov 16 2014
Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
- Kimberly Johnson
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating acknowledgment, disclosure and openness...
letting go into grace and ease; how will love radiate out today today?
peace, love and joy...
creating today nov 14 2014
Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn.
- Elizabeth Lawrence
- photo by marie dudek brown
creating observing, dwelling and appreciation...
letting go into spontaneity; what will inspire today?
peace, love and joy...
creating today nov 11 2014
Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.
- Julius Charles Hare
- photo by liz cohen
creating authenticity, acceptance and gratitude...
letting go into being; am I willing to be with who I am today?
peace, love and joy...
creating today nov 10 2014
He who feels it, knows it more.
- Bob Marley
- original drawing by christine
creating depth, awareness and acknowledgment...
letting go into what is and what is not; will an abundance of time be discerned by being present in the moment today?
peace, love and joy...