tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27591819892082308502024-03-04T23:58:13.554-05:00YogactivismAlex is a Yoga Alliance Registered Teacher
trained at Hale Kai Center for Yogic Studies by Deborah Koehn in the areas of Asana, Anatomy, Restorative, Pranayama, Meditation, Philosophy, and Subtle Energy.Alex da Silva-Soutohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15998432781159519485noreply@blogger.comBlogger70125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2759181989208230850.post-69117768834739671722013-08-21T12:38:00.000-04:002013-08-21T12:38:37.919-04:00Leaves of Grass<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #262626;">"This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the
animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the
stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue
not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off
your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely
with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of
families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your
life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book,
dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great
poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines
of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion
and joint of your body."</span></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #262626;">Source: Preface to the 1855 edition
of <i>Leaves of Grass</i>, by Walt Whitman </span></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Georgia;">Contemplation is a
very dangerous activity. </span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Georgia;">It not only brings us face to face with God. </span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Georgia;">It brings
us, as well, face to face with the world, </span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Georgia;">face to face with the self. </span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Georgia;">And then,
of course, </span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Georgia;">something must be done. </span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Georgia;">Nothing stays the same </span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Georgia;">once we have found
the God within…. </span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Georgia;">We carry the world in our hearts: </span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Georgia;">the oppression of all
peoples, </span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Georgia;">the suffering of our friends, </span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Georgia;">the burdens of our enemies, </span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Georgia;">the raping
of the Earth, </span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Georgia;">the hunger of the starving, </span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Georgia;">the joy of every laughing child.</span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia;">Source: <a href="http://inwardoutward.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=838944ee48d7a9d35dcce6d60&id=cb3987cf3f&e=25d99db4ea"><span style="color: #8c6178;">30goodminutes.org</span></a> ~ </span><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Georgia;"><a href="http://inwardoutward.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=838944ee48d7a9d35dcce6d60&id=f02ec8ee46&e=25d99db4ea"><span style="color: #8c6178;">Joan Chittister</span></a></span></span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">When I have a terrible need of</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">-dare I say, 'religion'-</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">then I go outside </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">at night </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">and paint </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">the stars. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">~Vincent van Gogh</span></span></div>
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-</style><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">We come from God and return to God, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">and in the
'interim' we live in the presence of God--</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">even when we do not know or
acknowledge it. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">We are created in the image of God </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">(the entire universe
reflects God's glory, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">each and every creature and thing in its particular, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">concrete, unique way). </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Creation is a panoply of mind-boggling diversity, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">a
myriad of outrageously extravagant species and individuals</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> who all together
make up the body of God.... </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Each creature praises God by simply being itself, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">by being fully alive.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Source: Sallie
McFague ~ <i>Life Abundant</i></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto;">The
universe is a communion of subjects, not a collection of objects. And we have
this from our first awakening to the universe. Your first impression when you
see a flower or see a tree or see a sunset or see the ocean, or see anything in
the natural world, your first impression is a communion experience.</span> </span></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">There’s one experience that I think has had a
very deep influence on my life. When I was about ten years old I saw a meadow
and I saw it first in spring time--in early May. How wonderful this is to live
in the universe where there's a sun in the heavens; where there’s so many
wonderful creatures of Earth; where the song of the birds and the butterflies
and the cicada in the evening.</span></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">What is all this? Obviously, it’s not a
collection of objects to be used. Obviously, it’s a world to be venerated. It’s
a world to be communed with, to be present, to be delighted in, and together to
have a certain experience that might be called ecstatic experience. <span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto;">A good economy is what makes
that meadow survive. Good politics protects that meadow. A good religion is
what enabled me to understand the deep mystery in the meadow.
If we don’t
have certain outer experiences, we don’t have certain inner experiences or at
least we don’t have them in such a profound way. We need the sun, the moon, the
stars, the rivers and the mountains and the trees, the flowers, the birds, the
song of the birds, the fish in the sea. All of this evokes something in our
inner world, evokes a world of mystery. It evokes a world of Sacred and gives
us that sense of awe and mystery.</span></span></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Source: Thomas
Berry, </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>The Great Story (video)</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Georgia;">When I pray for peace,</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Georgia;">I pray not only<br />
<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Georgia;">that the enemies of my own country</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Georgia;">may cease to want war,</span></i></span></div>
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</span><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Georgia;">that my country will cease</span></i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Georgia;">to do the things</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Georgia;">that make war</span></i></span></div>
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</span><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Georgia;">inevitable.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Georgia;">Thomas
Merton</span></span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Georgia; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Georgia;">What leads to peace</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Georgia;">is not violence</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Georgia;">but peaceableness,</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Georgia;">which is not passivity,</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Georgia;">but an alert,</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Georgia;">informed,</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Georgia;">practiced,</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Georgia;">and active</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Georgia;">state of being.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Georgia;">American
essayist Wendell Berry</span></span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Georgia; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>You can't shake hands</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>with
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Indira
Gandhi</span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Amidst the meditation of mountains, </span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">the humility of flowers </span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">wiser than all alphabets--</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">clouds that die constantly </span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">for the sake of God's glory--</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">we are hating, </span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">hunting, </span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">hurting. </span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Suddenly </span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">we feel ashamed </span></span></i></div>
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<br /></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">of our clashes </span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">and complaints </span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">in the face of the tacit</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">glory </span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">in </span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">nature. </span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">+</span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Source: Abraham Joshua Heschel ~ <i>Quest for God</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #8a0000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 17.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #8a0000;"></span><i><span>In Buddhism, the most important precept of all
is to live in awareness, to know what is going on. To know what is going on,
not only here, but there. For instance, when you eat a piece of bread, you may
choose to be aware that our farmers, in growing the wheat, use chemical poisons
a little too much.... When we eat a piece of meat or drink alcohol, we can
produce awareness that 40,000 children die each day from hunger and that in
order to produce a piece of meat or a bottle of liquor, we have to use a lot of
grain. Eating a bowl of cereal may be more reconciling with the suffering of
the world than eating a piece of meat....</span></i></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span>Every day we do things, we are things, that
have to do with peace. If we are aware of our lifestyle, our way of consuming,
of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment we are
alive, the present moment.</span></span></span></i></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span>Source: <i>Being Peace ~ </i></span>Thich Nhat Hanh</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"></span></div>
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Alex da Silva-Soutohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15998432781159519485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2759181989208230850.post-68529978925494280132013-04-15T11:01:00.005-04:002013-04-15T11:01:47.424-04:00Music<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Music </span></span></i></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">washes away</span></span></i></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">from the soul</span></span></i></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">the dust </span></span></i></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">of everyday</span></span></i></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">life</span></span></i></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">~ Berthold Auerbach</span></span></div>
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Alex da Silva-Soutohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15998432781159519485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2759181989208230850.post-71320813794037429812013-04-10T11:10:00.002-04:002013-04-10T11:10:31.265-04:00Wisdom<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Keep me away from the wisdom </i></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>which does not cry, </i></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>the philosophy </i></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>which does not laugh </i></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>and the greatness</i></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>which does not bow </i></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>before children.</i></span></span></div>
<br /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />~ Kahlil Gibran</span></span></div>
Alex da Silva-Soutohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15998432781159519485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2759181989208230850.post-10631136805846854162013-04-08T11:38:00.002-04:002013-04-15T11:02:22.616-04:00Love<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Your task is not to seek for love, </span></i></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">but merely to seek </span></i></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">and find all the barriers </span></i></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">within yourself </span></i></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">that you have built</span></i></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">against </span></i></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">it.</span></i></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><br />~ Rumi </span></div>
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Alex da Silva-Soutohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15998432781159519485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2759181989208230850.post-10840339671623016652013-04-05T13:36:00.005-04:002013-04-15T11:07:44.716-04:00Excellence<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><i>We are </i></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><i>what we repeatedly do.</i></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><i>Excellence, then, </i></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><i> is not an act, </i></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><i>but a habit.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">~Aristotle</span></span></span></div>
Alex da Silva-Soutohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15998432781159519485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2759181989208230850.post-47518643601066770462013-04-02T11:58:00.004-04:002013-04-15T11:05:39.063-04:00Because<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;">Why must </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;">the number of intervals we have on earth </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;">be finite? </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;">The answer is: </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;">Because.</span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /> </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;">~ Mary Jo Bang</span></div>
Alex da Silva-Soutohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15998432781159519485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2759181989208230850.post-18481084141848455762013-03-12T13:24:00.002-04:002013-04-15T11:05:53.847-04:00Intimacy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><i>My primary relationship </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><i>is with myself </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><i>all others </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><i>are mirrors of it. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><i>I automatically
receive the love </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><i>and appreciation that I desire from others. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><i>If I am
committed to myself</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><i>and to living my truth, </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><i>My willingness to be intimate</i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><i>with my own deep feelings </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><i>creates the space for intimacy</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><i>with another.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> ~ Shakti Gawain </span></div>
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Alex da Silva-Soutohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15998432781159519485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2759181989208230850.post-52184740498474566652013-03-12T12:09:00.001-04:002013-04-15T11:06:46.295-04:00In the Desert<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><i>In the desert the most urgent thing is--</i></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><i>to wait. </i></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><i>The desert does not take kindly </i></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><i>to those who tackle it at breakneck speed, </i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><i>subjecting it to their plans and deadlines. </i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><i>Instead, </i></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><i>the desert welcomes those who shed their sandals of speed</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><i>and walk slowly in their bare feet, </i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><i>letting them be caressed and burnt by the sand. </i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><i>If you have no ambition to conquer the desert, </i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><i>if you do not think you are in charge, </i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><i>if you can calmly wait for things to be done, </i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><i>then the desert will not consider you an intruder </i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><i>and will reveal its secrets to you.</i></span><br />
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Alex da Silva-Soutohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15998432781159519485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2759181989208230850.post-86263286748952391002013-02-27T09:19:00.001-05:002013-04-15T11:06:56.879-04:00Truth<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><i>We Know </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><i>Through Concretes </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><i>More Than by Universal Theories. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><i>We can only know </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><i>in focused moments </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><i>what is always </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><i>and everywhere </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><i>true.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><i> </i><br /><br />Source: Richard Rohr ~ Scripture as Spirituality, p. 17</span></div>
Alex da Silva-Soutohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15998432781159519485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2759181989208230850.post-67137933091135293262013-02-26T10:42:00.004-05:002013-04-15T11:08:00.369-04:00Live in the Difference<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><i>Don't try to make a difference</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><i>be willing to live in the difference </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><i>God has made </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><i>and continues to make.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Source: John Westerhoff ~ Spiritual Life</span></span></span></div>
Alex da Silva-Soutohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15998432781159519485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2759181989208230850.post-47215457548484580892013-02-26T10:41:00.003-05:002013-02-26T10:41:41.721-05:00Simply Wait<div style="text-align: center;">
<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">You do not need to leave your room.</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />Remain sitting at your table and listen.</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />Do not even listen, simply wait,</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />be quiet, still and solitary.</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked,</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.</span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">~Franz Kafka</span></span>Alex da Silva-Soutohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15998432781159519485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2759181989208230850.post-43971956862045678822013-02-25T12:50:00.002-05:002013-04-15T11:11:08.963-04:00My True Character<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">To say that I am made in the image of God </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">is to say that love is the reason for my existence, </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">for God is love. </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Love is my true identity. </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Selflessness is my true self. </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Love is my true character.</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> Love is my name.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />Source: Thomas Merton ~ New Seeds of Contemplation</span></i></span></div>
Alex da Silva-Soutohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15998432781159519485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2759181989208230850.post-47124938091179879432013-02-22T16:53:00.002-05:002013-04-15T11:10:38.941-04:00Surrender<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><i>Sit down</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><i>Let go</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><i>Breathe in deep</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><i>Exhale slow</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><i>Unclench</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><i>Unwind</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><i>Ease up</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><i>Free the mind</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><i>No rules</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><i>Light heart</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><i>Quiet soul</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><i>Spoil the child</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><i>Spare the rod</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><i>Give up</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><i>Rest in God</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;">Source: Julie Palestrina, </span><br />
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Alex da Silva-Soutohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15998432781159519485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2759181989208230850.post-39672478371617058822013-02-19T11:32:00.002-05:002013-02-19T11:32:42.016-05:00Waiting to Be Revealed<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us is someone valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.</i><br /><br />e.e. cummings</span></span>Alex da Silva-Soutohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15998432781159519485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2759181989208230850.post-22507415784812965202013-02-18T13:42:00.004-05:002013-04-15T11:08:38.100-04:00Amo Ergo Sum<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Because I love<br />The sun pours out its rays of living gold<br />Pours out its gold and silver on the sea.<br /></span></i><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Because I love</span></i><br /><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The earth upon her astral spindle winds</span></i><br /><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Her ecstasy-producing dance.</span></i><br /><br /><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Because I love</span></i><br /><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Clouds travel on the winds through wide skies,</span></i><br /><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Skies wide and beautiful, blue and deep.</span></i><br /><br /><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Because I love</span></i><br /><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Wind blows white sails,</span></i><br /><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The wind blows over flowers, the sweet wind blows.</span></i><br /><br /><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Because I love</span></i><br /><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The ferns grow green, and green the grass, and green</span></i><br /><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The transparent sunlit trees.</span></i><br /><br /><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Because I love</span></i><br /><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Larks rise up from the grass</span></i><br /><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">And all the leaves are full of singing birds.</span></i><br /><br /><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Because I love</span></i><br /><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The summer air quivers with a thousand wings,</span></i><br /><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Myriads of jeweled eyes burn in the light.</span></i><br /><br /><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Because I love</span></i><br /><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The iridescent shells upon the sand</span></i><br /><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Takes forms as fine and intricate as thought.</span></i><br /><br /><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Because I love</span></i><br /><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">There is an invisible way across the sky,</span></i><br /><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Birds travel by that way, the sun and moon</span></i><br /><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">And all the stars travel that path by night.</span></i><br /><br /><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Because I love</span></i><br /><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">There is a river flowing all night long.</span></i><br /><br /><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Because I love</span></i><br /><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">All night the river flows into my sleep,</span></i><br /><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Ten thousand living things are sleeping in my arms,</span></i><br /><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">And sleeping wake, and flowing are at rest.</span></i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">~ Kathleen Raine </span></span></i></div>
Alex da Silva-Soutohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15998432781159519485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2759181989208230850.post-23317913314845579772013-02-09T11:39:00.003-05:002013-02-09T11:39:28.802-05:00Just Passing Through<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Did you hear about the couple that was headed out west, their car loaded down with furniture and possessions? They stopped at motels and each night unloaded all their things and carried them inside. Then in the morning they packed everything up again. <br /><br />Well, one morning they met a Buddhist in the unit next to them. He traveled with nothing, not even a single bag.<br /><br />"Why are you packing up all your possessions?" the Buddhist asked, watching the couple squeeze things into their trunk.<br /><br />"Because we're not staying," the couple replied. "We're driving all the way down Route 66 to California. We're just passing through." Then they looked at the Buddhist and asked, "Why do you carry nothing?"<br /><br />"Because I have no possessions."<br /><br />"Nothing at all?" they asked. "Why?"<br /><br />"Because I'm not staying," he said. "I'm just passing through."<br /><br />Source: Mary Swander ~ The Desert Pilgrim</i></span></span>Alex da Silva-Soutohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15998432781159519485noreply@blogger.com0