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Don’t wait…

http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2012/may/27/keegan-opposite-loneliness/

I read the article above this morning posted on the Yale facebook link – Marina Keegan died in a car accident this past weekend. This is one of her statements in this piece as she faced graduation from Yale:

We’re so young.  We’re so young. We’re twenty-two years old. We have so much time. There’s this sentiment I sometimes sense, creeping in our collective conscious as we lay alone after a party, or pack up our books when we give in and go out – that it is somehow too late. That others are somehow ahead. More accomplished, more specialized. More on the path to somehow saving the world, somehow creating or inventing or improving. That it’s too late now to BEGIN a beginning and we must settle for continuance, for commencement.

There are no guarantees in this life. Age is not the answer to living fully. We may have ‘so much time’  – or we may be gone tomorrow! Don’t wait to live your life; your dreams matter!

If today was your last day – what would you do?????

Ok, now make the choice! DO IT!!!!

the most important freedom

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are.    You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can’t be any large-scale revolution until there’s a personal revolution, on an individual level. It’s got to happen inside first.
– Jim Morrison

How are we living?

The time is now…

Of Dreams and Wishes

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Excerpt from “An Essay on Man
by Alexander Pope

ALL are but parts of one stupendous whole,
Whose body Nature is, and God the soul;
That, changed through all, and yet in all the same,
Great in the earth, as in th’ ethereal frame,
Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze,
Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees,
Lives through all life, extends through all extent,
Spreads undivided, operates unspent:
Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part;
As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart;
As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns
As the rapt Seraphim, that sings and burns:
To him no high, no low, no great, no small—
He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all….
All nature is but art, unknown to thee:
All chance, direction, which thou canst not see:
All discord, harmony not understood;
All partial evil, universal good.

Public domain

Macro shot of dewdrops by Sharon Johnstone
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/

Something worth holding in our hearts

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What’s your gift?

Open My Eyes, Mind & Heart to See The Beauty

God, may the eyes of my heart be enlightened.

May I see today not with the eyes of my fears and desires,

but with the eyes of heaven.

May I see with the eyes of your hope, and your tender love.

May I see your loving presence in all things,

supreme and yet hidden.

May I see the power of resurrection

radiant in every moment.

May I truly see,

with the eyes of my heart

full of your light.

Amen.

__________________
Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net

It’s My Life! 47 today!!!

Courage is also a thing with feathers…

I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that.  – Linda Ellerbee

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