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12 Aug 2015

standing tall

Erik Wahl:

The purpose of art is not to produce a product. The purpose of art is to produce thinking. The secret is not the mechanics or technical skill that create art – but the process of introspection and different levels of contemplation that generate it. Once you learn to embrace this process, your creative potential is limitless.
Artwork should be an active verb (a lens by which to view the world) not a passive noun (a painting that sits dormant in a museum). Creativity lies NOT in the done but in the doing. Art is active and incomplete. Always shifting, always becoming. Art is a sneak peak into the future of potential, of what could be. Not a past result of what has been already done. Art is a process not a product.
Art is a human act. Art is Risky. Generous. Courageous. Provocative. You can be perfect, or you can make art. You can keep track of what you will get in return for your effort, or you can make art. You can enjoy the status quo, or you can make art.
This is the purpose for why art should not be cut from education.

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10 Aug 2015

All find what they truly seek. – C.S. Lewis

Ask and it will be given
Seek and you will find

Knock and it will open

Guaranteed

Motivations are key to this

It’s not about surface talk,

sometimes, it’s not even

what you THINK you’re seeking

but under all

within all

is what you truly seek

and that is what you will find.

Really it is what will find you.

Be careful of your choices –

because you will always find

what you seek

is seeking you
AL

guess what song…http://youtu.be/Mk7-GRWq7wA

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09 Aug 2015

the possibilities are endless

Turn a fool into gold

Turn a broken heart into a warrior of love

Turn a weak voice into an instrument of peace

Turn my messy life into a picture of grace

Turn my eyes to see only beauty

Turn my mourning into laughing

and my weary heart to be a trusting home

Turn my sorrow into pure joy

keep my feet from stumbling on the path

That is my prayer, oh Lord,

Turn my fear into courage

And turn my self will into a puddle of loving goodness to pour out on the ones I love

Let me walk hand in hand,

and sleep in peace each night,

in fields of gold with the one who loves me like no other could ever love me

Thank you. Thank you,

always and forever

So be it

💞

Listen to Jason Isbell sing Cover Me Up http://youtu.be/WdwnGG29Upw

💞
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08 Aug 2015

One new perception, one fresh thought, one act of surrender, one change of heart, one leap of faith, can change your life forever. — Robert Holden

You see, people have some really crazy ideas about love, friends and relationships. They have the absurd belief that their friends, children, family, lovers and companions can make them happy. Love is by, for and about you, and it never had anything to do with another person. The love you bring to the table, is a way of living that you have been practicing in your life — and that love can be needy, controlling, selfish, conditional and desperate, or it can be confident, open, giving, unconditional, and secure. Your love capability is something you cultivate within yourself. Loving is like any other art-craft where the masters have carefully practiced and where the novices have languished in their carelessness. This is why some relationships look so beautiful, and some look so tragic — beauty belongs to the thoughtful; tragedy to the neglectful.
– Bryant McGill

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06 Aug 2015

say yes to things

A day so happy.
Fog lifted early, I worked in the garden.

Hummingbirds were stopping over honeysuckle flowers.

There was no thing on earth I wanted to possess.

I knew no one worth my envying him.

Whatever evil I had suffered, I forgot.

To think that once I was the same man did not embarrass me.

In my body I felt no pain.

When straightening up, I saw the blue sea and sails.

⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️

Gift by Czeslaw Milosz

Gratitude always proceeds the miracle. – Ann Voskamp

🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛

Talk about breakthrough…

that says it all.

Thank you

Ahhhh

Yes,

There it is –

Love always wins! ❤️

Listen to Sarah McLaughlin sing Ordinary Miracle http://youtu.be/OD2kz_U5NQM
⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️

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05 Aug 2015

beauty in all she is

It’s true, what all our heroes say. There is a way

in this world for beauty,

for good. It may

be a crooked path

in a tanglewood, but

stay the course and,

when the way grows rocky,

walk your horse,
and who knows, you may yet

come upon the wild rose,

as I have done, and,

paying close attention,

keep from crushing her into

the grime, and then,

with any luck, in time

remember how you found her

and how to find her again

when the way gets wilder.

🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

To a Wild Rose by Todd Boss

In the Celtic tradition, there is a beautiful understanding of love and friendship. One of the fascinating ideas here is the idea of soul-love; the old Gaelic term for this is anam ċara. Anam is the Gaelic word for soul and ċara is the word for friend. … In the early Celtic church, a person who acted as a teacher, companion, or spiritual guide was called an anam Ċara. It originally referred to someone to whom you confessed revealing the hidden intimacies of your life. With the anam ċara you could share your innermost self, your mind, and your heart. This friendship was an act of recognition and belonging. … In everyone’s life there is great need for an anam ċara, a soul friend, in this love you are understood as you are without mask or pretension. Where you are understood, you are at home.

– John O’Donohue

Listen to Christina Perri sing A Thousand Years http://youtu.be/q9ayN39xmsI

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03 Aug 2015

what matters most

Maybe no one needs us to out-debate them this summer, like they need us to out-love them. Maybe no one needs us to prove anything like they need us to have proof of what mends us… of what moves us. – Ann Voskamp

Read full blog post at http://www.aholyexperience.com/2015/07/when-you-feel-a-bit-like-the-worlds-ablaze-with-hard-things-the-emmaus-option/

Listen to Adele sing To Make You Feel My Love http://youtu.be/ZzmTFBPMhk8

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02 Aug 2015

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.— Friedrich Nietzsche

There are things that get blocked
by other things

and then the flow of things

from the source of things

seems to stop

and one thing non-flowing

effects other things downstream

Meanwhile life goes on

and many things remain flowing

But you always know somethings blocked

because there are the things

that you want to do…

that you think you need to do…

and you just can’t seem to do them…

and so it goes

until you find the source of the blockage

and remove it

and, once again,

things flow easy

with the rest of things…

I just heard Karate masters

don’t focus on the cinderblock –

to break through,

they focus on the space beyond the block…

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30 Jul 2015

covers off

You cant wake someone

pretending to be asleep

You cant talk to someone

pretending to listen

You can’t touch someone

pretending to be interested

You can’t connect with someone

pretending to be your friend

You can’t teach someone anything

pretending to know everything

You can’t satisfy someone

pretending to be perfect

You can’t give enough to someone

pretending to be grateful

You can’t change the world

pretending to be kind

You can’t heal your heart

pretending it’s not hurting

You can’t solve a problem

pretending you haven’t got one

You cant be loved by someone

pretending to be ready for love

You can’t find the truth

pretending it’s a lie

It is what it is

Pretending never really works…

but don’t even bother telling that to the pretenders

Listen to The Platters sing Smoke Gets in Your Eyes http://youtu.be/BeC9Z1YQjXs

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25 Jul 2015

transformations

There is a teaching that says that behind all hardening and tightening and rigidity of the heart, there’s always fear. But if you touch fear, behind fear there is a soft spot. And if you touch that soft spot, you find the vast blue sky. You find that which is ineffable, ungraspable, and unbiased, that which can support and awaken us at any time.
– Pema Chodron