It is not only the roses of life that open the heart, but the thorns, also.
Source: Early Morning Conversation
It is not only the roses of life that open the heart, but the thorns, also.
"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens."
- Carl Jung
To awaken each morning with a smile brightening my face; to greet the day with reverence for the opportunities it contains; to approach my work with a clean mind; to hold ever before me, even in the doing of little things, the ultimate purpose toward which I am working; to meet men and women with laughter on my lips and love in my heart; to be gentle, kind, and courteous through all the hours; to approach the night with weariness that ever woos sleep and the joy that comes from work well done - this is how I desire to waste wisely my days.
Thomas Dekker
If one lives with positive thoughts they will kindle a flame of love that will manifest a world of divine heart.
One completed soul takes two braves hearts.
One completed soul takes two braves hearts.
You can never truly love anyone else until you love yourself. Until you really love yourself, your love for others is purely selfish. It is an attempt to fulfill the missing part of you with whatever you enjoy about them.
Therefore, I cannot trust others who don't love themselves to truly have my best interests at heart.
~Danielle Marie Crume
The real beauty of realizing your true nature is in the freshness,
peace and deep bodily relaxation which touches to the core of
your being, flows into your everyday life and bursts forth naturally
into blossoming from within itself. Without you 'doing' a thing
about any of it.
This is a beautiful and simple change of lifestyle.
A lifestyle of letting go and living openhandedly, curled
up in the sunlit warmth on the lap of
the Divine (your heart)
"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain. And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy; And you would accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields. And you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief."
~ Kahlil Gibran
If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.
If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.
The very heart of existence itself is what is looking out through the very eyes of this mindbody that you find yourself so intimately involved with. You think that you are this mindbody- it is what you are unconsciously trying to be from moment to moment...
"Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we
have learned here. The spiritual journey is the unlearning
of fear and the acceptance of love back into our hearts."
Sleep within your heart.
The true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs.
- Anita Blake
Always have a song on your heart, and you will be on a good note.
Always have a song on your heart, and you will be on a good note.
What to Do When Your Love's Left You
(or the universe has otherwise brought you grief)
1. Honor your enemies.
It is they who make you strong and wise. (But see #4.)
2. Define your own reality.
Let no one tell you what to think, how to act, nor how you are supposed to feel.
3. The heart cannot be broken.
Only the barriers that protect the heart from the pain of life can be broken. Although never sought, heartache can be seen as a deep opening of the heart.
4. Do not be kind.
Honor the love you shared; be decent in all your actions, but recognize that in these circumstances, kindness is a lie.
5. Cut all energetic bonds between you.
They can be used to manipulate you and hurt you further. If there is to be reconciliation, let it be from new material, not the re-engagement of the previous energies.
6. Think of yourself first for one full year; beginning right now.
7. Let go. Give up. Die. (But don't really kill yourself, please!) The earth will recycle you. Lay down on her and pour your pain into her. Envision yourself as a dead body. Let yourself be eaten by the beetles and worms and excreted as manure for the plants which are eaten by people like you. It all goes round, so let go. Let go of blame. Let go of shame. Let go of guilt.
8. Smile. Even if you don't feel like it. Smiling--the actual tightening of the muscles involved in making a smile--causes the release of feel-good chemicals (endorphins) in the brain. When in pain, remember, smiling is more effective than drink or drugs.
Life is what you do with it, so follow your heart!
Hell is a creation of the mind, Heaven is a creation of the Heart....
Death is not the opposite of life,it is the opposite of birth! you were alive before you were born....and you will still be alive after you have died....because just like birth is not the beggining of life,death is not the end...it's just part of life!
keep smiling!
The cultivated heart, imagined then as a house with many rooms, or an alchemical vase able to sustain high temperatures to assist creation of new substances, or imagined as a walled garden with rare flowers, order, solitude, place for intimacy with another, disdain of ordinary chaotic life, represented immense effort. It still does. Male initiation does not move toward machoism; on the contrary, it moves toward achieving a cultivated heart before we die.
"Like sheaves of corn it gathers you unto itself.
It threshes you to make you naked.
It sifts you to free you from your husks.
It grinds you to whiteness.
It kneads you until you are pliant.
And then it assigns you to its sacred fire, that you may become sacred bread for God’s sacred feast.
All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life’s Heart." >>>
When you want something, something so true and pure, something that deep in your heart you know it's worth risking, then one must follow that path. But like any other path, there are obstacles, there are hardships, there will be sacrifices. One has to constantly question whether this path is worth traveling and how far along the path we must go... the choice is ours.
Think with your heart, intuition is greater than logic.
When you want something, go get it. Period.
When you die, your inbox will still be full.
Every person is born paired with a spiritual self, a higher self -- some people say the Divine or the Universal Self or the Soul. Our language reflects this: When we are sad, our hearts need to be re-paired to our spiritual selves, "repaired". Likewise, "dis.." and "des.." are prefixes meaning "apart" and when we lose our connection, we feel disabled, disjointed and, if it is bad enough, despair" (apart from our pair). So, the spiritual choice, the critical choice, is daily re-pairing or eventual des-pairing.
"Each of us has a fire in our heart for something. It's our goal in life to find it and to keep it lit."
"To hear the whispered voice of another's heart, and understand
unspoken words, are talents of those lucky few people who are
precious to the world."
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.