The way the dog trots out the front door every morning without a hat or an umbrella, without any money or the keys to her doghouse never fails to fill the saucer of my heart with milky admiration. Who provides a finer example of a life without encumbrance— Thoreau in his curtainless hut with a…
Category: seize the moments
Spirituality from Daily Word: “Amazing” (Espiritualidad de la Palabra Diaria: “Emoción” Maravilla)
Amazing I am filled with wonder and amazement. Life is amazing! My heart and soul are touched as I pause to consider the sacredness of every single moment of my life. As I behold each moment as holy, I look at my life with wonder and amazement. To keep this awareness alive, I make time…
POEMS: “A human life in the twinkling of a star” by Amira (“Una vida humana en el parpadeo de una estrella”)
“A human life in the twinkling of a star” Millions of years in forming Since the start of our planet… so young! Such huge scale of time A difficult concept to grasp for the mind Humanity has just begun! In the big scheme of things what is the time of a human…
Poems: “Ode to this moment” by Pablo Neruda
“Ode to the moment” This moment as smooth as a board, and fresh, this hour, this day as clean as an untouched glass –not a single spiderweb from the past: we touch the moment with our fingers, we cut it to size, we direct its blooming. It’s living, it’s alive: it brings nothing from yesterday…
INSPIRATIONAL POEMS: “Seeking For Happiness” by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
“Seeking For Happiness” Seeking for happiness we must go slowly; The road leads not down avenues of haste; But often gently winds through by ways lowly, Whose hidden pleasures are serene and chaste. Seeking for happiness we must take heed Of simple joys that are not found in speed. Eager for noon-time’s large effulgent splendour,…
NATURE POEMS: “Such Singing in the Wild Branches”
Such Singing in the Wild Branches It was spring and finally I heard him among the first leaves – then I saw him clutching the limb in an island of shade with his red brown feathers all trim and neat for the new year. First, I stood still and thought of nothing. Then I began…
Learning from nature POEMS: “These roses” by Ralph Waldo Emerson
These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones; they are for what they are; they exist with God to-day. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence. Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts;…
“Affirmation” by Tarchin Hearn (excerpt from Green Dharma Treasury)
“Affirmation” I have lived all my life with a terminal diagnosis, yet the naming of cancer is considered terminal whereas living is not. To surrender into the reality of living is to surrender into the reality of it always leading to death. Surrender into dying is therefore not necessarily different than surrendering into life. To…
POEMS (to make us think): “The vacation”
“The vacation” Once there was a man who filmed his vacation. He went flying down the river in his boat with his video camera to his eye, making a moving picture of the moving river upon which his sleek boat moved swiftly toward the end of his vacation. He showed his vacation to his…
Spirituality from Daily Word: “Seize the moment” (Espiritualidad de la Palabra Diaria: “Aprovecha el momento”
Seize the Moment I embrace the possibilities for good in this moment. In her book Lessons in Truth, H. Emilie Cady shares this affirmation: I am a … manifestation of God, and every moment [divine] life, love, wisdom, power flow into and through me. Her words inspire me to begin thinking of problems as…
Spirituality from Daily Word: “Patience” (De la Palabra Diaria: “Paciencia”)
Photo credit: Painted Snail or Cuban Land Snail (Polymita picta) Pinterest Patience With faith, I exhibit patience in every situation. The foundation of patience is faith and the practice of being present in the moment. I remind myself to be patient with myself and with others. I cannot rush the changing seasons, hurry the development…
POEMS: “Sweetness” by Thich Nhat Hanh
“Sweetness” You must be completely awake in the present to enjoy the tea. Only in the awareness of the present, can your hands feel the pleasant warmth of the cup. Only in the present, can you savor the aroma, taste the sweetness, appreciate the delicacy. If you are ruminating about the past, or…
