Let go and trust

Image: Mike Pedroncelli

Things have a beautiful way of working out perfectly when we let go and trust.

- Aimee

In the image of the divine

Image: Paree Erica

A Divine Image

Cruelty has a human heart,
And Jealousy a human face;
Terror the human form divine,
And Secresy the human dress.

The human dress is forged iron,
The human form a fiery forge,
The human face a furnace sealed,
The human heart its hungry gorge.

Songs of Experience, William Blake

Heaven on earth

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Heaven on Earth is a choice you must make, not a place you must find.

- Wayne Dyer

The barbaric YAWP - is it in you?

Image: Heather Hopkins

I too am not a bit tamed,

I too am untranslatable,

I sound my barbaric YAWP

over the roofs of the world.


Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself" in Leaves of Grass

Are you standing in life's shadow or sunlight?

Image: Fod Tzellos

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The light

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I Think I See the Light - Cat Stevens

I used to trust nobody, trusting even less their words,
until I found somebody, there was no one I preferred,
my heart was made of stone, my eyes saw only misty grey,
Until you came into my life girl, I saw everyone that way.
Until I found the one I needed at my side,
I think I would have been a sad man all my life.

I think I see the light coming to me,
coming through me giving me a second sight.
So shine, shine, shine,
shine, shine, shine,
shine, shine, shine.

I used to walk alone, every step seemed the same.
This world was not my home, so there was nothing much to gain.
Look up and see the clouds, look down and see the cold floor.
Until you came into my life girl, I saw nothing, nothing more.
Until I found the one I needed at my side,
I think I would have been a sad man all my life.

I think I see the light coming to me,
coming through me giving me a second sight.
So shine, shine, shine,
shine, shine, shine,
shine, shine, shine.

Following the sun...always

Image: David DeHetre

I'll Follow the Sun - John Lennon/Paul McCartney

One day you'll look to see I've gone
For tomorrow may rain,
so I'll follow the sun

Some day you'll know I was the one
But tomorrow may rain,
so I'll follow the sun

And now the time has come
and, my love, I must go
And though I lose a friend
In the end you will know, oh

One day you'll find that I have gone
But tomorrow may rain,
so I'll follow the sun

Do you want to change the world?

Image: Alice

Everybody thinks of changing the world but nobody thinks of changing himself.

- Leo Tolstoy

To the forest!

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I went into the woods
because I wished to live deliberately,
to front only the essential facts of life,
and see if I could not learn what it had to teach,
and not, when I came to die,
discover that I had not lived.

- Henry David Thoreau

Remembering life's roses

Image: Sudarshan Vijayaraghavan

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world

~ Leo Buscaglia

Life's shadows

Image: Sundaram Ramaswamy

Never let a shadow from your past take away the shine of your future.

- Anonymous

Keeping childhood wonders alive

Image: Nemo Gould, used with permission

Most adults are dangerously lacking in wonder. As we age and learn more of the answers to life’s mysteries, I think we lose part of what keeps us alive. When I am working, I am always trying to make things that can produce a child-like response from a jaded adult—it’s a matter of life and death!

- Nemo Gould

The Bright Side of Life

Image: Bohari Adventures

You know, you come from nothing, you're going back to nothing. What have you lost? Nothing!

- Monty Python, Life of Brian

Imagine

Image: Vimal Raveendran

Logic will get you from A to B.

Imagination will get you everywhere.

- Albert Einstein

Curiosity never killed the cat

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The cure for boredom is curiosity.

There is no cure for curiosity.

- Dorothy Parker

Wrinkles of life

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Age may wrinkle the face but lack of enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

- Proverb