so, here I'll share some highs and hope filled words... Some are my own, while the mostpart will be those I've gleaned from others...
"Sometimes what seems like surrender isn't surrender at all. It's about what's going on in our hearts. About seeing clearly the way life is and accepting it and being true to it, whatever the pain, because the pain of not being true to it is far, far greater."
-- Nicholas Evans *****************************************************************
"In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages."
-- Swami Brahmanada *****************************************************************
"Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life."
-- Mary Manin Morrissey ****************************************************************
"Every lesson is a widening and deepening of consciousness. It is a stretching of the mind beyond its conceptual limits and a stretching of the heart beyond its emotional boundaries. It is a bringing of xxxxxxxxxxx material into consciousness, a healing of past wounds, and a discovery of new faith and trust."
-- Paul Ferrini ****************************************************************
"Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers." - Robert Green Ingersoll
"Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another." - George Eliot *****************************************************************
And lastly.. many months ago, I'd written this and posted on Facebook.. Smiles, I'm no longer there, and who knows how long I'll be anywhere...
These words were truly mine:
As an artist, I am dazzled by color and form. I try to use words as an artistic media as well as using paints, pencils, clays, wood and stone... I am light minded, and deep thinking. I feel deeply, too. And, yet... *sigh* I have a mind filled with trivia and YES.. really... some actual useful things... And still.... filled with dreams, hopes, wishes and desires. I want to reach my goals, and make my dreams reality...
This is my own personal expression of my view of life... and my firm belief: every breath is a prayer... every dream is a glimmering sample of hope.. and every day I face the east, waiting for the sunrise, believing it will warm me...is an act of faith. I have no choice but to believe that life is love... and that love is the key to our existence... Without loving acceptance we become embittered and lonely souls. But WITH love, all things become possible, and we can let our burdens fall away from us.
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I'd like to say I still believe in these things firmly, but I'd be lying. Right now, I'm filled with doubts. But I'd like to feel that my soul still knows this to be true. I'd like to feel hope, trust, and faith are still intact latently within me. |