Sunday/Monday, April 6-7, 2014

"Balancing and integrating our inner and outer worlds with the magical element of water" ~ Elizabeth Johnstone

Celebrating life! 

"Don't plant anything but love." ~ Rumi

“Each night, the Moon kisses secretly the Lover who counts the stars.” ~Rumi

Flora Phenomena by Mandy Smith

Gotta love Grin Givers

Her Will

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"I relax and enjoy life. I know that whatever I need to know is revealed to me in the perfect time and space sequence." Lousie Hay

John J Law : "Our peaceful beautiful place sister"

Kinda like... "Let yourself be living poetry (Rumi)...

"Let your Love soup simmer" ~ Rebecca West

Meghan and Marley celebrating the big 1-0h!

"“Observe the Wonders as they occur around You. Don’t claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and Be Silent.” ~Rumi

"Perfect Piping Plover" by Sue Gager Palmer

"Quality cartwheel" Ellie Blake

Rebecca West subbed for Meghan

Thích Nhất Hạnh : “Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”

Understanding is essential before true love is possible

Visceral Senior Art Exhibition opening reception is April 20th at Meredith College's Frankie Weems Gallery

Whole Foods' oatmeal - still the best

eXpand lungs, open heart

"You are calm. You look. You see. You understand, and now you can love." ~ Thích Nhất Hạnh 

Zen proverb :  It is only in still water that we can see our true reflection.

April 2014... with a 2019 "makeover"

"Action before contemplation. Risk before rest." ~ Fr. Richard Rohr

Be seen by God - Darshan - the Divine gaze, naked before God

Capacity to Choose Confidence over fear

"Divine gaze where we are seeing all the way through..." ~ Fr. Richard Rohr 

 thank you, Antoinette

Faith - in God - in ALL things

Gratitude and appreciation - plant these seeds daily

"How to Be in a World that Does." ~ Fr. Richard Rohr

Joy can be because of smile, or smile because of your Joy ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

"Knowing how to be present..." ~ Fr. Richard Rohr

Let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will Learn to know God's will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect." ~ Romans 12:2

"Move beyond words to the unified field, to the depth everything where God is always, always apparent.

New perspective begins NOW and Napatree is a great place for it

 thank you Elizabeth Johnstone

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,there is a field. I’ll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase “each other” doesn’t make any sense.
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you / Don’t go back to sleep.
You must ask for what you really want / Don’t go back to sleep.
People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch.
The door is round and open. / Don’t go back to sleep.” ~ Rumi

"Put all your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of you heart. Let go of thinking." ~ Rumi

Qualified to answer the phone, only after you breath, smile, inhale, exhale, smile ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Rectitude and Responsibility Blessings by Anna Quindlen

Sense the presence of Divinity

 Kahlil Gibran

Unified field... Einstein... explained beautifully mins 17-22 of this YouTube video

Violet and her Grampi

When the gaze has been received, you always start crying, everyone does. ~ Richard Rohr

"eXperience the non-duality of eXistence" ~ Peter Levine listen here

Y is for Yogini :)

Zen proverb: "Be as a cup and the universe flows into you."

Ahhhhh......April...

Aristotle : "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

"Because of a great love, one is courageous." ~ Lao-Tzu

Closest thing to a wonder drug ... EXERCISE

"Dreaming myself awake." ~ Michael Bernard Beckwith

Emerson : "That which we persist in doing becomes easier - not that the nature of the task has changed, but our ability to do has increased."

Friends and Family of Valerie Randall all helping each other through sharing

Greg Hickman Reach up as far as you can and God will help you reach the rest of the way.

"Humility encourages receptivity." Julia Cameron God Is No Laughing Matter

"It's Tuesday, people. Make it a good one." ~ Yellow House Facebook post :)

Jivanmuki : liberation in life p. 42 1001 Pearls of Yoga Wisdom
"Keep your eyes peeled for crocuses and daffodils ... and make sure you come and see us for some delicious sustenance." ~ Yellow House Facebook post :)

Lao-Tzu : Appropriate rituals channel your emotions and life energy toward the light. Without the discipline to practice them, you will tumble constantly backward into darkness."

Magic sauce : 4-6 breaths per minute ~ Brian Johnson

"No more! I'm going to change this!!" ~ Tony Robbins

Ocean House, Watch Hill, RI April 1, 2014

Pause and Plan

Quare : remarkable or strange: a quare fellow; great or good: you're in a quare mess

Rumi : "Love is the bridge between you and everything"

"Star crossed" a self portrait by Valerie Randall

The decisions that we make are what create our lives. ~ Tony Robbins

Unwrap the day...

Valerie, you are always on my mind...especially when I see things like this on Facebook.

"eXtravagant turn of phrase and mind." p112 Blessings

Yoga clicks Facebook picture and quote: 'Walk as if you're kissing the ground with your feet' Thích Nhất Hạnh;

Zig Ziglar : "Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have."