The welcome ever smiles, and farewell goes out sighing. ~William Shakespeare

Monday, June 29, 2009

Be Yourself









"Be yourself... everyone else is taken"
*Oscar Wilde

Saturday, June 27, 2009

The Sky



The sky is that beautiful old parchment
in which the sun and the moon keep their diary.
* Alfred Kreymborg

Thursday, June 25, 2009



The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

*Ralph Waldo Emerson



“Kind hearts are the gardens,
Kind thoughts are the roots,
Kind words are the flowers,
Kind deeds are the fruits,
Take care of your garden
And keep out the weeds,
Fill it with sunshine
Kind words and kind deeds”

*Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Wednesday, June 24, 2009


Faith is raising the sail of our little boat until it is caught up in the soft winds above and picks up speed, not from anything within itself, but from the vast resources of the universe around us.
*W. Ralph Ward

Monday, June 22, 2009

Catching up

Okay now its been a couple of weeks since I've updated. Sunny weather, pool, summer is finally here! WOOT! How was Father's Day? My hubby received barbecue tools. New long handled basting silicone brush and a new two sided metal grill scraper :D He is all about the BBQ. Strawberry Shortcake for dessert. I made a vanilla cake, chopped strawberries and we had my favourite Chapman's vanilla ice-cream with it. I hope all the dad's out there were made to feel special.

Tuesday, June 09, 2009

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New philosophy

Just read a quote by... okay, I already forgot where I read it... but I liked it and want to keep the thought because it makes me laugh :D

"Life is like a roll of toilet paper,
the closer you get to the end,
the faster it goes."

So true and so to the point! Live your life and make it good :D

Friday, June 05, 2009

BE

Resonate with your authentic self.

Quit saying "yes" when you want to say "no"

Wear what you want, stop worrying about "other" voices.

Listen to your intuition and act on it the way that feels "right for you"

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's. ~Billy Wilder

Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out. ~Michael Burke


Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. ~Benjamin Spock, Baby and Child Care, 1977


Instinct is untaught ability. ~Bain


Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness. ~John Sterling


Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. ~Joyce Brothers


Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way. ~Florence Scovel Shinn


Reasoning at every step he treads,
Man yet mistakes his way,
Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads,
Are rarely known to stray.
~William Cowper


The most decisive actions of our life... are most often unconsidered actions. ~André Gide, The Counterfeiters, 1926


A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action. ~Jawaharlal Nehru


An artist's instinct is more refined than the typical mortal's. ~Holden Rinehart


I suspect we have internal senses. The mind's eye since Shakespeare's time has been proverbial; and we have also a mind's ear. To say nothing of dreams, one certainly can listen to one's own thoughts, and hear them, or believe that one hears them: the strongest argument adducible in favour of our hearing any thing. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827


Instinct is the nose of the mind. ~Madame De Girardin


I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason. ~Stanley Baldwin



But possess yourself of It by the very elimination of [individual] being, and you hold a marvel! Thrusting forward to This, attaining, and resting in Its content, seek to grasp It more and more, understanding It by that intuitive thrust alone, but knowing its greatness by the beings that follow upon It and exist by Its power.~Plotinus


Natural knowledge is that which the soul can acquire through the use of its natural faculties and powers when investigating creation and the cause of creation -- in so far, of course, as this is possible for a soul bound to matter… Supranatural knowledge, on the other hand, is that which enters the intellect in a manner transcending its own means and power; that is to say, the intelligible objects that constitute such knowledge surpass the capacity of an intellect joined to a body, so that a knowledge of them pertains naturally only to an intellect which is free from the body. Such knowledge is infused by God alone when He finds an intellect purified of all material attachment and inspired by divine love.~Philokalia



Then said Mahamati: Pray tell us, Blessed One, what is the nature of Self-realization by reason of which we shall be able to attain Transcendental Intelligence?
The Blessed One replied: Transcendental Intelligence rises when the intellectual-mind reaches its limit and, if things are to be realized in their true and essence nature, its processes of mentation, which are based on particularized ideas, discriminations and judgments, must be transcended by an appeal to some higher faculty of cognition, if there be such a higher faculty. There is such a faculty in the intuitive-mind (Manas), which as we have seen is the link between the intellectual-mind and Universal Mind. While it is not an individualized organ like the intellectual-mind, it has that which is much better direct dependence upon Universal Mind. While intuition, does not give information that can be analyzed and discriminated, it gives that which is far superior, self-realization through identification.~Buddhism



Intuitive-mind is one with Universal Mind by reason of its participation in Transcendental Intelligence and is one with the mind-system by its comprehension of differentiated knowledge. Intuitive-mind has no body of its own nor any marks by which it can be differentiated. Universal Mind is its cause and support but it is evolved along with the notion of an ego and what belongs to it, to which it clings and upon which it reflects. Through intuitive-mind, by the faculty of intuition which is a mingling of both identity and perceiving, the inconceivable wisdom of Universal Mind is revealed and made realizable. Like Universal Mind it can not be the source of error.~Buddhism