Love and Light: Monday Offering...a little late

Monday, 29 October 2012

Monday Offering...a little late

This offering comes to you late...

sorry my lovelies

I so wanted to tell you about a great man

who I had the pleasure of listening to

and spending time with

last weekend

Stephen Jenkinson

founder of The Orphan Wisdom School

There is so much I want to share with you

that I learnt

but my body has been taken over with a cold

and my energy has been sapped

So instead I offer you and chance to get familiar

with Stephen yourself

by watching his very moving

Documentary

"Grief Walker"

(just click on Documentary or Grief Walker)

"Not success

Not growth

Not happiness.

The cradle of your

Love of Life

is Death."

~Stephen Jenkinson

"If I had a chance

I would rather be whole than good"

~Jung

If you watch the documentary

I would love to hear your thoughts....

my lovelies

as we love the flower that blooms

knowing it will not last forever

as we watch the season change

knowing they do not last for ever

as we watch the moon wax and wane

and appreciate each stage of its light

so it is with our lives...

live well

my lovelies

for one day it will end.

I do not say this is sadness or denial

everything comes to and end

I am a human being

that will not live forever

so before my time comes

I will live as fully as I can

in each moment

in each breathe

grateful to be alive

Love and Light

(images captured today out front of my home)

5 comments:

S29 October 2012 at 22:39
I feel the same..nothing is permanent ..especially this body. Our culture is afraid of death and this fear keeps us away from living..I also love the Carl Jung quote where he said that it is important to feel whole rather than good..because goodness is very relative and wholeness is all encompassing.

I will watch the documentary by Stephen Jenkinson, thank you for suggesting.

I wish you a speedy recovery from cold, wish you good health, take care and take rest.
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foxysue30 October 2012 at 01:55
Love and Light to you too, 'dance the moments between the raindrops' that's what I say and am learning to do...........x
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Heather Mattern30 October 2012 at 05:13
Beautiful! I hope that you are feeling better. Thinking of you.
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nyssa30 October 2012 at 08:04
I hope you feel better soon, my friend xoxox
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Sophie4 November 2012 at 19:30
Beautiful fall leaves Cat. Hope you're rested and recovered now. love, Sx
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Your voice is welcome here, your connection appreciated. Love and Light

quotes that resonate...

"The world will know and understand me someday. but if that day does not arrive, it does not greatly matter. I shall have opened the way for other women." ~George Sands

"I have a new command for you. As I have loved you, so you must love others. "~Jesus

"You don't have a soul. You are a Soul...you have a heart." ~C.S. Lewis

"Humankind has not woven the web of Life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. all things are bound together. all things connected." ~Chief Seattle, 1854

If ever there comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known."~ Matthew Arnold

“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books.
Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.
Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.
But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.”~ Buddha

"The world will be saved by the Western woman....Some people will call me a feminist...but we need more effort to promote basic human values-human compassion, human affection. And in that respect, females have more sensitivity for others' pain and suffering." ~Dalai Lama

"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another." ~Anatole France

Out beyond ideas of wrong-doing and right-doing, there is a feild. I'll meet you there. ~Rumi

"Those who seem to know more truth than you simply reflect the part of you that has forgotten. They are your touchstones to remember." ~Alan Cohen

"We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another;unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, resent, and the future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations." ~Anais Nin

"Process is more important than outcome. when the outcome drives the process we will only ever go to where we've already been. If process drives outcome we may not know where we're going, but we will know we want to be there." ~ Bruce Mau

Love and Light

Monday, 29 October 2012

Monday Offering...a little late

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