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“Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.”
~James Joyce
Today I return to the West of Ireland to meet old friends, make new ones and to the promise of a new and better day.
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2/2/12
The clearest way to the Universe is through a forest wilderness”
~John Muir
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1/30/12
"Without, the sun shines bright and the birds are singing amid the ivy on
the drooping beeches. Their choice is made, and they turn away
hand-in-hand, with their backs to the darkness and their faces to the
light"
~Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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1/28/12
What is
THIS moment like when I experience it without a story? Without checking with
mind about what anything means or doesn't mean? Without going into past or
future? Without trying to understand or get anything? What is the storyless NOW
like? Only one way to find out...
–Michael
Jeffreys
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1/25/12
"Neither the voice in your head
nor the one hearing it is YOU."
~Michael Jeffreys |
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1/23/12
"All conflict comes
from attachment."
–Anthony de Mello
Once, meandering through Connemara, County Galway, Ireland, I was making
my way along the lake shore near Kylemore Abbey. This little boat was
tugging at its tethered line and it reminded me of how we are all
"attached" to our thoughts, our home, our possessions and how we really
become those thoughts in our own individual way. I suppose true happiness is causeless. It occurred
to me that if something causes me happiness, I will become attached and possessive of
that thing. I will become anxious, lest I lose it.
If I ask the mystic
why he or she is happy, the answer will be,
‘why not?’
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1/22/12
What matter is how quickly you do what your soul directs.
~Rumi
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1/20/12
Every man's memory is his private literature.
~Aldous Huxley |
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1/19/12
Music was my refuge.
I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
~Maya Angelou |
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1/18/12
We begin life with the world presenting itself to us as it is. Someone -
our parents, teachers, analysts - hypnotizes us to "see" the world and
construe it in the "right" way. These others label the world, attach
names and give voices to the beings and events in it, so that
thereafter, we cannot read the world in any other language or hear it
saying other things to us. The task is to break the hypnotic spell, so
that we become undeaf, unblind and multilingual, thereby letting the
world speak to us in new voices and write all its possible meanings in
the new book of our existence. Be careful in your choice of
hypnotists.
~Sidney Jourard |
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1/17/12
“Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then
subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to
work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is
inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is.
Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the
promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in
love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what
is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an
art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots
that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty
blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and
not two.”
―
Louis de Bernières,
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
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1/14/12
"There is magic, but you have to be the magician. You have to make the magic happen."
~SIDNEY SHELDON, Are You Afraid of the Dark? |
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1/11/12
People's whole lives do pass in front of their eyes before they die.
The process is called 'living.'
~ Terry Pratchett |
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1/8/12
"Stop searching here and there,
the jewels are inside you."
Rumi ♥ |
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12/25/11
Some pursue happiness, others create it.
Thanks B~
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12/24/11
"Not all those who wander are lost"
~J.R.R. Tolkien
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12/23/11
“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you
because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely
places.
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12/21/11
". . . her heart lived in no cherished secrets of its own, but in feelings which it longed to share with all the world."
~George Elliot
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12/19/11
"I think when we get those moments where things are just too hard to comprehend, there is a whole different world."
~C.S. Lewis
(Ancient monastic settlement near Glendalough, Ireland).
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12/18/11
“Someday, we’ll run into each other again, I know it.
Maybe I’ll be older and smarter and just plain better. If that happens,
that’s when I’ll deserve you. But now, at this moment, you can’t hook
your boat to mine, because I’m liable to sink us both.”
~Zevin
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12/17/11
Little Baby, pa rum pum pum pum
I am a poor boy too, pa rum pum pum pum
I have no gift to bring, pa rum pum pum pum
That's fit to give the King, pa rum pum pum pum,
rum pum pum pum, rum pum pum pum,
Shall I play for you, pa rum pum pum pum,
On my drum?
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12/16/11
"My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and when
wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the violence of
the change without torture such as you cannot even imagine"
~Mary Shelly
(inmate day room from "Asylum", a photographic journey into an abandoned Massachusetts insane asylum built in 1854).
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