Tag: peace

the sacred pause

What if we stopped celebrating being busy as a measure of importance? What if we instead celebrated how much time we had spent listening, pondering, meditating, and enjoying time with the most important people in our lives?
Greg McKeown

From the sacred pause

Here and Now

When we endlessly ruminate over distant times, we miss extraordinary things in the present moment. These extraordinary things are,
in actual fact, all we have: the here and now.

Quote: Katherine May
Photo by Sapan Patel on Unsplash

Promises to be kinder…

Why do we start a new year, with promises to improve?

Who began this tradition of never-ending pressure?
I say, the end of a year, should be filled with congratulation, for all we survived. 
And I say a new year should start with promises to be kinder to ourselves, to understand better just how much we bear, as humans on this exhausting treadmill of life.
And if we are to promise more, let’s pledge to rest,
before our bodies force us. 
Let’s pledge to stop, and drink in life as it happens.
Let’s pledge to strip away a layer of perfection to reveal the flawed and wondrous humanity we truly are inside.
Why start another year, gifted to us on this earth, with demands on our already over-strained humanity. 
When we could be learning to accept, that we were always supposed to be imperfect.
And that is where the beauty lives, actually.
And if we can only find that beauty, we would also find peace.

I wish you peace in 2023.
Everything else is all just a part of it.
Let it be so.

Quote: ‘Life: Poems to help navigate life’s many twists & turns’
by Donna Ashworth (Amazon)

Art: Demelsa Haughton Illustration

#newyear #2023

thank you, Gail Spach

to be content with yourself…

This is a repost… Somehow it got lost on my blog. Peace to all.

 

“May today there be peace within. May you trust that you are exactly where you are meant to be. May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith in yourself and others. May you use the gifts that you have received and pass on the love that has been given to you. May you be content with yourself just the way you are. Let this knowledge settle into your bones and allow your soul the freedom to sing, dance, praise and love. It is there for each and every one of us.” —

 

attributed to Mother Teresa

Photo by Daniel Mirlea on Unsplash

With gratitude for his insight, I thank Brian Prior who shared this poem

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