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Please follow the link to YouTube to see this video it goes with the quote below and I found it amazingly expressive of the concepts of how nature speaks to me, acts as a guiding force, and allows enchantment. “Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take … ... mehr auf elisasspot.wordpress.com
“Here, surrounded by the products of nature, often I sit for hours, while my senses feast upon the spectacle of nature. Here the majestic sun is not concealed by any dirty roof made by human hands, here the blue sky is my sublime roof. When in the evening I contemplate the sky in wonder and […]... mehr auf elisasspot.wordpress.com
“Emotional pain makes me the opposite of a deep person; it renders my life narrow and thin and isolated. My suffering takes this whole thrilling, and gigantic universe and shrinks it down to the size of my own unhappy head.” –Elizabeth Gilbert, Big MagicFiled under: Morning Trip Tagged: "Elisa's Spot", Big Magic, creation, elisa, ... mehr auf elisasspot.wordpress.com
“Keep your passion alive– it will warm you when the world around you grows cold. It will not allow comfortable familiarity to rob you of that special glow that comes with loving deeply. It can lift you over stone walls of anger and carry you across vast deserts of alienation. But its greatest gift is […]... mehr auf elisasspot.wordpress.com
Sometimes we dont’ have to persue happiness, we just have to pause and let it catch up.–unknownFiled under: Personal Expressions, Purple Shoe Photography--images taken by Elisabeth Connelley Tagged: "Elisa's Spot", black and white photography, black and white thinking, chasing, digital art, elisa, elisabeth connelley, grounding, happine... mehr auf elisasspot.wordpress.com
“Oh, for a tongue to express the Wonders which the Thought reveals! Oh, for some Word to comprehend the boundless idea! Would that some Voice were sweet enough to sound the harmony of Life. But Within, in that vast realm of thought where the Soul meets God, the Spirit knows. I will listen for that […]... mehr auf elisasspot.wordpress.com
“I stood willingly and gladly in the characters of everything – other people, trees, clouds. And this is what I learned, that the world’s otherness is antidote to confusion – that standing within this otherness – the beauty and the mystery of the world, out in the fields or deep inside books – can re-dignify [... mehr auf elisasspot.wordpress.com
“But there is one vocation–philosophy–which knows that all men, by what they think about and wish for, in effect wield all tools. It knows that men thus determine, by their manner of thinking and wishing, whether it is worthwhile to wield any.” –Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, NovemberFiled under: Morning Trip Tag... mehr auf elisasspot.wordpress.com
“You’re searching, Joe, for things that don’t exist; I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings – there are no such things. There are only middles.” –Robert FrostFiled under: Morning Trip Tagged: "Elisa's Spot", beginning, chasing, control, Darude, elisa, elisabeth connelley, endings, illusion, middle, Morning Trip, ... mehr auf elisasspot.wordpress.com
“So when these states of mind arise – restlessness, desire, fear, wanting, worry, agitation, or judgment, if only it were somehow different than it is, “I don’t like this” – what to do with them? Sit in the very middle of them and study them. Note how they feel in the body. There’s desire. Desire […]... mehr auf elisasspot.wordpress.com
“….live by this rule Leave nothing important unsaid. Intimacy takes courage. Risking getting emotional or upsetting someone so that you can express yourself is scary, but the result is magical.” –Mel RobbinsFiled under: Morning Trip Tagged: "Elisa's Spot", Autumn--Mostly Strings, connection, elisa, elisabeth connelley, expre... mehr auf elisasspot.wordpress.com
“The ability to be spontaneous is granted when we touch something deeply important: a moment of clarity in which we see an eternal truth. We give our truest reactions and utterances when we stand at the moment in question, all previously prepared words and actions suddenly voided in the face of the moment. A spontaneous […]... mehr auf elisasspot.wordpress.com
“It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It’s my partner.” –Jonas SalkFiled under: Morning Trip Tagged: "Elisa's Spot", concious contact, elisa, elisabeth connelley, gift, grounding, intuition, Jonas Sal... mehr auf elisasspot.wordpress.com
“When we doubt the truth, we start to believe in lies. Soon we believe in so many lies that we no longer see the truth, and we fall from the dream of heaven.” –Don Miguel Ruiz, Don Jose Ruiz, and Janet MillsFiled under: Morning Trip Tagged: "Elisa's Spot", agreement, belief, believe, Don Jose, Don Miguel … ... mehr auf elisasspot.wordpress.com
“When loneliness comes stalking, go into the fields, consider the orderliness of the world. Notice something you have never noticed before, like the tambourine sound of the snow cricket whose pale green body is no longer than your thumb. Stare hard at the hummingbird, in the summer rain, shaking the water sparks from its wings. […]... mehr auf elisasspot.wordpress.com
“And the speck of my heart, in my shed of flesh and bone, began to sing out, the way the sun would sing if the sun could sing, if light had a mouth and a tongue, if the sky had a throat, if god wasn’t just an idea but shoulders and a spine, gathered from […]... mehr auf elisasspot.wordpress.com
“Don’t go into the inextricable jungle looking for the elephant who is already quietly at home. Nothing to do nothing to force, nothing to want, –and everything happens by itself.” –Venerable Lama Gendun RinpocheFiled under: Morning Trip Tagged: "Elisa's Spot", cause, desire, eating the elephant, effect, elisa, elisabe... mehr auf elisasspot.wordpress.com
“You are your own best friend. You can provide for yourself emotionally and physically. Sometimes we feel frightened and want to get reassurance that everything’s going to be okay. Everything you need is provided to you. I am tuned in to my inner source of direction. I rely upon this inner source to guide me […]... mehr auf elisasspot.wordpress.com
“The one thing I will tell you So you’ll know me Precisely When you look for me in the Crowd of all those faces Those many, many faces Which always move back and forth like The Sea, Is that I will look nothing like What you expect me to Look like. Do not doubt it, […]... mehr auf elisasspot.wordpress.com
“If integrate means ‘to make whole,’ then its opposite is to fracture, disown, disjoin, detach, unravel, or separate. I think many of us move through the world feeling this way. The irony is that we attempt to disown our difficult stories to appear more whole or more acceptable, but our wholeness–even our wholeheartedness... mehr auf elisasspot.wordpress.com
“Inspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts, whether they realize it or not… Inspiration is pervasive but not a power. It is a peaceful thing. It is a consolation even to plants and animals.” –Agnes MartinFiled under: Morning Trip Tagged: "Elisa's Spot", agnes martin, create,... mehr auf elisasspot.wordpress.com
“The Heart Remembers Everything It Loved Everything remembers something. The rock, its fiery bed, cooling and fissuring into cracked pieces, the rub of watery fingers along its edge. The cloud remembers being elephant, camel, giraffe, remembers being a veil over the face of the sun, gathering itself together for the fall. The turtle remembers... mehr auf elisasspot.wordpress.com
“Like most humanoids, I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the ‘monkey mind’–the thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only to scratch themselves, spit and howl. From the distant past to the unknowable future, my mind swings wildly through time, touching on dozens of ideas a minute, unharnessed and undiscipli... mehr auf elisasspot.wordpress.com
“ The Laughing Heart your life is your life don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission. be on the watch. there are ways out. there is a light somewhere. it may not be much light but it beats the darkness. be on the watch. the gods will offer you chances. know them. take them. […]... mehr auf elisasspot.wordpress.com
“We make life difficult when we try to sacrifice ourselves for somebody else. Surely, you are not here to sacrifice yourself for anybody. You are not here to satisfy other people’s opinions or point of view. In the dream of second attention, one of the first challenges is the fear of being yourself–your real self. … ... mehr auf elisasspot.wordpress.com
“Inner silence works from the moment you begin to accrue it. The desired result is what the old sorcerers called stopping the world, the moment when everything around us ceases to be what it’s been. It is this moment when man the slave becomes man the free being, capable of feats of perception that defy […]... mehr auf elisasspot.wordpress.com
“Sometimes I think the people to feel the saddest for are people who once knew what profoundness was, but who lost or became numb to the sensation of wonder – people who closed the door that leads us into the secret world – or who had the doors closed for them by time and neglect […]... mehr auf elisasspot.wordpress.com
“Awareness, or the practice of being in communion with this moment and my present environment, is the key.” –Don Miguel Ruiz Jr.Filed under: Morning Trip Tagged: "Elisa's Spot", awareness, choice, communion, Don Miguel Ruiz Jr, elisa, elisabeth connelley, focus, grounding, Life of Sin, merge, MitiS, moment, Morning Trip, noticing,... mehr auf elisasspot.wordpress.com
“Some people fear seeing or feeling anything about which there is no general agreement. For others, it is thrilling to be aware of innuendo, shading, complexity. For those who do not wish to step away from consensus, the creative is useless at best; at worst, it is dangerous. But for those who are intrigued by […]... mehr auf elisasspot.wordpress.com
“Between where you are now and where you’d like to be there’s a sort of barrier, or a chasm, and sometimes it’s a good idea to imagine that you’re already at the other side of that chasm, so that you can start on the unknown side.” –David BohmFiled under: Morning Trip Tagged: "Elisa's Spot", acting […... mehr auf elisasspot.wordpress.com
“The heart remembers everything it loved and gave away, everything it lost and found again, and everyone it loved, the heart cannot forget.” –Joyce SutphenFiled under: Morning Trip Tagged: "Elisa's Spot", Abraham Hicks, clinging, elisa, elisabeth connelley, fear, fondness, jar, joyce sutphen, love, memories, Morning Trip, moving f... mehr auf elisasspot.wordpress.com
“It’s easy to blame, the media, our culture, or our community for perpetuating unrealistic images of what it expects of us. But at the very core of these expectations, there is no one to blame; because a commercial, like self-judgement, has no power over us unless we agree with its message. It is only when … ... mehr auf elisasspot.wordpress.com
“Within each of our forms lies the existential mystery of being. Apart from one’s physical appearance, personality, gender, history, occupation, hopes and dreams, comings and goings, there lies an eerie silence, an abyss of stillness charged with an etheric presence. For all of our anxious business and obsession with triviality, we cann... mehr auf elisasspot.wordpress.com
“Faith and prayer are important elements of my belief in God. Faith is my rock, but it is also the way I align my thoughts, my heart, and my actions to realize my goals. Prayer is the way I connect with the energy of God, it is also the way I clarify to myself what … ... mehr auf elisasspot.wordpress.com
“At first, the idea of ‘being in the moment’ scared me. I imagined that I would spend my life thinking, Right now, the wind is blowing and I see a butterfly. Now the butterfly is gone, but the wind is still blowing. A mosquito bit me despite the blowing wind. Oh my God–make it stop! … ... mehr auf elisasspot.wordpress.com
“Nothing can fill the gap when we are away from those we love, and it would be wrong to try and find anything. We must simply hold out and win through. That sounds very hard at first, but at the same time it is a great consolation, since leaving the gap unfilled preserves the bonds […]... mehr auf elisasspot.wordpress.com
“The path of love is not being impervious to fear. It is simply the stubborn refusal to let fear have the last word.” –Omid SafiFiled under: Morning Trip Tagged: "Elisa's Spot", elisa, elisabeth connelley, Falling, fear, feels like I'm falling, Haim, Morning Trip, not having the last word, omid safi, path of love... mehr auf elisasspot.wordpress.com
Filed under: Personal Expressions Tagged: "Elisa's Spot", elisa, elisabeth connelley, equality, expressing, human rights, Pink Pussy Hat, protesting, Trump Protests, Women's March, women's rights... mehr auf elisasspot.wordpress.com
“What can l say, now that summer’s gone, with the weight of its heat, its thick blanket of humidity, the cacophony of zinnias, marigolds, salvia? Now the sky is clear blue and cloudless, that sure one-note that can only mean October. You’re gone. The leaves turn gold in the calendar’s rotisserie, giving up their green, [R... mehr auf elisasspot.wordpress.com
“Watch the sunrise at least once a year, put a lot of marshmallows in your hot chocolate, lie on your back and look at the stars, never buy a coffee table you can’t put your feet on, never pass up a chance to jump on a trampoline, don’t overlook life’s small joys while searching for … ... mehr auf elisasspot.wordpress.com