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“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
“But if I can bear the nights, the days are a pleasure. I walk out; I see something, some event that would otherwise have been utterly missed and lost; or something sees me, some enormous power brushes me with its clean wing, and I resound like a beaten bell.” –Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker CreekFiled … ... mehr auf elisasspot.wordpress.com
“We find ourselves torn by confusion, by conflict, by affirmation and denial, by emotion congested by fear, congealed by pride. We are afraid of the Universe in which we live, suspicious of people around us, uncertain of the salvation of our own souls. All these things negatively react and cause physical disorders. Nature seems to … ... mehr auf elisasspot.wordpress.com
“To study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly, to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart, to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hungry never– in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden, and unconscious, to grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.” –William …... 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
“Experience and success don’t give you easy passage through the middle space of struggle. They only grant you a little grace, a grace that whispers, ‘This is part of the process. Stay the course.’ Experience doesn’t create even a single spark of light in the darkness of the middle space. It only instills in you …... mehr auf elisasspot.wordpress.com
“I like to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.” –George Washington CarverFiled under: Morning Trip Tagged: concious contact, elisa, elisa's spot, elisabeth connelley, George Washington Carver, Higher Power, listening for the answer, meditation, m... mehr auf elisasspot.wordpress.com
“I watch the running sheets of light raised on the creek’s surface. The sight has the appeal of the purely passive, like the racing of light under clouds on a field, the beautiful dream at the moment of being dreamed. The breeze is the merest puff, but you yourself sail headlong and breathless under the … ... mehr auf elisasspot.wordpress.com
“Love has no claims. Love has no expectations. Most of us were raised to become prostitutes. We have the illusion that with good behavior, good grades, lot of awards, pretty clothes, nice smiles, we can buy love. How many ifs were you raised with? I love you if you make it through high school. I … ... 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
. “The best portion of a good man’s life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love” . ~ William Wordsworth . You and your God know how kind and loving you have been. Live a life that is happy, joyous and free: free from the guilt and shame of selfishly doing […]... mehr auf meandtheboss2013.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
“I do not ask of God that He should change anything in events themselves, but that He should change me in regards to things, so that I might have the power to create my own universe about me, to govern my dreams, instead of enduring them.” –Gerard de NervalFiled under: Morning Trip Tagged: beliefs, creation, … ... 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
“When you are on your path, the universe will conspire to help you.” –Brene Brown, and pulled from The AlchemistFiled under: Morning Trip Tagged: "Elisa's Spot", brene brown, Cheb I Sabbah, devotion, elisa, elisabeth connelley, faith, gift, help, Higher Power, Morning Trip, path, paying attention, Qalanderi... mehr auf elisasspot.wordpress.com
“Think of yourself as a radio. When you are tuned in to your Higher Power (HP), it is like having clear reception on a very powerful frequency. It would be great if we could remain tuned in, but a hectic day in the material world causes the tuning dial to drift away. Before you know […]... mehr auf elisasspot.wordpress.com
. “I think it is all a matter of love; the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes” . ~ Vladimir Nabokov . Love does many a strange thing and one of the strangest is how it can warp the thinking of a normally sane thinker. Love can make a memory […]... mehr auf meandtheboss.wordpress.com
“God is voluptuous and delicious.” –Meister EckhartFiled under: Morning Trip Tagged: attraction, concious contact, creation, delicious, elisa, elisa's spot, elisabeth connelley, energy, God, Higher Power, Morning Trip, union, voluptuous... mehr auf elisasspot.wordpress.com
“But first of all we shall want sunlight; nothing much can grow in the dark.” –AnonymousFiled under: Morning Trip Tagged: anonymous, darkness, early morning light, elisa, elisa's spot, elisabeth connelley, expression, Higher Power, how to live, inner-flame, joy, Morning Trip, Sarah Jarosz, step eleven, sunlight of the spirit, what... mehr auf elisasspot.wordpress.com
. “Our obligation is to give meaning to life, and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.” . ~Elie Wiesel . . Lazy, fearful or just an habitual procrastinator, there are many reasons why someone may just be content to mumble through an indifferent life. Today, do not shirk your obligation, move a […]... mehr auf meandtheboss.wordpress.com
. “They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.” . ~ Tom Bodett . Someone to love, start with yourself and then move on to the rest of this world. Do something nice, the next right thing, […]... mehr auf meandtheboss.wordpress.com
. “Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.” . ~ Henri Frederic Amiel . Kindness is both words and actions. Smile, say thank you, hold the door, pay a compliment, be positive and share the love. Today, be it […]... mehr auf meandtheboss.wordpress.com
. “The last, if not the greatest, of the human freedoms: to choose their own attitude in any given circumstance.” . ~ Bruno Bettelheim . There was a wise old man that taught me one of the greatest lessons about life: ” you can choose to start your day over again, anytime you want to and […]... mehr auf meandtheboss.wordpress.com
. “What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” . – Jane Goodall . . We can never be reminded too often that in this world there is always good and evil, yin and yang, black and white, two sides to every coin and […]... mehr auf meandtheboss.wordpress.com
. . “If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.” . 1 Corinthians 13:2 (NIV) . . To be the person your loving Higher Power wants you to be, love. […]... mehr auf meandtheboss.wordpress.com
. “The shortest distance between two people is a smile.” . ~ Victor Borge . True or not, it is best to believe that it takes far fewer muscles to smile than it does to scowl. Be lazy, take it easy, smile, it not only improves your appearance but it also makes the whole world […]... mehr auf meandtheboss.wordpress.com
. “I have a hypothesis that emotional intelligence is a function of imagination. In other words, your ability to imagine the future is what drives your decisions today.” . ~ Scott Adams, Creator of Dilbert . . We cannot predict the future but we can imagine the outcome of our decisions based upon prior experience […]... mehr auf meandtheboss.wordpress.com
. . “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.” . ~ Mary Anne Radmacher . . . Sometimes it takes a lot of courage to be kind, especially to someone who does not deserve it. However, be kind, be loving, […]... mehr auf meandtheboss.wordpress.com
. “Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person, they are almost indistinguishable.” . ~ David Augsburger . Today, show your love, listen to someone and make sure they know that they are being heard. You sometimes need not say anything, just being there and listening in the silence of […]... mehr auf meandtheboss.wordpress.com
. “Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.” . ~ Margaret Mead . One of a kind, uniquely you. No need to keep up with the Smiths or the Johnsons. Follow your heart, follow your dreams, be the person your Higher Power wants you to be, the person who will make […]... mehr auf meandtheboss.wordpress.com
. “There is the land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.” . ~ Thorton Wilder . The souls created in love will reincarnate in love and they will multiply. All of life and love are to fulfill the grand design of […]... mehr auf meandtheboss.wordpress.com
. . “It isn’t what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it’s what we say to ourselves about what happens.” . ~ Pema Chodron . , Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. Suffering is holding on to the past. Always remember, good or bad, this is life on God’s terms and we must […]... mehr auf meandtheboss.wordpress.com
. . “God’s love is always bigger than our suffering can be” . ~ St. Francis de Sales . . If He brings you to “it”, He will help you through “it”. Whatever the “it” may be; heartbreak, fear, anxiety, worry, loss, or even happiness, this too shall pass and relying on a loving Higher […]... mehr auf meandtheboss.wordpress.com
. . “One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world builds.” . ~ Jack Kerouac . . Be conscious, be aware, knowing that when someone looks at your face they will instantly know what your attitude is. Smile, it will make them wonder what you are up to. Smile, […]... mehr auf meandtheboss.wordpress.com
. “Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.” . ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt . Destiny or fate, call it what you want, whether the outcome was influenced by human intervention or simply just happened as a natural act of providence, the only limitations that exist are the limits that […]... mehr auf meandtheboss.wordpress.com
. “Love is something like the clouds that were in the sky, before the sun came out. You cannot touch the clouds, you know; . . . You cannot touch love either, but you feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.” . ~ Annie Sullivan . Faith, even though you cannot see it or […]... mehr auf meandtheboss.wordpress.com
. “They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.” . ~ Confucius . When you stop our galaxy from soaring through the universe, when you stop our earth from flying around the sun, when you stop our planet from rotating on its axis. then you can say I stopped things from […]... mehr auf meandtheboss.wordpress.com
. “Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.” . ~ Robert Louis Stevenson . Mercies are something for which to be thankful, basically, remembering your mercies is an old fashioned way of saying, I am grateful. Be merciful, do not make life a […]... mehr auf meandtheboss.wordpress.com
. . “Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.” . ~ Ezra T. Benson . . Of course the ego always wants to be right, however, the happiest soul is the one who is content no matter who or what is right, wrong or indifferent. Always remember to […]... mehr auf meandtheboss.wordpress.com
. “From an illumined perspective, falling in love is not neurotic but rather one of the few genuinely non neurotic things we do on this earth.” . ~ Marianne Williamson . . Mentally ill, mentally disturbed, mentally deranged, unstable, unbalanced, maladjusted, or maybe just in love. Although it may be crazy, love is the unexplainable emo... mehr auf meandtheboss.wordpress.com
