Asking for Guidance

“On this day, where would you have me go?

What would you have me do?

What would you have me say and to whom?”

~A Course in Miracles

~Photo by Me (looking quite imperfect)

Believing

"New scientific truth usually becomes accepted, not because opponents become convinced, but because opponents die, and because the rising generation is familiar with the new truth at the outset."

~Max Planck as found in "Finding your Way in a Wild New World" by Martha Beck

~Photo by Me

Free To Be...Happy

"If you really want to be happy, no one can stop you."

~Sister Mary Tricky

~Photo by Me

The Crack

"Ring the bells that still can ring

Forget your perfect offering

There is a crack in everything

That's how the light gets in."

~Leonard Cohen

~Photo by Me

Radical Acceptance

This such a great quote on Radical Acceptance. Especially the last sentence:

Radical acceptance is not simply a cognitive stance or cognitive activity; it is a total act. It is jumping off a cliff. You must keep jumping over and over because you can only accept in this one moment. Therefore, you have to keep actively accepting, over and over again in every moment. 

If radical acceptance is jumping off a cliff into the deep abyss, then there is always a tree stump coming out of the cliff just below the top and the minute you fall past you reach out and cling onto that stump. And then you’re on another cliff’s edge, asking perhaps, “How did this happen?” Then, you jump off the cliff again. 

Radical acceptance is the constant jumping off, jumping off, jumping off and jumping off, yet again. Radical acceptance is also the nonjudgmental acceptance of the repeated grabbing onto the tree stump.

~Marsha Linehan via Bon Dobbs' blog "Anything to Stop the Pain". Marsha Linehan developed Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) for use especially with people with borderline personality disorder (BPD) and recently came out about having BPD herself. The quote was featured in this post by Bon Dobbs.

Photo via Joe Futrelle called "Jerry McSnudd's Falling Off a Cliff Hits"

Pure Foolishness

"Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness. "

~May Sarton

This quote is courtesy of my blogger friend and artist Carmen, thank you for the inspiration. I have always been good with the discipline and order part, weaker with the play and foolishness, especially pure foolishness. In this second half-century of my life, I am going to remedy that!


~Photo by Me

Getting Free

I must have been incredibly simple or drunk or insane

To sneak into my own house and steal money,

To climb over the fence and take my own vegetables.

But no more.

I've gotten free of that ignorant fist

That was pinching and twisting my secret self.

~Rumi

~Photo by LoveHubbie Mark, Maui, Feb 2011

Divine Mercy

"There is probably no other way to understand God's nature except to daily stand under the waterfall of divine mercy and then become conduits of the same flow." ~Richard Rohr



~Photo by LoveHubbie Mark taken in Kauai

A Good Way To Approach the Day

"There is no way I can anticipate all the good things that are going to happen today"---Brian Narelle

~Quote via "The Awe-Manac: A Daily Dose of Wonder" by Jill Badonsky
~Photo by LoveHubbie Mark

Life's Challenges

"Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are."---Bernice Johnson Reagon, Musician via The 12 Secrets of Highly Creative Women by Gail McMeekin

Receiving What Is Good

This post and picture are over a year old and were languishing off to the side, waiting to be posted and then forgotten. I recently found it and decided to post it after all.

It's never too late to be willing to receive what is good.

Actually, as I'm writing this, I realize it's never too late to be willing to receive, period. Whatever we are handed. If we believe that God (or the Universe, as I used to write) loves us, is in control, and wants the best for us--as I do--then we will receive everything that comes to our life.

All is ultimately God's good. All ultimately is part of God's plan to manifest goodness in our lives. Even when it's a struggle to see it.

"If we learn to think of receiving God's good as being an act of worship--cooperating with God's plan to manifest goodness in our lives--we can begin to let go of having to sabotage ourselves."---Julia Cameron

~Photo by LoveHubbie Mark

Be Inspired!

As I prepare for vacation tomorrow I wanted to share with you Molly Gordon's amazing reworking of Marianne Williamson's well-known quote:

"Our deepest fear is not that we are without resources.
Our deepest fear is that we are infinitely and completely supported.
It is our good fortune, not our lack of resources, that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to benefit from the work and support of others?

Actually, who are you to do it alone?
You are a child of God.
Pretending to be an only child or an orphan does not serve the world.

There is nothing enlightened about doing it all yourself so that other people won't envy or resent you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
And to shine in that way requires that we open our minds and hearts to infinite Love,
Love that is made manifest in the kindness of strangers, the support of friends,
and the brilliance of those who have gone before us.

It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.
And as we allow others to help our own light shine,
we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same."---Molly Gordon via Melissa Gayle West

Wow. Wow. Wow. I think I like Molly Gordon's version even better. Both are empowering and inspiring! Have a wonderful day today!


~Photo by LoveHubbie Mark

Sacred Life Sunday

"In the great spiritual traditions, the wounds to our ego are our teachers and must be welcomed."
---Everything Belongs by Richard Rohr

Saying No

"Steve Jobs said, "It comes from saying 'no' to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much." What are some things you need to say "no" to in order to help with the things to which your soul is saying "yes".

...It's okay to say "no" to the things that do not enrich my life experience, especially as I get older."---"The Awe-Manac: A Daily Dose of Wonder" by Jill Badonsky

~Photo by LoveHubbie Mark

Wellness Wednesday: Drill Down to What's Essential

I find myself caring more and more lately about the bare bones, about what is essential and real in life.

It all started when a good friend wrote me in an email:

"As Patti Digh referred to in an essay more than three years ago, Toni Morrison has the perfect phrase for framing such decisions: "What is it I must do or I shall die?""

Provocative question, indeed.

Then today I read in the amazing book Altar in the World, a book that will be a classic for those of us who are spiritual rather than religious, "Come tell us what is saving your life now".

It's as much in the questions we ask as in the answers we find.

Grace, Hawaiian Style

"Grace is the inalienable right of all beings to receive the light of God, the inalienable source of all healing.

From the power of God comes this completely unconditional love, which heals and propels support.

Grace is absolutely free. You don't have to do anything to get it.

Grace is not something that can be taken away from you, in the Hawaiian point of view.

You do have to acknowledge you are human and humans have grace inalienable. It's really a re-remembering you have grace and thus going back to your authenticity of who you are.

When grace appears in the consciousness the natural response is gratitude.

Gratitude is the action linking the grace to us.

Grace connects and deepens the channel of gratitude. Hawaiians acknowledge the grace received--it is natural and so evokes gratitude."---from "Wise Secrets of Aloha" by Kahuna Harry Uhane Jim and Garnette Arledge

~Photo by LoveHubbie Mark

More on Giving

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."---Winston Churchill

And what if we combine the two...what if we make a living and a life by what we give, primarily, and then get? I'm not sure where this is leading, but it is making me think. I hope it does the same for you.

~Picture by LoveHubbie Mark

Sacred Life Sunday: Joy

"He who binds to himself a joy
Does the winged life destroy;
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in eternity's sun rise."---William Black, "Eternity"

~Photo by LoveHubbie Mark, edited by me

Fear Or a Cry For Love

Yertle, from Smile, Play, Dream, posts a Monday Motivator. Today she featured a quote from Rilke, which I just love:

"Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love."--Rainer Maria Rilke

~Favorite photo from LoveHubbie Mark, taken in Hawaii of actual mo`o

Slow Down

"The Chinese written character for the word "busy" is a combination of two other characters: "killing" and "heart" ". ---Alan H. Cohen

I want to give up "busy" and "hurry" and "rushing" for 2009, don't you? Say yes to slowing down today...

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