Below are my personal thoughts added to designs that I have created using various photo software. You are more than welcome to use these personal creations.
Today, and throughout the day,
close your eyes,
imagine perfection,
and give yourself a kiss.
From such a kiss,
the Hearts of others will be warmed.
~ The Rose Within ~
Below is a photo I was not able to trace back to the photographer. I edited it in photoshop and added my personal thoughts ...
This gif was created using photo's found on www.wpclipart.com. I've added my thoughts from a blog I posted summer 2008...
Heroes
My Heroes are those who compassionately use their Gifts in a way that support and awaken other Souls, who encourage us to grow forward, who spread fun, love, wealth in the broadest of senses and who bring harmony to all they encounter.
My Heroes are normal everyday extraordinary folks. I especially love those Heroes or Heroines who cause the Hearts of many to smile, who cause the Hearts of many to feel warmed and welcomed AS IS.
The below 'blurps' are quite literally 'blurps'. May you enjoy the small and large reflections of me that I share here on My Space. Further, may it encourage and support; or rather, may you embrace your own gentle, patient and passionate unfolding.
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At times I am non-stop focused, and at other times I am quite the hermit. At ALL times, I am in the process of creating...
Do I contradict myself?
Very well, then, I contradict myself.
I am large, I contain multitudes. -- Walt Whitman, Song of Myself --
Am I making an excuse? Ok I am.
And they become more creative the older I get.
However, so does the Beauty I continue to create. -- Shannon Collins, Song of Myself --
What love affairs do I have/do I engage in, within my life now, that keep me stuck? I have so many! To what am I attached? What keeps me returning to something that brings only temporary satisfaction? What if I have the same kind of love affair with those things that bring health and wholeness? What if I return again and again to those things? What if I view them in an entirely different way as things I want to do vs. have to or should do?
What if I begin a love affair with those things in my life that bring me the most pleasure?
- staying fit
- reading
- writing
- cooking
- creating a home filled with brightness and color
- heart and mind stretching conversations
- creating extraordinary moments and memories with my children
- creating smiles on all
- love
- joy
- inner happiness
- music
- dancing
What will I attract into my life if I do this?
What will I attract into my life if I don't?
Imagine the possibilities of both.
I do know and believe this ... "As a man thinketh in his heart, so he is." Proverbs 23:7
In my own words: As we think within our heart,
so we create our reality without.
How wonderfully simple, beautiful and empowering this fact is!
What are my thoughts Creating?
It is my intention to become more aware of those objects of interest that
hold me back and to begin a love affair with those things that bring me the most pleasure, in order that I may be everywhere in hiddeness and compassion. ~ me ~ 8/25/06
...my above personal intention was inspired via conversation with a friend, and a quote by Thomas
Merton
The below quiz was edited by me, with fun, purpose and creative intention in motion:
My Essence I AM a Prophet Soul
I AM a gentle soul, with good intentions towards everyone.
I AM selfless and kind, I have great faith in people. This faith leads to extraordinary experiences and to extraordinary people as growth and progress take place.
No matter what, I deal with everything in a calm and balanced way.
I AM a good interpreter, sensitive, intuitive, caring, and gentle.
My motto: I AM, YOU ARE extraordinary Beauty AS IS.
I enjoy supporting YOU - AS YOU ARE NOW and facilitating a unique and graceful unfolding.
I AM a seeker of wisdom.
I AM a life long learner.
I AM a great thinker and communicator.
I AM silliness and lighthearted FUN.
At all times, my intentions are to put my actions into creative motion.
Thankful for the opportunity and the choice everyday…
To share my life, as it is, onward most impulsively…
To never be fearful of giving and accepting the love that others give me.
To be compelled … driven … to live my life in such a way ...
as to throw out my full force on all those around me. ~ Written November 2004 ~
Today, the below poem, which inspired the above thought, still creates a
smile and forever inspires me. =)
Love
WE cannot live, except thus mutually
We alternate, aware or unaware,
The reflex act of life: and when we bear
Our virtue onward most impulsively,
Most full of invocation, and to be
Most instantly compellant, certes, there
We live most life, whoever breathless most air
And counts his dying years by sun and sea.
But when a soul, by choice and conscience, doth
Throw out her full force on another soul,
The conscience and the concentration both
Make mere life, Love. For Life in perfect whole
And aim consummated, is Love in sooth,
As nature’s magnet-heat rounds pole with pole.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning ~
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Today, and throughout the day,
close your eyes,
imagine perfection,
and give yourself a kiss.
From such a kiss,
the Hearts of others will be warmed.
~ The Rose Within ~
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Who I'd like to meet: In regards to MySpace friends: Random Aimless Clicking. It brings me absolute pleasure and FUN getting to know YOU!! Not the top four or twenty four, yet YOU! Thank you, also, for embracing me into your life as well...
for in YOUR LIGHT, I learn, I love,
and I live even more fully.
This is truth!
"Whatever you see in others is a reflection of you - whether you like it or not." Dr. John F. Demartini
Daily, I continue to discover more ways of expressing myself, and who I AM, via other's individual Art, a.k.a. LIFE. Thank you so much. I am in part, who I am because of YOU!
In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful. ~Abram L. Urban
— Love hinders death. Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.Leo Tolstoy
As we remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice for us. Take a moment and reflect upon the many blessings that are present within your life. Know that this has been provided to you from a Veteran or Those who made the ultimate sacrifice.
The secret of the world is this: the world is entirely circular and you will go round and round endlessly, never finding what you want, unless you have found what you really want inside yourself. When you follow a star you know you will never reach that star; rather it will guide you to where you want to go. It's a reference point, not an end in itself, even though you seem to be following it. So it is with the world. It will only ever lead you back to yourself. The end of all your exploring will be to cease from exploration and know the place for the first time.
"It would not hurt that we live our lives with childlike wonder. Have you asked yourself lately: "When was the last time I saw something for the first time?"
This is Jake, a little neighborhood friend...I love the rays of light shining down on his innocent wonder at the feel of sand on his hands...He's seeing something for the first time...and it struck me as incredibly beautiful..and I just wanted to share...Love YaYa
