Earthen Spirit

"REMEMBER
To Look up at the Stars
Not down at your feet

Try to make sense of what you see
And wonder
About what makes the Universe
Exist.

Be Curious"

- Stephen Hawking

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"The reason old souls enjoy spending time alone is because they never really are"

~ Tut Notes from the Universe

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"Never apologize for having high standards. People who really want to be in your life will rise up to meet them."

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

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"The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness."

~ Lao Tzu

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"The Obstacle is the Path"

~Zen Proverb

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"We're in a free-fall into future. We don't know where we're going. Things are changing so fast, and always when you're going through a long tunnel, anxiety comes along. And all you have to do to transform your hell into a paradise is to turn your fall into a voluntary act. It's a very interesting shift of perspective and that's all it is ... joyful participation in the sorrows and everything changes."

~Joseph Campbell

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Everything we have learned along the way is not entirely true

Hold fast to nothing

Except for your own truth

Who are you?

Why are you here?

Who did you come here to be?

Do not attach to anything

Do not hold on to any one view

Rather just be yourself, state your truth, know

Be the center of your own universe

When you look all around from many angles – what do you see?

It is time to return to yourself

Return home

To the truth only you can touch, hear, feel, taste, BE

What is growing inside of you?

Fall is the time of harvest, so reap now what you have sown thus far and continue on. I think of it as a noticing of all my leaves, see what they all represent. Sometimes we leave some lay, sometimes we pick up the most colorful ones and continue to enjoy them. Others are not yet ripe, a reconciliation of sorts.

Think about the time of rest winter will bring and what seeds you wish to plant again in spring.

Fall is a time of change – the trees, leaves, temperatures…a natural falling away occurs. It is a time for crisp noticing!

Allow your beautiful colors to drift to the ground as leaves on a tree. Nothing to do but notice and state their truth as they drift down. Even the falling action is oh so beautiful when you take the time to stand still and watch.

In the silence of stillness

Everything is known.

Take some time just for you this fall season to reflect on and appreciate all of the beautiful colors of your tree, unique only to you ...

Yotehay Wah!

Aho!

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“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

― Haruki Murakami


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"Travel Light
Live Light
Spread the Light
Be the Light"

Yogi Bhajan

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"You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience.
You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience".

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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"Doubt everything. Find your own light".

Gautama Buddha

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"You can't start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one"

Author Unknown

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“The earth does not belong to us. We belong to the earth. The earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons and daughters of the earth. This we know. We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children. Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together and connected like the blood which unites one family”.

― Chief Seattle

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Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue—to that end we should hear and see more than we speak.

Socrates

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Desires lead to fantasies
Fantasies lead to dreams
Dreams lead to possibilities
Possibilities become realities

Realities become the possibility that dreams awaken in fantasies if we only tap into our desires -- and yearn for more...

~Grace Walsh (excerpted from "Divine Arrows")

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"The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: there is a forward motion to yearning"

~ Gail Godwin

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"I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape – the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show".

Andrew Wyeth

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"Whatever you are gifted with is going to be your greatest challenge"

Iyanla VanZant

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"Everything changes and nothing remains still ... and ... you cannot step twice into the same stream"

Heraclitus of Ephesus

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“Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”

Aristotle

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"Make Thou my spirit pure and clear/ As are the frosty skies."
Lord Alfred Tennyson

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"You cannot travel the path until you become the path itself"
Buddha

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"The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy."

Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)


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“Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.”

Rainer Maria Rilke


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Winter by Tommy Makem

WINTER, a sharp bitter day
the robin turns plump against the cold
the sun is week
silver faded from gold
he is late in his coming and short in his stay
Man, beast, bird and air all purging, all cleansing,
earth already purified awaits the rite of spring
Her bridal gown a virgin snow and frosts in her hair
A snowdrop by the road today bowed gracefully
and high upon the wing up in the sparkling nothingness,
a lone bird began to sing
Can gentle spring be far away?


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"When you are current, your current is strong"

Carol Bridges
The Medicine Woman Inner Guidebook


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"While we practice conscious breathing, our thinking will slow down, and we can give ourselves a real rest. Most of the time, we think too much and mindful breathing helps us to be calm, relaxed and peaceful. It helps us stop thinking so much and stop being possessed by sorrows of the past and worries about the future. It enables us to be in touch with life, which is wonderful in the present moment".

THICH NHAT HANH, Peace is Every Step


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Meditate.
Live Purely.
Be Quiet.
Do your work with Mastery.
Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds.
Shine!

Buddha

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"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift."

Albert Einstein

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"All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports."

Chief Seattle

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