July 2010
52 posts
Rumi: Throw off your tiredness. Let me show you one tiny spot of the beauty that can’t be spoken.
burnout blip: Learn from history, the history embedded in your cells, not in books. Then write the new-story, with words born in the breath.
Rumi: A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.
burnout blip: Give yourself time in a natural landscape, a forest or even your backyard. Thank the earth for giving you sustenance and home.
Burnout Retreats near/and in Sequoia National Park… www.thedeeperwell.wordpress.com/burnout-retreat
Rumi: The clear bead at the center changes everything. There are no edges to my loving now.
burnout blip: What do you really know? The truth you’ve experienced from a deep inner source, or what someone else says? Do you listen well?
Rumi: Be a full bucket pulled up the dark way of a well, then lifted out into light.
burnout blip: Releasing your expectations and attachments is the key to surrender. Don’t confuse it with giving up. Trust the source of you.
Rumi: And don’t look for me in a human shape. I am inside your looking. No room for form with love this strong.
for @CarpalTunnel Cob is a derivative of an Old English word for spider, thanks for prompting me to check it out http://bit.ly/93yKLT
for @murasakimoon @CarpalTunnel Cob is a derivative of an Old English word for spider, thanks for prompt to research http://bit.ly/93yKLT
burnout blip: Cobwebs in your house is a sign of housecleaning needed. Cobwebs for a spider? Making a house. Perspective changes everything.
Rumi: When someone asks what there is to do, light the candle in his hand. ‘Like this.’
burnout blip: Fear of negative thoughts or emotions, feeds negativity. We must feel it all—negative and positive—to be real, to transcend.
Rumi: Listen, and lay your head under the tree of awe.
burnout blip: Our first impulse on showing up in this world is to breathe. Breath is the essence of source. Follow your breath to live well.
Rumi: There is a light seed grain inside. You fill it with yourself, or it dies.
Artist = Human Being = Artist = all of us http://bit.ly/9TFpuv
RT @thedeeperwell Artist = Human Being = Artist = all of us http://bit.ly/9TFpuv [#art3R]
Warm thank you to @ZnaTrainer @lizmassey68 @PixieMona @4Ceibas @Eidyn_Taliesin @jennieMACAULAY @abisola35 @RustieMac @Atohuna
burnout blip: Sometimes the worst possible thing that’s happening right now is exactly what you need. Life is always a process, good or bad.
Rumi: This moment is all there is.
burnout blip: The prevalence of ingenuity and kindness in humans far outweighs the negativity and meanness that scares us so. Remember this.
If you’ve got a story to tell, tell it; if you don’t have a story to tell, write it. http://huff.to/cwrEN6 50yrs later To Kill a Mockingbird
Why am I here? http://bit.ly/9TePPk
Rumi: The mystery does not get clear by repeating the question, nor is it bought by going to amazing places.
burnout blip: The word awesome has been said so often it’s become meaningless. Awe is a show-stopper, a life-changer, and a subtle surprise.
Rumi: A secret turning in us makes the universe turn. Head unaware of feet, and feet head. Neither cares. They keep turning.
Summer blossoms… →
The pink zephyranthes are in bloom at the cottage door. I call them “zephies”. Read more about these sweet little bulbs that like to bloom in the summer.
Change a life just by saying hello http://bit.ly/apGbns
burnout blip: Offer yourself for service today, not for rewards for you. Look for the invisible person that is taken for granted. Say hello.
Rumi: Every part of you has a secret language.
RT @MadwithRapture: RT @infinitealoe: Rumi, the movie—A movie being made in Qatar on #Rumi http://bit.ly/dcSHSk | @bhaati @roomynaqvy
burnout blip: When body symptoms show up, be an observer, not a sufferer. Don’t try to fix or mask them. Listen for clues leading to source.
Designing for Generosity →
How do you spend your generosity quotient? Do you create just for a monetary return?
Creation is not just something like making an artwork, it is everything you do–in your job, in your home, in…
Rumi: Let your prayer be pure praise, not begging for something to happen, or not happen.
Designing for Generosity http://bit.ly/cd2lXL
This Moment http://bit.ly/9U4GWt
RT @SusanCosmos: “Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that & be very gentle with yourself. …
Rumi: Pay attention to those who want to change so badly they cry and dissolve into loving kindness and freedom.
burnout blip: We spend much of our day wishing we could do something other than what we’re doing. Life unfolds in the power of the present.
RT @thequote “The truth you believe and cling to, makes you unavailable to hear anything new.” - Pema Chodron #quote
Rumi: Pay attention to those who want to change so badly they cry and dissolve into loving kindness and freedom.
Last night’s wildlife sitings: →
Wild turkey family heading home for the night, like they have been doing every evening for the last week, with 7 teen-aged offspring chomping dry wild oats seeds that should have been weedeated…
Rumi: Gamble everything for love if you are a true human being.
Burnout Retreats near Sequoia National Park. Don’t be too stuck in burnout and not try it. http://bit.ly/a8ltvQ Give yourself a sweet gift.
Rumi: Be concentrated and leonine in the hunt for what is your true nourishment.
burnout blip: The human experiment depends on our free will choice. Don’t abdicate your responsibility to others within apathy. Follow love.
burnout blip: If life feels stuck or not quite right, wait. The tide will come in again. Life is cyclic with its own rhythms. Don’t push it.