Everybody needs beauty

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
John Muir

Water

If we have no peace ...

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

Mother Teresa

Life meets each of us where we need to be met

Life meets each of us where we need to be met, leading us to the doors with our names on them.
Barbara Brown Taylor

We discover in ourselves ...

We discover in ourselves what others hide from us and we recognize in others what we hide from ourselves. Vauvenargues

The eye sees ...

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
Henri Bergson

Dream sheep

Off-duty

A heartbeat at my feet

My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.

Edith Wharton

Pay Attention

Pay attention
Be astonished.
Tell about it.
Mary Oliver

Happpy Holidays!

Happy Holidays!

Take care of each moment

Take care of each moment and you will take care of all time.Buddha

There is no experience that exists

There is no experience that exists in this life

that does not have the power to lead you to freedom.

Amrit Desai

Movement is medicine

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
Henry David Thoreau

Mend the parts of the world

Mend the parts of the world that are within your reach.
Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Within you there is a stillness

Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.

Hermann Hesse

The only impossible journey

The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.

Tony Robbins

I don't let go of my thoughts

I don’t let go of my thoughts—I meet them with understanding, then they let go of me.
Byron Katie

Listening

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force.
Karl Menninger

A talent is formed in stillness

A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.
Goethe

Breezes from another world

There are times when we stop.
We sit still . . . .
We listen and breezes from a
whole other world begin to whisper.

James Carroll

Appreciation

Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.

Alan Cohen

Mystery

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Oscar Wilde

Spunky

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. Judy Garland

Stillness

Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen -
that stillness becomes a radiance.
Morgan Freeman

Contentment

Leave everything behind.

Feel absolute peace and

tranquility and a deep sense

of resolution called contentment.

Content with where you are,

with who you are, content with

what is from moment to moment.

Amrit Desai

Memorial Day

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Joseph Campbell

Moonlight

Moonlight is sculpture.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Reflections

The perceiver is reflected in what is perceived.
Amrit Desai

Laughter

We shake with joy, we shake with grief.
What a time they have, these two
housed as they are in the same body.

Mary Oliver

Now I Can See the Moon

Barn’s burnt down —
Now I can see the moon.
Masahide (17th-century Japanese poet)

I discovered a great site where you can make your own books. It's not a self-publishing company; it's a company that lets you use their software to create and maintain ownership over your own projects. The photo above is on the cover of my book I've titled Receive Inspiration. In it I have my photographs matched with quotes, just like on this blog. I ordered a couple in hardback with a dust jacket and the quality is amazing.

Anyway, have fun making your own books. And here is the link where you can find mine. If you click on the cover, you will be able to preview the first fifteen pages. Here is the link.
http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/category/Self-Improvement

Inner Peace

You may have heard of Jill Bolte Taylor, a Harvard-trained brain scientist. She became especially well known when her lecture about the stroke she suffered in 1996 was posted on the internet. I just finished reading her amazing account in her book, My Stroke of Insight. What particularly struck me was how she described the feeling of deep inner peace as being located in the neurological circuitry of the right brain.

I have been writing about receptivity – receiving – as being an experience of the present rather than the suffering past or fantasy future, a bonded pair that operates as a team.

Dr. Taylor describes the feeling of peace as being in the present moment rather than something we bring from the past or project into the future and as coming from an actual location in the brain.

I love this quote from her, “Step one to experiencing inner peace is the willingness to be present in the right here, right now.” If you want to experience peace, she says, “Step to the right,” meaning the right hemisphere of your brain.

There are so many ways to describe, to explain, to illustrate the freedom of peace. Check out My Stoke of Insight for a very understandable description for the layperson about how the brain “speaks” and how you can talk to your brain.