wednesday
Wisdom comes naturally when you are humble
You will stop growing if you have a conceited or boatful mind. Always remember to be humble.
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Mardi
PL Precept # 1 Life is Art
your true self is revealed in the smallest of actions
Your personality shows in even the smallest actions you take. Regardless of whether it is a minute task or a monumental job, put your whole heart into it.
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Monk environmental Park- Kanata
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Needle felted with sheep’s wool that I sourced from shepherds in the area, back in the days when felting was not a common craft / art form in this area…. I found one shepherd who shared my passion, she is the one who had dyed the roving…. that I used for skin tones. I still have my needles and I keep a stash of roving “in case” … I get “the urge”… felting is a relaxing form of expression .. and it helps me keep in touch with “nature”. I would drive the back roads looking for sheep.. Drive up to strangers wanting to know about their charges.. how often they sheared, what did they do with the wool….
I walked the pastures, enjoyed the sheep dogs that herded the sheep, met wonderful grounded souls.. who loved the animals and the earth as much as I did.. I pray and thank the Universe regularly for the life I have been blessed with.
Its not about the quantity of friends one has, it is the quality of the friendships…. in this I am also blessed,
PL Precept #10 Love yourself and others.
Thank you dear reader for sharing time with me today. Near or Far I appreciate and have love in my heart for each and everyone of you
PL Precept # 2 To live is to express One’s Self
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Monday
A special tool box
Rubber band – to remind you how wonderful a hug is, to give or receive
Tissue – to remind you to dry someone’s tears, perhaps your own, so you can see the tears of others.
Button – To remind you to “button your lips” to keep from saying mean things about others or talking when its not appreciated.
Toothpicks – to remind you to “pick” out the good qualities of everyone including you.
Band-aid – to remind you of healing hurt feelings, either yours or someone else’s.
Candy kiss – to remind you that everyone needs a nice treat occassionally.
Gold thread – to remind you that everyone needs a nice treat occasionally.
Eraser – to re mind you that everyone makes mistakes sometimes and that’s all right.
Lifesaver candy – to remind you to think of me as your lifesaver, whenever you need to talk, feel free to come to me.
Mint – to remind you that you are worth a Mint to me!
Oyashikiri
time
Time moves on – nothing really stands still
Think about it, even when you stop physically moving, and you sit down… your internal organs, your heart, the blood racing through your veins… It is constantly humming along…. your breathing will slow down, your whole essence of Being will slow and calm..
Let’s not even bring up your gray cells, that intangible “thing” science has called our brain … it doesn’t consider the word time..
We simply are... we seem to accept that our computers, cell phones, iPads.. need recharging, need extra storage, Pause reflect.. our bodies/minds need attention and care… When was the last time you did a personal update? clear your cache? get rid of obsolete unused and no longer required items/thoughts?
Oyashikiri
Thursday
Thru the mist of early morning… with the distant sound of the world waking around me… I stood and waited. Would today be the day? I felt a deep sigh escape unbidden from somewhere within me… I had to focus on the tension between my shoulders…. manually letting my shoulders drop into a more relaxed pose.
I had come to meditate and pray… I thought a friend would join me… but I saw no one at the gate… the prayer bell would ring soon… slowly I turned back into the quiet and serene ambience of the inner room. Sandalwood incense floated lazily into the still morning air.
As I bent my head and brought my hands together in silent prayer, I felt the gentle embrace of a warm breeze brush casually past my silent form… This moment was mine… In closing my eyes and saying yes to the silent beating of my heart… I acknowledged the greatest gift in life, is to live in faith… to believe that what will be will be.
Every day is a new beginning a gift from the Universe… the gentle flutter of my heart is steady and pure… in Letting Go.. I am renewed.
Oyashikiri
PL Precept #21 Live in Perfect Liberty
Wednesday
Never judge a book by its cover… or think you can “know” someone or something, by just glancing… three friends on a walk, see the same tree stump, not one .. will see and take in the same stump in the same way.
The only thing that is constant in life… is change.
Oyashikiri
Monday
sanctuary
When I need to regroup, find my balance, my calm… this is where I go.. the quiet, the bliss.. ahhhhh
Geese flying overhead, their honking a reminder that spring has arrived. the tapping of one of the resident woodpecker drumming out his determined search for food. All wrapped around me surrounding me in the comforting embrace of nature’s embrace. I’d come home!
I felt strong enough to venture down the trail, it was a beautiful day, still early enough that I had the whole acreage to myself.
PL Precept #18 Each moment is a turning point.
For many weeks I have been sidelined by a “health issues” that kept me away, it was so therapeutic to once more be under clear blue skies, my feet walking along the well worn path. Nature is healing. It is gift that we so often overlook and take for granted.
Have a good start to the week everyone!
Oyashikiri
Friday
Have a peaceful day.. surround yourself with the joy filled natural world around you. Let love be the mainstay of your day.
Pl Precept #15 All is a mirror
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