Wise Words

[Samanthaj]

Stop seeking and you will find . . . . .

In a Native American parable, the Creator gathers all the animals and says : 'I want to hide something from humans until they are ready for it - The realization that they create their own reality'.

'Give it to me. I'll fly it to the moon,' Says the Eagle

'No, One day soon they will go there and find it.'

'How about the bottom of the ocean?'
asks the Salmon

'No they will find it there too.'

'I will bury it in the great plains,' says the buffalo.

'They will soon dig and find it there.'

'put it inside them,' says the wise grandmother mole.

'Done,' says the creator. 'It is the last place they will look'

- Native American Legend

[Owlscrying]

“Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn’t more complicated than that. It is opening to or receiving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it.”

~Sylvia Boorstein
(lectures nationally on Buddhism and mindfulness, and teaches Vipassana and Metta meditation)



 

[Samanthaj]

“Don't be afraid of your fears. They're not there to scare you. They're there to let you know that something is worth it.”
― C. JoyBell C.

[Owlscrying]

“ One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect.
Perfection simply doesn't exist.
Without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist.”

~ Stephen Hawking
(theoretical physicist, cosmologist)



 
 

[Samanthaj]

Use what talents you posess;
The Woods would be very silent if no Birds sang there
except those that sang best

Henry Van Dyke

[Owlscrying]

“When you're drowning you don't think, I would be incredibly pleased if someone would notice I'm drowning and come and rescue me.

You just scream.”

~ John Lennon



 

[Owlscrying]

“When you don't cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life that was lost a long time ago when humanity, instead of using thought, became possessed by thought.”

Unknown



 

[Owlscrying]

“Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words.

Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.”

~ Martin Luther King Jr.



 

[Owlscrying]

"We are the stars which sing,
We sing with our light;
We are the birds of fire,
We fly over the sky.
Our light is a voice:
We make a road
For the spirit to pass over."

- Algonquin Song of the Stars

 

[Owlscrying]

"Although the wind is very powerful and you can feel its presence,
in and of itself it cannot be seen.
You know it is there by its effect on others.
The great trees,
the grasses and waves on the sea bend with its force.
If you are aware of your surroundings,
you know it is there long before you feel it.
So it is with the ineffable."

~ Unknown