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Remember who you are…

Remember always that you are just a visitor here, a traveller passing through. Your stay is but short and the moment of your departure unknown.

None can live without toil, and a craft that provides your needs is a blessing indeed. But if you toil without rest, fatigue and weariness will overtake you, and you will be denied the joy that comes from labour’s end.

Speak quietly and kindly and be not forward with either opinions or advice. If you talk much, this will make you deaf to what others say, and you should know that there are few so wise that they cannot learn from others.

Be near when help is needed, but far when praise and thanks are being offered.

Take small account of might, wealth and fame, for they soon pass and are forgotten. Instead, nurture love within you and and strive to be a friend to all. Truly, compassion is a balm for many wounds.

Treasure silence when you find it, and while being mindful of your duties, set time aside, to be alone with yourself.

Cast off pretense and self-deception and see yourself as you really are.

Despite all appearances, no one is really evil. They are led astray by ignorance. If you ponder this truth always, you will offer more light, rather then blame and condemnation.

You, no less than all beings have Buddha Nature within. Your essential Mind is pure. Therefore, when defilements cause you to stumble and fall, let not remorse nor dark foreboding cast you down. Be of good cheer and with this understanding, summon strength and walk on.

Faith is like a lamp and wisdom makes the flame burn bright. Carry this lamp always and in good time the darkness will yield and you will abide in the Light.

~Dhammavadaka Sutra

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Emotional Baggage

If you never heal from what hurt you, you’ll bleed on people who didn’t cut you”. We must stop killing good relationships around us by transferring aggression to others. Hurt feelings are inevitable in relationships, bound to arise in a fast-paced world of imperfect communication between people. Pain is a part of life, as everyone goes through painful experiences at some point in their lives. It is how we cope with our pain and negative experiences that actually matters. When one carries painful memories, mistrust, or any hurt from the past, it is called emotional baggage.

Don’t wound others to heal yourself. Heal before you go into the next relationship or else, your next partner will be the object and target of your pain. Never allow your past hurts to define you. It was just a lesson, not a life sentence. Look for the lessons that you’ve learnt from the experience. Focus on appreciating who you have become because of what you have experienced. People will hurt you, but what you do with that hurt is probably more important than the hurt itself. Don’t just go through your hurts, grow through your hurt.

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Great Parable…

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There was a peasant in the world, and every day he regularly prayed to the Lord. And each time he offered Him the same prayer: 

“Lord, there is no man in the world who is more unfortunate than me!” Every day I suffer immensely and ask myself: “What terrible sin have I committed to deserve such punishment? Have mercy on me, hear my prayers. I do not dare to ask you for happiness or wealth.

My request is modest and insignificant: let someone take my hardships to himself and give his own in return. I do not care with whom to change, because no one will have a burden that would be heavier than mine.”

Heaven heard his prayers, and once a peasant heard a heavenly voice say to him:
“Put all your troubles and misfortunes into a bag and take them to the temple.”

The voice was so loud that all the inhabitants of the city heard it and began to bag their adversities. The peasant was delighted: now he will surely find someone with whom to exchange!

Encouraged and cheerful, he grabbed the bag and went to the temple, meeting many people on the way, who, like him, hurried to get rid of their misfortunes.

Having reached the temple, the peasant looked at the people gathered at the entrance and was horrified: rich and poor, beautiful and ugly, they held huge bags, much bigger and heavier than his bundle, which now seemed small and pitiful.

Upon entering the temple, they again heard the voice that ordered them:

“Put your bags at the door of the temple, and take any person’s bag you like with you before you leave.”

But people did not dare to part with their bags. They turned around and left the temple, not wanting to change their burden with anyone. Among them was that peasant. He walked, pressing the bag with his misfortunes to his chest so much as if he was afraid that someone would take it.

Each of them returned home with their own burden, but everyone was pleased with the choice. The farmer was also glad. He was scared to even think about what troubles and sorrows he could bring with him with someone else’s bag.

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Blessed…

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Blessed be the mind that dreamed the day
the blueprint of your life
would begin to glow on earth,
illuminating all the faces and voices
that would arrive to invite
your soul to growth.

Praised be your father and mother,
who loved you before you were,
and trusted to call you here
with no idea who you would be.

Blessed be those who have loved you
into becoming who you were meant to be,
blessed be those who have crossed your life
with dark gifts of hurt and loss
that have helped to school your mind
in the art of disappointment.

When desolation surrounded you,
blessed be those who looked for you
and found you, their kind hands
urgent to open a blue window
in the gray wall formed around you.

Blessed be the gifts you never notice,
your health, eyes to behold the world,
thoughts to countenance the unknown,
memory to harvest vanished days,
your heart to feel the world’s waves,
your breath to breathe the nourishment
of distance made intimate by earth.

On this echoing-day of your birth,
may you open the gift of solitude
in order to receive your soul;
enter the generosity of silence
to hear your hidden heart;
know the serenity of stillness
to be enfolded anew
by the miracle of your being.

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Some things 2018 taught me…

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1. You can recover from the worst situations and in fact they will make you stronger and wiser than you ever thought possible.

2. Time does, in fact, heal all things as does forgiveness.

3. You do get smarter as you get older:)

4. Things and people that no longer serve you will pass out of your life if you let them.

5. GOD has the ONLY authority over your life and He will handle the hard stuff if you ask Him.

6. ANY horrible looking situation can be REVERSED if you change your thinking and PRAY.

7. PRAYER WORKS!!! Hands down, no question. In 2018 I saw people healed and lives changed and miracles happen—all from Prayer Warriors willing to jump in and intercede for people that needed help.

8. When you focus on helping other people your own crap takes care of itself.

9. I don’t need to stew over the people that did me harm, Karma and GOD will handle them…I just need to forgive and move the hell on…

10. Taking the HIGH ROAD serves me better than getting down in the gutter for a Jerry Springer cat fight…stay classy…

2018 was a tough year, a year of learning and lots of growth…here’s to 2019 being our BEST year yet.

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Wrapped Up..

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Well, the year Is finally wrapped up, looking back, I made some mistakes along the way, just like the next person, as a matter of fact, I have disappointed, at times been inpatient, probably been a little insecure, been out of control and at times hard to bare with.

My Prayer Dear Family and Friends is that you forgive me and continue to bare with me as I look upon myself and work on myself in the present new year, while I haven’t always been my best, I will continue to better myself and will continue to seek God’s Enlightenment and Wisdom.

I Love You All and Bless You In God’s Name.

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Let me remind you…

If you have forgotten what you deserve — let me remind you.

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You deserve someone asking you to slow dance on a weeknight in the street.
You deserve someone unapologetically pouring their heart out to you.
You deserve flowers sent to your office.
You deserve being a part of their entire world, not being their best-kept secret.
You deserve Sunday morning where they want you to stay.

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You deserve to never feel badly for saying what you think and feel.
You deserve someone who wants to be there, not someone who is bored.
You deserve sleeping next to someone who leaves you whole, not lying next to a stranger that makes you feel lonely.
You deserve someone who wants to go to the ends of the earth to be with you, not someone who makes you go all the way alone. Because relationships are 50/50. Remember that.

You deserve to have someone helps carry the burdens life throws at you. Because life struggles were never meant to be endured alone.
You deserve someone drying your tears, never causing them.
You deserve all these things. You just have to be brave enough to ask for them.

Please, my dear, life is too short and you are too young, you are too beautiful, you are too worth it to settle for anything less than extraordinary. And I know you question if it’s out there, but it
is. It’s waiting for you.

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Listen — soulmates are real, and love is something you can believe in. Promise me that you will believe in it. Promise me that you will never settle.

By: Kirsten Corley

 

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Awesome message…

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Sometimes you can reject the present moment because you think it is not enough. Instead of being focused on where you are, your mind could be aimed at where you think you should be. But the power is in the present. The solution you are seeking is right in front of you. What you have in your hands is the key out of the wilderness. In the present moment you can find solutions to every problem you are battling. By tapping into what’s around you, you will discover the path to freedom, peace, fulfillment, and healing. So much pain comes from wishing to be somewhere else and not seeing what’s in front of your face. When your mind is constantly racing ahead to the future, you are not grounded; you are not anchored and you will block the flow of greater blessings. The past informs you as your future inspires you. While you may not have all you want, you have all you need right here, right now to triumph in the face of struggles. Today, begin to fall in love with now. Slow down to see that the present moment is more than enough… and so are you. -Molesey Crawford

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Keep Going…

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I know we were taught different.
I get it.
But I also know what it feels like to lose my mind.
I also know what it’s like to break down and STILL not have the answers. But I can tell you there’s only one way after that, and that’s “up”. The cathartic release that follows breaking down really helped me with breathing.
Yes, breathing. 
Just breathing.
Because you don’t have to have all the answers, you don’t even have to have a fucking plan.
You just need to accept that pain happened,
and now it’s time to heal.
But the hard part is over.
(Not that healing is easy…)
It’s up to you in how you want to look at it but you can’t rebuild if you never break down.
You can’t start over if you never give up.
You can’t get better if you can’t admit that everything is not perfect.
And you know what happens when you do????
The weight of the world slides right off of your shoulders and onto the ground…where it belongs.
You are free now.
Free to choose wherever you want to go,
whatever you want to do.
You get to be a smarter, healthier, STRONGER you.
And I couldn’t applaud you more for seeing that there is hope outside of this pain.
KEEP GOING.

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