To accept yourself means to make peace with your weak points and lack and peace with your good points and blessings. And I dare say, to nurture your excellent points. Your heart is always beating in your chest for you – in grief, in joy, in calm, in progress, in failure, in pluck, in fatigue,Continue reading “Self-acceptance”
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Create With Ease
Practise and play while you are happy and neutral. So when you get sad or are in pain, you can draw on your practice and still be creative. When there are obstacles – outer or inner – it is especially important that you keep playing, not only to lift your mood, shift it upward, andContinue reading “Create With Ease”
Self-loyalty is the ultimate goal: it means being true to love. NJsummer solstice 2014 to forever
The Key to Satisfaction
Nothing beats stamina. No talent, no beauty, no courage, no hunger, no intelligence, no assets under the sun will make you meet your goal, if you don’t have stamina. Grow stamina and use it. Persevere, and you will be a success. NJ28 October 2014
In the Garden, On a Sunny Friday Afternoon
Here and there, we make an exception. Overall, we choose, and live in, patterns. Observe your good patterns – the pattern to be generous and humane, the pattern to do good, the pattern to make healthy choices, for example – and use them as your foundation. By putting the spotlight on the good, you discourageContinue reading “In the Garden, On a Sunny Friday Afternoon”
Presence
Presence wakes you up to the good you are being served, day after day. How many times do you walk by something miracular, because your mind is on other things – on solving problems, on making sense of words that made no sense or were uttered without forethought, on numbers that are absurd, on tryingContinue reading “Presence”
Do No Harm
The guideline of Do No Harm is only complete when it includes the self. Notice how Do No Harm introduces an angle to compassion/self-compassion and love of neighbour/love of self that is practical and centering and clears up all misconceptions of what love is. Do No Harm makes a good mantra. It has the powerContinue reading “Do No Harm”
In the Garden, On a Sunny Afternoon
Here and there, we make an exception. Overall, we choose, and live in, patterns. Observe your good patterns – the pattern to be generous and humane, the pattern to do good, the pattern to make healthy choices, for example – and use them as your foundation. By putting the spotlight on the good, you discourageContinue reading “In the Garden, On a Sunny Afternoon”
It’s Appreciation! The Key!
Appreciation is the innocent and “dear” aspect of love. It shows you what you truly love. And who. And here is something revealing: a person who is out to harm you or who doesn’t care whether you are well or not can not instill appreciation in you. Therefore, appreciation — more than desire, hormonal excitement,Continue reading “It’s Appreciation! The Key!”
Play, and Have Fun!
If you have the energy, the inspiration and the skill to create something you want to enjoy for many years, wouldn’t you create the most beautiful thing that you are capable of creating, something that will touch your heart again and again, keep your senses engaged and your intellect thankful and thrilled? So do it.Continue reading “Play, and Have Fun!”
#selflove
Self-love: the perfect way to leave the past in the past. Self-love: the perfect way to live in the now. NJ27 March 2014
Prayer for Courage
Source, move the big courage I have in some parts of life into the places where I don’t have enough. Above all, give me the courage to be happy. Deliciously, impactfully, vibrantly happy. NJ 19 May 2014
It Is Given, Dance With It
Give your medicine. Don’t waitfor it to be popular, recognizedand for the right audience.Give it to life. Love speaks to all,uplifts all,touches all. Love gives you the lifeyou were meant to live. NJ1 May 2015
Why Wolves Howl: Guess
If I could howl like them, I would do it too! My thought last night when I listened to the wolves howling. Scientists have suggested that wolves howl for a variety of reasons: to communicate with their pack and dearest ones, to attract a mate, out of distress, loneliness, to mark territory, etc.. Both theContinue reading “Why Wolves Howl: Guess”
Cherish the Dream That Comes True
We often get so absorbed by daily life and the challenges of the moment that we don’t register, or honour, the milestones we have made. But when we recall where we were .. say three, four, or ten years ago and remember what it was that we asked for and hoped for, we can seeContinue reading “Cherish the Dream That Comes True”
Muse and Attitude
The Muse can be anything that gives you wings: a very wholesome state, children, a partner you love very much, an unforgettable person you feel grateful to, a piece of art, a piece of music, an event that lets you feel why you are here, a sanctuary or land that is like a piece ofContinue reading “Muse and Attitude”
The Urban Homestead In Pasadena
“I decided to take a stand against the ills of society, tackling all aspects of our life. After food came energy, then transportation, water and waste, the whole walk. … If we stop being negative and try to do the right thing, we can do something positive. We must say to ourselves that we canContinue reading “The Urban Homestead In Pasadena”
Edible Back Yard
#local #organic #urbanfarming #foodabundance #edible #smallspace A beautiful example of what you can do with a small patch of land. The Dervaes family in LA raise 90% of their food on their 1/10 acre backyard and sell the excess to local restaurants. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCmTJkZy0rM&fbclid=IwAR3jNR5r76Hu9E6J2mIHBXhZ67i-z2XcXnUyHMHpveaDg8HkS6VE4wmUpGo
Love is attention.
Sometimes we learn this in a too slow, painful way. We don’t have to. It really is very easy. Pay attention to what and whom you love. It is the best decision you can make. All things fall into place when you love your focus and focus on your loves. Love is attention. It isContinue reading “Love is attention.”
Stored in the Earth
When you are appreciated and recognized you feel rich. When you are underappreciated and not recognized you feel poor. Harmony is in between the two extremes, in the middle ground of moderate wealth: nurtured yet hungry for more, rewarded yet free of egoic expectations. If you feel rich with love and esteem today, give someContinue reading “Stored in the Earth”
Nanda Jurela 