So Grow Where We Are Planted ...

Danielle Clough

 

So grow where we are planted 

and Love what is here and now 

with us in this moment are wonderful aspirations. 

I take meetings 

as a place to be purely present without interruption, 

a place to practice being present 

and remember you all that are with me - 

our little caravan to the stars. 

Each of us in the universe in our present 'now'. 

~M

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Inner Peace

 

Inner peace can be reached 

only when we practice forgiveness.

Forgiveness is letting go of the past, 

and is therefore the means

for correcting our misperceptions.

~Gerald Jampolsky

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I Have A Great Fondness...

Vincent Van Gogh

I have a great fondness for Van Gogh. 

Recently I learned some new information 

about him from a movie, 

“Eternity’s Gate” I think, 

with William Defoe, playing him. 

There was a scene where Vincent 

climbed up some very craggy 

and difficult rocky landscape 

(a proper Hike!!!) with all his painting gear. 

And then he saw the entirety 

of the landscape about him from up high, 

and painted it, like a map, 

the fields the houses all the borders between. 

It reminded me of Growth in being 

and how as we take in pain, 

suffering impressions life itself. 

We must give back and look to a broader view. 

Like lightening, 

the intense energy entering the container of the body, 

it has to be grounded, interpreted. 

And I love his effort in doing that.

~C

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I Had Two Very High States...

 

Vincent Van Gogh

I had two very high states with Van Gogh - 

one in LA at LACMA at a very robust exhibit 

and one in Amsterdam at the Van Gogh museum. 

What struck me most 

was the *light* in his paintings. 

The light pierced me. 

Lifted me. 

Hydrogrens living on the canvas lifted my inner world. 

Art is such an incredible medium 

for transforming emotion and experience. 

Making beauty and pain digestible.

~E

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As The New Year...

 

As the New Year is about to begin 

we need to cry out, 

to show that we are alive, 

moving, aspiring, and growing. 

On this day of renewal and reset, 

we are moving from the death of the old 

to the birth of the new, 

and thus we give a loud cry, 

like a newborn babe. 

~Rav Pinson 

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We Often Judge...

 

Michelangelo

We often judge types similar to ourselves, 

as their weaknesses reflect back on us. 

~C

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You Will Never...

You will never do anything in this world 

without courage. 

It is the greatest quality of the mind 

next to honor.

~Aristotle

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