kindness

Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New year's prayer, not a resolution. I'm praying for courage.

Susan Sontag

you

Don't forget where you came from, but don't you dare ever let it solely define you. Your truth is in your roots, but your past is not your anchor. 

Kat Cole

sentient

To tell you the truth, I believe everything - tigers, trees, stones - are sentient in one way or another. You'd never catch me idly kicking a stone, for example.

Mary Oliver

flowers

 

The earth laughs in flowers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

fear

 

Fear the vulture and the vulture will come. Fear nothing and you are the vulture.

Suzy Kassem

while

While still in the cage of your being, behold the spirit bird before it flies away.

Rumi

you

 

You are the rainbow that adds color to my gray skies.

Avijeet Das

traumas

... traumas never really go away. They live inside of us, in the deepest darkness pits of our own tiny hells. Cocked and loaded, waiting for someone to come along and pull the trigger.

A. Zavarelli, Crow 

becoming

 

All forms of becoming require spaciousness in one way or another; mental space that allows the mind to expand, emotional space for feeling to flower, and physical space in which to move.

Dana Hutton

path

The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. with each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms.

nature

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

John Burroughs

need

We need to sit on the rim of the well of darkness and fish for fallen light with patience.

Pablo Neruda

synchronicity

Synchronicity is an ever-present reality for those who have eyes to see.

Carl Jung

people

 

If people keep stepping on you, wear a pointy hat.

Joyce Rachelle

life

Life is a dance. Mindfulness is witnessing that dance.

Amit Ray 

hope

Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.

Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

merry

 

Merry Christmas and to a better 2o21

can

I can change. I can live out of my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.

Stephen R. Covey

you

 

If you don't like the road you're walking start paving another one.

Dolly Parton

providing

You can have every edge and advantage in life by providing a safe ledge for others to see the view.

Richie Norton