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Hopalong

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« Reply #870 on: January 14, 2007, 07:04:40 PM »
(((((((((((((Sea)))))))))))))))))

Tired = discouragement

Be good to yourself. Rest. Heal. Relax.
Your next adventure will come to you in pieces, in time.

Give it time. It's okay to have moderate adventures too.

Sorry you're feeling blue...

Hugs,
Hops
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« Reply #871 on: January 14, 2007, 07:05:49 PM »
Leah,

You are hidden.  YOU can see your email address, but no one else can.  This has caused a lot of consternation on the board, because it LOOKS like everyone can see what you can.  But they can't.

Look on one of your old posts.  See the little buttons at the top that say "modify", etc?  Only you can see those--so you can  edit your own posts.  You can't see them on anyone else's posts--because you aren't supposed to be able to edit anyone else's.

It's the same with email.  It's customized to your password.  If you sign in as a guest, you can't access any of those features, because the board doesnt know who you are.

CB
When they are older and telling their own children about their grandmother, they will be able to say that she stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way -- and it surely has not -- she adjusted her sails.  Elizabeth Edwards 2010

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« Reply #872 on: January 14, 2007, 07:27:21 PM »
I know, Leah.  We all had that moment of panic until Dr. Grossman explained it.  You're in good company!

CB
When they are older and telling their own children about their grandmother, they will be able to say that she stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way -- and it surely has not -- she adjusted her sails.  Elizabeth Edwards 2010

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« Reply #873 on: January 14, 2007, 07:37:04 PM »
Nope!   :)

I can see one on mine though--can you?

CB
When they are older and telling their own children about their grandmother, they will be able to say that she stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way -- and it surely has not -- she adjusted her sails.  Elizabeth Edwards 2010

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« Reply #874 on: January 15, 2007, 02:18:16 PM »
Moon,

Have I ever told you what a blessing you are to me?  :)  I was just thinking of you today and how much I enjoy your posts.

I'm glad you are doing better!

CB

P.S.  MOON!  You have to quit DOING that.  By the time I posted this response, your post had been deleted!   :shock:  I'm going to start thinking that I'm seeing things.   :roll:
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When they are older and telling their own children about their grandmother, they will be able to say that she stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way -- and it surely has not -- she adjusted her sails.  Elizabeth Edwards 2010

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« Reply #875 on: January 15, 2007, 02:29:05 PM »
Hey All

Happy new year to all

I am not feeling afraid as I was ...

most wonderful feeling with an understanding that life is brings suffering and joy...and that's OK

also" trying to define  yourself  is a little like trying to bite your own teeth ".....Alan Watts quote I believe

Love to you

moon

sorry CB   :oops: I wanted to put the watts quote in  8)
oops fear was such a struggle for me Most difficult I am studying zen and the understanding is going well I feel no entanglement resentments etc

love to you
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« Reply #876 on: January 15, 2007, 08:25:50 PM »
Moon,

I understand about fear.  Sometimes it's all you can do to just hold on as you go down the other side of the roller coaster.  I have seen you doing that, Moon, and you're doing good.

What have you learned through Zen that has helped you?  Can you share it here?

CB
When they are older and telling their own children about their grandmother, they will be able to say that she stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way -- and it surely has not -- she adjusted her sails.  Elizabeth Edwards 2010

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« Reply #877 on: January 17, 2007, 06:04:19 AM »
This was in my weekly Rob Breszny horoscope this morning:

FAITH
by David Whyte

I want to write about faith,
   about the way the moon rises
      over cold snow, night after night,

faithful even as it fades from fullness,
   slowly becoming that last curving and impossible
      sliver of light before the final darkness.

But I have no faith myself
   I refuse it the smallest entry.

Let this, then, my small poem,
   like a new moon, slender and barely open,
      be the first prayer that opens me to faith.

by David Whyte, from *Where Many Rivers Meet*

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"We all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun."
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« Reply #878 on: January 17, 2007, 07:06:06 AM »
Popping in to say hello to everyone (hello! :D), going to hide my email address again, and type some things I read recently :

Wisdom, free from the clouds of the two obscuring veils
Altogether pure and shining brightly like the sun
Waking us up from the sleep of our disturbed emotions
       and the chains of mental habit
Scattering the darkness of not knowing.

(from a Tibetan prayer)


“If we can live at the level of feeling, where we are mindfully responding to pleasure and pain, attraction and aversion, not just acting on desire, then we can live in a content, harmonious way”

(Achan Amaro)


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« Reply #879 on: January 17, 2007, 06:54:42 PM »
Hiya P!

How's it goin'?  Love those quotes!

Wishing you plenty of sunshiney darkness scattering wisdom and content, harmonious, mindful living!

(wishing me the same.   :shock: :D  A lifelong share for all too!)

Sela

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« Reply #880 on: January 17, 2007, 08:00:02 PM »
Hey CB ,pp,Portia and Sela ,
The most important thing I have learned is that my fears are almost gone .....
I have learned the value of the heart this  so trumps the intellect and kindness is so important that includes not putting yourself in a place where you can be hurt...
I am not trying to correct situations I did not create and I am to able to discern between the two...

My compassion is deepening and the fear has all but gone
no one is going to take my tricycle away or send me to my room .
I know how to protect myself.

In the light of the Radiant One

moonlight





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« Reply #881 on: January 17, 2007, 11:18:20 PM »
Portia, I've missed you a lot.

love,
Hops
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« Reply #882 on: January 18, 2007, 10:54:28 AM »
Sela, definitely wishing you all those things right back 8) in bucketloads :D

Moon, I do think your heart, our hearts, know the way, and even when the heart knows fear, it knows what to do with it too, whether to run, be courageous or simply reflect on the fear? Fear of the angry bear tells us to protect ourselves. Fear for another might tell us to protect them but the older fears from inside, from way back, we can sit with them and look at them until they fade and lose any power. Realistic protection and freeeeeeeedom :D

Hops, thank you for missing me...(aww I feel mushy inside :| :) :D ) Having to limit myself here for good reasons but reading helpful things from time to time. Found a 1977 reprint copy of ‘The wisdom of your subconscious mind’ by John K Williams over here and what a gem of a book, thank you for mentioning it somewhere.

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul…
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishment the scroll,
I am the master of my fate;
I am the captain of my soul.

(How strait the gate? I think I need a translation :oops: :mrgreen:)

much love and extra wrapped-up warmth to those of you suffering the ice storms

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« Reply #883 on: January 18, 2007, 07:38:17 PM »
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Captain Portia,
That's so wonderful you found that book! Thanks for the author's name too, I'd forgotten.

I'm glad you piped in and now I know you're okay (I hope) and that's good enough for me!

xxoo,
Hops
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« Reply #884 on: January 22, 2007, 11:16:35 AM »
Hi CB, Penny, Moon, Leah, Portia, Hops, everyone:

A few more quotes:

Happy Thoughts

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
(Albert Einstein)


 
May you have warm words
on a cold evening,
a full moon
on a dark night,
and the road downhill
all the way to your door.
(Author unknown - but it sounds like and Irish Blessing??)

 
If I had a single flower
for every time I think about you,
I could walk forever
in my garden.
(Author unknown)

 
From quiet homes
and first beginnings
Out to the undiscovered ends,
There's nothing worth
the wear of winning,
But laughter and the
love of friends.
(Author Unknown)

 
Joys come from simple
and natural things:
mists over meadows,
sunnlight on leaves,
the path of the moon
over the water.
(Sigurd F. Olson)


 
A joyful heart is like the
sunshine of God's love,
the hope of eternal happiness.
(Mother Teresa)

Wishing you all a day of Happy Thoughts.

 :D Sela