Hey guys,
I’m off to Poland for the next week to attend an international seminar and I will be in the mountains. Therefore, I do not know how much time I’ll have or even if I’ll have internet connection (hope so!).
I did not wanted to wait though so here’s this week’s choice: John Mayer’s “The Heart of Life” with some beautiful photos :)
Have a fun and inspired week!
Roxi
The only thing complaining does is to convince other people you are not in control and that you let less than positive circumstances control your mood and outlook.
Author unknown
Being negative is easy. There will always be a downside to everything good, a hurdle to everything desirable, a con to every pro. The real courage is in finding the good in what you have, the opportunities in every hurdle, the pros in every con.
Carolyn Hax
I could not have said it better myself :)
But today I can only grow and become my very best right here where I am planted. I will feel the Sun and the Sky and the Wind and the Rain and I will think about how wonderful it is to grow…just for today.
“The Littlest Christmas Tree: A Tale of Growing and Becoming”, Janie Jasin, illustrated by Pam Kurtz, 1996. Book Peddlers, Minnetonka, MN.
Another great little book for kids, and not only ;) you can find it here!
The belief in a thing makes it happen.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Birds and clouds over the San Francisco Bay. San Fran, Cali, USA. August, 2008
This story is one for which many people will have to suspend their disbelief. If this wasn’t happening to me, I would be one of those people.
Many won’t struggle to believe it, though, for their minds have been opened; unlocked by whatever kind of key causes people to believe. Those people are either born that way or, as babies, when their minds are like little buds, they are nurtured until their petals slowly open and prepare for the very nature of life to feed them. As the rain falls and the sun shines, they grow, grow, grow; minds so open, they go through life aware and accepting, seeing light where there’s dark, seeing possibility in dead ends, tasting victory as others spit out failure, questioning when others accept. Just a little less jaded, a little less cynical. A little less likely to throw in the towel. Some people’s minds open later in life, through tragedy or triumph. Either key can act as the key to unlatch and lift the lid on that know-it-all box, to accept the unknown, to say goodbye to pragmatism and straight lines.
But then there are those whose minds are merely a bouquet of stalks, which bud as they learn new information – a new bud for a new fact – but yet they never open, never flourish. They are the people of capital letters and full stops, but never of question marks and ellipses…
Cecelia Ahern, ‘The Book of Tomorrow’, Chapter 1. Harper Collins, UK, 2009.
Keep growing. Keep reaching. Keep pushing yourself. Never give up! As long as we’re alive, anything’s possible :)
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
Anne Frank
Reflection in the lake. Japanese Garden, San Francisco, USA. 2008.
What we are talking about is learning to live in the present moment, in the now. When you aren’t distracted by your own negative thinking, when you don’t allow yourself to get lost in moments that are gone or yet to come, you are left with this moment. This moment — now — truly is the only moment you have. It is beautiful and special. Life is simply a series of such moments to be experienced one right after another. If you attend to the moment you are in and stay connected to your soul and remain happy, you will find that your heart is filled with positive feelings.
Sydney Banks
More on the power of present moment, on our thoughts, mind and self, here:
Focusing on what we already have and being grateful for right now is one of the most powerful things we can do to alter our life in a positive way.
Mike Robbins
Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.
Margaret Mead
