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An online marketplace for selling and buying all things handmade!

It's like shopping at the artists market, but from your own home. I discovered the website just in time for Christmas and along with my trip to Blue Banana Market in Toronto, have managed to get almost everyone on my list home made gifts.


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Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift! We have the capacity to live in a way that these twenty-four hours will bring peace, joy, and happiness to ourselves and others.

Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do and see. The Question is whether or not we are in touch with it. We don't have to travel far away to enjoy the blue sky. We don't have to leave our city or even our neighborhood to enjoy the eyes of a beautiful child. Even the air we breathe can be a source of joy.

We can smile, breathe, walk, and eat our meals in a way that allows us to be in touch with the abundance of happiness that is available. We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive at the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment. ... Thich Nhat Hanh


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Sunday, October 30, 2005

The Search

Dancing around in circles in search of something everlasting: happiness, God, truth. In order to understand that which is being sought, must we not first understand that which seeks? When I say, "I am in search of peace/God/happiness", does that not create separation of the seeker from that being sought? Are the two, the seeker and the search for peace, love, happiness, God - one and the same? Am I, the seeker, different from that which I search for? And will that which I search for ever be discovered outside of myself? And if I do not understand the seeker, how can I possibly understand that which I seek? How can I find that which I seek in anything or anyone other than myself?

I can wander to every corner of the earth but I always come back to myself. The beginning and the end of the path all start and end with Me. All other avenues of self-realization are empty, so fruitless. Before I set foot on the path to awarness it is essential that I begin to understand my Self.

posted by I Am This at 9:21 AM

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Blogger I Am This said ... (1:36 PM) : 

I am so grateful (great-ful) to have you share this with me.

Thank you :-)

 

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