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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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Monday, February 20, 2006

Smile

Since my co-worker resigned this month I have been incredibly busy. No more 3 hour runs home : | Stress seems to have overcome the lot that I work with. I remind myself to silently thank them all for allowing me to practice these wonderful gifts of patience and love. The appreciation I have been receiving from clients this month has grown ten-fold. It is a nice reassurance, I must admit, in the midst of chaos. Been spending more time in solitude as I prepare for the meditation retreat in March. I am greatly looking forward to the opportunity to complete it this time. 
"Smile at each other, smile at your wife,
smile at your husband, smile at your children,
smile at each other - it doesn't matter who it is -
and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other."

Mother Teresa

posted by I Am This at 11:06 PM

Comments on "Smile"

 

Blogger CE said ... (4:09 PM) : 

I hope you can smile most of the time. Anyway, nobody is perfect.

 

Blogger I Am This said ... (11:41 PM) : 

Who is nobody? I don't know nobody. All I know is that every One is purrfect ;)

 

Blogger CE said ... (11:49 AM) : 

Nice one! But I am not perfect.

 

Blogger Hayley's Bed said ... (2:47 AM) : 

:)

 

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