Etsy

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.


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, March 06, 2006

One

What a wonderful ending to a beautiful day. It's been quite some time since we've laughed with each other and perhaps as time drifts by we can share more time sharing with each other.

Nothing needs to be said. Never has and never will. Yet when we are in a genuine state of being and listen in comfort and joy what is said reaches the wonders of the heart.

"God, who is present in all places, at all times, and in all things, must be present in this place, at this time, and in this thing. So it follows that God is surely present within each of us. Indeed, a human body is the abode of God. Accordingly, each one of us deserves the highest respect. If God is not within, He is nowhere else." Shiv Jhawar
In you I see God.

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Blogger CE said ... (12:55 PM) : 

Thanks for the reminder.

 

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