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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Friday, July 28, 2006

"Do unto others as we would have them do unto us".

While it may seem clear cut in its understanding, it is not always so easy to adopt in our daily life. Often times it can be a bit of a challenge to treat others as we wish to be treated. However, in doing so we impart a generous gift of loving-kindness on our fellow human beings. And needless to say, in the act of honoring others we honor oneself.

It is born of the warmest charity and inspires us to not let our actions or inactions towards another be out of harmony with our self. To be in a state of conscious awareness to the effect our words and actions may have on another. To be mindful of who we are choosing to be in this moment. To show compassion, generosity, forgiveness and acceptance. To honor others in ways we would want to be honored. These are the qualities of a Saintly Being.

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Blogger CE said ... (12:42 PM) : 

Virtue cannot be consciously or willfully developed. Virtue is the result of self-forgetfulness in the face of sorrow. But can one forget oneself? Self-forgetfulness happens by itself. When the self is not. When there is intense awareness of what is.

 

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