Anouar Brahem - "Un Point Bleu"

 Klaus Kaminski

Autumn meeting Winter
 

 

 Breathing is free, 

patience is priceless,

 and sometimes the best meditation

 is just a really long, aimless walk.

 

 

@ST0NEHENGE

Sunrise at Stonehenge today (25th November) 

 

was at 7.40am, sunset is at 4.05pm 

 

 

 

 HEARTWORK 

Each day is born 

with a sunrise 

and ends in a sunset, 

the same way we open our eyes 

to see the light,

 and close them to hear the dark.

 You have no control

 over how your story begins or ends. 

But by now, 

you should know 

that all things have an ending. 

- Suzy Kassem -

 

 It's all about perspectives

 

no seed 

ever 

sees the flower

 

GARY BUNT

 

Nothing like a walk 

to clear your mind 

 

 @anit2691

 

One who believes in himself

 has no need to convince others.

- Lao Tzu -

 @MaryCatbells

 

 At your lowest, 

you realize a lot.

 

 

 

 Be kind. 

Everyone is still healing 

from things they don't speak about.

 

GARY BUNT

 

 A businessman finds a fisherman relaxing by his boat, 

pipe in hand, 

after catching enough fish. 

- Why not catch more, get rich like me?

 - And then? 

- Then you could sit back and enjoy life. 

 - Isn't that what I'm doing now?

 

 

 

See if you can catch yourself complaining

 in either speech or thought, 

about a situation you find yourself in,

 what other people do or say, 

your surroundings,

 your life situation, 

even the weather. 

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is.

- Eckhart Tolle -

Laurits Andersen Ring -  Has it Stopped Raining?

 

 

 

It’s not what you broadcast to everyone else

 that determines the trajectory of your life;

 it’s what you whisper to yourself 

behind closed doors

 that has the greatest power and influence.

 - marcandangel -

@TeamWalking

Howgill Fells

 

 

Thoughts come and go. 

Feelings comes and go.

 Find out what it is that remains.

- Ramana Maharshi -

 So yesterday I got my first taste of winter whilst having a brief toddle outside. Without gloves my fingers became wooden and I had to retreat to the car … getting soft :)

 Nevertheless the experience was exhilarating because the thin sunlight created mind boggling shadows

 @FlockofGhosts
 

GARY BUNT

 

 

SMILES

 

ARE 

 

CONTAGIOUS

 

 

 

 If you want answers, you don't want life.

 If you want method, you don't want life. 

If you want security, you don't want life.

 If you want goals, you don't want life.

 If you don't want life, 

what is it that you want?

 - Padma Gendum -

Hiking in Cape Wrath Trail. By Michael Szymanski.

 

Anything that you resent

 and strongly react to

 in another is also in you.

- Eckhart Tolle -

Always try to keep

 a piece of heaven

 above your life.

- Marcel Proust -

 

@rubyetc

 

And then there was one ...

 

- https://twitter.com/itsnotaboutwork -

 

GARY BUNT
 

 

In the end 

we all become memories 

and stories

 Igor Mitoraj

 

 If you think it's you against the world, 

chances are it's really just you against yourself.

Change it into You with You.

 

Inspiration Wiz

Barbara Pierson

 

 The more you seek external validation,

 the more you compromise your self-worth.

 

 

 

 It is never too late 

to give up your prejudices

 

 By Tracy Hogan.

 

 Giants causeway on a foggy day. 

 

Northern Ireland.

 

 

 It is when the mind gets involved,

 that a problem becomes a problem.

 Otherwise, it is just a thought. 

And if that thought is merely witnessed, it disappears.

- Ramesh Balsekar -

 

Kilchurn Castle, Loch Awe 

 

 #Scotland #Argyll #Castles http://rb.gy/is3lv

 

 

Gratitude turns what we have

 into enough, and more.

 It turns denial into acceptance,

 chaos into order,

 confusion into clarity...

it makes sense of our past,

 brings peace for today,

 and creates a vision for tomorrow.

- M. Beattie -

By Massimo Ripani

 
 The iconic Rock of Cashel in the late afternoon. 

Tipperary County. Ireland. 

@HoganSOG

 

Look at things as they are,

 

 not as your emotions color them.

 

@peala1

 

One of my favourite #peakdistrict barns and one that I've seen in all weathers and moods, but I loved this light, with the sun striking the old stone and autumn leaves against the dark sky.

 

 Long may these two stand together, buffeted by the elements, but surviving through all.

 

 

 

 

 You must let what happens happen.

 Everything must be equal in your eyes,

 good and evil, 

beautiful and ugly, 

foolish and wise.

- Michael Ende, The Neverending Story -

 

Late Autumn, woodcut on paper, Gordon Mortensen.

 

 

A calm person

has the strongest mind

 

 OnecFine Cairn. Dale Head.

 

 No matter what you say, 

your actions tell the real story.

 

 

Ze liet los. Zonder een gedachte of een woord, liet ze gewoon los.

Ze liet haar angst los. Ze liet alle oordelen los.

Ze liet het mengsel van meningen los die haar hoofd omzwermden.

Ze liet haar besluiteloosheid los. Ze liet alle 'goede' redenen los.

Ze liet het allemaal gewoon los.

Ze liet alles los wat haar tegenhield. Ze liet alle ongerustheid los dat ze niet vooruit zou gaan.

Ze liet alle gepieker over 'hoe het goed te doen' los.

Ze beloofde niet om los te laten. Ze liet het allemaal gewoon los.

Ze analyseerde niet of ze het moest loslaten. Ze liet het allemaal gewoon los.

Zoals een blad dat uit een boom valt, liet ze het allemaal gewoon los.

Er was geen moeite. Er was geen strijd.

Het was niet goed of slecht. Het was gewoon zo dat in de ruimte van het loslaten, ze het allemaal liet zijn wat het was.

Er kwam een brede glimlach op haar gezicht. Een licht briesje waaide door haar heen.

En de zon en de maan schenen voor altijd.

 

- Ernest Holmes -

GARY BUNT

 

We have a tendency to think in terms of doing and not in terms of being. 

 

We think that when we are not doing anything, we are wasting our time. 

 

But that is not true. 

 

Our time is first of all for us to be.

 

 To be what? 

 

To be alive, to be peaceful, to be joyful, to be loving. 

 

And that is what the world needs most.

 

- Thich Nhat Hanh -

Do not regret growing older. 

It is a privilege denied to many.

Tiny Buddha

 Edinburgh Castle on my way home from “the office”…

 @Beathhigh

 

 When you argue with reality, 

reality always wins.

- Adyashanti -

Needing to have reality confirmed 

and experience enhanced by photographs

 is an aesthetic consumerism

 to which everyone is now addicted.

 Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies;

 it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution.

- Susan Sontag -

 

 

Who among us 

does not spend the greater part of his life 

in the shadow of an event

 that has not yet taken place?

- Robert Musil -

 

 

Nant Gwynant, Eryri National Park, North Wales

 @MaureenPlatts
 

 

Als jij niet besluit, zal het leven voor jou besluiten.

 

 

 When your head hits the pillow tonight, 

remind yourself that you’ve done a good job.

 Be patient with yourself. 

 Remember that things aren’t achieved all at once

 - but one day at a time.

- Unknown -

Gary Bunt 

 

All I can do is be me -

- whoever that is.

 - Bob Dylan -

 Although I enjoy good food, I don’t even own a television set. 

 

And, you know, it’s a very simple life. 

 

But I’ve got enough. 

 

And enough is as good as a feast. 

 

 You see, a lot of people don’t feel happy unless they have another thing beyond money, which is called status.

 

 And status, to a very large extent in our economy, consists in conspicuous consumption; in having this thing and that thing and the other thing, in having a swimming pool, a Ferrari, a certain kind of clothes, and certain kind of house with an enormous ranch-style picture window, and so on and so on and so on. 

 

And we think we need all that, because we’ve been persuaded by a certain kind of propaganda that that’s how we ought to live.

 

 Because we haven’t asked ourselves whether that was what we really wanted. 

 

In other words, we’ve been propagandized into thinking what we wanted.

 

@AlanWattsDaily