Thursday, February 13, 2020

Sunny Sun in Sunny Waikiki

A   L   O   H   A  !
Find a place inside 
where there's joy, 
and the joy will 
burn out the pain. 
     Joseph Campbell










We are very good judges 
for the mistakes of others, 
but very good defense lawyers 
for our own mistakes.
           Nicky Gumbel












May the fire in your soul, burn down 
all the fences and walls which 
this society is trying to 
build around you.
           Akshay Vasu


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Wednesday, February 12, 2020

The Way A Bird Sings

A   L   O   H   A  !
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles. Washington Irving










A street that you have never visited 
is a book that you have never read! 
You never know what you are missing!
                                      Mehmet Murat ildan








When a noble life 
has prepared old age, 
it reveals not decline
but immortality's first days.
        Germaine De Stael







Nature Is A Series of Paintings!
I would like to paint
the way a bird sings.
Claude Monet

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Tuesday, February 11, 2020

Gently Walking Home

A   L   O   H   A  !
What can we gain by sailing to the moon
 if we are not able to cross the abyss that 
separates us from ourselves? 
This is the most important of 
all voyages of discovery.
        Thomas Merton







Gently direct your mind.
Steady your attention
on that which you choose:
The reality to be
Real-ized.
It is all about the
person you desire to Be.












Do not seek to dam the flow.
Ignore the mental traffic;
Let it roll on, while you
gently return and hold
what you seek before your
inner eye.




















Taming Ego, nothing less,
takes patience more than strength.
One day at a time.

If you are trying,
you are trying too hard.

Sit in the cave that is you.
and be surprised
as the light grows within.

Your private meditating time
will become a lovers rendezvous.
Every time, the person you become
grows into the person you are.

You grow effortlessly
because it's really not
about effort.

Just go every day to 
sit with your best self,
and you will come to wonder
if you were ever
anyone less.

Simply dwell on what you seek
as if it is Here & Now.
Until It Is.

Things in the world
may be known.
Things of the Spirit
you must Become.


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Monday, February 10, 2020

Tropic Morning Moon and Midnight

A   L   O   H   A  !
The moon does not care 
if the dog barks at it.
     Czech Proverb
















No matter how fast moonlight runs, 
daylight catches up. 
            Virgin Islander Proverb




















The moon is fat and the 
night air is so pure 
it seems edible. 
          Roberto Bolaño



While I was staying in California,
a rather older woman was telling
about her teen years in the Pacific
Islands as a military dependent
in the wake of WWII.

"We swam under moonlight
among the remains of battles.
I'm sure it was dangerous,
and our parents would have
disapproved, but those are
some of my best memories.
In the tropics, you do not 
end at your skin. The air is
balmy, warm, moist,
and you seem to go on
forever, merging with it;
Your soul seems to
reach into the sky, and
rendezvous with the moon."

Never was I more homesick!

Writing this to you now,
I have never been more grateful
to simply be home.









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Sunday, February 9, 2020

Capable

A   L   O   H   A  !
6:08 am

The moon puts on an elegant show, 
different every time in shape, 
colour and nuance.
       Arthur Smith


You can be the moon 
and still be jealous 
of the stars.     
Gary Allan










Truth was never meant to 
make you comfortable, 
unless you stand in the 
middle of it with acceptance.
              Shannon L. Alder














So as long as a person 
is capable of self-renewal, 
they are a living being. 
                 Henri Frederic Amiel 







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Saturday, February 8, 2020

Mergansers

A   L   O   H   A  !
As water reflects the face, 
so one’s life reflects 
the heart.
        Proverb












What we focus on outside is a 
reflection of what we feel inside.
                 Anonymous



























 You attract what you are, 
not what you want. 
So if you want it 
then reflect it.
         Tony Gaskins














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Better to do something imperfectly 
than to do nothing perfectly.
            Robert H. Schuller 

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Friday, February 7, 2020

Possibility

A   L   O   H   A  !
God puts rainbows in the clouds 
so that each of us - in the dreariest 
and most dreaded moments - 
can see a possibility of hope.     
      Maya Angelou










Photograph: a picture painted 
by the sun without 
instruction in art.  
          Ambrose Bierce













Sunset is still my favorite color, 
and rainbow is second. 
          Mattie Stepanek Link










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