○: Ascendant in Aquarius
How unique and original Aquarius rising natives come across! These individuals are just that — individuals, and they won’t let you forget that fact. Often turned to for advice, these natives possess intellectual poise and savvy. They often are curious, and quite learned, in both science and…
is doing some serious thinking and planning..
There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.
There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled.
You feel it, don’t you?
—Rumi (via awakeinthedream)
Fazal Sheikh, Rodi Holding Roses, 2007
The spirit
likes to dress up like this:
ten fingers,
ten toes,
shoulders, and all the rest
at night
in the black branches,
in the morning
in the blue branches
of the world.
It could float, of course,
but would rather
plumb rough matter.
Airy and shapeless thing,
it needs
the metaphor of the body,
lime and appetite,
the oceanic fluids;
it needs the body’s world,
instinct
and imagination
and the dark hug of time,
sweetness
and tangibility,
to be understood,
to be more than pure light
that burns
where no one is —
so it enters us —
in the morning
shines from brute comfort
like a stitch of lightning;
and at night
lights up the deep and wondrous
drownings of the body
like a star.
—Mary Oliver (via awakeinthedream)
A Message by George Carlin
Found this in facebook and got an urge to share..
The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider Freeways but narrower viewpoints.
We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less.
We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time.
We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness.
We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom.
We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often. We’ve learned how to make a living, but not a life.
We’ve added years to life not life to years.
We’ve been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor.
We conquered outer space but not inner space.
We’ve done larger things, but not better things.
We’ve cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul.
We’ve conquered the atom, but not our prejudice.
We write more, but learn less.
We plan more, but accomplish less.
We’ve learned to rush, but not to wait.
We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less and less.
These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion, big men and small character, steep profits and shallow relationships.
These are the days of two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses, but broken homes.
These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill.
It is a time when there is much in the showroom window and nothing in the stockroom.
A time when technology can bring this letter to you, and a time when you can choose either to share this insight, or to just hit delete…
Remember: spend some time with your loved ones, because they are not going to be around forever.
Remember, say a kind word to someone who looks up to you in awe, because that little person soon will grow up and leave your side.
Remember, to give a warm hug to the one next to you, because that is the only treasure you can give with your heart and it doesn’t cost a cent.
Remember, to say, ‘I love you’ to your partner and your loved ones, but most of all mean it. A kiss and an embrace will mend hurt when it comes from deep inside of you.
Remember to hold hands and cherish the moment for someday that person will not be there again.
Give time to love, give time to speak! And give time to share the precious thoughts in your mind.
AND ALWAYS REMEMBER:
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
-George Carlin
Wonder
So many untold wonders are there locked in the heart and to be sought after; so many moments of great joy are there hidden and to be discovered, as a many faceted jewel. What is burnished into great beauty without silent wonder? Or without the hand that stirs up the pool of creation to bring forth life’s true purpose?
My friend, the world you see within your heart is the world of your reality; illuminating that reality from within is the spirit; give that reality the form of your choosing, make it manifest unto your sight, make it harmonious, radiant, vibrant.
Many times have I seen that inner world beyong this one of rigid structure, and many times have I passed into its transparent sphere, neither knowing nor understanding limitations within its boundless dimensions.
Gardens and spots of magnificent splendour have I beheld there; each manifestation have I seen spring into being, slowly take form, merging into a rainbow of soft luminous colours. That garden is attended by the most gracious and understanding of beings; they are the gate-keepers and providers. Soft, whispering springs sing their song to all and flashes of rainbow hues dash forth from our their crystal depths. The water is more than wine to the taste, beyong the freshness of mountain spring, beyond the likeness of any earthly drink. Many times have I walked into this etherial kingdom, reflecting the innermost of my thoughts and my times have my questions been answered, as a mirror shot by the sun.
Give birth to the child of wonder within, and bring forth the child of innocence in all that you do, for only then you can fully know the great Parent that watches over all and brings all eventually into one home as the living body of vibrant and radiant love.
Each point of creation is lit from the void inherent within by an incandescent light that shines forth and makes it a sparkling wonder, even so each emergent dewdrop reflects the sun of great awakening in silent wonder.
Beauty is the mirror of life as it is reflected; its essence harmony; life reflected is the veil of wonder; each being reflects the Source and the Source gives reflection to each; beauty is the breath of the Eternal that casts its light and shade upon each thing; thus the shadow must be given light and absorbed into its depth. We all are the shadows absorbing light ere we become the light in full measure. This is hte wonder of creation.
Gold is burnished to give it brilliance and diamond is polished to give it great depth and beauty. Whosoever has burnished his heart by the wonder of contemplation upon the Source has become the shining one of majestic beauty; whosoever has polished reflection upon God by acting in a similar manner with the greatest of truths has become the jewel of the temple in the mansions of the Supreme.
The ceaseless wonder of activity is the unfolding of beauty and wisdom, for there in that wonder, that blissful state of perpetuation, exists our own immortality in the balance of the Eternal.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore.Dream.Discover ^_^
NIGHTNIGHT by DEDDY
