Inner peace.

 

Signs and symptoms of inner peace.

 

*An increasing tendency to let things happen

rather than make them happen.

*An ability to enjoy each moment.

*A loss of interest in judging others.

*A loss of inerest in judging self.

*A loss interest of conflict.

*A loss ability to worry.

*Overwhelming episodes of appreciations.

*Connected with people and nature.

*Frequent attack of smiling.

 

(Saskia Davis)

 



Father and daughter.

 

Father and daughter.

(Paul Simon)

 

If you keep awake

In the mirror of a bad dream

and for a fraction of a second

you can't remember where you are

just open your window

 and follow your memory upstream

to the meadow in the mountain,

where we counted every falling star,

 

I believe a light that shines you

will shine on you forever

and though I can't guarantee

there's nothing scary hiding under your bed,

I'm gonna stand guard like a postcard

of a golden retriver

and never leave 'till I leave

with a sweet dream in your bed,

 

I'm gonna watch you shine

gonna watch you grow

gonna paint a sign

so you'll always know

as long as one and one is two,

there could never be a father who loved

his daughter more than I love you.

 



Metta.

 

"May I be safe and protected,

May I be peaceful and happy,

May I be healthy and strong,

May I have ease of well beings, and

accepted all conditions of the world."

 

(Metta, loving kindness meditation)



Remembrance.

 

"And you wait, keep waiting for one thing,

which would infinitely enrich your life,

maybe rare, maybe mighty, maybe uplifting,

depth that would reveal you to yourself,

 

In the dusk you notice the piles of books that muse you,

with their volumes in gold and brown,

and you think of far lands you've travelled,

of pictures of shimmering inspiring women,

 

And it comes to you all of a sudden,

you arise, for you are aware

of years in your distant past,

with it's fears,

and events,

and maybe a little prayers."

 

(Rainer Maria Rilke, 1875-1926)



Without resistance.

 

"It is the mark of an educated mind

to be able to entertain a thought

without accepting it."

 

(Aristotle)



Refuge.

 

"To aquire the habit of reading,

is to construct for yourself

a refuge from

almost all the miseries of life."

 

(W Sommerset Maugham)





Preserve nature.

"Leave nothing but footprints,

Take nothing but pictures,

Kill nothing but time."