Tag: wisdoms

One Day Away

“Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and friends can exist one day without any one of us, and if our egos permit us to confess, they could exist eternally in our absence. Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.”~Maya Angelou

From: “Wouldn’t Take Nothing for My Journey Now”

Photo: Chris Felver

Promise to Be Wild

Promise to stay wild

with me.

We’ll seek and return

and stay and find beauty

and the extraordinary

in all the spaces we can

claim.

We’ll know how to live.

How to breathe magic

into the mundane.

We can be in love with

one thousand views

and skylines and souls

and minds at once.

Don’t apologize for

your burn, your passion,

or your enthusiasm.

Enthusiasm propels the

world.

~ Victoria Erickson, Writer

[Art: Oleksii Gnievyshev]

John Lennon- Religion

“I’d rather let my spirit fly free, than be caged by religion. Become a Buddha, not a Buddhist; become a Christ, not a Christian. One implies an awakened state of consciousness, the other a dogmatic approach to life.”

“God” is too big for one religion. Love and quantum physics are my religion. At one level, all religious traditions have the same aim – to transform the individual into a positive being. I love Jesus, I love Shiva, I love Krishna, I love Buddha. All rivers lead to the same ocean.”

~John Lennon

Let Her Out

LET HER OUT

I can tell you why you cannot seem to become that woman you so very much aspire to be.

She is not you.

You are, quite wrongly, chasing an ideal of a woman you will never be.

And you are, quite wrongly, ignoring the woman that you already so very much are.

And peace will not come until you take a deep hard look at yourself and see the plethora of wonder, grace and humanity.

All wrapped up, a little messily, into a loveable parcel of real-ness.

Humans do not come perfectly packaged, with a warranty or guarantee.

We are miracles of science, nature and a little magic.

Born of centuries of incredible ancestors who walked through fire and ice to bring us to life.

And we cannot be tamed into a neat little box.

Stop chasing the ideal of a woman you were not born to be and start embracing she who is fizzing fiercely to be seen, right in front of your eyes.

Let her out.

Donna Ashworth

From ‘LIFE’; https://amzn.eu/d/9Y6E6kz

Art by Veronique Wibaux

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Cup of Tea

YOU CAN’T BE EVERYONE’S CUP OF TEA

There will always be someone in this life who just doesn’t like you, no matter how hard you try to please them.

There will always be something that you say, or do, which causes offence or division.

Whether you meant to or not.

There will always be someone who finds fault in you, your life or your words.

You may never find out why, please don’t waste your precious time trying to.

You can’t be everyone’s cup of tea.

Then there will be those who like you on impact.

A little fizz of energy that passes between you.

Silently, unseen, bonding.

Those people will not only like you but they will like you fiercely.

They are your people.

Whatever spare time you have, spend it on them.

You can’t be everyone’s cup of tea, but you can be someone’s first sip of a cold drink on a sunny day…

Or a warming hot chocolate when you come in from the rain

or the pop of a long awaited champagne cork

or a stiff shot of tequila when things go awry

Find your people,

love them hard.

Donna Ashworth

from ‘to the women’:

UK: https://amzn.eu/d/i8Xpzmu

US: https://a.co/d/3aVBTkn

Art by IRA WHITTAKER

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