Mine to do
Jan
13
2021
“It took me many decades to discover that I could come at my life with a different question. Not: Why did I live? But: What is mine to do with the life I’ve been given?” – Edith Eger
“It took me many decades to discover that I could come at my life with a different question. Not: Why did I live? But: What is mine to do with the life I’ve been given?” – Edith Eger
“Awake, for, lo! the morning Light has broken. Arise, for His Cause is made manifest. The portal of His grace is open wide; enter therein, O peoples of the world! For He who is your promised One is come!” – Baha’i writings
This photo revealed itself to me yesterday while fixing the reverse light of the car with my dad by their place. They live in assisted living now and the park around the building is beautiful, especially in autumn. The glorious rays of the sun broke through the branches of the tree – the Tree of Life – as I looked up from working on the car. I tried to capture this moment in a photograph as well as in my mind and heart🌳❤️
“If possible, it is best to have a balance between the civilisation of city life and the solitude of country living. Too much solitude and we can become isolated and lose the benefit of human culture, progress, and communication. Too much urban life and we lose our spiritual essence and our fundamental native homeostasis. Many people instinctively withdraw to the country or the seaside when they feel the noise of city life is drowning out the quiet, inner voice of peace. The country does what the city cannot. It quietens the mind and brings simplicity into one’s life. The city […]
“When summer opens, I see how fast it matures, and fear it will be short; but after the heats of July and August, I am reconciled, like one who has had his swing, to the cool of autumn.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Me and these cracks have something in common. There are times in life when you feel things around or inside you start cracking and even seem to fall apart. But slowly the cracks begin to fill up, you heal, you understand, become stronger, softer and wiser. The cracks fill up with pieces of gold and you are ready to radiate your beauty again.
“This is the home of love: those who come in must learn the lessons of love; thus may they know how to love each other.” – ‘Abdu’l-Bahá
This is the home of love: those who come in must learn the lessons of love; thus may they know how to love each other.” – ‘Abdu’l-Bahá
“This is the home of light; whosoever enters here must become illumined.” – ‘Abdu’l-Bahá
“…in the world of humanity the greatest king and sovereign is love. If love were extinguished, the power of attraction dispelled, the affinity of human hearts destroyed, the phenomena of human life would disappear.”
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