Do not accept any of my words on faith, Believing them just because I said them. Be like an analyst buying gold, who cuts, burns, And critically examines her product for authenticity. Only accept what passes the test By proving useful and beneficial in your life.
you say your heart is like a library book to love is to trust he’ll bring it back if i go and take it home for good would you be okay with that? would you be okay with that?
Half of life is lost in charming others.
The other half is lost in going through anxieties caused by others.
Leave this play. You have played enough.
the more i see, the less i know the more i like to let it go hey oh, whoa, whoa, whoa deep beneath the cover of another perfect wonder where it’s so white as snow privately divided by a world so undecided and there’s nowhere to go
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a day ago in Chickakoo Lake, Parkland County ~ honouring and acknowledging Treaty 6 Territory, Alberta ~ January 2022
Be as careful as you can. Our minds are funny. Sometimes we are skeptical of things that are really worthwhile and completely accepting of things that we should avoid. Try to avoid extremes and follow the middle way, checking with wisdom wherever you go.
we’re on a road to nowhere come on inside takin’ that ride to nowhere we’ll take that ride
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a night or so ago -35 at the Esso Gas station in Gunn, Alberta ~ December 2021
There are two kinds of happiness, mental happiness, and outer happiness. Outer happiness comes through meeting with an external object and is transitory. Mental happiness comes about through meditation and positive thought, it is stable and does not cause suffering. One cannot be happy if one does not have mental happiness, no matter how abundant the external sources of outer happiness are, but if one is truly happy in one’s mind, then one is unaffected by outer problems.
you gotta swing your hips now come on baby a jump up oh, jump back oh well, i think you’ve got the knack, oh-oh
What is the mind? It is a phenonmenon that is not body, not substantial, has no form, no shape, no colour, but, like a mirror, can clearly reflect objects.
leave this space and face the open wide wonder endlessly, i don’t look down making me forgive making me brave looking for a chance to change my wings lately i’ve been wondering why i stay feeling like
As human beings, we are all the same. So there is no need to build some kind of artificial barrier between us. At least my own experience is that if you have this kind of attitude, there is no barrier.
it ain’t no joke, i’d like to buy the world a toke and teach the world to sing in perfect harmony and teach the world to snuff the fires and the liars hey, i know it’s just a song but it’s spice for the recipe
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walk and talk along the streets ~ Etown – Amiskwaciwâskahikan ᐊᒥᐢᑲᐧᒋᐋᐧᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ ~ December 2021
Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place
…Each one of us lacks one thing or another. I am not exactly sure what we lack, but I can feel we lack something. In the West, even if at the moment you are going through a crisis, you actually have everything, or at least you think you do; all kinds of material goods are there, and are no doubt distributed better than they were in the past. But it seems to me that you are living in a constant state of tension, in an atmosphere of never-ending competitiveness and fear. And those who are brought up in such an atmosphere will find themselves lacking all their lives: they will not know that wonderful quality of depth and intimacy that is the richness of life. They will stay on the surface of the troubled sea, without ever knowing the calm that lies beneath.
may the long time sun shine upon you all love surround you and the pure light within you guide your way on guide your way on
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a week or so ago walking my iPhone in the backlanes ~ Etown ~ Amiskwaciwâskahikan ᐊᒥᐢᑲᐧᒋᐋᐧᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ ~ December 2021
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