Sacred Responsibility

"If everything is connected to everything else, then everyone is ultimately responsible for everything. We can blame nothing on anyone else. The more we comprehend our mutual interdependence, the more we fathom the implications of our most trivial acts. We find ourselves within a luminous organism of sacred responsibility."

Laurence Kushner

The Way

"The way is not in the sky,
The way is in the heart."

The Dhammapada


"Life is a continuation."
http://inoma-words.blogspot.com/2009/11/happy-continuation.html

Within & Without

"I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in."

John Muir

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And the other way round:
Going within, I find my way without.

DI

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Relaxe
http://inoma-words.blogspot.com/2010/03/loosen.html

Slowly

“Smile, breathe and go slowly.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

Deep Down

"Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life."

Hugh Sidey

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"Full Catastrophe Living"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AzpHvLWFUM&feature=related

Ultimate Teacher

"Accept no other teacher, than the one who lives inside your heart."

Paul Ferrini

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"Self-knowledge gained through introspection and self-observation is the key to life wisdom. When I right my ship, the whole world comes aright."

Lama Surya Das
Article on  wisdom:
http://huff.to/ccrlJz

Praying From Heart

"So I prayed, but I had to pray from my heart. All of my concentration and thoughts went from my head to my heart. All of my senses - hearing, smell, taste, and feeling - were connected to my heart."

Wallace Black Elk, Lakota

Poems

3 poems by Ellen Bass
http://bit.ly/b1JLEN

Unto All Heart

Me from Myself -- to banish --
Had I Art --
Impregnable my Fortress
Unto All Heart --

But since Myself -- assault Me --
How have I peace
Except by subjugating
Consciousness?

And since We're mutual Monarch
How this be
Except by Abdication --
Me -- of Me?
 
Emily Dickinson

Courage

"Shine with joy and without fear! No one lights a lamp to hide it behind the door."

Paulo Coelho

Becoming Human

"Blaming is a way to protect your heart, trying to protect what is soft & open & tender in yourself."

Pema Chödrön

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To be vulnerable is a present, guiding us human beings to become nonviolent in thought, word and deed.

DI

Nonjudgmental Space

"Only in an open, nonjudgmental space can we acknowledge what we are feeling."

Pema Chödrön

Human Compassion

"Unless our desire for human compassion is stronger than our desire to be right,to be secure or to belong, love will elude us."

Marsha Sinetar

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Marshall B. Rosenberg (NVC)
http://www.cnvc.org/

http://inoma-words.blogspot.com/2009/11/want-compassion.html

Earth Day

"Earth laughs in flowers."

 Ralph Waldo Emerson

And smiles

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12 Spiritual Practices to Honor the Earth

By Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat

http://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/days/features.php?id=10964

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Poem by John O'Donohue

http://inoma-words.blogspot.com/2010/01/in-praise-of-earth.html

Great Present

I don´t understand and cannot get to know anyone´s or anything´s reality, when I´m projecting.  And I am interested in reality. I understand and get to know reality by being open-hearted and open-minded.

DI, TYL

Sheep

"Black sheep are still sheep."

Radiorev

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I am shepherd of my own sheep only.

DI

Beautiful Stillness

"There is the beautiful stillness behind it all, which is deep within you. It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up."

Eckhart Tolle

The One

The most important person is the one that I meet now.

DI

Aloha

"It´s good to have an understanding of what I mean by love, because in the Hawaiian it is much clearer than in English and other languages. The Hawaiian word for love is aloha. The root alo means “to be with”. It also means “to be present”, which means to be with someone or something in the present moment. Oha, the next root, is “joy” particularly the kind of joy you have greeting someone or something, so aloha can be translated as “to be happy with someone or something in the moment.” An additional meaning of alo is “to share”, as in to share an experience, and ha is “life, energy, breath, life spirit”. This aspect of aloha is “the joyful sharing of life”, and this is also love."

Serge Kahili King

Huna

By Serge Kahili King

Be Aware that the world is what you think it is, so decide what you want to believe today.

Be Free because there are no limits, so give yourself the right to change your mind.

Be Focused because energy flows where attention goes, so increase your desire to live the life you choose.

Be Here because now is the moment of power, so start right now with some kind of action to be, do, or have what you want.

Be Happy because love is the source of power, so enjoy and acknowledge the good that is.

Be Confident because all power comes from within, so always trust yourself.

Be Positive because effectiveness is the measure of success, so always expect the best.

Just now

"Keep me friendly to myself."

John S. Dunne

                                

Practice Makes Words

"No words can replace practice, only practice can make the words."

Thich Nhat Hanh

Friendship

For the growth and development of consciousness nature is the best teacher as friendship is the best education.

TYL, Doris InOma (Oma means Grandmother in german)

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"Friendship is the Greatest!"

Bhikkhu Samahita

Hurray

Attitude

"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."

Winston Churchill

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"Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different."

Katherine Mansfield

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"We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them."

Elbert Hubbard

Connected Place

"You can listen to someone from a mental understanding or from a connected soul centered place."

Jason Nelson

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I can listen to someone from a head or from a connected earthed place that is the heart.

(but something else as the in-ter-net.)

DI

Smile

May all beings enjoy smile and the source of smile.

Respect

May I respect your reality.

DI

Hum

"(...) it would be enough to withdraw identification from mental positions."

Eckhart Tolle

Breathing Peace

My heart is at ease,
I rest in peace.
Peace is the riverbed of love.

Good night everyone.

Doris

Not separate

"A human being is part of the whole universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself as something separate from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a prison, restricting us to our personal desires and affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty."

Albert Einstein

Accept shadows

"When we can acknowledge and accept our own shadows, our negative self-judgment lightens. When our negative self-judgment lightens, our negative judgment of others lightens simultaneously, and compassion for the pain of others arises."

Joan Hoeberichts

Awareness

"Shining the light of Awareness transforms that which is observed."

Ezra Bayda

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"What gets awareness, changes."

"Awareness is, before thought."

Awareness is:
* "That which knows."
* "That which cares."


http://inoma-words.blogspot.com/2009/11/awareness-is.html

Language

"Language is the source of misunderstandings."

Antoine de Saint-Exupery


~ not always so ~

Stroke of insight

Great Spirit, Thank You for leading on the Path of the Heart

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Jill Bolte Taylor's stroke of insight http://www.ted.com/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight.html

The Miracle

"If something is continuous, it is not miraculous."

Paul Ferrini

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I trust in what is best within you.

Power Of Presence

"A transformation of consciousness is already happening at this moment. How do I know? Because you are here, listening, watching, sensing the power of presence within yourself."

Eckhart Tolle

Our true home

"Our true home is in the present moment."

Thich Nhat Hanh

Receive & Give

Many of us prefer to be on the ´create-do-give-side` of Life. But Life wants us to experience equally the beauty of being on the ´receive-let-take-side`.

DI

Blessed

I am blessed

Stillness, Dignity & Respect

To need and to want is sacred. The more I become familiar with stillness, dignity and respect, the merrier I can handle it all.

DI, TYL

Easter Goin´ On

"Every time one person blesses another, there's a resurrection goin' on."

Frederic Brussat

Oops

"Man is what he loves. If he loves a stone, he is a stone. If he loves a man, he is a man. If he loves God ... I dare not say more, for if I said that he would then be God, you might stone me!"

alleged St Augustine

"The most wasted of days is without laughter."

e.e.cummings

Happy Holy Days

"May all beings enjoy happiness and the root of happiness"

LYL

The Rose

"When the night has been too lonely
and the road has been too long
and you think that love is only
for the lucky and the strong
Just remember in the winter
far beneath the bitter snow
lies the seed that with the sun's love
in the spring becomes the rose"

Amanda McBroom

You Open Yourself

"When you open yourself to the continually changing, impermanent, dynamic nature of your own being and of reality, you increase your capacity to love and care about other people and your capacity to not be afraid. You're able to keep your eyes open, your heart open, and your mind open. And you notice when you get caught up in prejudice, bias, and aggression. You develop an enthusiasm for no longer watering those negative seeds, from now until the day you die. And, you begin to think of your life as offering endless opportunities to start to do things differently."

Pema Chödrön

Benevolent & Refreshing

Honesty means benevolence, truth means refreshment to me.

DI

No such thing

"There is brutality and there is honesty. There is no such thing as brutal honesty."


Robert Anthony