Flexibility

A bow too tenseley strung breaks easily under pressure.

It is the same with us humans, stay relaxed and flexible

sound of silence

The quieter you become,

The more you can hear

(Baba Ram Dass)

And if you think about it, the louder you are, the less you hear.
Quietness evokes a peace and serenity around us, it creates inspiration and time for thought.We hear more of the world around us, words touch us deeper and we observe and see better.Loudness breaks our thoughts, ruins our peace,and blinds us to many of the beautiful things in the world. I know which I prefer.

A New Year has begun

I find hope in the darkest of days

And focus in the brightest

I do not judge the universe

(HRH Dalai Llama)

These words of the HRH Dalai Llama,always spur life into me when I feel lost. We all feel lost at times,which direction do we go, or do we carry straight on as before. A new year has begun and it is full of new years promises that many will be unable to keep. So we should not make promises we know will be very difficult to keep, instead ones that we may fulfil, this way we will keep our confidence alive in the knowledge that we can make promises and keep them. The wisdom of these few words assist us when things do not go as planned and we lose our way. On the 1st day of the New Year I wrote them in my diary, to look at from time to time, but now they are in my heart

light

If we could light up each others lives, everyday that we wake,what a wonderful effect it would have on humanity. Without life there is no life..In the darkness we fumble. Offer a light to those we meet..........it¨s contagious

Errors

There are times in our life when a decision we have made, becomes an error, for at times we have no forsight when the decision is taken, at this moment we believe it to be right. If it becomes an error of judgement and we suffer from it, then we learn, and if we learn then we have gained something.

To commit an error is normal, it is a learning curve...for none of us have reached perfection.

Hope

Everyone of us that walks the pathway of life needs hope, to carry them through the difficult times, to help us continue our journey. Hopes gives us the strength and desire within that allows us to continue to travel and battle through life.
Without hope, we give up, become negative in thought and action. Hope and "Will" go hand in hand, in turn leading each other.

Search for the unseen

Is it easier to believe in only what we see?and make judgement from that in front of us?

But doesn´t all that we see have an unseen side, a more valuable often unacknowledged other side? For example, a mother smiles at her child, we often miss the love behind the action, or what if someone consoles us when we are sad, the action of comfort we see but what we do not always see is that person absorbing and feeling our sadness.

Behind every thing we see lies a part unseen.