"Life is not about taking the world upon your shoulders.
Its about showing the world what kind of heart you carry."
Kevin

"The supreme reality of our time is the vunerability of this planet"

John Fitz Gerald Kennedy

This last quote is so beautiful and is exactly how I wish to Be always
Breda

Lovely Breda,

Thanks for sharing

Chris

I love all these quotes with the openhand photography.Very inspiring!

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
But you are eternity and you are the mirror.

Reason ruling alone is a force confining;and passion
unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.
Therefore let your soul exalt your reason to the height of
passion, that it may sing.

The deeper that sorrow carves into you being, the more joy
you can contain.

There are those who give and know not pain in giving,
nor do they seek joy, nor give with mindfulness of virtue;
They give as in yonder valley the myrtle breathes its
fragrance into space.
Through the hands of such as these God speaks, and from
behind their eyes He smiles upon the earth.

Kahlil Gibran

Don't know where I am going.
Don't know what is coming next.
Don't know who I am anymore.
This is courage not confusion;
it is wisdom not folly.
It creates the space for something
new to be born.

Joan Borysenko

This is my all time favorite poem.
It captured my heart when I first read it.

If

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowances for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated,don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good or talk too wise.

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginning
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue
Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!

Rudyard Kipling

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

Marianne Williamson

Trinity.
Your last 2 posts are speaking to me much much louder and softer than words.

Thank-you. Thank-you.
Teresa

Love, the firstborn among beings
Love which later created the thought

Simply awesome!

Chris

There is no time <:| (?) (Me so confused)

Oh

I got it through your words better

Because I got the feeling of a rush and stress in Rumi's words, as if I have to hurry or else I'll miss the abundant water :O hhhh

“Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together, yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.”

― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

Mother Teresa

True self shines upon all doing; this becomes clear in times of non-true self.
The two dance with intimacy, until time when oneness no longer requires contrast.

One is not enough,
the other is all there is.

“What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life, that there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad.”
― Morpheus,

I feel fortunate to be even aware of the path, perhaps for now just a knowing but the moment of truth is pulling and calling and I am listening. Ultimately the wrong that Morpheus refers too can only be a right as it is there to point the way. Love.

"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to be over, it's about learning how to dance in the rain." ~ Author Unknown

Everything that I know...
I know only because I love.

Leo Tolstoy

“Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.”
― Rumi

That's a big (Wow) from Rumi. Thanks Trinity.

A really big Hi from Canada to everyone out there. I had a meet up with an Openhander, 30 minutes from home yesterday; it was a real treat!! Love. Mike

Hi Vimbha,

Great to hear from you - welcome to Openhandweb.
We look forwards to hearing from you some more.

Best wishes

Chris

Listen with ears of tolerance
See through eyes of compassion
Speak with the language of love
Rumi