A Pristine Waterlily

The lotus comes from the murkiest water but grows into the purest thing.

"A pristine waterlily undiscouraged by its surroundings, rises from the depths of a murky pond. It's lotus petals perfume the air, as it flowers and blooms brilliantly, purely, divinely, despite and probably because of its origins. Becoming a spiritual person does not mean you to leave your prior life behind, but instead you integrate, learn, remember, and respect what brought you to this point  in the first place." Jacquelene Close Moore

An arrow of hope...

An arrow can be shot only by pulling it backward.

So when life is dragging you back with difficulties, it means that it's going to launch you into something great.

Letting Go...

There is a popular saying...

Many have their own way of expressing it.

"If you love something, let it go, if it was meant to be it will come back to you."

It's a lesson of love.  One that does not control.  Selfless.  It's a lesson that we could pocket for many life situations.  One that continues to be studied.

Letting go... sigh... it brings freedom.  WHY?

Because you're not in control.  Never were.  Never will be.

So, we learn to live life letting go!  And what comes back our way will be apart of fate.  A story...

A beautiful story...

Of your journey.

Of learning.

Of love.

Of knowing.

Of just learning to be in this journey that can't be controlled.  Sounds redundant, but maybe it needs to be heard in a meditative state?

You know what? I can't wait see what comes back my way or what comes my way as a result of letting go.

And the things that don't come back...well... I just trust weren't meant to be.  Except, for a moment of learning and great love.

For myself, I am an optimist....

Here is a very helpful article to use as a reminder of the power of optimism.

I have found it to be the utmost truth.  Even, as of lately, when I struggle to be so...  I am reminded how unpleasant I become, how pessimism corrupts my soul, and I'm not the bubbly, cheerful, lovable, healthy, happy girl others enjoy being around.  Not to mention I don't enjoy being around myself!! Ha!

It just takes us a moment to go "What the hell is wrong with me!?  I've been down this road before and I DON'T LIKE IT!!!  I mean, really!  What is the definition of stupid? Get it together!"  Well, I guess that didn't sound so positive, but it works for sports! ;)

Don't get me wrong... we all need a healthy balance.  And being an optimist does not mean we put on the blinders and act like every thing is OK!  Not the point...  Just read the article.  It's a simple reminder...

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Optimism is magnetic!!!  It will create your own miracle...

"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit." - Helen Keller

"If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought." – Peace Pilgrim

"It's not that optimism solves all of life's problems; it is just that it can sometimes make the difference between coping and collapsing." - Lucy Macdonald

"For myself, I am an optimist--it does not seem to be much use being anything else." -Winston Churchill

Perspective

 "The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along." – Jalal ad-Din Rumi

 "A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes." – Mahatma Gandhi

"I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains." – Anne 

 "Letting go doesn’t mean giving up, but rather accepting that there are things that cannot be." – Unknown

"Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true." – Judy Garland

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sail. Explore. Dream. Discover." – Mark Twain

 "A day without laughter is a day wasted." – Charles Chaplin

"One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself." – Lucille Ball

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.” ― Edgar Allan Poe


To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.”
― Stephen R. Covey

“Songs are as sad as the listener.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince others. Because one is content
with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world
accepts him or her.”
― Lao Tzu

“What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.”
― Martha Graham

“Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.”
― Marcus Aurelius

“One moment the world is as it is. The next, it is something entirely different. Something it has
never been before.”
― Anne Rice, Pandora

“And those who were seen dancing, were thought to be crazy, by those who could not hear the
music.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The task is...not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet
thought, about that which everybody sees.”
― Erwin Schrödinger

“In this treacherous world

Nothing is the truth nor a lie.

Everything depends on the color

Of the crystal through which one sees it”

― Pedro Calderón de la Barca

CHEERS!