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Stillness
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FEAR – Dear old friend
“The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.” Thomas Paine
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Embracing the Beauty of Life and Death
“It is the things you say ‘No’ to that really show your commitment to your growth.” – Yung Pueblo, Inward
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The Only Way In
“What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes part of us.” — Helen Keller
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Allow What Is Needed
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Impossible to Dismiss
“When we’re growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.” Elliot Page
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My Dear Heart
Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible. Wayne Dyer
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Planting Roots
“Be like a tree. Stay grounded. Connect with your roots. Turn over a new leaf. Bend before you break. Enjoy your unique natural beauty. Keep growing.~ Joanne Raptis
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Sensitivity
“How do you ever explain the feelings of anxiety and paralyzing fear? I can’t answer those questions. It’s just a feeling of ‘Am I crazy? Am I too sensitive to be in this world?’ A feeling that the world is just too complicated for me right now, and I don’t feel like I belong here. But it passes, and fortunately today I feel blessed for all the good things in my life.” Winona Ryder
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Green is Life
“As long as you’re green, you’re growing. As soon as you’re ripe, you start to rot.” Ray Kroc
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A Guardian of the Innocent
“Pain forces even the innocent to lie.” Publilius Syrus
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Little Granny’s Resilience
“Resilience is knowing that you are the only one that has the power and the responsibility to pick yourself up.” Mary Holloway
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Wandering Roots
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Dancing into the Danger
Dancing into the Danger
“Just don’t give up what you’re trying to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.” – Ella Fitzgerald
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My Sense of Discernment
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Undeniably Powerful
“Looking at various means of developing compassion, I think empathy is an important factor: the ability to appreciate others’ suffering.” Dalai Lama
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Life As It Is
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Truth in
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
Marie Curie
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Remembering Empathy
https://medium.com/@doerthedolata/my-fascination-with-the-past
“It’s not your job to like me, it’s mine.” — Byron Katie.
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This is your life!
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Peace Dove’s Wings Unfurl
“Let us forgive each other – only then will we live in peace.” – Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
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Embrace the Change
“Chances are you already know what you want. The question is, who is really stopping you?”
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― Hiral Nagda
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Reflections of Self
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Silent Storms: Empathy as Unseen Resolution
“Each one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm, when we look at each other we must say, I understand. I understand how you feel because I have been there myself. We must support each other and empathize with each other because each of us is more alike than we are unalike.”
— Maya Angelo
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The Garden of Self-Raising
“One of the most courageous things you can do is identify yourself, know who you are, what you believe in and where you want to go.”- Sheila Murray Bethel
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Blossoming Peace
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Becoming
Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult. Warren Bennis
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Sow Empathy, Reap Joy
Empathy seems to be seen as a weakness. We condition people to withdraw it to succeed. But really, it needs to be re-seen as a strength again if there is to be any kind of hope in the world.
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Be Merry 💫❤️
“Peace on earth will come to stay, when we live Christmas every day.” – Helen Steiner Rice
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In Every Beat, There Is a Human Heart
“We Gotta Look For The Good In The Bad, The Happy In Our Sad, The Gain In Our Pain, And What Makes You Grateful Not Hateful.”– Maritoni Llorca
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A Life Unseen
“We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.” – Calvin Coolidge
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Discovering Self, Fostering Peace
“Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Embracing Fear and Connection
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Solitude’s Cultivation
One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Journey of the Heart
“Map Your Own Journey. Go on your own journey. Don’t let others hold you back; don’t hold them back. Don’t judge their journey, and don’t let them judge yours. All persons are free to have the experiences their souls lead them to.”
― Melody Beattie, Journey to the Heart: Daily Meditations on the Path to Freeing Your Soul
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Soul’s Healing Pen
I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.
Alice Walker
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“Remembering Sinead O’Connor: An Ode to Empathy and Kindness”
“Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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All That’s Needed
“I couldn’t have dreamed you into existence because I didn’t even know I needed you. You must have been sent to me.”
― Kamand Kojouri
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In My Ancestors’ Shoes
Coming home seemed to have started the healing process. No longer vivid and garish, the memories seemed to be covered in gossemer, fading behind a curtain of time and forgiveness.
Karen Fowler
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Ionbhá (Irish: Love)
“You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.” – John Steinbeck.
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Spring is near!
“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.”
Henry Matisse
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Empathy REvolution
Dan Meyers
(more…)“Learning to stand in somebody else’s shoes, to see through their eyes, that’s how peace begins. And it’s up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.” ~ Barack Obama
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Christmas Spirit ❤️
“Peace on Earth will come to stay, when we live Christmas every day.” ~ Helen Steiner Rice
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A Courageous Heart
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The Beauty of Transformation
(more…)“I am sure everyone has had the experience of reading a book and finding it vibrating with aliveness, with colour and immediacy. And then, perhaps some weeks later, reading it again and finding it flat and empty. Well, the book hasn’t changed: you have.”
― Doris Lessing
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Accept What Is!
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Nicole KidmanI’m not sure what the future holds but I do know that I’m going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said ‘Nic, it is what it is, it’s not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is.’
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Remember me
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Laura Ingalls WilderRemember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don’t remember me at all.
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Trust Your Friend
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Be courageous
Lost Cat – Caroline Paul, Illustrator: Wendy MacNaughton
(more…)“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” ~ E.E. Cummings
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Choose Your Guide
(more…)“Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.” ~ Seneca, Letter No. 52 to Lucilus
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Stick to Your Purpose
(more…)“We have not come into the world to be numbered; we have been created for a purpose; for great things: to love and be loved.”
Mother Theresa
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Living the Dream
(more…)“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
~ Elenor Roosevelt
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The One you feed
(more…)“Feed your soul by feeding the soul of others with love, kindness and compassion.”
– Daniela Nikolova
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Lost vs. Found
(more…)“It’s not finding what’s lost. It is understanding what you have found.
~ Alice Hoffman
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Just as You are, just as it is. Now That is Bliss!
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Why travel Won’t Fix You
(more…)“You need a change of soul than a change of climate.”
Seneca, Letter No. 8 to Lucilius
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A Love Transformed
(more…)“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr
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GROW!
(more…)“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” – Edith Wharton
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Home Grown
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When the world comes knocking…
When the world comes knocking, crying and pleading:
“Can’t you hear me? Can’t you see me…See how I suffer? Why don’t you bother?”
Will you open or keep the door shut?
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The Language of the Heart
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Towards the Sky, Facing the Sun 🌞
“A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.”
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Blessed Daisies 🌼
As the clocks slip back, days lengthen, the snow subsides, we sense the oncoming tide of Spring.
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Happy Women’s Day
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The Colours of Joy 💞
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The Challenge of Being
(more…)“Every challenge you face today makes you stronger tomorrow. The challenge of life is intended to make you better, not bitter.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
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Letting go
(more…)“Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.”
― Deborah Reber, Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul
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Happy 2022
Beach in Cadiz, Spain
(more…)“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.”
― Edith Lovejoy Pierce
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Who Are You?
“who are you
really?you are not a name
or a height, or a weight
or a gender
you are not an age
and you are not where you are fromyou are your favorite books
and the songs stuck in your head
you are your thoughts
and what you eat for breakfast
on Saturday morningsyou are a thousand things
but everyone chooses
to see the million things
you are notyou are not
where you are from
you are
where you are going
and i’d like
to go there
too”
― m.kEverything in life starts and ends with the One in the mirror.
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A true friend
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In Flow
Go with the flow,
Mandy Hale
Force nothing. Let it happen…
Trusting that whichever way it goes.
It’s for the best.
Hey You. World! My will is your will.What’s within is without.
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Knowing Me is Knowing You
“All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me
As someone empathic, highly sensitive and quite intuitive, my I had to learn How to set boundaries – simply out of Respect for my own Self, and others.
My presence can be apparently too much for some to handle. 🌞 The pain is visible.
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Re-think 🤔
“It’s time to ‘RE-THINK’ and ‘RE-BUILD’ yourself.
Niharika DOnce upon a time…that’s how usually fairy tales tend to begin. And dreams and illusions are made. This is, however, no dream any longer but a dream come true.
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Grounding 🌱
Now what’s that all about?
(more…)To ground is to pour your energies back into the earth and feel the warm calm of nature entering your body in exchange. ~ Anonymous
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JUST FOR TODAY
1. Just for today, I will not be angry.
2. Just for today, I will not worry.
3. Just for today, I will be grateful.
4. Just for today, I will do my work honestly.
6. Just for today I will be kind to every living thing.
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A Passion for Life
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Turn the Soil/Soul
There is so much coming up to the surface these days it can truly cause mental health issues when we have no way to cultivate a safe space for ourselves.
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Blessed Fearlessness
Fearless-rune-with-birds-by-alonadorodko “One of the criticisms I’ve faced over the years is that I’m not aggressive enough or assertive enough, or maybe somehow, because I’m empathetic, it means I’m weak. I totally rebel against that. I refuse to believe that you cannot be both compassionate & strong.” Jacinda Ardern
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Courage
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Shame: The Fuel that has empowered Me!
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What I want
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Write Write Write!
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Transformation!
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New Beginnings
The Compassionate Gardener welcomes each and every day as a New Beginning.
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True New growth!
The Compassionate Gardener remembers the past clearly, and has never stopped to see from and with the heart.
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Just a Smile for You 🙂
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Peace and Quiet
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Can You…?
The Compassionate Gardener is fully aware of the shifts that are happening right now in the physicality.
You are NOT alone!
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Holding on vs. Letting go!
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Life is Creativity!
Flora ~ Roman Goddess of Flowers and Spring ~
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora_(mythology)The Compassionate Gardener feels inspired by Flora ~ the Roman Goddess of Flowers and Spring.
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Believe in Your Magic!
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Nature and femininity!
The Compassionate Gardener
(seen in IKEA – no idea who the artist is but this art needs to be honoured for its beautiful connection of Nature and femininity!)
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Heart and Soul – Growth!
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Remember…
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Grow Your Authentic Self
The Compassionate Gardener received the seeds of this beautiful Wildflower called “Aquilegia vulgaris” from Ireland.
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Unconditional Presence
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Fulfillment
My heart is full…filled.
Filled with genuine beauty and delight.
A delight that gets me up alright!
Fulfillment in life is key –
To find your own way… to see with clarity!
A clarity that provides You with infinite possibilities!
How deep are You willing to go … to dig in … to uncover an awareness of…
your very own over~flowing completeness, and generosity?!
With Grace,
D.D.
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Bloom wherever You are planted…with grace!
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What About…YOU?
“The planet is sick – like a fever. This is our last chance to fix this problem that we have. It all starts with us, or else it’ll never be done.” ~ Michael Jackson
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Respectful distance! 🙂