As I Began to Love Myself attributed to Charlie Chaplin with video

As I Began To Love Myself..

As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth.

Today, I know, this is “AUTHENTICITY“.

 

As I began to love myself I understood how much it can offend somebody. As I try to force my desires on this person, even though I knew the time was not right and the person was not ready for it, and even though this person was me.  

Today I call it “RESPECT“.

 As I began to love myself I stopped craving for a different life, and I could see that everything that surrounded me was inviting me grow. 

Today I call it “MATURITY“.

 

As I began to love myself I understood that at any circumstance, I am in the right place at the right time, and everything happens at the exactly right moment. So I could be calm. Today I call it “SELF-CONFIDENCE“.

 

As I began to love myself I quit stealing my own time, and I stopped designing huge projects for the future. Today, I only do what brings me joy and happiness, things I love to do and that make my heart cheer, and I do them in my own way and in my own rhythm. 

Today I call it “SIMPLICITY“.

 

As I began to love myself I freed myself of anything that is no good for my health - food, people, things, situations, and everything the drew me down and away from myself. At first I called this attitude a healthy egoism.  

Today I know it is “LOVE OF ONESELF“.

 

As I began to love myself I quit trying to always be right, and ever since, I was wrong less of the time.

Today I discovered that is “MODESTY“.

 

As I began to love myself I refused to go on living in the past and worry about the future.       Now, I only live for the moment, where  everything is happening.

Today I live each day, day by day, and I call it “FULFILLMENT“.

 

As I began to love myself I recognized that my mind can disturb me and it can make me sick. But as I connected it to my heart, my mind became a valuable ally.

Today I call this connection “WISDOM OF THE HEART“.

 

We no longer need to fear arguments, confrontations or any kind of problems with ourselves or others. Even stars collide, and out of their crashing new worlds are born.

Today I know “THAT IS LIFE“!

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Just a bit

Dream Fairy (Photo credit: Alexandria Mezzano LaNier)

Just a bit

of gratitude to start my day off right.

Just a bit

of  joy and love brings me

closer to the light. 

Just a bit

of laughter as I humbly

hear your praise.

Just a bit

 of music to help me

through the days.

Just a bit

of whimsy makes the day

seem so much brighter.

Just the love of the Creator

makes my burdens lighter. 

Study for The Quarrel of Oberon and Titania by Noel Paton: fairies in Shakespeare (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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To you my beloved friend…..

sunrise (Photo credit: Sean MacEntee)

 

In gratitude:

for a place to live

(in freedom from want)

to thrive  

(not merely survive)

to grow

(by being open to change)

to learn  

(by listening)

to wonder

(at  and with  every aspect of life)

to serve

(in loving silence)

 Give thanks

for

warm clothing

running water

electricity

freedom

laughter

family

friendships

books to read

food to eat

art to see

music to hear

spiritual abundance.

Because of these things and more

I dedicate this day to love

To being love

To sharing love

To giving love

To being in love with life. 

One thing more dear heart,

I dedicate this day to you.

For all the lives we have shared

For all the living and loving

we have yet to share.

I love you my beloved friend.

I love you simply  

because you are you.

I dedicate this day.

I dedicate this day to you.

I dedicate this day with love.

English: Contemplation and the Islands A solitary figure lost in their thoughts, on a rock near Arisaig, with the island of Rum on the skyline (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

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Dedicated……to the Travelers and those who wait….

” Fly With The Wings Of Love ” (Photo credit: gmayster01 on & off …)

This poem is  dedicated to the Travelers and those who wait to welcome them home.

 

 

 

 Alone, you,  may think you are.

 

You are not.
You may simply be

Broken-hearted and longing

to be with the Beloved.

You are always with the Beloved.

 In the moment

you think
you are the most alone

 and broken,
You are being carried 
on the Wings of Love.

Enjoy the view, 
dear hearts.
You are the most 
 Beloved  of the Beloved.

On the Wings of Love….
of the Beloved 
The Beloved Ones… 
(that means each

and every one of us

  all of you)
  There is  a glowing love
That cannot be held back 
that the earth plane

can not hold……….

This beautiful flame of  love

glowing in the eyes of another

Beloved Traveler of the Beloved

Is how we find each and other

Lifetime after lifetime

In a circle of Love

Formed on the Wings of Love. 

Rose (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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My Amazing Friend guest author Mick Casey (Published unedited with thanks)

2nd June 2011

In All Kinds of Everything 3rd Issue – 24th September 2012

 

My Amazing Friend

 

When I’m a bit down

When I’m falling apart

A few wards from you

Seems to lifted my spirits

 

At my weakest moments

I’m reminded that I’m strong

Reminded by you my dear friend

 

At times I wonder

Do I deserve your friendship?

 

Everyone who sees you,

Wants to know you

Everyone who knows you,

Always has a smile for you

 

When you walk into a room

It shines with a special light

Everyone calls you amazing

But to me – you are amazing

 

When you are not a part of my life

It seems to disappear before my eyes

Without your friendship –

It would be hard to go on

 

So please don’t stop being you

Cause you are my amazing friend

 

I would like to thank you

For being such a wonderful friend

You deserve a standing ovation

 

Mick Casey © 2011 

Just the touch

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH-groCeKbE

Today

while adjusting

to the business

of busy-ness

Soul was touched by love.

(While working

on a project

at a distance

with time zones

conflicts,

deadlines with consequences

through all that life can bring)

There was a pause

in the day

as I was pacing

 looking out the window

my heart began to sing.

At the end of the garden

there was a pool of water

formed from the ice

 that the sun had melted

I spotted it.

 In the middle

of the long distance

call I yelled

Oh, dear heart, there are 9482 birds

having a bath in the middle of a winter day.

The delight was so profound

we switched from working on the project

to talking of the light and sound.

Thank you,

 Creator of All

for the birds…

.for the

touch of love

in my life,

in my heart,

in Soul

in the day.

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Seduced (poem and pictorial)

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Sunday’s as a young woman

there  were stacks

of newspapers

from all over the world…

now with one click I am there.

Sunday’s as a young woman

I dreamed of Prince charming…

now I date my self,

pamper myself,

 provide for myself,

 please and appease  myself.

Sunday’s as a young woman

I craved

for more time

to do the things I wanted…

now I enjoy the moment,

its silence and its joys.

Sunday’s as a young woman,

I traveled searching for home,

now I am home.

Sunday’s as a young woman,

I yearned for love,

now I am love.

Sunday’s as a young woman, 

I asked “Why?”…

now I ask “Why not?”

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Gift of love -dedicated to Payam – trusting in the memories of lifetimes, of wifetimes

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Oh the joy of unconditional love.

The knowingness that all will be well.

Oh the lessons…of doing things right.

Oh the joy,  when the end is in sight.

“I love you my darling I always will.”

Spoke the woman to the beloved.

This gift of love was gently spoken.

Just before the dawn was broken.

Now in the rising sun

The gift of love is remembered. 

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Your smile is dynamite

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Your smile is like dynamite,

blasting away at my isolation in the cold winter.

It is bringing

the Sunlight of the Spirit

into my very being.

Your smile is a search light

looking into

the deepest part of me

where love for you

is  no longer hiding.

Your smile,

your laughter,

your love

are the food for

this formerly starving  Soul.

I love you.

 I thank you.

 I am here to be of service.

 I am so glad you are in my life.

 Your happiness is my goal. 

Your smile has made me whole. 

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Comfort of the Oak

Standing in the shadow of the mighty oak.

I need to remember the compassion, love and forgiveness of which you spoke.

I need to be there remembering,

all the love that you have been giving

to make my life worth living…

to give to thee and thine. 

Help me to be kinder when someone is crying out in pain.

Help me to listening when they are crying in the rain.

When I stand beneath your coolness…

I learn to love and laugh again.

Standing in the shadow of the mighty oak.

I need to remember the compassion, love and forgiveness of which you spoke.