Random Rumi

Come, come whoever you are, wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving, it doesn’t matter.
Ours is not a caravan of despair.
Come, even if you have broken your vow a thousand times.
Come, come yet again, come.
~ Rumi

what is an enormously alive sensory apparatus?

“as we grow up, we put away our laughter and our silliness and our childish noises, the great sensory hilariousness of our young lives. We pick up a few notions about proper behavior, like what books to read and how to go about getting married and buying a home and being polite and having cocktail parties.. and the next thing you know is.. the little child – who was also an enormously alive sensory apparatus – is just another boring adult going to work in a seersucker suit with a briefcase.”

~ john rosenthal, ” amazing conversations”

Garden of the Mind

“If you don’t plant flowers in the garden of your mind, you’ll forever pull weeds. Likewise, if you don’t fill your day with high priority thoughts and actions, it will get filled with low priority thoughts and actions. At the start of each day, it is wise to visualize yourself sowing the seeds of what you would love to reap, then commit to sowing whatever you’d most love. Review your day and look for the link between what you sowed and what you reaped. It is impossible to break the Golden rule of cause and effect; no matter what, you reap what you sow and what you focus on, grows. Every time a weed is pulled, the flowers become more visible.”

~Dr John Demartini

Re-design and styling of a Naperville home

The story: This is a client of mine who went through a traumatic divorce and basically had very little left after the divorce was over. A bed, a couch, 2 oriental rugs, a dining room and kitchen table and a few chairs were all that was left. See how I re-styled this home with the few pieces he already had as well as some savvy new ones.

But, you don’t have to go through a divorce to be able to use my services.. I can help you re-style your space(s) no matter if it is one room or 5 rooms ( GREAT for the holidays, btw) and you will feel like you are living in a new home! Visit http://bybluett.com/ for more info!

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hear with your heart.

“O Music,
In your depths we deposit our hearts and souls;
You have taught us to see with our ears
And to hear with our hearts.”

~Kahlil Gibran

Love is…

” love is not a feeling.. I define love thus: the will to extend one’s self for the purpose of nurturing one’s own or another’s spiritual growth.” ~ M. Scott Peck

Poetry is

” In my book poetry is a necessity of life, what they used to call nontaxable matter.”
C.D. Wright

And, I agree… although I never imagined I would. ~KK

Sweet Darkness

When your eyes are tired
the world is tired also.

When your vision has gone
no part of the world can find you.

Time to go into the dark
where the night has eyes
to recognize its own.

There you can be sure
you are not beyond love.

The dark will be your womb
tonight.

The night will give you a horizon
further than you can see.

You must learn one thing:
the world was made to be free in.

Give up all the other worlds
except the one to which you belong.

Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet
confinement of your aloneness
to learn

anything or anyone
that does not bring you alive

is too small for you.

~ David Whyte ~

Open and Shut

You open the blade of a flick knife
so it drips transparency.

You shut the restless cube of night
and a stream of shadow ramifies.

You open and shut the liquid diaphragm
of my heart – and at dawn I arrive

in the stately, tenfold
starlight of your hands.

~David Huerta

Monopoly

We used to play, long before we bought real houses.
A roll of the dice could send a girl to jail.
The money was pink, blue, gold as well as green,
and we could own a whole railroad
or speculate in hotels where others dreaded staying:
the cost was extortionary.

At last one person would own everything,
every teaspoon in the dining car, every spike
driven into the planks by immigrants,
every crooked mayor.
But then, with only the clothes on our backs,
we ran outside, laughing.

~ Connie Wanek

I Saw You Tomorrow

“I Saw You Tomorrow”

You’re on an airplane
In a car. You’re in a car

On the bus. You’re on the bus
Going home as you daydream

At your desk. On your desk
You have a postcard of Alaska.

You are never where you are,
And when you are, you’re leaving,

Late already for something else,
A meeting, a class, shopping,

And isn’t shopping fun, you think,
Like being on a sightseeing tour.

But you’re late and must get home,
Or you’re home and must get going,

Late either way, exasperated,
Tapping your foot to get us all

Out the door. Goodbye, you wave
To yourself, standing there.

~Alberto Rios

from How Beautiful the Beloved

Poem that opened you –

the opposite of a wound.

Didn’t the world

Come pouring through?

 

~ Gregory Orr

wean yourself

Wean Yourself by Rumi

Little by little, wean yourself.
This is the gist of what I have to say.
From an embryo, whose nourishment comes in the blood,
move to an infant drinking milk,
to a child on solid food,
to a searcher after wisdom,
to a hunter of more invisible game….

Love and magic

” Love and magic have a great deal in common.  They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.”

~ Nora Roberts

just believe

We only have to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately we must believe. Then, little by  little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us , and then take us in its more than human arms.   ~ Teilhard de Chardin

tips for handling this April (2011)

Useful website since we are in  marcury retrograde til the 23rd:

http://www.gailminogue.com/numerology-newsletter/

It is also National Poetry Month… so, in the event that you miss your plane, train, or get otherwise delayed because of the Mercury retrograde, perhaps use that time to read or write a poem. Carry a small tome of poems in  your purse or pocket to receive solace or inspiration or just to pass time while you wait ….

curator of contentment

“Gradually, as you become curator of your own contentment you will learn to embrace the gentle yearnings of your heart.”

~Simple Abundance, by Sarah Ban Breathnach

creativity

“creativity consists in going out of the way to find the thing that society hasn’t found yet.”   ~ joseph campbell

Your own personal myth

“There’s nothing you can do more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way, you will find, live, and become a realization of your own personal myth.”   ~ Joseph Campbell

courage , faith money

“Wisdom is like rain. Its source is limitless, but it comes down according to the season.
Grocers put sugar in a bag; their supply of sugar, however, is not limited to what’s in the bag. When you come to a grocer, he has an abundant supply of sugar. But he sees how much money you have brought with you and measures out the sugar accordingly.
Your money on the Path of God is courage and faith, and you will be taught according to your courage and faith.”
~Rumi

Picasso on God

You ought to be able to say that a painting is as it is, with its capacity to move us, because it is as though it were touched by God. But  people would think it a sham. And yet, that is what’s nearest the truth.

~ Pablo Picasso

Dream Deferred

 

What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up
Like a raisin in the sun?

Or fester like a sore–
And then run?

Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over–
like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?

~ Langston Hughes

The crazy falling alphabet

I sit with my cup

to catch the crazy falling alphabet.

It crashes, it gravels down,

a fault in the hemispheres.

High rise L’s, without windows–

buckling in slow motion;

Subway G’s Y’s, twisted,

collapsing underground:

screams of passengers

buried in the terrible phonemes,

arms and legs paralyzed.

And no one, no one at all,

is sifting through the rubble.

~ Poetry, by Ruth Stone ( Coppper Canyon Press)

“on living with no money”

“… it was a grand grand experience. I was a little nervous at times. I remember having a one dollar bill in the top drawer and knowing I would not die as long as that dollar bill was there. And so various things showed up… That was one way of living life, on no money.”  ~from The Hero’s Journey, by Joseph Campbell

L’ art fait ressortir les grandes ligne de la nature.

 

“Art brings out the grand lines of nature.”   ~Antoine Bourdelle