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walking in the garden. . .

http://victoria-is.gaia.com — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:15:08 GMT

life is a garden,

not a road

we enter and exit

through the same gate

wandering,

where we go matters less

than what we notice

~ Bokonon ~
(thanks to panhala)

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Now Is the Time !

http://victoria-is.gaia.com — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 07:32:03 GMT

Now is the Time

Now is the time to know
That all that you do is sacred.

Now, why not consider
A lasting truce with yourself and God.

Now is the time to understand
That all your ideas of right and wrong
Were just a child's training wheels
To be laid aside
When you finally live
With veracity
And love.

Hafiz is a divine envoy
Whom the Beloved
Has written a holy message upon.

My dear, please tell me,
Why do you still
Throw sticks at your heart
And God?

What is it in that sweet voice inside
That incites you to fear?

Now is the time for the world to know
That every thought and action is sacred.

This is the time
For you to compute the impossibility
That there is anything
But Grace.

Now is the season to know
That everything you do
Is sacred.

~ Hafiz ~

(The Gift - versions of Hafiz by Daniel Ladinsky)-thanks to Panhala

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What are you searching for?

http://victoria-is.gaia.com — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:55:23 GMT

Nothing less than seeing the face of the Divine in EVERYTHING . . .

Looking For Your Face -- Rumi

Tags: QaR, seeking, searching

What is your relationship toward sleep?

http://victoria-is.gaia.com — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:54:59 GMT

time out.

Tags: QaR, sleep, dreaming, waking, night

What new ideas are bubbling in you these days?

http://victoria-is.gaia.com — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 08:59:55 GMT

victoria UMBRIA

care to add your ideas to the list of endless possibilities?

Tags: QaR, ideas, new, creativity, thinking

What is your relationship to independence?

http://victoria-is.gaia.com — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 08:52:33 GMT

only relating in interdependence, all the rest is psychodrama

Tags: QaR, independence, connection, dependency, relationships

What in life are you most sure of?

http://victoria-is.gaia.com — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 08:48:25 GMT

the inbreath of this moment

Tags: QaR, certainty, knowledge, clarity

What in life are you unsure of?

http://victoria-is.gaia.com — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 07:17:10 GMT

when the mind has front stage it makes me unsure of just about everything --that's why I'd rather cast all my votes for dancing . . .

Cast All Your Votes For Dancing

I know the voice of depression
Still calls to you.

I know those habits that can ruin your life
Still send their invitations.

But you are with the Friend now
And look so much stronger.

You can stay that way
And even bloom!

Keep squeezing drops of the Sun
From your prayers and work and music
And from your companions' beautiful laughter.

Keep squeezing drops of the Sun
From the sacred hands and glance of your Beloved
And, my dear,
From the most insignificant movements
Of your own holy body.

Learn to recognize the counterfeit coins
That may buy you just a moment of pleasure,
But then drag you for days
Like a broken man
Behind a farting camel.

You are with the Friend now.
Learn what actions of yours delight Him,
What actions of yours bring freedom
And Love.

Whenever you say God's name, dear pilgrim,
My ears wish my head was missing
So they could finally kiss each other
And applaud all your nourishing wisdom!

O keep squeezing drops of the Sun
From your prayers and work and music
And from your companions' beautiful laughter

And from the most insignificant movements
Of your own holy body.

Now, sweet one,
Be wise.
Cast all your votes for Dancing!

~ Hafiz ~

(I Heard God Laughing - Renderings of Hafiz by Daniel Ladinsky)

thanks to panhala

Tags: QaR, life, clarity, uncertainty

Poetry at the Quinta

http://victoria-is.gaia.com — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:25:15 GMT

The Summer Day

Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean--
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down,
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.

I don't know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?

~ Mary Oliver ~

(New and Selected Poems, Volume I)
thanks to Panhala

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What have you lost in your life?

http://victoria-is.gaia.com — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:05:45 GMT

the influence of habit energy over my life--identification to habit thinking & handling . . .but still observing (w/ laughter) instances when it this suddenly gets "found" again :-D

Tags: QaR, lost, letting go, giving up

What has happened in your life?

http://victoria-is.gaia.com — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 21:55:44 GMT

. . . got blissed out by ONELOVE !

Tags: QaR, life, events, stories

Where in your life are you happiest?

http://victoria-is.gaia.com — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 09:42:32 GMT

Of Being

I know this happiness
is provisional:

              the looming presences—
              great suffering, great fear—

              withdraw only
              into peripheral vision:

but ineluctable this shimmering
of wind in the blue leaves:

this flood of stillness
widening the lake of sky:

this need to dance,
this need to kneel:
                            this mystery:

~ Denise Levertov ~

thanks to panhala

Tags: QaR, happiness, life, fulfillment, joy

What would you like to accept?

http://victoria-is.gaia.com — Sun, 31 May 2009 14:01:51 GMT

arms wide open, . . . thank you , thank you, Universe here I AM --accepting EVERYTHING you send my way

Tags: QaR, acceptance, forgiveness

Where are you going?

http://victoria-is.gaia.com — Sat, 30 May 2009 07:10:22 GMT

going deep down into the center of my being.

my breath is the vehicle taking me there.

Tags: QaR, life, travel, journey, path

Where do you belong?

http://victoria-is.gaia.com — Sat, 30 May 2009 07:06:38 GMT

completely centered in present moment awareness . . .

breathing in, breathing out !

Tags: Q&R, belonging, comfort, self, identity

What was your last vacation like?

http://victoria-is.gaia.com — Mon, 25 May 2009 05:48:48 GMT

victoria UMBRIA

As shown on my profile, my new eco-community vision now officially grounded in Umbria, Santa Catarina Fonte do Bispo, TAVIRA, Portuga. The stills Victoria's Umbria project are here for slower browsers. This dream is happening!

Photography victoria ratledge youtube by kathy smith /~kes

Tags: Q&R, vacation, recent, stories, travel, holiday, eco, green, permaculture, victoria

What question would you liked to be asked each day?

http://victoria-is.gaia.com — Sat, 23 May 2009 20:30:09 GMT

isn't it about time for another    - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - >



                                      <3   melting hug?

Tags: QaR, question, values, life, reminders

What is your wish for the week ahead?

http://victoria-is.gaia.com — Fri, 22 May 2009 06:20:25 GMT

only World Peace ! & after that, a good sturdy second hand jeep or pick up for Portuguese back roads, thanks :-D

Tags: QaR, week, future, dream

What choice would you like to make?

http://victoria-is.gaia.com — Tue, 19 May 2009 12:56:23 GMT

one from my heart . . .

Tags: QaR, choices, decisions, options

Do you find it hard to assert yourself?

http://victoria-is.gaia.com — Sun, 17 May 2009 19:51:39 GMT

. . . MOI ?

Tags: QaR, self, assertiveness, needs