ACCEPTANCE

Soul food

Posted on June 10, 2022 at 11:46 am by Lisa Azarmi / ACCEPTANCE, BECOMING

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.” Rumi Mary Cassatt – Red poppies, 1880.

Live in the moment

Posted on June 9, 2022 at 10:17 am by Lisa Azarmi / ACCEPTANCE, BECOMING, BEGINNINGS

“Never look back. The past is done. The future is a blank canvas. Work on creating a masterpiece. Only you have the power to make your painting beautiful. Do not waste time chasing after success or comparing yourself to others. Every flower blooms at a different pace. Excel at doing…

Becoming

Posted on April 28, 2022 at 10:53 am by Lisa Azarmi / ACCEPTANCE, AWAKENING, BECOMING

“We have a tendency to think in terms of doing and not in terms of being. We think that when we are not doing anything, we are wasting our time. But that is not true. Our time is first of all for us to be. To be what? To be…

Soul food

Posted on April 19, 2022 at 10:26 am by Lisa Azarmi / ACCEPTANCE, BECOMING

“The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.” Marcus Aurelius Frederick Carl Frieseke – Afternoon, Yellow Room, 1910.

Kindness

Posted on April 16, 2022 at 2:48 pm by Lisa Azarmi / ACCEPTANCE, KINDNESS

“What you do for yourself- any gesture of kindness, any gesture of gentleness, any gesture of honest and clear seeing toward yourself, will affect how you experience your world. In fact, it will transform how you experience the world.” Pema Chödrön Edgar Degas – Breakfast After Bathing, 1895.

Garden

Posted on March 30, 2022 at 12:14 pm by Lisa Azarmi / ACCEPTANCE, AWAKENING, GARDEN

“To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed…That can make life a garden.” Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Catrin Welz Stein

Self Love

Posted on March 28, 2022 at 4:28 pm by Lisa Azarmi / ACCEPTANCE, BEAUTY, BECOMING

“Let someone love you the way you are – as flawed as you might be, as unattractive as you sometimes feel, and as unaccomplished as you think you are. To believe that you must hide all the parts of you that are broken, out of fear that someone else is…

Acceptance

Posted on March 1, 2022 at 3:52 pm by Lisa Azarmi / ACCEPTANCE, AWAKENING, CLASSIC LITERATURE

“Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.” Gustave Flaubert – Madame Bovary, 1865. Amedeo Modigliani – Young Woman in a Yellow Dress, Madame Modot, 1918.

Love

Posted on February 28, 2022 at 4:16 pm by Lisa Azarmi / ACCEPTANCE, AWAKENING, FEARLESS, LOVE, POETRY, SPIRITUALITY

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” Rumi John William Waterhouse – Windflowers, 1902.

Sorrow

Posted on February 16, 2022 at 10:41 am by Lisa Azarmi / ACCEPTANCE, FEELINGS, GRIEF, HEARTEACHE

“When someone you love dies, and you’re not expecting it, you don’t lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you…

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