Comments on: How to Choose the Desires that Guide You http://sharingthejourney.co.uk/quotes/how-to-choose-the-desires-that-guide-you/ soul food and support for coaches, writers and homemakers Thu, 15 Jul 2010 19:18:38 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: janice http://sharingthejourney.co.uk/quotes/how-to-choose-the-desires-that-guide-you/comment-page-1/#comment-187 janice Sat, 18 Apr 2009 18:10:34 +0000 http://sharingthejourney.co.uk/?p=653#comment-187 Thank you! It's lovely to have you over here - I've read your comments on other blogs so I appreciate you taking the time to visit and say hello! Thank you! It’s lovely to have you over here – I’ve read your comments on other blogs so I appreciate you taking the time to visit and say hello!

]]> By: Positively Present http://sharingthejourney.co.uk/quotes/how-to-choose-the-desires-that-guide-you/comment-page-1/#comment-186 Positively Present Sat, 18 Apr 2009 13:33:12 +0000 http://sharingthejourney.co.uk/?p=653#comment-186 I love your blog and what a great post! :) It was so inspiring to read it. <abbr><em>Positively Present´s last blog post..<a href="http://positivelypresent.typepad.com/positively_present/2009/04/the-most-wasted-of-all-days-is-one-without-laughter---ee-cummings-author-of-that-quote-would-have-been-proud-of-me-yeste.html" rel="nofollow">laugh it off</a></abbr></em> I love your blog and what a great post! :) It was so inspiring to read it.

Positively Present´s last blog post..laugh it off

]]> By: janice http://sharingthejourney.co.uk/quotes/how-to-choose-the-desires-that-guide-you/comment-page-1/#comment-185 janice Sat, 18 Apr 2009 10:20:43 +0000 http://sharingthejourney.co.uk/?p=653#comment-185 @ Marc Isn't it spookily wonderful when synchronicity works like that! If you love that feeling, then Connie's actual coaching would blow you away with the<em> Aha!</em> moments you'd get! What's given me a tingle about this comments box is the serene, spiritual strength that's radiating from the folk in it. I mean, there are two Martial Arts black belts and a brown belt in it already! And even spookier, you mentioned how you love authentic Zen, and there's Mary... a Zen Master!! @ Mary, I love Basho!! Spooky thing is, this was originally going to be a haiku kind of a week - I've been writing again - but the music flowed right in and took me in a different direction so I flowed with it. Please, please visit again and share your knowledge and passion with us when I do go for it! Until then, here's one I sense you may like; I'm planning on using it in a post, but it feels right to share it now. It sums up my life, my work... and right now? - the wonderful depth and energy people are generously colouring this 'meeting place of spirits' with : Long conversations beside blooming irises--- joys of life on the road @Nadia, This one's for you! Come out to view the truth of flowers blooming in poverty @Randi, So happy to see you over here! It's one of my day's simple pleasures bumping into people I 'know' in other people's comments boxes, but it's especially nice to have you here - a fellow teacher, writer and mum - in what I like to visualise as a wee soulfood bistro where interesting people drop in and share and have a break from what they're doing! Isn't it weird to think that we were listening to that guy speak those words and those women singing "You are a child of the universe..." at the same time!! Two of the most useful pieces in the Desiderata for me, this month, have been <blockquote>Keep interested in your own career, however humble;</blockquote> <blockquote> Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe...</blockquote> The second one is very important to me; those two henchmen can floor even the humblest of dreams if we let them, but the key is definitely to be gentle with ourselves, to love ourselves like we love all the children in our lives. @ Marc
Isn’t it spookily wonderful when synchronicity works like that! If you love that feeling, then Connie’s actual coaching would blow you away with the Aha! moments you’d get! What’s given me a tingle about this comments box is the serene, spiritual strength that’s radiating from the folk in it. I mean, there are two Martial Arts black belts and a brown belt in it already! And even spookier, you mentioned how you love authentic Zen, and there’s Mary… a Zen Master!!

@ Mary,
I love Basho!! Spooky thing is, this was originally going to be a haiku kind of a week – I’ve been writing again – but the music flowed right in and took me in a different direction so I flowed with it. Please, please visit again and share your knowledge and passion with us when I do go for it! Until then, here’s one I sense you may like; I’m planning on using it in a post, but it feels right to share it now. It sums up my life, my work… and right now? – the wonderful depth and energy people are generously colouring this ‘meeting place of spirits’ with :

Long conversations
beside blooming irises—
joys of life on the road

@Nadia,
This one’s for you!

Come out to view
the truth of flowers blooming
in poverty

@Randi,
So happy to see you over here! It’s one of my day’s simple pleasures bumping into people I ‘know’ in other people’s comments boxes, but it’s especially nice to have you here – a fellow teacher, writer and mum – in what I like to visualise as a wee soulfood bistro where interesting people drop in and share and have a break from what they’re doing! Isn’t it weird to think that we were listening to that guy speak those words and those women singing “You are a child of the universe…” at the same time!!

Two of the most useful pieces in the Desiderata for me, this month, have been

Keep interested in your own career, however humble;

Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe…

The second one is very important to me; those two henchmen can floor even the humblest of dreams if we let them, but the key is definitely to be gentle with ourselves, to love ourselves like we love all the children in our lives.

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