My Heart
Celebrating Mother’s Day 05.08.11!
Thanks Mom for filling our hearts and home with Love!
(Photo: World’s Greatest Mom. We all think so!)
- Posted Sunday May 08, 2011 at 7:00 AM 0 comments
- Categories: For Inspiration
For Inspiration
Bloom
When one flower blooms, spring awakens everywhere.
—John O’Donohue
(Photo: Springtime in DC)
- Posted Tuesday April 05, 2011 at 9:52 PM 0 comments
- Categories: For Inspiration
Poetry as Prayer
I will not die an unlived life
I will not live in fear
Of falling or catching fire.
I choose to inhabit my days,
To allow my living to open me
To make me less afraid.
More accessible
To loosen my heart
until it becomes a wing,
a torch, a promise
I choose to risk my significance,
To live
So that which came to me as seed
Goes to the next as blossom
And that which came
to me as blossom
goes on as fruit
- Posted Monday April 04, 2011 at 11:24 AM 0 comments
- Categories: For Inspiration
Joy
Live to the point of tears.
-Albert Camus
I love that a dear friend captured this on camera for me. At play.. laughing so hard I was crying—many of you have created and know those moments with me. I thank you for those shared experiences of absolute, pure, celebrated JOY!
(Photo: Beachside - Kaşadasi, Turkey)
- Posted Friday April 01, 2011 at 11:44 AM 0 comments
- Categories: Carolyn's Bookshelf, For Inspiration, Reflections, Leadership
BE What We Do
Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. -Rumi
Celebrating the last 2 years of openly pursuing & creating the work I love! My deepest gratitude to my clients, teachers & friends for this transformative learning & growth experience!
(Photo: Inner Wisdom/Vision Board)
- Posted Thursday March 31, 2011 at 12:59 PM 0 comments
- Categories: For Inspiration, Reflections
Fearless Mind
If ever the fear of the wolf
enters into your mind,
Don’t run off to the wild.
Run to your own kind.
—Rumi
(Photo: On Safari in north India)
- Posted Friday March 18, 2011 at 10:33 AM 0 comments
- Categories: For Inspiration
Becoming
Your beliefs become your thoughts,
Your thoughts become your words,
Your words become your actions,
Your actions become your habits,
Your habits become your values,
Your values become your destiny.
—Gandhi
(Photo: Panjiayuan Market, Beijing)
- Posted Saturday March 12, 2011 at 8:59 AM 0 comments
- Categories: For Inspiration
Gratitude
Celebrating International Woman’s Day 03.08.11!
Gratitude is the heart’s memory.
—French Proverb
(Photo: Art-filled Sunday with inspiring women & dear friends
I am most thankful for!)
- Posted Tuesday March 08, 2011 at 10:00 AM 0 comments
- Categories: For Inspiration
A New Silence
When you travel, you find yourself
Alone in a different way,
More attentive now
To the self you bring along,
Your more subtle eye watching
You abroad; and how what meets you
Touches that part of the heart
That lies low at home.
When you travel, A new silence
Goes with you, And if you listen,
You will hear what your heart would love to say.
Excerpt from John O’Donohue’s To Bless the Space Between Us: The Traveler
(Photo: Regensburg city scene in Bavaria, Germany)
- Posted Monday January 24, 2011 at 10:44 AM 0 comments
- Categories: For Inspiration
12 Days + 12 Ways of Renewal
It’s Winter Solstice!
From Dec 21 - Jan 1,
a festival time of renewal.
Over the next 12 days,
can you find 12 ways to
celebrate, relax, and explore
all that is possible for the
new year and a renewed You?
(Photo: Solstice Sunrise ‘10 - Bishop’s Garden National Cathedral, Washington DC)
- Posted Tuesday December 21, 2010 at 12:10 PM 0 comments
- Categories: For Inspiration, Self-Care
Love This Life
Love this Life…
is about celebrating the moment
and that we’re not guaranteed or owed another day
and how cool it is that what we hide
can actually be the fuel towards our glory
and that it’s not so bad being proven wrong
Love this Life…
is about welcoming the blind turn
and the possibility
that there’s no such thing as coincidence
and that empathy is incredibly sexy
and that it’s never too late
to pick up a guitar or a paintbrush
or to make an amend or to make a new friend
—David Culiner (http://www.lovethislife.net/)
(Photo: A most fabulous birthday party planned by my sisters & dearest friends)
- Posted Monday November 15, 2010 at 7:00 PM 0 comments
- Categories: For Inspiration
The Journey
The privilege of a lifetime is being
who you are
The goal of the hero trip down
to the jewel point is to find those
levels in the psyche that open,
open, open, and finally open to
the mystery of your Self
That’s the journey.
—Joseph Campbell
(Photo: Sailing along the Turquaz Coast - Bodrum, Turkey)
- Posted Wednesday November 10, 2010 at 9:50 AM 0 comments
- Categories: For Inspiration
Unrepeatable
You are unrepeatable.
There is a magic about you
that is all your own.
—D.M. Dellinger
(Photo: A magical rainy, fall day)
- Posted Sunday November 07, 2010 at 9:45 PM 0 comments
- Categories: For Inspiration
The Question
Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.
—Rainer Maria Rilke
(Photo: View from a palace room at Nahargarh Fort in Jaipur, India)
- Posted Tuesday October 19, 2010 at 4:07 PM 0 comments
- Categories: For Inspiration
Be Gold
In the shadow is the gold.
—Carl Jung
(Photo: A reflective playday in DC)
- Posted Sunday October 10, 2010 at 3:41 PM 0 comments
- Categories: For Inspiration