Be the Reason...

Be the reason 

someone

smiles

today

KINDNESS

GRATITUDE

ONLY A PERSON WHO RISKS IS FREE

To laugh is to risk appearing the fool.
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach for another is to risk involvement.
To expose your feelings is to risk exposing your true self.
To place your ideas,
your dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss.
To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To live is to risk dying.
To believe is to risk despair. To try is to risk failure.
But risks must be taken,
because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
The person who risks nothing, has nothing, is nothing.
They may avoid suffering and sorrow, 
but they cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love, live.
Chained by their attitudes they are slaves; 

they have forfeited their freedom.
Only a person who risks is free.

Hugo Prather

RUMI

FOR AYLEEN

Tenderness and Kindness

Turning Away

KINDNESS - PASS IT ON

Just Live!

To Change

you cannot change

what you refuse

to confront

Friends - Stars

Apache Blessing

May the sun bring you energy by day
May the moon softly restore you at night
May the rain wash away your worries
May the breeze blow new strength into your being
May you walk through the world
and know its beauty all the days of your life

- Apache Blessing

Giving

It is good to give when asked,
but it is better to give unasked,
through understanding...
~Kahlil Gibran

KINDNESS

STRENGTH

.618 and Note C#

Look At Everything

"Look at everything

 as though you were seeing it 

either for the first or last time"

 Betty Smith, American author & folksinger (1896-1972)

Pink Petals

"Your eyelashes will write

on my heart

the poem

that could never come

from the pen of a poet"

                                                 ~Rumi

Yourself