The whole world is self

Don’t disregard your life.  It is too precious.  This moment, right now, is the only life you will ever have.  You can’t store it up for the ideal time.  When you walk, walk with your whole body and mind joining the floor.  Place your eyes in the soles of your feet, walking as if the floor were a dear friend.  This is intimacy with all things, where the whole world is self, where there is no ‘outside’ or other.

~ Pat Phelan

The sublime seas

Be not the slave of your own past —
plunge into the sublime seas,
dive deep, and swim far,
so you shall come back
with self-respect,
with new power,
with an advanced experience,
that shall explain
and overlook
the old.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The value of each day

(Anglins Fishing Pier.  Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, Florida.)

Nothing should be prized more highly than the value of each day.

~ Johann von Goethe

Morning desire

I wake up every morning with a great desire to live joyfully.

~ Alexandra Stoddard

Confidence

(Dressed for the beach.  Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, Florida)

Real confidence comes from knowing and accepting yourself — your strengths and your limitations — in contrast to depending on affirmation from others.

~ Judith M. Bardwick