tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44661860130370891432024-03-13T12:41:23.309-06:00Karmacology: Mindful Living, Sacred PracticeKarmacology is the body of knowledge concerning Action, seen as bringing upon oneself inevitable results, good or bad, regardless of our intent; the art of understanding the cosmic principle according to which each person's situation is created according to that person's thoughts and deeds.Tansauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08016121431141856263noreply@blogger.comBlogger233125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4466186013037089143.post-80153837214418090832011-03-05T20:26:00.001-06:002011-03-05T20:26:32.430-06:00Renewing a Weary Spirit<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/48871012@N00/5497578810/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5291/5497578810_d471e44fd0.jpg" style="border:none;" alt="" /></a><br clear="all" /><p>It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.<br />-- Robert Louis Stevenson</p><p><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;">Photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/48871012@N00/">Derek King</a></span></p>Tansauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08016121431141856263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4466186013037089143.post-27396795475788451692011-01-30T07:43:00.001-06:002012-04-17T13:23:42.293-06:00A Cherokee Teaching<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/raw-life/3118293333/" title="S H O S H O N E. D A N C E R. by SOULBIRD RSS, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3287/3118293333_b55286f1ef.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="S H O S H O N E. D A N C E R."></a><br clear="all" /><p>An elderly Cherokee Native American was teaching his grandchildren about life. He said to them, "A fight is going on inside me, it is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves.<br /><br />One wolf is evil -- he is fear, anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, competition, superiority, and ego.<br /><br />The other is good---he is joy, peace, love, hope, sharing, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, friendship, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith.<br /><br />This same fight is going on inside you, and inside every other person, too."<br /><br />They thought about it for a minute and then one child asked his grandfather, "Which wolf will win?"<br /><br />The old Cherokee simply replied: "The one you feed".</p>Tansauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08016121431141856263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4466186013037089143.post-11227245783185329242010-11-08T11:41:00.002-06:002010-11-08T11:41:38.904-06:00Beautiful Adventures<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kublah/5139846412/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1409/5139846412_2560c62b2b.jpg" style="border:none;" alt="" /></a><br clear="all" /><p>The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.<br />-- Robert Louis Stevenson</p><p><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;">Photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/kublah/">Koveh Photography</a></span></p>Tansauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08016121431141856263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4466186013037089143.post-34962243130410589512010-08-05T09:50:00.000-06:002010-08-05T09:52:00.221-06:00Every Day Begin the Task Anew<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/waynephotoguy/501952127/" title="A New Day... by !!WaynePhotoGuy, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/192/501952127_30c39f55eb.jpg" width="500" height="400" alt="A New Day..." /></a></p><br /><p>Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew.<br /> -- Saint Francis de Sales</p>Tansauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08016121431141856263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4466186013037089143.post-87441946383576470562010-07-28T21:46:00.003-06:002010-07-28T21:48:24.165-06:00Quest after Truth<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/joerinderer/4825241140/" title="Natarajasana tunnel. by Rindrr, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4080/4825241140_3c75558c38.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="Natarajasana tunnel." /></a><br clear="all" /><p>In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.<br />-- Mahatma Gandhi</p><p><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;">Photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/joerinderer/">Rindrr</a></span></p>Tansauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08016121431141856263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4466186013037089143.post-36792548352368778992010-05-14T06:23:00.001-06:002012-04-17T13:24:18.948-06:00I Like Living<p>I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.<br /> -- Agatha Christie</p>Tansauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08016121431141856263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4466186013037089143.post-22096603824050809832010-04-27T06:59:00.001-06:002010-04-27T06:59:15.789-06:00Live a Perfect Day<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/compassionbloggers/3492155565/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3393/3492155565_2edfbf9c07.jpg" style="border:none;" alt="" /></a><br clear="all" /><p>You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.<br /> -- John Wooden</p><p><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;">Photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/compassionbloggers/">compassionbloggers</a></span></p>Tansauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08016121431141856263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4466186013037089143.post-60294435653053235362010-04-25T07:52:00.001-06:002010-04-25T07:52:07.296-06:00The Secret of Joy<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/batiks/3532625879/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3358/3532625879_48f99f92c6.jpg" style="border:none;" alt="" /></a><br clear="all" /><p>The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.<br /> -- Pearl Buck</p><p><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;">Photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/batiks/">Batikart</a></span></p>Tansauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08016121431141856263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4466186013037089143.post-85221326954571204362010-04-01T15:04:00.001-06:002010-04-01T15:04:12.986-06:00We Are All Meant To Shine<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pepsi11295/3013031496/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3193/3013031496_3dd5f7d7e8.jpg" style="border:none;" alt="" /></a><br clear="all" /><p>Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.<br /> --Marianne Williamson</p><p><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;">Photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/pepsi11295/">holly.skye</a></span></p>Tansauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08016121431141856263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4466186013037089143.post-42582018613328107112010-03-02T10:05:00.002-06:002010-03-02T10:06:51.950-06:00I Dreamt That Life Was Joy<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/totally-emma/2974243976/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3234/2974243976_6afdda1674.jpg" style="border:none;" alt="" /></a><br clear="all" /><p>I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.<br />-- Rabindranath Tagore</p><p><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;">Photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/totally-emma/">*emmy</a></span></p>Tansauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08016121431141856263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4466186013037089143.post-535391006442879292010-02-09T07:11:00.003-06:002010-02-09T07:21:06.600-06:00Giving What Is Within You<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jhandelman/3742167317/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3450/3742167317_4f812c16f0.jpg" style="border:none;" alt="" /></a><br clear="all" /><p>High in the Wudang mountains of China there lived a wise woman. One day she found a precious stone while sitting by the banks of a running stream, and she placed this highly valued item in her bag. The next day a hungry traveller approached the woman and asked for something to eat. As she reached into her bag for a crust of bread, the traveller saw the precious stone and imagined how it would provide him with financial security for the remainder of his life. He asked the woman to give the treasure to him, and she did, along with some food. He left ecstatic in his good fortune and the knowledge that he was now financially secure.</p><p>A few days later the traveller returned and handed back the stone to the wise woman. "I've been thinking," he told her. "Although I know how valuable this is, I'm returning it to you in the hopes that you can give me something even more precious." "What would that be?" the woman inquired. "Please give me what you have within yourself that enabled you to give me that stone," said the man.</p><p><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;">Photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/jhandelman/">jhandelman</a>; narrative slightly modified from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1401921736?ie=UTF8&tag=americanchinesem&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1401921736">Excuses Begone</a> by Dr. Wayne Dyer.<img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=americanchinesem&l=as2&o=1&a=1401921736" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" /></span></p>Tansauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08016121431141856263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4466186013037089143.post-39660406182658535312010-01-30T13:59:00.001-06:002010-01-30T13:59:08.213-06:00The Afternoon of Life<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/annatheodora/2357204861/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2029/2357204861_37c1f11d8b.jpg" style="border:none;" alt="" /></a><br clear="all" /><p>Thoroughly unprepared, we take the step into the afternoon of life. Worse still, we take this step with the false presupposition that our truths and our ideals will serve us as hitherto. But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life’s morning, for what was great in the morning will be little at evening and what in the morning was true, at evening will have become a lie.<br /> -- Carl Gustav Jung</p><p><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;">Photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/annatheodora/">AnnuskA - AnnA Theodora</a></span></p>Tansauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08016121431141856263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4466186013037089143.post-77511193899252017562010-01-29T13:37:00.001-06:002010-01-29T13:37:47.313-06:00The World Needs People Who Have Come Alive<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/annatheodora/1329019543/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1336/1329019543_04a839770b.jpg" style="border:none;" alt="" /></a><br clear="all" /><p>Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.<br /> -- Howard Thurman</p><p><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;">Photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/annatheodora/">AnnuskA - AnnA Theodora</a></span></p>Tansauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08016121431141856263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4466186013037089143.post-34513854347335850372010-01-27T10:34:00.001-06:002010-01-27T10:34:05.681-06:00Live Each Season<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/thephotoenigma/4294038634/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2772/4294038634_30f9c60998.jpg" style="border:none;" alt="" /></a><br clear="all" /><p>Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.<br /> -- Henry David Thoreau</p><p><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;">Photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/thephotoenigma/">Liz. :)</a></span></p>Tansauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08016121431141856263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4466186013037089143.post-71514311264860027092010-01-25T16:29:00.001-06:002010-01-25T16:29:12.161-06:00Strength and Confidence Comes From Within<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/marceliacooper/3887477991/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2648/3887477991_d578748583.jpg" style="border:none;" alt="" /></a><br clear="all" /><p>I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.<br /> -- Anna Freud</p><p><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;">Photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/marceliacooper/">marceliacooper</a></span></p>Tansauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08016121431141856263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4466186013037089143.post-6289318834802535532010-01-21T07:49:00.001-06:002010-01-21T07:49:13.495-06:00Unaware That We Are Unique<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ronaaa/4278614625/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4008/4278614625_10be143b86.jpg" style="border:none;" alt="" /></a><br clear="all" /><p>We are all born with wonderful gifts. We use these gifts to express ourselves, to amuse, to strengthen, and to communicate. We begin as children to explore and develop our talents, often unaware that we are unique, that not everyone can do what we're doing!<br /> -- Lynn Johnston</p><p><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;">Photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/ronaaa/">Rona Keller</a></span></p>Tansauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08016121431141856263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4466186013037089143.post-1132742137787406752010-01-17T12:12:00.001-06:002010-01-17T12:12:39.492-06:00The Dawn Will Come<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/cunisdiabolis/2301967190/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2292/2301967190_33c12f5bfa.jpg" style="border:none;" alt="" /></a><br clear="all" /><p>Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don't give up.<br /> -- Anne Lamott</p><p><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;">Photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/cunisdiabolis/">Solitaire Miles</a></span></p>Tansauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08016121431141856263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4466186013037089143.post-38027004467734016292009-12-31T08:22:00.001-06:002009-12-31T08:22:10.898-06:00The Ways of Truth and Love<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/21644167@N04/2650335246/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3266/2650335246_a37c204257.jpg" style="border:none;" alt="" /></a><br clear="all" /><p>When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it -- always.<br /> -- Mahatma Gandhi</p><p><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;">Photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/21644167@N04/">Bahman Farzad</a></span></p>Tansauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08016121431141856263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4466186013037089143.post-78090191320238221902009-10-02T05:22:00.001-06:002009-10-02T05:22:52.432-06:00Find Something Creative<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/oneworldgallery/158115315/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/56/158115315_58b52123dc.jpg" style="border:none;" alt="" /></a><br clear="all" /><p>My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.<br /> -- Miles Davis</p><p><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;">Photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/oneworldgallery/">daystar297</a></span></p>Tansauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08016121431141856263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4466186013037089143.post-75982264802782812152009-09-24T09:05:00.001-06:002009-09-24T09:05:20.771-06:00Every Child Comes With the Message<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mitchellk/1336679015/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1332/1336679015_b06d5b95ce.jpg" style="border:none;" alt="" /></a><br clear="all" /><p>Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man. <br /> -- Rabindranath Tagore</p><p><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;">Photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/mitchellk/">mitchellk81</a></span></p>Tansauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08016121431141856263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4466186013037089143.post-10399361686937917222009-09-20T12:34:00.001-06:002009-09-20T12:34:27.374-06:00Nothing is Left Undone<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lifemagic/209272761/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/75/209272761_ce075098a9.jpg" style="border:none;" alt="" /></a><br clear="all" /><p>Learning builds daily accumulation, but the practice of Tao builds daily simplification. Simplify and simplify, until all contamination from relative, contridictory thinking is eliminated. Then one does nothing, yet nothing is left undone. One who wins the world does so by not meddling with it. One who meddles with the world loses it.<br /> -- <i>Tao te Ching</i>, 48. Lao-Tzu</p><p><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;">Photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/lifemagic/">༺lifemage༻</a></span></p>Tansauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08016121431141856263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4466186013037089143.post-68247632785677891432009-08-18T12:52:00.001-06:002009-08-18T12:52:48.986-06:00Train of Thought<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/88411058@N00/2321441347/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2243/2321441347_9b8bdca297.jpg" style="border:none;" alt="" /></a><br clear="all" /><p>Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.<br /> -- Laurence J. Peter</p><p><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;">Photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/88411058@N00/">ShaunW (shandys_preston)</a></span></p>Tansauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08016121431141856263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4466186013037089143.post-39046838570238402472009-08-12T14:31:00.001-06:002009-08-12T14:31:39.524-06:00Your Presence is a Gift<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/29907337@N00/113934132/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/43/113934132_ee0bfdf69f.jpg" style="border:none;" alt="" /></a><br clear="all" /><p>The most precious gift we can offer others is presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they bloom like flowers.<br />-- Thich Nhat Hanh</p><p><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;">Photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/29907337@N00/">ka¡ja</a></span></p>Tansauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08016121431141856263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4466186013037089143.post-60642824585024409072009-08-02T08:31:00.001-06:002009-08-02T08:31:06.284-06:00Thinking About a Peaceful Planet<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jasonnunez/3394687720/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3446/3394687720_3ae7a51f36.jpg" style="border:none;" alt="" /></a><br clear="all" /><p>“What we're thinking about is a peaceful planet.<br />We're not thinking about anything else.<br />We're not thinking about any kind of power. <br />We're not thinking about any kind of struggles. <br />We're not thinking about revolution or war or any of that.<br />That's not what we want. <br />Nobody wants to get hurt.<br />Nobody wants to hurt anybody. <br />We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.<br />A simple life, a good life.<br />And like think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.”<br /> -- Jerry Garcia (August 1, 1942 – August 9, 1995)</p><p><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;">Photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/jasonnunez/">JasonNunezPhotography.com</a></span></p>Tansauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08016121431141856263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4466186013037089143.post-41452397733957622482009-07-20T20:25:00.001-06:002009-07-20T20:25:55.181-06:00Living in Agreement<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/konaboy/112465821/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/55/112465821_45009bbe79.jpg" style="border:none;" alt="" /></a><br clear="all" /><p>The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.<br />-- Zeno</p><p><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;">Photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/konaboy/">konaboy</a></span></p>Tansauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08016121431141856263noreply@blogger.com