Saturday in Your Park of Hope

So what is hope?  Have you had hope? Has your hope been dashed? How do you look for hope?

My favorite quote I start with here:

Hope what would a life be with out hope?

This world needs hope

We all need that ocean of possibility

we all have been created for victory

Be strong

laugh out loud

live and play hard

dream big

and be happy 

All by having hope

When the world, your world shouts no

listen 

be still and listen

be quiet, be still and listen 

shhhhhhh

right now, just listen to that still quiet voice that says

MAYBE

Just maybe

This smile and all of them every day are sent your way : )

Victor Yakin

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Monday Motivation and Silence and Wisdom

Have you ever tried to practice silence as part of your motivation?  If you have not then maybe today it is time to practice and be still.

I have shared this before but maybe repetition never hurt anyone : ) 

Use the moment today to be still

to be silent

to think with power but be silent at the same time

Be still

Be quiet 

and listen to your still voice

Allow the quiet to feed your spirit

Imagine that 

true wisdom 

Be still

Be quiet

Choose the words carefully 

Before you disrupt your silence

Wise words

Be the living expression

Indeed

I now leave a smile here for you : )

Victor Yakin

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Thursday Tune UP of Intuition

That still quiet guidance system that we sometimes lose with all the noise of the world.  Spending time in meditation you will find it, the more you find it the more you will hear it even with the noise.

Find it, listen to it.  Intuition that still quiet guidance that speaks truth.

When the clouds close in, and you know they will, know that they will move on as well.

Stronger than intellect

take the time to be still 

Make the time to be still

Just listen

Listen and feel these messengers.

Understand those moments of pause

Sense them and understand that they are trying to aid your spirit

Be still and listen

Be patient and true

Follow your inner guidance 

It will pull you through

Drift away from that little voice that calls

will take you more often to sudden falls

Find and listen to that voice

it truly is the best choice

Lessons shared

Stillness awaits

Smiles sent your way always : )

Victor Yakin

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Saturday in Strength and Silence

What if this day you chose to be silent?  What if you watched and listened more than you acted and spoke?

What if we understood that silence was more important than being heard?

What if you got more strength from being still and silent?

What if the silence of the night gave you reason to enjoy the quiet

Be still - Be quiet - Be one with our creator - Be still - Be quiet

How still can you be this day

How much would you gain if you tried

What if?

What if indeed !

As always Smiles sent your way 

Victor V. Yakin

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On solitude, on being still, and quiet and making the time to listen

It is only when we silent the blaring sounds of our daily existence that

we can finally hear the whispers of truth that life reveals to us, as

it stands knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts.

~K.T. Jong

After you read this post and before you go on to your next make some deliberate time for solitude.  Be still and be quiet.

Listen to your whispers of truth, just be still and listen.

Present your most pressing or dominant problem or life struggle and be still.

Be quiet...... Listen to the silence, to your inner most thoughts.

Silently and with out hurry lift your pain, your worries, your noise up to God in prayer.  Give thanks for all that you have that is good and ask for the wisdom, admit your weakness and turn the problem over to God and listen to the whispers of truth that your heart already knows, its knocking, do you hear it?

Only in quiet waters do thing mirror themselves undistorted.

Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.

~Hans Margolius

A quiet mind, no noise, no music, no t.v. perhaps a walk and a sit in natures glory.  But no noise, no sitting in traffic is noise.  Find that quiet place, a lake, an empty park, a quiet forest.

Listen and be quiet and sit still from all the noise this world has a habit, a daily habit of presenting.

Be still

Be quiet

Pray

Give thanks

Present your troubles to God

Listen

Be still

Be quiet

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone, and

that's where I renew my springs that never dry up.

~Pearl Buck

Renew your springs of joy, of laughter, wear your smile, that simple smile as you would a fresh clean shirt.  Wear it, use it, share it.

Often I think that being alone, living alone, sucked..... no... our thoughts suck.

Our beliefs and perceptions, suck.  We don't use solitude or that quiet time enough.

I used to love when my wife, Janice would call me before or after work.  I looked forward to it to share, to listen, to compare notes, to share love.

But, when faded away, as her love and commitment did, the perception turned from waiting for her to call to me calling her, and often the call was quiet, on sided, and inattentive towards me and towards each other.  The quiet on her end was deafening and nothing I said or could do would help.

Next Monday would have been our 1st anniversary.

Who does that, leaves in the first year, turns their back on commitment and just goes, does not call, sends an email and wants nothing at all.  Who does that and what are they truly about?

On my wardrobe for that year stood a vase and the bouquet, the wedding bouquet of flowers, I left there and yesterday got very tired of looking at .

So I took the vase and the bouquet and removed all the artificial flowers, ribbon  and took it apart and discarded in in the family trash can.

For 359 days those flowers stuck together, showed beauty, shared the binding of the floral tape and wire.

It was about 20 days longer than we stuck together.  It was time to discard them.

I appreciate the effort and time the person that made these took, the beauty that they saw in those flowers separated was much like the beauty that I saw in Janice when we first met and years later when we lived together.

The fact is the flowers meant nothing, signified nothing and they too deserved to be unwound.  Maybe not tossed away but everything has a shelf life in the artificial flower world.  Shelf live in marriage should not exist it should be forever.

I takes work.  It takes both parties effort and commitment. That she walked away from.  The phone still does not ring.  And it won't.  Nor will an email from me flow, or a text, or anything at all.

I will choose to be quiet.

To be still

To listen

To love

To share

To heal

To laugh

To smile and I will wear that smile proudly.  So should you......

As always smiles sent your way !  : )

10/05/11

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Looking through the glass

Day one ~ a new month, a new day, a new set of downs, just like football.   I wanted to sleep in today but I awoke with this post in my heart and instead of going back to sleep and catching some zzzzz's here I am typing it out for you to read now or many days later. (Its fun to type these out and know that anyone could read these, days, weeks, generations later.)

I like that, who needs sleep...lol.

A quote....

“Just look down the road and tell me if you can see either of them."

I see nobody on the road." said Alice.

I only wish I had such eyes,"the King remarked in a fretful tone. "To be able to see Nobody! And at such a distance too!”

― Lewis Carroll

Oh if we could see the future, if we could look down the road and see anything that would lead us, I guess that is why we have God and why we pray the Lord's Prayer....

'...And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.'

That will have to do....we have our heart, our feelings and our little voice inside that says 'wait, stop, think first'...sometimes we just don't listen or pray first.

Stop...Listen....Pray...Give thanks...Ask for wisdom.

Who does not love to go to the zoo or pet store.  All the cute, cuddly and you just want to love animals.  They put this glass many times in between us.  They even ask us not to tap on the glass...and what to almost all of us do...tap..tap, tap... What the animals on the other side must think.

My thought today is what if you had the chance to tap, tap, tap on our glass that surrounds your world.  What would you think about you? What would you say about now?

We all think in that world of me, our ego drives us to the next destination that it sees fit for us.  We go along, playing our song and sometimes on auto pilot we just do with out much thought. We just do....

Here is a thought, what if we slowed down just a bit, and took a small leap, for some a giant leap, outside our ego and tapped on our glass.  What if we asked these four little questions.

What are you doing?

What do you really want?

Are you on the road to getting there?

What would you do if you were free?

Think about it, during your next major event in your life, take sometime and tap, tap, tap....and look from the outside looking in at your event.

What are you doing?

Is it really in line with your goals, do you have goals written down? Do you think your on the right path and direction?

What do you really want?

A quick review of your actions, thoughts and feelings right now. What if anything is in conflict with what your really want for you.

Are you on the road to getting there?

A change of direction if needed?  A prayer to ask for wisdom?  A stop and lets slow it down a bit maybe sort of action.  If you listen and truly listen to that still soft voice from within you will make the right choice.  Oh it may not be popular with your ego self but it will be right.

Is it not what you truly want, to be right, to do right for you?

Last question as you tap, tap, tap on your looking glass.

What would you do if you where free?

Stop, your saying, what do you mean by that...I am free...right?

We all have things that bind us, slow us down, prevent us from unstoppable bliss.  Maybe its fear, the unknown, our health, our feeling of wanting more....  These things can bind us, slow us down, cause us to feel caged.

So what of it?  What if you where free of these things, what if you just woke up one day, one moment, one minute and said ....

I am free!

Free from fear.

Free from worry.

Free from taking care of stuff that I know pass over to God.

Lord give me wisdom, give me that wisdom in my interaction with others today.  Help me Lord, to leave any worries, any fears, any illness with your loving touch.

Help me Lord to make a difference, to shine my light, to inspire another to smile, to be whole again.

A simple prayer, but a prayer that in the end says I am now free.

Tap, tap, tap.....everyone should look through there own glass once in awhile.  You might just see what Alice in the quote from the start didn't see......seeing something is always better than not looking at all.

Dream ~ Smile ~ Laugh~ Love always

and as always smiles sent out to you!  : )

10/01/11

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Quiet the mind just for a moment and listen ~ Be still

Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted.

Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world

~ Hans Margolius

It is hard to find that quiet time to quiet the mind and listen for that soft still voice.

When you find that quiet still waters at a lake or softly flowing river you can understand how much peace is involved compared to the waters at a waterfall, raging river, mighty ocean wave.

It has not only reflective powers to an image but it has calming effects to our soul.

Find that quiet time in the morning and/or the evening and just listen, close your eyes, be still. Try it this morning.  Be still.

Ask no questions but you still may hear chatter, just shhhh.....

Just a few minutes to hear your inner spirit, to perhaps hear that soft still voice that says, yes it corrective instruction what ever that may be.

The stillness of a lake make your thoughts just for this moment that still as well.  Allow your inner self to just listen.....

A quick realization of the calendar shows only a few months till the holiday season of giving thanks and giving gifts.  A Christmas Countdown timer shows less than 99 days.

The heart of the season often gets lost.

A quick video shared with you here....

Be still....just take the time, find the time, make time to listen to your still waters.
Don't let others rush your day, clutter your day, with out taking time to be still.


When we truly listen we learn more, find ways to care... more.


When we truly just take the time to be still.


Prayer, Spoken Gratitude, Laughter


Prayer to give praise for all the gifts we cherish so dear.


Spoken Gratitude to send our thanks out for what we are grateful for.


Laughter to stir the soul, enhance the joy, install that smile, energize our moment.


Not a bad way to start any day.....but find that time to be still and listen.  All the answers are there, God has given them we just need to listen and be aware and listen.


Enjoy your quiet time, and have an awesome day : )

Smiles sent your way   :  )

09/17/11

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