linenandlavender.net: {Inspired ~ quotes and images}

Candlestick, Shadows, our house, California Image by LeAnn, as seen on linenandlavender.net, "Inspired" page: http://www.linenandlavender.net/p/inspired-quotes-and-images.htm

Whatever you do,

or dream you can,

begin it.

Boldness has genius

and power and

magic in it.

~Johann Wolfgang von Geothe

White Rose in Water Detail our house, California Image by LeAnn, as seen on linenandlavender.net, "Inspired" page: http://www.linenandlavender.net/p/inspired-quotes-and-images.htm

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. ~Henry David Thoreau

"Metabolism is vibrational response to your moment in time.

Metabolism is the way the Energy is moving through your body.

And so, everything is in response to the way you feel—everything is.

Everything is mind over matter.

Every disease is mental first.

Everything is about thought.

Everything is about vibration.

Everything is about the way you feel.

Practice scenarios that feel good

—and never mind reality.

Reality is only a brief moment in time that you keep repeating."

(Abraham-Hicks)

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

~Rumi

I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder
for a moment while I was hoeing in a village garden,
and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance
than I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.
~Henry David Thoreau, Walden

hummingbird in tree tops, our garden, California Image by LeAnn, as seen on linenandlavender.net, "Inspired" page: http://www.linenandlavender.net/p/inspired-quotes-and-images.htm

Your work is to discover your world and

then -with all your heart- give yourself to it.

~Buddha

Rose Detail, our garden, California Image by LeAnn, as seen on linenandlavender.net, "Inspired" page: http://www.linenandlavender.net/p/inspired-quotes-and-images.htm

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly,

our whole life would change.

~Buddha

You must live in the present,

launch yourself on every wave,
find your eternity in each moment.
~Henry David Thoreau

Enlightened,Palos Verdes California Image by LeAnn, as seen on linenandlavender.net, "Inspired" page: http://www.linenandlavender.net/p/inspired-quotes-and-images.htm

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.

~Henri Matisse

Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn!

Look to this Day!

For it is Life, the very Life of Life.

In its brief course lie all the

Verities and Realities of your Existence.

The Bliss of Growth,

The Glory of Action,

The Splendor of Beauty;

For Yesterday is but a Dream,

And To-morrow is only a Vision;

But To-day well lived makes

Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness,

And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope.

Look well therefore to this Day!

Such is the Salutation of the Dawn!

~Kalidasa,

4th or 5th Century A.D.

If there is no passion in your life, then have you really lived?

Find your passion, whatever it may be.

Become it, and let it become you

and you will find great things happen for you,

to you and because of you.

~T. Alan Armstrong

The world is but a canvas to our imagination.

~Henry David Thoreau

Image via Côté Ouest Magazine Dec 05-Jan06, edited by lb for linenandlavender.net, "Inspired" page: http://www.linenandlavender.net/p/inspired-quotes-and-images.htm

Today, begin to adopt the following habits:

Talk to the universe.

Listen for its reply.

Be on intimate terms with Nature.

See the life in everything.

Carry yourself like a child of the universe.

~Deepak Choprah

Moon over California Image by LeAnn, as seen on linenandlavender.net, "Inspired" page: http://www.linenandlavender.net/p/inspired-quotes-and-images.htm

When I go into the garden with a spade, and dig a bed,
I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover
that I have been defrauding myself all this time
in letting others do for me
what I should have done with my own hands.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tree-lined Road, Idaho, Image by LeAnn, as seen on linenandlavender.net, "Inspired" page: http://www.linenandlavender.net/p/inspired-quotes-and-images.htm

Trees are sanctuaries.

Whoever knows how to speak to them,
whoever knows how to listen to them,
can learn the truth.

They do not preach learning and precepts,
they preach undeterred by particulars,
the ancient law of life.

- Hermann Hesse, Wandering

via Irish folk music video by Zoltan as seen on linenandlavender.net, "Inspired" page: http://www.linenandlavender.net/p/inspired-quotes-and-images.htm

What does the path to zen look like?

It is as different as each individual, of course. However, there is one commonality:

The “path” is a circle.

We go out seeking answers, but eventually find them back where we started…within.

The best advice -all the answers- are there, waiting to be tapped.

Be still and listen.

Path to Zen wrriten by LeAnn, shared on linen & lavender

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Sunset in Santa Monica, photograph by LeAnn, as seen on linenandlavender.net, post: http://linenandlavender.blogspot.com/2011/09/heart-expansion-experiment.html

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