Cracked Pot
August 4, 2008
A woman went twice a day to get water. She carried her water in two clay pots attached to a sturdy pole.
One pot was perfect, the other was cracked and leaked. Each trip to the stream only yielded one and a half pots of water because of the cracked pot.
The cracked pot was ashamed that it could not carry a full pot of water.
One day cracked pot apologized to the old woman saying
“I feel badly that you must go to the stream often because of me, leaking water all the way back and ending only half full”.
The woman looked at the cracked pot with a loving smile, “Have you never noticed that flowers grow on the side of the path that I carry you?
I planted seeds on that side knowing that you would water them and now your side of the path is a riot of colour and beauty. ”
Thank you Gail for this beautiful story.
This story is namaste.
Your “maybe someday” dreams
January 17, 2008
Tim McGraw has a wonderful song.
When you click below, you’ll hear how he’s speaking with a man who was diagnosed with a fatal illness, and then starts living every moment to the fullest, only to later find that he’s still living.
What it teaches him is not to put off the important things for a later time, but instead to live in the now. Every time I hear the song, I start thinking about all of my “some day” dreams and try and find one that I can do now.
Do you have an important “maybe someday” dream?
Energy, From Age One To One Hundred
January 17, 2008
Here’s a splendid short little film.
It shows people from one to one hundred banging on a drum. I was charmed by it, and you may be too. It delightfully displays energy in a mere 100 versions of the infinite variations. Ms. 91 and Mr. 99 are particularly wonderful.
Loving Yourself, it’s Outrageous
January 11, 2008
One of my favorite poems in the world is “Love after Love” by Derek Walcott.
This poem came to me through David Whyte’s book “The Heart Aroused Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America”.
I was reading David Whyte’s book because I went to a Deep Trance Identification Workshop in California with Stephen Gilligan who is a Eriksonian hypnotist extraordinaire one of the few living people who trained with Milton Erikson, but I digress a lot actually.
So here it is, hopefully I am not violating any copyright laws but keying it in.
Love after Love by Derek Walcott
The time will come
when, with elation
you greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in you own mirror,
and each will smile at the other’s welcome
and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was yourself.
Give wine, Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you
all your life, who you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,
the photographs, the desperate notes.
peel your own image form the mirror.
Sit Feast on your life.
Today in this moment Feast on your unique and outrageously beautiful life.
<3
Namaste, eh!
Are you a “dog” person or a “cat” person”?
January 7, 2008
If a dog jumps in your lap,
it is because he is fond of you;
but if a cat does the same thing,
it is because your lap is warmer.
The Secret
January 4, 2008
Everybody’s seen the book and the movie.
What I know for sure is the secret is thankfulness.
It is impossible to be depressed or angry or resentful or whatever if you make a habit of being thankful, I phone my friend Sue and tell her what I am thankful about every morning, actually I usually tell voice mail cause she is a later riser than me.
I do it even if I don’t feel very grateful.
I write the things I am thankful for in my journal, I thank my customers, make eye contactand just say thanks. I have come out of one of the worse depressions I have everexperienced just by noticing all the things I have to be thankful for and the more I noticethe blessings I am showered with every moment of every day the more there seem to beIt is magic.
Thank you for reading my posts, for your friendship and love, your feedback, thank you for sharing you with me. I am so thankful for the digital world that allows me to communicate with you.
<3 HelenMarie
HelenMarie’s Top Tens
December 20, 2007
My top 10 Books of 20071. A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mystery2. Training the Mind by Chogyam Trumgpa 3. Enneagram by Helen Palmer4. The 4 hour WorkWeek by Tim Ferris5. The Stuff of Thought by Steven Pinker6. The Nine by Jeffrey Toobin7. Rumi by Coleman Barks8. The by David Whyte9. Wherever You Go There You Are by Jon Kabbot-Zinn10. Power by
Energy Is The Way
December 20, 2007
Energy is the way.
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