“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.” ~ Robert Frost
life
It’s All There Waiting for You
“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
Love Wins, It Always Wins
“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.” ~ Pablo Neruda
After Liberation ~ A Poem by Jakebus Cornelis Bloem
After Liberation
Jakebus Cornelis Bloem
I
Beautiful and radiant, just like then, is the spring,
Cold of morning, but as the days open up
Further, the eternal light is a miracle
For those who have been saved.
In the transparent haze upon the fallow
Land plow once again the slow workhorses
As always, even as the near-by distances
Rumble with war.
To have experienced this, to say this
with body still whole, every time awakening again
To know: it is over, and now forever, the almost
Unbearable servitude—
Worth it it was, to have languished five years,
Now rising up, then giving in again, and not
One of the unborn shall ever fully grasp
Freedom in this way.
II
Regular measure of the returning seasons!
What is the heart that has ever feared,
Knowing spring would come to liberate it,
Radiant as it has ever been.
Ever in the present, indestructible
Life that flowers out above death,
And the smallest of complaints seems barely audible
Where the rye about the ruins grows.
What’s Holding You Back?
What holds you back from experiencing life more fully? I’m not speaking about one’s context, job, or financial situation. Within those constraints, what holds you back from experiencing life more fully? Discovering this is an inside job where we need the courage to look within ourselves and name the fears, biases, or false beliefs that we allow to guide our lives. It’s not a thirty minute job. It may take a while. If we keep the question, “What holds me back from experiencing life more fully?” we will discover the answers. Once we discover the answers, we can discard what is holding us back and begin to experience life more fully.
Happy Eyes and a Smile
I enjoy life. I enjoy being with people. I enjoy being alone. I enjoy going for a walk in nature. I enjoy being on busy city streets. I enjoy music playing. I enjoy silence. I don’t know how I came about this way of being. It’s nothing I studied. My parents weren’t this way. It just happened. I don’t think I was always this way. It happened. I’m always looking for something good to happen to me. It usually does but not always in the way I want it or in my timeframe. I think it’s important to look at life with happy eyes and a smile and arms wide open to catch the good things life is tossing at you,
We’re Tougher than the Moment
Life has its ups and downs. We all experience them. When life knocks us down. We have two choices, we can get up and get going, or, we can stay down. There’s no in between. Sometimes when we’re knocked down, it isn’t fair or just. Maybe our mother or lover will listen to us. Most others are too busy with their lives to spend too much time with us if we’re complaining about life’s injustices. What do we do, we suck it up, refuse to quit, and get going again. We’ll show anyone watching that we are tougher than the moment. Yes, we are tougher than the moment!
Hold Nothing Back – Enjoy Life’s Adventure
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” ― Helen Keller
Find Great Joy in Loving Life
“Life is everything. Life is God. Everything changes and moves and that movement is God. And while there is life there is joy in consciousness of the divine. To love life is to love God.” ~ Tolstoy
Are You Ready To Make This Discovery?
“The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude.” ― William James
