Do You Remember Your Dreams and Know Why It Is Important?

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From Denny: This is one the better quotes I've found about the subject of dreaming. Make sure when you go to bed you leave a notebook nearby so you can record your dreams as you begin awakening in the morning or the middle of the night. Remembering our dreams is so important to problem-solving and understanding our lives as they unfold!

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* If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream - a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows - is essentially poetry. - Michel Leiris

Knowing the Essence of Yourself Creates Success

From Denny: I'm enjoying going through my photo database finding the most amazing images to pair with quotes today!

It really is important to spend time in some kind of meditation or prayer time daily to reflect upon who you are at the core of self vs. what you think you are, what others believe you to be, and how you interact in your world.

This is the simple process of stripping away expectations, yours and that of others in your life, to reveal who you are and where you are meant to be in Life to make an important difference in the lives of others. Never under estimate yourself and your contribution to the lives of others!

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Be what Nature intended you for, and you will succeed. - Sydney Smith

Do You Feel Buffeted About By the Winds of Life? Heres 5 Thought Provoking Solutions

From Denny: With all the intense and dangerous weather issues going on globally I looked around for some interesting wind quotes. Wind is often used as a metaphor for politics and the experience of living, enduring and triumphing in Life.

Here are a couple regarding wind as a metaphor for politics:

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* A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache. - Queen Catherine II

* I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted. - Rachel Field

Here are a few regarding our interaction with what Life brings us:

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* Botanists say that trees need the powerful March winds to flex their trunks and main branches, so the sap is drawn up to nourish the budding leaves. Perhaps we need the gales of life in the same way, though we dislike enduring them. - Jane Truax

* Let mystery have its place in you; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare of self-examination, but leave a little fallow corner in your heart ready for any seed the winds may bring... - Henri Frederic Amiel

* If the winds of fortune are temporarily blowing against you, remember that you can harness them and make them carry you toward your definite purpose, throught the use of your imagination. - Napolean Hill

Here's what I have today over at Dennys Global Politics:

Video: Earthquakes, Flooding, Tsunamis, Hurricanes Intensify Global Problems Affecting Millions - latest news videos, eye witness accounts of the tsunami in American Samoa - and speculation as to why this violent weather is happening.

What Are the 2 Most Important Languages to Learn for a Happy Life?

From Denny: Because so much of humanity has rejected educating themselves in these two most important languages ever created over the centuries there is unfulfillment in people's lives, unhappiness and broken relationships.

Perhaps this new age, new era, new millennium will bring a better understanding and willingness to learn these languages. They do take a lifetime to master but the journey is well worth it!



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* There is only one religion, the religion of Love. There is only one language, the language of the heart. - Sathya Sai Baba

Beautiful Night Art Photo and Reflection on Life Quote

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* Listen to your life. All moments are key moments. - Anonymous

Whats the Best Way to Develop Your Life?

From Denny: Good ol' Ralph Waldo Emerson, he really knows how to transcend Time through the generations. Even though he wrote almost 200 years ago, what he has to say still holds true and has a unique take on the subject up for discussion!

Hope everyone had a great holiday this weekend! I know I finally got caught up on some much needed rest...

BTW, be sure to check back through the posts at least to Saturday as I went back and plugged in some new posts. I've been running hard the past few weeks and have been irregular in posting. Caught up now - finally! (Give me a little "yay!")

Thanks for visiting, much appreciated!

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* All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

What Does a Weed Have to Do With Questioning What You Think You Know?

Kudzu weeds smothering 100 foot trees and taking over a drainage ditch by railroad tracks in downtown Atlanta on Piedmont Road - Image via Wikipedia

From Denny: Emerson lived in the early 19th century. He was a great writer from whom today we pull a lot of equally great quotes. Emerson was also a minister, not a finger-pointer of faults and tongue-wagging fear-mongerer, but a man who sought to teach people to think clearly and critically. That's why his words are still so valuable 180 years later! Some concepts are eternal, and, as they say on the web, evergreen. :)

Emerson was one deep thinker and constantly pulled metaphors for our lives from his surroundings of Nature. How many times when you go to mow your beautiful perfect lawn have you discovered an ugly weed sticking up and out of character for "the green neighborhood"?

Emerson talks about weeds in this quote as having worth. What? What weeds have worth? Well, I can think of one example. Back in the 1930's kudzu was brought from China to America to feed cattle during the Great Depression. You see, kudzu can grow during the summer up to one or more feet a day, yes, a DAY! It is one fast-growing healthy ancient vine.

That was great back in the 1930's but eventually those family farms were abandoned or sold and no longer farmed. Yes, you guessed it, the kudzu kept growing and growing and growing! When I lived in Atlanta you would see it on abandoned city lots downtown, growing over street lights and creeping and running along high electrical lines and back down again on the telephone poles and over to a large tree to smother that too. Unbelievable. So, now what?

Turns out America became aware of a new herbicide back in the 1980's, 50 years later after the kudzu invasion, called Roundup. Well, I got news for you, it works for the short term but the kudzu wins anyway! OK, again, "So, now what?"

By the 1990's it was learned that the Japanese prize kudzu for its roots. What do they do with it? They harvest the roots and make their version of a food thickener like our own cornstarch. Pretty cool, huh?! :)

So, here you thought kudzu was useless as just some weed when it has beneficial food value! Bet you will never look at a weed the same again! :) Even Emerson soon realized the conventional thought about weeds is not always accurate - and to make sure you question everything you think you know.

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"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not been discovered." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thanks for visiting this Monday! Have a great work week!


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What Is the Benefit of Humor for Stress in Your Life?

From Denny: This weekend I've been working on a new quotes blog to house all the funny quotes I find everywhere that make me chuckle, smile wide or downright guffaw so loudly my cats run out of the room saying, "Whoa! What's going on with Mom!"

I love intelligent witty humor, especially when it makes you think from another angle. This quote uses such a vivid metaphor as we walk carefully through Life that it rightly demonstrates just how integral and central humor should be in our lives.

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"A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life." - William A. Ward

Historical photo of tightrope walkers above the WWII ruins of Frankfurt, Germany by antony_mayfield @ flickr

How Perceptive Are You?

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From Denny: This quote made me smile at its truth! We have all been there, sigh...

"The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer." ~ Edward R. Murrow, newsman

The Happiness Philosophy

“It’s not how much we have, but how much we enjoy that makes happiness.”– Unknown

Photo by StuSeeger @ flickr

Where is Your Path of Happiness Traveling?

Road Race Image by AFP/Getty Images via Daylife

From Denny: I really like this quote because it is both true and it certainly has happened a number of times to me. Probably has happened to you a lot too. It can apply to your life path or just bad driving directions!

“The really happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery when on a detour.” — Unknown

*** Notice how the car is literally lifted off the ground!

Do You Know the Main Ingredient for Courage?

Art is when the eyes follow you Image by Stephen Poff via Flickr

From Denny: This is one of those quotes where the truth is hidden in plain sight!

“Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.” — James Baldwin

Living vs. Existing

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all." - Oscar Wilde

Photo by -Gep- @ flickr

Love and Life

“Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.” - Goethe

Photo by rachel_thecat @ flickr

Practising Courage in Life

"Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them." - Orison Swett Marden

Graphics by CatStuff.com

Change the world

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world. — Gandhi

Have courage!

"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake."

- Victor Hugo


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Two Sides to a Situation

two sides ~, originally uploaded by alicepopkorn.

You see things; and you say "Why?"

But I dream things that never were;

and I say "Why not?"

- George Bernard Shaw

Reflection...

reflection..., originally uploaded by muha....

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away." - Anonymous

Wisdom - sought by the ancients at the Pantheon in Rome, Italy

The Temple of All Gods, originally uploaded by wili_hybrid.

"Wisdom begins in wonder." - Socrates