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Harmony with Nature Holistic Haven
Supporting and Embracing Local People and Charities
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To be peaceful is to be free from expectations and to want nothing from anyone. Take the initiative and be generous. Lead the way and do something. This is the secret to being content in all circumstances.
One of the deepest habits we learn is interfering in others' lives. Even if we are not actively interfering there is a good chance it's happening in our heads. Then, when people don't do what we want them to do, which is usually all the time, our ability to relax is non existent. If you want to interfere successfully in someone else's life, try this loveful approach. It begins with acceptance, continues with acknowledgement, is empowered by appreciation and ends in actualisation. Only in this way can we help others be all that they can possibly be, and what else is life for, but to help others to be all that they can be. Only by making love practical in this way, can we heal our own habits of criticism, envy and blame. Accept, acknowledge and appreciate. It doesn't mean you have to agree, comply or condone. The paradox is that we ourselves will receive the same in the process, not only from ourselves, as we become what we give, but from others along the way. Why? It's the law!
In situations of conflict, I have
to realise that the only weapons I need are a smile and a loveful attitude.
To handle yourself, use your head. To handle
others, use your heart.
Humanity is like a tree. Each human being
is connected with the Seed and belongs to the same tree. The beauty of the tree is that it has different branches and on each
branch, numerous leaves.
All individuals are also different and have their own role. Think about what we have in common
and you will appreciate every human being.
This is the key to remain at peace.
Those who
are wise live according to their purpose. Their life gives meaning to everything they do. They do not live by the clock, but
instead follow their compass. This ensures they are on the road that leads directly to their destiny
Take delight in small things because it is from
seeds that flowers grow.
Anger is weakness, tolerance
is bravery. Humility makes you strong.
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Look Before You Leap
Whatever actions you perform, check
the consequences and then perform that action. Then you will never say I don't know how this happened. I didn't mean
it to happen. If you do not pay attention, lines of tension then become visible on your face.
There is nothing more certain than that the
world will continue to change. Accepting and not resisting this, is the first and most important inner skill in this frenetically
changing, modern world. Life tests us every day to see how well we have developed this ability. Equally, there is nothing
more real than the inner space within each of us that never ever changes. We may change our thoughts, our feelings, even our
sense of who we are, but we fail to visit the unchanging centre of our own self. The ability to be in this inner space, where
our peace is found, when all around would prefer chaos and crisis, is the deepest spiritual change skill. It is the eye of
the storm, it is the oasis in the desert, it is the place where peace is power. Call in today. You'll be surprised how
much it can influence and change everything and everyone around you!
There is a silence into which the world
cannot intrude. There is an ancient peace you carry in your heart and have not lost. There is a love you have missed for so
long and will always come back to.
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The best solutions to problems will not be
the result of hard thinking. Use your time better by creating peaceful thoughts, and problems will cease to affect you. Do
not try to solve everything on your own. Leave some space for God to come and help you.
If you can see and accept that you create your own stress according
to how you are responding, you will then see that there is something you need to unlearn as well as learn. The old response
needs to be unlearned, and a new response needs to be learned.
A sensible person knows it is a waste of time
and energy to get angry. Effort will then have to be made to reconstruct that relationship. It is much more useful to breathe
deeply, pay attention to your attitude and answer without rushing. In this way, improve and strengthen your relationships
with others.
When you make a mistake, learn from
it, resolve not to repeat it and then forget about it. You will feel better again. Do the same with others, instead of making
their mistakes bigger, dissolve them in your mind and help them also to forget about them.
A sensible person does not
criticise the mistakes of others, instead, he learns from them for the future.
Silence means unplugging, disconnecting
from the many sources that absorb our energy: problems, worry, pleasing, fear and overload. To be released quickly from all
these debilitating socket points, we need to become introspective and quiet. This revitalises our thoughts.
Every thought
we create is energy and it produces its own current, whether negative or positive. In quietness I step inside and I stabilise
myself in the thought of that original peace. Then slowly, I begin to feel great. This original current of peace releases
me from burden and fear.
An angel is a guest for he cleans up behind him. Where there has been misunderstanding he returns to clarify, where there has been hatred he offers love. He is never without gifts and always without burden.
Life is a game of forgetting and remembering. You are losing the game when you ... forget who you are and what you are doing here, remember the false things of the past and what they did to you.
You are winning the game when you ... remember your true identity of peace, remember the One who is always peaceful and has unconditional love for you, forget the troubles of the past and move forward with the lessons learned.
Observe what you remember during the day and what you forget.
Feeling Great
Enthusiasm is the master key to feeling great.
It keeps the self extremely positive beyond the pull of negativity while simultaneously making others feel uplifted too. To
develop enthusiasm, have faith in the goodness of life, and in the original goodness of the self and others.
At the end of the day, on the wings of your thoughts, go beyond the cares and troubles of the world. Remove your mind from everything and everyone, and become blissfully detached, like a star. Like a star, be free to radiate light, for your essence is light and peace. Enjoy the simplicity of the night sky, the peace. And then, when you want to, you can shoot down to earth.
Honesty does not mean simply speaking your mind. Honesty means to be very clear about everything going on inside you. Where there is honesty, feelings become pure and clean. Honesty is where there are no other thoughts or feelings inside, other than those that God himself would have. Such clarity is reflected in your words; they will be filled with the power of truth, and spoken with ease and without hesitation. The genuine honesty cultivated within you is what will reach out and touch others.
With habits, never give in or we lose our dignity, With the self, never
give up or we lose our destiny, With others never give your worst or you will never develop your best. The saying, "what
we give is what we receive". The lesson: Just to give.
When you do not upset yourself thinking about
how others must change and instead you concentrate on your own change, good things start to happen. First, you will feel better
about yourself. Second, you will start to have positive feelings towards others and start to understand them. Third, others
start having a more positive attitude towards you.
All things have their time. All things have their
answers. All things have their right to be. Accepting this reality, all things come into harmony.
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Acts of virtue emerge from
deep within, from an inner sanctuary of silence from which inspiration flows. Every action has its seed in a thought and every
thought is a creation of the thinker, the soul. I choose what thoughts I want to create and as is my thinking so are my actions
and also my experience in life. Going within, I touch the stillness and pure love that lie at the core of my being and every
thought that I create is of benefit to myself and of benefit to humanity.
If I allow my mind to carry burdens, I will experience
heaviness and become tired easily.
Subservience to my negativity is a very precarious existence as I can never be sure how well I will handle a difficult situation. With practice it is possible to create appreciative and compassionate thoughts; then I no longer need to indulge in resentment, bitterness or dislike. Training myself to react calmly and wisely offers enormouse dividends. Let me talk to myself silently with love and encouragement, balanced with firmness, and like the wise old sovereigns of fairy stories, let me rule the inner kingdom of my mind with benevolence.
You are a special soul who easily destroys obstacles with the generosity of your overflowing heart.
The man who has time for gossip and slander has no time for success.
A fearless soul learns to adjust, understanding that change is the only constant in our lives.
A mother teaches her child
with love and patience until the child learns. Be a mother and teach your mind to have positive thoughts and to let go of
worries. Then when your mind needs peace, it will obey you.
The
call of time is to send thoughts of peace and power to the world.
Your thoughts travel, moving at a great speed and
with considerable impact.
Let the thought of peace sit in your mind,knowing that the vibes from your thoughts can radiate
out and touch any person, any place.
Peace of mind comes not from wanting to change others, but by simply accepting them as they are.
It is said: There is no nourishment like happiness and no illness like worry. Constantly eat the nourishment of happiness.
Great souls take advantage of every moment and every opportunity to give happiness to others through kindness in their thoughts; such souls are willing to overlook weaknesses and mistakes and have the desire to help everyone reach their potential.
Think TGIM (Thank God,
It's Monday)!
Increase your motivation, commitment, passion and the feeling of fun in the workplace.
In other words, love what you do.
Then you'll happily go to work, Monday after Monday!
These are powers that recharge the soul. As the soul comes into action
it experiences the practical form of these powers.
In life you will meet many people. All are significant. They deserve your attention and care, even if all you do is smile and say "Hello".
Leave worries aside and you will be surprised by the beauty of the sky and the colour of flowers, of the freshness of the breeze and the generosity of the sun. You will feel you are part of creation, and life will start to make sense. The greatest wealth is to appreciate what we have and what we are.
There is a part of you that is perfect and pure. It is untouched by the less-than-perfect characteristics you have acquired by living in a less than perfect world. This part of you is a still and eternal star. Make time to reach it and this will bring you untold benefit.
My heart is full and open. Flowing with pure good feelings and good wishes for everyone. I follow my spontaneous instinct to give and I am totally happy.
Keep wearing virtues as your ornaments. Keep loving others. Keep giving regard. You have to go beyond the stars. Keep thoughts higher than the sky, and abundance of patience like the earth. Keep spiritual love in your eyes.
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Daily Thoughts from
www.thoughtfortoday.org.uk
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Angels of Love
When the storms of life burden you down,
when you passionately seek and there's no one to be found.
When dark clouds linger to long to bear,
when life seems empty, does anyone care.
Just turn your head towards the skies to see clouds of silver lining,
the angel of love and compassion is shining.
Pouring angelic shafts of warmth, brilliance and radiant gold,
and your journey through life will then unfold.
Without doubt, without worry, without sadness from now on to afar,
you are special and counted like the heavenly star.
For the angel of love will give you hope, courage and wisdom from above,
drenching your soul with hope, charity and everlasting unconditional love.
Your angel will guide you from gathering storm clouds to brilliant blue,
you will feel uplifted through and through.
And when your burdens pass, just give a little sigh,
give thanks to your angel who remains close by.
So remember your plight when others are weak,
point them upward and let them truly seek,
the same kind of help from angelic hosts above,
that you welcomed,
so pour on their troubled souls a sprinkling of angelic love.
By: Paul John Damari
28th May, 2007
Copyright: Paul John Damari
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A time for every purpose under Heaven
A time to be born
and a time to die
A time to plant
and a time to pluck what is planted
A time to kill
and a time to heal
A time to break down
and a time to build up
A time to cast away stones
and a time to gather stones
A time to embrace
and a time to refrain from embracing
A time to gain
and a time to lose
A time to keep
and a time to cast away
A time to tear
and a time to sew
A time to keep silence
and a time to speak
A time of love
and a time of hate
A time of war
and a time of peace
Ecclesiastes 3: 1-8
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The Divine Weaver
My life is but a weaving
Author Unknown
God bless you and keep you safe.
Much love
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I've just been looking at the inspirational words on your 'Angel Wood Rise' web site and I wondered if you would publish the attached poem on the site as a tribute to my lovely Dad. Give Them The Flowers Now was one of his favourite poems.
Love from Anita.
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I have only slipped away to the next room...
I am I and you are you...
Whatever we were to each, that we are still.
Call me by my old familiar name,
Speak it to me in the same way you always used.
Put no difference into your tone,
Wear no false air of solemnity or sorrow.
Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we enjoyed together.
Play, smile, think of me, pray for me.
Let my name be ever the household word that it always was.
Let it be spoken without effect, without the ghost of a shadow on it.
Life means all that it ever meant.
It is the same as it ever was.
There is absolutely unbroken continuity.
What is this death but a negligible accident.
I am but waiting for you for an interval
Somewhere very near
Just around the corner.
All is well.
Henry Scott Holland 1847 - 1918
Canon of St Paul's, London
Do not stand at my grave and weep,
I am not there I do not sleep.
I am the
thousand winds that blow,
I am the diamond glints on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripen grain,
I am the gentle
autumn rain.
When you awaken in the morning,
hush, I am the swift uplifting rush of
quiet birds in circled
flight.
I am the soft stars in the sky at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry,
I am not there, I
did not died.
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by Dorothy Frances Blomfield Gurney (1858-1932)
The Lord God planted a garden
In the first white days of the world,
And He set there an angel warden
In a garment of light enfurled.
So near to the peace of Heaven,
That the hawk might nest with the wren,
For there in the cool of the even
God walked with the first of men.
And I dream that these garden-closes
With their shade and their sun-flecked sod
And their lilies and bowers of roses,
Were laid by the hand of God.
The kiss of the sun for pardon,
The song of the birds for mirth,--
One is nearer God's heart in a garden
Than anywhere else on earth.
For He broke it for us in a garden
Under the olive-trees
Where the angel of strength was the warden
And the soul of the world found ease.
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He was a just a homeless person,
On the streets he’s often seen,
Trying to sell his message,
Selling his homeless magazine.
He stood cold and hungry,
Looking at all who passed him by,
Sometimes someone brought one,
While others were to shy.
But most were busy shopping,
They thought he looked a sight,
Only saw his appearance,
To blind to see his light.
Thankfully all are not the same,
One is approaching along the street,
Clare, while out shopping,
She and homeless meet.
Fate that day was smiling,
For both a silent treat,
A magazine seller and a lady,
Two lights for a moment meet.
Between them no words were spoken,
A glance and act said it all,
It only takes a little gift,
And a smile to make one tall.
Clare disappeared into a shop,
Only gone for a little while,
Returned with drink and food,
An angel with a smile.
This gift reminded him he was still a man,
And some people do love and care,
When two hearts are on a single thought,
It’s a warmth all humans share.
That day changed his mind about human nature,
Because of a kindness done that day,
He learnt to see the lights in others,
As she slowly walked away.
Pete Hancox
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Daffodils a poem
by William Wordsworth
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at
once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing
in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending
line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced, but they
Out-did the sparkling leaves in glee;
A poet could not be but gay,
In such a jocund company!
I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which
is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced, but they
Out-did the sparkling leaves in glee;
A poet could not be but gay,
In such a jocund company!
I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
"Oh by gum I can still smell it,
Mum by the fire grate stood,
The aroma of yesteryears breakfast,
Of me mum cooking black pud.
In a large old black iron saucepan,
Lard was sizzling and spitting out fat,
Dads asleep on the sofa,
As sis and mum had a chat.
In the pan were pieces of black pudding,
And bacon half covered by beans,
Eggs and chips covered in black bits,
A breakfast I still taste in my dreams.
Mum puts a plate in front of me,
On top of our newspaper cloth,
Bread cut thick as doorsteps,
Jam-jars of tea from the pot.
Mom takes the pan from the fire,
Plops the whole lot on me plate,
Covers the lot with ketchup,
Winks and says, "Get that down ya me mate"
That heavenly smell goes up me nostrils,
Also the bread Hovis bakes,
Alas I’m back in the present,
With a bowl of soggy Cornflakes.
Pete
Hancox.
For tomorrow do not wait
Regards