Appreciate the Love in Your Life

Express gratitude to the one you love.

Research shows that gratitude is one of the most powerful—and efficient—ways to strengthen a romantic relationship (or any relationship, for that matter). Gratitude is relationship-strengthening because it requires us to see how we’ve been supported and cared for by other people.

Celebrate the one you love by detailing all the things that you appreciate about him or her. Cut out a dozen paper hearts, and write one thing for which you are grateful on each.

© 2011 Christine Carter, Ph.D.

http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/raising_happiness/post/tuesday_tip_appreciate_the_love_in_your_life/

Nature's beauty

The Mountain from Terje Sorgjerd on Vimeo.

 Amazing video by Norwegian photographer Terje Sorgjerd. 

An endless garden

Painting by Kevin Miles

"If  I had a flower for every time you made me smile, I'd be walking in an endless garden." ~ Rumi

Advices of Rumi

1. In generosity and helping others, be like a river
2. In compassion and grace, be like the sun
3. In concealing others’ faults, be like the night
4. In anger and fury, be like the dead
5. In modesty and humility, be like the earth
6. In tolerance, be like a sea
7. Either exist as you are or be as you look

Cranesbill zazen

by Big Mind Zen Center

Iris - Keeper of the Rainbow

Throughout the ages, the rainbow has been the symbol of hope, a promise of better things to come. The ancient Greeks personified the rainbow as the goddess Iris, the favourite handmaiden and messenger of Hera, the queen of the heavenly court of Olympus. Carried by her shimmering wings, Iris travels so swiftly that mortals can see only the trail of her rainbow-coloured passage across the sky.

By Josephine

Colors of the Wind

Credit: Native American Art



...every rock and tree and creature
has a life, has a spirit, has a name

Have you ever heard the wolf cry to the blue corn moon
Or asked the grinning bobcat why he grinned?
Can you sing with all the voices of the mountains?
Can you paint with all the colors of the wind?
Can you paint with all the colors of the wind?

Come run the hidden pine trails of the forest
Come taste the sunsweet berries of the Earth
Come roll in all the riches all around you
And for once, never wonder what they're worth

The rainstorm and the river are my brothers
The heron and the otter are my friends
And we are all connected to each other
In a circle, in a hoop that never ends

How high will the sycamore grow?
If you cut it down, then you'll never know
And you'll never hear the wolf cry to the blue corn moon

For whether we are white or copper skinned
We need to sing with all the voices of the mountains
We need to paint with all the colors of the wind

You can own the Earth and still
All you'll own is Earth until
You can paint with all the colors of the wind

From "Pocahontas"