Wishing upon and for you, the Law of Benevolence. Abundance for all. Most of all…you.
]]>...I’m just saying…well, I suppose I’m not, I’m using Churchill as a channel, which is weird because paranormally speaking, it’s usually the other way around, yes?...but, this is my point;
“If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time, a tremendous whack.”
Winston Churchill
And that’s all Churchill has to say about that.
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Twas brought to my attention earlier today, thought I would share it with well, everyone. Just in case. Yes, I did comment on that story. Yes, I am a nerd. Yes I am 40. Almost. No. I am never going to grow up. Life’s too long for that nonsense. May the Farce be with you.
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Colouring in is a brilliant way to set focus. To engage your right brain hemisphere using left brain logic. It’s methodical plus stimulates the chakras and gammawaves. And it’s fun!!
]]>I love this. It’s what I try to remember (in my own words) when I feel discordant energy aligment. And boy, it’s palpable at the moment.
What a great man. What a great great human.
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Where there is life there is always hope. Why do tellurians forget that?
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...actually that just a whole lot of bull. Failure is never a positive experience unless of course you’re in a situation where failure saves your life.
Failure being a positive experience comes with hindsight and hindsight is always 20/20 vision. Best not view things as failure then. How about…pause in forward momentum? Or…stuckcess???
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It’s a very strange day today. I am overflowing and ripe with energy, just rippling with a force that I can barely disguise.
By the way, the ‘Flamenco Dancer’ is by Fabian Perez.
If my purpose is to inculcate the value of joy, then my pursuit of personal joy is through sensuality. The finding of it everywhere. Flamenco. Yes. An obvious choice but not for the reasons one would think. Flamenco, the dance, the physical expression, the release, it’s passion and pain and pleasure.
...it’s the capturing of a moment of that passion and pain and pleasure…the dichotomy of soft and hard…
Do not mistake sensuality for a sexually derived feeling. Sensuality can be found in a pure white round sugar bowl, filled with coarse white and brown sugar cubes…the velvet timbre of a hard word…the drip of a a single rain drop, rolling off a leaf as thunder rumbles in the background…
Sensuality can be found in the blowing of leaves against a tree trunk…in the curve of a car bonnet, engine revving, heat radiating…in the deliberate vicious stroke of an artist’s brush…
Fabian Perez, the sensuality of his art…stuns me…I forget to breathe. I have some of his art on my wall…I just…ahhh… I need to feel this powerful every day. Life should be lived this powerfully every day.
His Flamenco Dancer is how I feel today. Just as well I have 2 classes this week. I want this energy to burn.
]]>Winston Churchill, a man of great wit and wisdom.
A conversation was had about optimism. What I see as unwavering faith in the good outcome of all opportunities, that indeed all circumstances are opportunities and that there is no such thing as defeat only a pause in forward momentum…was seen by the other as naivete and childish idealism.
Whatever. You say tomato and I say fruit.
More wit and wisdom from Winston…and no, I’m not just ‘copy and paste’ -ing! I have hand-written journals of quotes, collected over the years. (I’m not a diary writer/keeper, hell…even these minor pieces of personal meaningful fluff make me cringe, which is why I don’t reread what I have written here…but I do collect quotes and suchlike).
I open these journals at random every day. Some are categorised by their lack of categorisation. Some by the auteur/quoter/author. Winston Churchill is a favourite.
Particularly because of his cutting wit but I also find great succour in his sharp wisdom.
“Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.“
“Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities… because it is the quality which guarantees all others.“
...and…
“From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I shall not put.“
...and the classics;
Bessie Braddock: “Sir, you are drunk.”
Churchill: “Madam, you are ugly. In the morning, I shall be sober.”
Nancy Astor: “Sir, if you were my husband, I would give you poison.”
Churchill: “If I were your husband I would take it.”
So yeah okay sometimes happiness doesn’t choose me. Particularly during PMS week. Weeks. And certainly not when I’ve had 2 minutes sleep and it’s time to wake up again. And sometimes, just sometimes, holding on to the happy and not sweating the small stuff is a real test of grit grip.
But…most times the choice I choose when I wake up, sticks. Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be a total ass and face the day buried in sand. Or you can choose not to. It’s that simple. Happiness is a choice. Not an oblivious one but a purpose filled one. Not dependant on others to provide nor fulfill. Your choice.
Choose happiness. It’s. that. f**king. simple.
“Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient.”
Aristotle
“One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways.”
- Bertrand Russell
“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
- Albert Camus