Until Spring: Photo Poem 20

Posted on January 22, 2014 by noellevignola Standard 4

Grass Prison: Photo by Noelle

A Life Your Own

Posted on January 18, 2014 by noellevignola Standard 5

Image re-posted from For Ever Art Facebook page

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

Steve Jobs

Negative

Posted on January 13, 2014 by noellevignola Standard Reply

Sunset: Photo negative taken by Noelle

The Dalai Lama is quoted as saying, “Sometimes the best thing to ever happen to you is NOT getting what you thought you wanted.” Spiritual evolution comes when we begin to see that the negative events of our life are actually the good things. That these same things, places, events were providing us an opportunity to see the world and ourselves completely differently. That they are meant to strip away our illusions, mainly, about ourself. When you can see beauty and motion and grace in negatives….well…then you are really onto something.

Little Gem

Posted on January 10, 2014 by noellevignola Standard 2

Free Bing Photo

“Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you; here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere, yes.”
~ Jedi Master Yoda

Special thank you to Satyam T. Das for posting the quote in “Be Here Now” group on the Insight Timer app

Canyon: Haiku V

Posted on January 9, 2014 by noellevignola Standard Reply

Grand Canyon: Free Bing Photos

Expansive and full
River rushes the canyon
Life breaks the shore

Sunset Trio: Photo Poem 18

Posted on January 7, 2014 by noellevignola Standard 4

Sunset 1: Photo by Noelle

Sunset 2: Photo by Noelle

Sunset 3: Photo by Noelle

Little Gem

Posted on January 6, 2014 by noellevignola Standard 2

Image re-posted from Enchanted Nature Facebook page

“God is at home, it’s we who have gone out for a walk.”

Meister Eckhart

Little Gem

Posted on January 2, 2014 by noellevignola Standard Reply

Remembering Autumn: Photo by Noelle

“God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me.”

Thomas H. Huxley

Everest

Posted on January 1, 2014 by noellevignola Standard Reply

Mt. Everest: free Bing Photos

“The moment you are in now is the best moment you have ever lived”. The sentence has no qualifier. This moment now. Not two days ago or when that lottery ticket hits it’s impossible sequence of numbers. This moment now. Its one of those curious phrases that hangs in your brain on a coat rack of ideas. It has an odd potency like tea leaves read in the bottom of a cup. That phrase stands alone and crystal clear. This moment I am in right now is the best moment I have ever lived. Seriously, if that doesn’t stop your train of thought even briefly at Main Street and Spruce nothing will. This moment now.

You have to dig deep when you embrace it. It doesn’t merely suggest your adventure is happening now, it’s saying unequivocally that your ship has left shore, the sails are full and your sword is fully polished in its haft. Not a journey that’ll start with the promotion you’ve been vying for or the relationship you’ve been hungry to have. Whatever your luck, good, bad, indifferent it’s the best possible circumstances unfolding for you right now to make your story your own. More than this it suggests that the secrets to all the mysteries lie in this ridiculously loud, chaotic, poor, wealthy, busy, mundane, habitual, silent, lonely life you lead. “The moment you are in now is the best moment you have ever lived” is the genie in the bottle. The diamond found in a cardboard box. It’s Everest.