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Poetry and Inspiration

Cherokee Prayer

Sep 9th, 2010 | By butterfly | Category: Community Board, Health, Life, Poetry and Inspiration

O’ GREAT SPIRIT
help me always
to speak the truth quietly,
to listen with an open mind
when others speak,
and to remember the peace
that may be found in silence.
Cherokee Prayer

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THE TAO TEH KING, OR THE TAO AND ITS CHARACTERISTICS by Lao-Tse

Sep 8th, 2010 | By butterfly | Category: Community Board, Poetry and Inspiration, Written Word

Tao Te Ching
by Lao Tzu

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THE TAO TEH KING, OR THE TAO AND ITS CHARACTERISTICS
by Lao-Tse
translated by James Legge
PART 1.
Ch. 1. 1. The Tao that can be trodden is not the enduring and unchanging Tao. The name that can be named is not the enduring and [...]



Welcome to a Day in my World by Michelle Nelson PEOPLE’S BLUEPRINT PANEL

Sep 7th, 2010 | By Collective | Category: Campaigns (incl.) Grassroots, Community Board, Life, Poetry and Inspiration, Written Word

Welcome to a Day in my World
Today I will not steal the meat, I’ll tell myself that eating oatmeal is a treat,
Today I will were long sleeves, like I do in July to cover the hole in my arms were I used to get high.
Today I will drink my dose of Methadone, prescribed [...]



While I Wait

Sep 6th, 2010 | By Cheryl Smith | Category: Editorial- Our Say Our Way, Health, Life, Poetry and Inspiration, Written Word

Labour Day Morning
2010-09-06
While I Wait

I wait
again…
will this
never let up?
The story begins
before I arrived
another
unwanted
disturbing
mistake
of another
one of us
too ill
so young
all alone-
It will continue
long after
I am
going
going
gone…
Yet for me
today
again anticipating
the Connection

Knowing
all along
it could be
is already
but
will not appear
today.
Again.
I am
getting better
though
at rejecting
disappointment
and choosing
instead
to ride the wave
Strong
and patient
as all
that I am
can be
on this
Sea of Life.
Perhaps,
one day
I will leap
from this wave
leave
the surface,
dive in
with [...]



Walking in This World

Aug 28th, 2010 | By Collective | Category: Community Board, Community Resource, Health, Life, Poetry and Inspiration

Gaugin’s ‘Brooding Woman’ wall mural by c.smith and d.ma
Walking in This World
The Practical Art of Creativity
A 12-week course in Discovering and Recovering Your Creative Self
STARTING Sunday, September 19, 2010
Facilitated by: Yolandy Glynn
76A Geary Avenue (@ Dovercourt) Toronto Ontario

2pm – 4pm
$30/course

·      Who Can Use Walking in This World?
·      The Morning Pages
·      [...]



INUIT CREATION MYTH

Aug 28th, 2010 | By Collective | Category: Community Board, Community Resource, Life, Poetry and Inspiration, Written Word

INUIT CREATION

Raven made the world and the waters with beats of his wings.
He had the powers of both a man and bird, and could change from one to the other simply by pulling his bead above his head as one lifts up a mask.
His earth was dark and silent. He had created water and [...]



THE TAO TEH KING, OR THE TAO AND ITS CHARACTERISTICS

Aug 28th, 2010 | By Collective | Category: Health, Life, Poetry and Inspiration

THE TAO TEH KING, OR THE TAO AND ITS CHARACTERISTICS
by Lao-Tse
translated by James Legge
PART 1. of 14
Ch. 1. 1. The Tao that can be trodden is not the enduring and unchanging Tao. The name that can be named is not the enduring and unchanging name.
2. (Conceived of as) having no name, it [...]



PeaPov’s Muse Aug 26th, 2010

Aug 25th, 2010 | By butterfly | Category: Community Board, Life, Poetry and Inspiration

I lovingly let go and allow other beings the freedom to develop their personal power.
As long as we protect and lavish care and attention on others, they cannot develop their own abilities; they will not become truly able to cope with life. So be sure to only do as much for others as is truly [...]



What IS Love?

Aug 20th, 2010 | By butterfly | Category: Community Board, Health, Life, Poetry and Inspiration

Artist Angela Limoges
What IS Love? Here’s a 3-minute Video Answer

click on the link above for the 3 minute  video

The Love Police At Canary Wharf from UKpropaganda on Vimeo.
Here’s simply a stunning love dance.
http://ordinarywords.com/dance
“My problems aren’t so different from anybody else. I believe that everybody comes from a certain amount of pain. The [...]



*****

Aug 16th, 2010 | By butterfly | Category: Community Resource, Health, Poetry and Inspiration

“I know there are those among you who fear undertaking projects that seem to demand many dark nights of the soul.  Let me suggest to you that such nights may also be, in the beautiful Spanish words, noches estrelladas – star-studded.  Like neighboring constellations, we can serve each other both as [...]