From the Heart
Wings are made to fold over one another when not being used in flight, some flowers close up at night and many butterflies emerge from a chrysalis in the morning. Nature shows us that taking time out is okay, it’s helpful and sometimes necessary for our wellbeing.
~ Liza
Some days it’s okay to give in and admit you might a little broken or weary. It might be you are sad, tired, sick, or just not able to be as strong as you usually can. It is quite natural to take time out, look at the tree or a flower after a storm. Life knocks us about sometimes, we need to take care of ourselves, acknowledge our feelings, cry if we need to and give ourselves time to mend. Like the flower with its head bent, be good to yourself today, knowing you will lift your head again tomorrow.
~ Liza
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Even on the bleakest winters day the sun still rises each day, birds continue to call in the dawn and nature unfolds as it should. There is a beauty in the stillness of winter just as there is during difficult episodes in our own lives if we look for them. Find the beauty around you, find it in silence, find it in hope and find it natures messages.
~ Liza
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It might be just a small weed but it blows freely in the wind spreading itself far and wide. I think that the pleasure it gets from what it gives out maybe far greater than the adoration other flowers might get from their beauty. It doesn’t take an awful lot to leave bits of yourself with those you pass, kindness, happy memories and something to think about. It’s a beautiful thing to touch others with love and kindness as you pass along your way.
~ Liza
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We have many different sides to our personalities, we show these different sides of us depending on our relationship and desires. There is the warmth and softness we show to those we love, the fruitfulness we show to attract and pull people in towards us and the more protective front we use to cover up or slip away from those we are not so comfortable with. There are complexities to our individual personality traits, they change with the seasons and are dependant on our needs at any one time. A good thing to bare in mind is that whilst we are displaying one aspect of ourselves, we never know who else might be watching and absorbing what we are putting out from somewhere else in the garden.
~ Liza
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It can take us a lifetime to understand the real meaning of love in our lives. For a number of people to find, live in and become love is their very purpose here. Like the foliage on a tree that transforms into a beautiful picture of warmth and love before it dies, we too radiate love out into the world once we know and understand it.
~ Liza
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Every living thing on earth is made up of energy. A tree and through it, to each individual leaf, fruit, flower and petal. A field and each and every blade of grass, crop and speck of soil across it. This energy works together, joining as a mass of energy that drives the world forward. Each one of us is the same, from a group of people to each individual, down to each atom within us, our potential is immense if we can harness this energy.
~ Liza
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When we are able to connect to ourselves, understand our own workings and sometimes imperfections, we are far more able to connect with others. When we recognise and accept the feelings that are at our very core, allow them to be part of who we are without shame or fear we live in truth. We naturally relate to others and through understanding and compassion our networks widen, we become authentic.
~ Liza
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Does the flower compare itself to others, does the bee only choose the most beautiful. Does the bird only nest in the most beautiful branch of a tree. In nature beauty goes much deeper than the surface, beauty is measured in goodness. Those who let their spirit shine will always attract others. Beauty after all is in the eye of the beholder, those who can see the depth and goodness in the spirit beneath the surface.
~ Liza
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There are many flowers on earth and many seasons in which to bloom. As each flower withers and dies another springs into life somewhere else. To experience both joy and sadness in ones life is to understand balance, the changing of seasons of life, and that each ending brings with it the potential of a new beginning.
~ Liza
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