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[11] love

At least once in a lifetime, everyone should know how it feels to love, and be loved like this.....

"I never believed in love at first sight until it happened to me.  Then, when it did happen, it was if every atom in my body had been changed, somehow: as if I'd become charged with light and heat.  I was different, forever, just from the sight of him.  And the love that opened in my heart seemed to drag the rest of my life behind it, from that moment onward.  I heard his voice in every lovely sound the wind wrapped around me.  I saw his face in brilliant mirrored flares of memory, every day.  Sometimes, when I thought of him, the hunger to touch him and kiss him and to breathe a cinnamon-scented minute of his black hair clawed at my chest and crushed the air in my lungs.  Clouds, heavy with their burden of monsoon rain, massed above the city, above my head, and it seemed to me in those weeks that all grey heaven was my brooding love.  The very mangroves trembled with my desire, and at night, too many nights, it was my restive sleep that rolled and turned the sea in lusted dreaming, until the sun each morning more with love for him...."

[10] flow

All things [change], nothing is extinguished.  There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent.  Everything [flows] onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant [movement].

~Ovid

[9] give

Make something beautiful.

[Give] it to someone you love, just for the joy of it.

A Kusudama ball, made from vintage sheet music - given to someone I love.....  xxx

[8] let go

"In the sky, there is [no distinction] of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true...."

~ Buddha

[7] believe

[Believe] and act as if it were impossible to fail xx

[6] wish

"If I were to [wish] for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the [passionate] sense of potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the [possible].

Pleasure disappoints, possibility never". 

~ Soren Kierkegaard

[5] create

"The [creative] is the place where no one else has ever been.  

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your [intuition].  

You'll [discover] what will be wonderful.

What you'll discover is [yourself]".

~ Alan Alder

One for her.  One for you. In my shop.

xx

[4] silence

[Embrace] silence.

Create a quiet space for beauty to be [revealed].

[3] imagine

 

"Limitations live only in our minds.  But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless".

~ Jamie Paolinette

[2] dream

You have to dream before your dreams can come [true].

"The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don't know the difference between fantasy and reality, when for that just one moment you feel with your [entire soul] that the dream is reality, and it really happened". anon.

[Believe] in the beauty of your dreams.