Do we care enough to give?

Holy Man

Word spread across the countryside about the wise Holy Man who lived in a small house atop the mountain. A man from the village decided to make the long and difficult journey to visit him. When he arrived at the house, he saw an old servant inside who greeted him at the door.

“I would like to see the wise Holy Man,” he said to the servant. The servant smiled and led him inside. As they walked through the house, the man from the village looked eagerly around the house, anticipating his encounter with the Holy Man. Before he knew it, he had been led to the back door and escorted outside. He stopped and turned to the servant,

“But I want to see the Holy Man!”

“You already have,” said the old man. “Everyone you may meet in life, even if they appear plain and insignificant, see each of them as a wise Holy Man. If you do this, then whatever problem you brought here today will be solved.”

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Yes, You!

“It isn't where you came from; it's where you're going that counts.”
― Ella Fitzgerald

Mariusz Goli

Mariusz Goli

Celebration

Celebration of Life
today I celebrate You


through the night
I saw the moon shine so bright
I didn’t need more
I didn’t need less
It was perfect

I touched the Earth
and the Earth touched me
sometimes that’s all we need

a feel of touch



Let us celebrate
what we want to see and feel more of. 
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Photo: Ryszard Tomaszewski

Become the right man

POVERTY

One day a father of a very wealthy family took his son on a trip to the country with the firm purpose of showing his son how poor people live.
They spent a couple of days and nights on the farm of what would be considered a very poor family.
On their return from their trip, the father asked his son, "How was the trip?"
"It was great, Dad."
"Did you see how poor people live?" the father asked.
"Oh yeah," said the son.
"So, tell me, what did you learn from the trip?" asked the father.

The son answered: "I saw that we have one dog and they had four. We have a pool that reaches to the middle of our garden and they have a creek that has no end. We have imported lanterns in our garden and they have the stars at night. Our patio reaches to the front yard and they have the whole horizon. We have a small piece of land to live on and they have fields that go beyond our sight. We have servants who serve us, but they serve others. We buy our food, but they grow theirs. We have walls around our property to protect us, they have friends to protect them."

The boy's father was speechless.
Then his son added, "Thanks, Dad, for showing me how poor we are." 

Author Unknown

change your thoughts & change your life

“Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habit. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.”

― Lao Tzu

Losing Everything

Mula came upon a frowning man walking along the road to town. "What's wrong?" he asked. The man held up a tattered bag and moaned, "All that I own in this wide world barely fills this miserable, wretched sack."

"Too bad," said Mula, and with that, he snatched the bag from the man's hands and ran down the road with it.

Having lost everything, the man burst into tears and, more miserable than before, continued walking. Meanwhile, Mula quickly ran around the bend and placed the man's sack in the middle of the road where he would have to come upon it.

When the man saw his bag sitting in the road before him, he laughed with joy, and shouted, "My sack! I thought I'd lost you!"

Watching through the bushes, Mula chuckled. "Well, that's one way to make someone happy!"

Author Unknown

Heart of a Mouse

A mouse was in constant distress because of its fear of the cat. A magician took pity on it and turned it into a cat. But then it became afraid of the dog.

So the magician turned it into a dog. Then it began to fear the panther, so the magician turned it into a panther. Whereupon it was full of fear for the hunter.

At this point, the magician gave up. He turned it into a mouse again saying, "Nothing I do for you is going to be of any help because you have the heart of a mouse."

by Anthony de Mello 

Artistry exists in everyone

“Artistry exists in everyone. What makes it blossom is a soul's personal desire to find an outlet for expression.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich

A Pueblo Indian Prayer

"Hold on to what is good, even if it's a handful of earth.
Hold on to what you believe, even if it's a tree that stands by itself.
Hold on to what you must do, even if it's a long way from here.
Hold on to your life, even if it's easier to let go.
Hold on to my hand, even if someday I'll be gone away from you."

~ A Pueblo Indian Prayer

Gratitude

“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
― Marcel Proust

Better to lose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles.
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Better to lose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles.
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“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive—to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love—then make that day count!”
― Steve Maraboli

Embrace your blessings.

Make today worth remembering.

Empty Box

The story goes that some time ago a man punished his 5-year-old daughter for wasting a roll of expensive gold wrapping paper. Money was tight and he became even more upset when the child pasted the gold paper so as to decorate a box to put under the Christmas tree.

Nevertheless, the little girl brought the gift box to her father the next morning and said, "This is for you, Daddy." The father was embarrassed by his earlier overreaction, but his anger flared again when he found the box was empty. He spoke to her in a harsh manner, "Don't you know, young lady, when you give someone a present there’s supposed to be something inside the package?" The little girl looked up at him with tears in her eyes and said, "Oh, Daddy, it's not empty. I blew kisses into it until it was full." The father was crushed. He fell on his knees and put his arm around his little girl, and he begged her to forgive him for his unnecessary anger.

An accident took the life of the child only a short time later and it is told that the father kept that gold box by his bed for all the years of his life. And whenever he was discouraged or faced difficult problems he would open the box and take out an imaginary kiss and remember the love of the child who had put it there.

Author unknown

 

SECRET OF DEATH

”What is the secret of Death?” wonders the Sense
“Life and Death goes hand in hand,” answers Life
“People don’t fear Death, they fear the thought of Death,” exclaims Death
“Those who fear Death has lost Life,” answers Time
“People respect Death more than Life,” answers the Present
“People fear the Unknown,” says Future
“There is nothing to fear except fear for itself,” answers the Unknown
“The answers is hidden in the heart of Life,” whispers the Heart
“I am all there is,” shouts Love
“Love life as it is,” whispers Death 


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All who have died are equal

"All who have died are equal."
Comanche sayings

Photo: Marzena Wieczorek

There is no death, only a change of worlds.
~ Native American Proverb

Be With Those Who Help Your Being

Be with those who help your being.
Don’t sit with indifferent people, whose breath
comes cold out of their mouths.
Not these visible forms, your work is deeper.
A chunk of dirt thrown in the air breaks to pieces.
If you don’t try to fly,
and so break yourself apart,
you will be broken open by death,
when it’s too late for all you could become.
Leaves get yellow. The tree puts out fresh roots
and makes them green.
Why are you so content with a love that turns you yellow?

Rumi
Ode 2865 Trans. Coleman Barks

Making a difference

A friend was walking down a deserted Mexican beach at sunset. As he walked along, he began to see another man in the distance. As he grew nearer, he noticed that the local native kept leaning down, picking something up and throwing it out into the water. Time and again he kept hurling things out into the ocean. As my friend approached even closer, he noticed that the man was picking up starfish that had washed up on the beach, and, one at a time, he was throwing them back into the water. My friend was puzzled.
He approached the man and said. "Good evening, friend. I was wondering what you are doing."
"I'm throwing these starfish back into the ocean. You see, it's low tide right now and all of these starfish have been washed up onto the shore. If I don't throw them back into the sea, they'll die up here from lack of oxygen."
"I understand," my friend replied, "but there must be thousands of starfish on this beach. You can't possibly get to all of them. There are simply too many. And don't you realize this is probably happening on hundreds of beaches all up and down this coast. Can't you see that you can't possibly make a difference?"
The local native smiled, bent down and picked up yet another starfish, and as he threw it back into the sea, he replied, "Made a difference to that one!"


Author Unknown

Photo: Beach Wallpaper

More precious than a gem

"A wise woman who was traveling in the mountains found a precious stone in a stream. The next day she met another traveler who was hungry, and the wise woman opened her bag to share her food. The hungry traveler saw the precious stone and asked the woman to give it to him. She did so without hesitation. The traveler left, rejoicing in his good fortune. He knew the stone was worth enough to give him security for a lifetime.
But a few days later he came back to return the stone to the wise woman. "I've been thinking," he said, "I know how valuable the stone is, but I give it back in the hope that you can give me something even more precious. Give me what you have within you that enabled you to give me the stone."


Author Unknown

What is Luck?

“I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
― Thomas Jefferson

"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."
— Seneca

“Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

 “Luck is not fate. Believe it or not, it's largely an attitude.”
― Willis Turner

“It's a question of attitude. If you really work at something you can do it up to a point. If you really work at being happy you can do it up to a point. But anything more than that you can't. Anything more than that is luck.”
― Haruki Murakami,

Be a winner.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ask the right Questions

Questions..

A man was sitting at the gate of a town, an old man. A rider stopped, a horse rider and asked him, “What are the people of this town like?”

The old man asked, “Why do you ask this?”

The rider said, “The people of the town I have come from are very indecent. I was upset and disturbed by them. I had to leave that town. Now I want to become a resident of some new town. So I am asking you how the people of this town are.”

The old man said, “Brother, you had better move on. The people of this town are even more vile, more wicked, more indecent. Here you will get into trouble, go look somewhere else.”

The rider moved on. Just behind him a bullock cart came to a halt and a man looked around and said, “Grandfather, how are the people of this village? I am searching for a new residence.”

The old man asked again, “How were the people of the village you have left?”

Tears came to the eyes of that man. He said, “I didn’t want to leave, helplessly I had to leave. The people of that village were very loving. Now wherever I live the memory of those people will torment me. I was helpless, I was in economic difficulty. I had to leave it so that I can earn something, I need to try my luck somewhere else. But I have just one ambition that whenever my luck improves, I will return there. I will reside in that village, in the end I want to die in that village. If I cannot live there then at least I want to die there.”

That old man said, “You are welcome. You will find the people of this village even more loving than the people of that village.”

A man was sitting there listening to all this. First he heard what the horse rider said and the old man’s answer. Then he heard what this man on the bullock cart said and the old man’s answer. The man said, “You have really surprised me. You said to one man that this village is very vile and wicked, just move on. And to the other you said this village has very loving people, you have no need to go further, you are welcome! The old man explained, “People are just the way you are. Everywhere men are the same. The real thing is your question.”

Osho

"The world is nothing but our own reflection."

Find your Passion

"Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it."
— Juliia Child

Photo: Yuri Shalimov


"Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion."
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

the Power of Passion

"Renew your passions daily.”
– Terri Guillemets 

Photo: Dimitry Chaschin 

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."
— Friedrich Nietzsche 

Does this path have a heart?

Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself, and yourself alone, one question . . . Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't it is of no use. Both paths lead nowhere; but one has a heart, the other doesn't. One makes for a joyful journey; as long as you follow it, you are one with it. The other will make you curse your life. One makes you strong; the other weakens you.

-From The Teachings of don Juan 

 

Make a start. Start today.

Photo: Albert Watson

begin with end in mind

Nowness is always changeable

Now-ness is always changeable and you´re sensational. 

Self-knowledge is chosen truth lies in moment to moment.

- Saga

the key is to Focus,

put first things first

Simply Be

"When I let go of what I am,
I become what I might be"

- Lao Tzu

simply Be

A Cup of Tea

Nan-in, a Japanese master during the Meiji era (1868-1912), received a university professor who came to inquire about Zen.
Nan-in served tea. He poured his visitor’s cup full, and then kept on pouring.
The professor watched the overflow until he no longer could restrain himself.
“It is overfull. No more will go in!”
“Like this cup,” Nan-in said, “you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your cup?”

Finding a Piece of the Truth

One day Mara, the Evil One, was traveling through the villages of India with his attendants. He saw a man doing walking meditation whose face was lit up on wonder. The man had just discovered something on the ground in front of him. Mara’s attendant asked what that was and Mara replied,
“A piece of truth.”
“Doesn’t this bother you when someone finds a piece of truth, O Evil One?” his attendant asked.
“No,” Mara replied. “Right after this, they usually make a belief out of it.”




zen-stories

Rest in Awareness

“Awareness is a choiceless consciousness. Awareness is the capacity to embrace, accept and include both joy and sadness, love and aloneness, light and darkness, male and female qualities and life and death.
Through saying “yes” and accepting both tendencies and including whatever aspect that happens in the moment, we meet our unlimited and boundless inner being. The inner man and woman need to find their own independence and integrity.”
― Swami Dhyan Gite

Here and Now

Say Yes
pushthepressure

Happiness is a state of being. Be happy.

Beauty

“Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.”

― Markus Zusak

"We are surrounded by beauty," said the blind man with a smile.

- Saga

Fabio & Moon - Ragga Djungel

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DJ Fabio & Moon

To be or not to be?

"A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer."
~ Bruce Lee

What is Love?

"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."
— Rumi

Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
Maya Angelou

 
 

Bladerunner - Take Me Higher

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What is Freedom?

Dear Gate Keeper

I forgive you for your Foolishness

a new Mirror you are

forgive me

for my un-knowledge

I have learned

that I can´t control what I don´t know

so I learned to know

a little bit more

of myself

many gifts you brought things I never would have thought

you opened the Gate to myself

forever Grateful I am, powerful I am
we all are
deeply interconnected

to the truth

I stop there, I don’t like the word powerful and I wounder why? Powerful is a strong word with variable answers, you see what you know. Easily misled and misunderstood. It needs clarity.

Powerful. Powerful is Good. Big responsibility it brings.

Powerful Love.
I like that.
In Love we Trust.

You have to know your Desire. The fire is strong, the strongest of the strong so you need to be brave and make sure you dont go wrong. Here we are the same, to the stars we aim.

No words are needed in one language of understanding.

Stop the world just for a second and breathe, feel its enjoyment.

Absorb the sweetness of passion, let it be your captain.

Can you feel it?

It´s You

feeling You

Breathe All In.
Love All out.

Love is pure, unconditional love humans cure.
Misunderstood the love is, many thinks its just a kiss.
Your love is your light, it also shows your height.

Awaken the energy inside, let it take you on a ride.

Find your missing puzzle piece, it will give you peace.

All change start within, put all love in.

Freedom

I have been told that once we accept freedom

it cant be taken from us.

What is Freedom?

Namaste

Learning to be free

© Saga Art Poetry

stay in Love

 

Keep Looking

Keep Looking Up
that´s the secret of Life
- Snoopy

Be a Warrior

"There's a day when you realize that you're not just a survivor, you're a warrior. You're tougher than anything it (life) throws your way."
Brooke Davis

Say Yes to Life; Yeah to it all.

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Lessons Learned In Life

the Dragons Breathe

Always be a yourself
unless you are a Dragon
then be a Dragon

The Dragons Breathe

He taught me peace, the Dragon with the Golden Fleece

I felt the fire burning under my desire, waiting to set on fire

his breathe was calm like the sweetest balm

I let the Dragon breathe me,

I wondered how much it would change me

© Saga Art

Picture: Flash-screen

Love always gives more

I miss you, I miss you, I miss you so much.
I feel you close, my dear hearts desire.
Come closer, dear Keeper,
the Keeper of Desire
Open the Gate
to the Unknown fate
feel, feel more, up and down expanding,
no need for landing
true mirror I see and feel,
so outstanding
breath, breath more
cant get enough, give me more to explore
always loving it,
One love, One heart, free from war
breath, breath more, give more
Love always gives more,
always leaves you wanting more

so does Desire

© Saga Art

Blessing

"May the Great Mystery make sunrise in your heart"
~Sioux Indian Saying.

May you have all the happiness your heart can hold. 

Lorde - Royals

The beauty of a Woman

“The beauty of a Woman is not in a facial mole, but true beauty in a Woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she knows.”
― Audrey Hepburn

Dance More

"We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams."
— Albert Einstein

Green Light all the way

The green light will show you where to go, struggles will show your wrong, your soul will lead you where you belong. Compassion will always bring you home. Never hate always travel lightweight, nonsense drags you down, happiness brings you hometown. Go with the flow and everything feels like home.

Don’t worry. You´re Beautiful

We´re surrounded by Life, all the time
open your heart and embrace yourself
You´re part of it, you´re part of this Magic life
by your feelings and thoughts and your ‘day to day life

Don’t worry, you're just fine
perfect as you are
Don’t worry, you´re beautiful
embrace yourself
You´re beautiful, so beautiful

The past is past, you can always start again
make a new beginning and make a new ending
We are all angels with only one wing
we embrace each other to try to fly
You´re not alone, if we fail let’s start again

Don’t worry, to be awake is to be alive
now-ness is always changeable and you´re sensational
self-knowledge is chosen truth lies in moment to moment
You´re life is a revolution, not just a process of evolution
It’s what you make of it, always have been, always will be

Don’t worry, you´re beautiful
perfect as you are
You´re beautiful, so beautiful
embrace yourself

© SagaArt