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Monday, January 30, 2012

"Wings"

I
WOULD RATHER
SPEND MY LIFE CLOSE TO THE BIRDS,
THAN WASTE IT,
WISHING I HAD WINGS.
~Unknown
                                                                                                            ~Beannaichte'(1-30-12)


~To Marianne; A True Friend , who has proven to be worthy of the name...
 Marianne's Channel can be viewed, at mommenon 1, on YouTube...
~Blessings, mo Chara!~ Beannaichte'
 



Saturday, January 28, 2012

"Awakening"

~Between
Living
and
 Dreaming 
there is  Something Else...
  
After the Life and the Dream
 
                           Comes what Matters Most;


                                     the Awakening.

Don Paterson
(b.1963),
after Antonio Machado
(1875-1939),
Spain
                                                                                                                                  ~Beannaichte'(1-28-12)
 
                                                                                  
                                                                               
 

           

"Side by Side"

LIFE
HAS TAUGHT ME
THAT LOVE
DOES NOT CONSIST
IN GAZING
AT EACH OTHER,
BUT IN LOOKING OUTWARD,
TOGETHER,
IN THE
SAME
DIRECTION.

~Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(1900-1944)
France
                                                                                                            ~Beannaichte', ( 1-28-12)


Thursday, January 26, 2012

"For Strong Women"

~A Strong Woman
is a Woman
who Loves Strongly, Weeps Strongly,
and has Strong Needs.
~A Strong Woman
is Strong in Words,
in Action,
in Connection,
in Feeling;
~She is not Strong as a Stone, 
but as a Wolf suckling her Young.
~Strength is not in Her, 
but She enacts it
as the Wind fills a Sail.

What Comforts her
is others Loving Her Equally
for the Strength and the Weakness
from which it issues,
Lightning from a Cloud.
Lightning stuns.
In Rain the clouds disperse.
Only Water of Connection remains,
Flowing Through Us.
Strong is what We make each other.
~Until We are Strong Together, 
a Strong Woman
is Strongly Afraid.

~Marge Piercy;
"The Moon is Always Female" 
                                                                                                                         ~Beannaichte'(1-26-12)
 

Friday, January 20, 2012

"Eternal Truth"

 
Bless
a Situation,
and it will
Bless You.

Curse
a Situation,
and it will
Curse you.

~ Unknown
20 January, 2012


~ Beannaichte'

beannaichte@twitter.com
                                                                                                                             

Thursday, January 19, 2012

"Three Questions"

In the End

These Things

Matter Most:

How Well Did You Love?

How Fully Did You Love?

How Deeply Did You Learn 

to Let Go?

~The Buddha
 (c.563-c.483BCE)
   India  
                                                                                                                         ~Beannaichte' (1-19-12)
                


Wednesday, January 18, 2012

"How"

~How

can my Heart

be Unsealed

if 
it remains

Unbroken.

~Khalil Gibran
                                                                                                                        ~Beannaichte' (1-18-12) 

Friday, January 13, 2012

"Mortality"

~When You Die,

it will not be because 
you were sick,

but 
Because You Were Alive.
~Seneca
(c.4BCE-c.65CE),
Rome 
                                                                                                                           ~Beannaichte'  (1-13-12)  
                                                                                                       

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

"Angel"

~The 

First

Thought of God

Was

an

Angel.

~Khalil Gibran
                                                                                                                               
~Beannaichte' (1-11-12)

                   
 

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

"Between"

~Between

Living and Dreaming

There is Something Else.

Guess What It Is.*

*Hint: A nine letter word, beginning 
with the letter"A"and ending in"G".  

~Antonio Machado
(transl. Mary Berg and Dennis Maloney)
                                                                                                                              ~Beannaichte'(1-10-12) 

Monday, January 9, 2012

"Wisdom"

~Wisdom

Comes

With

Winters

Oscar Wilde
(1854-1900)
Ireland
                                                                                                                                ~Beannaichte'(1-9-12)

"Dull People"

~ONLY
DULL PEOPLE
ARE
BRILLIANT
AT
BREAKFAST.
~Oscar Wilde
(1854-1900)
Ireland 


~The first Video Bar is featuring mommenon 1 channel, on YouTube. ~Congratulations, on your first uploads, Marianne.~ I know Eddie, (Teddie 488), is smiling that wonderful smile of his...We Remember...We Remember.






                                                                                                                 ~Beannaichte' (1-9-12) 

Sunday, January 8, 2012

"Know Who I Am"

I cried out to God
Show Me Your Face
and God
sent me a Child
I learned about Surrender
As I gave way to the surges of birthing energy
I learned Compassion
As my little one's cry pierced my heart
I learned Powerlessness
as I laid awake with my inconsolable infant
I learned Faithfulness
Rocking my feverish baby day and night waiting
for the healing,
I found Patience
As my child asked me to do it again
just one more time
I learned Fierceness in love
That could take me to death to defend 
my sweet child
I learned Tolerance
Accepting myself enough to love my child 
in a fit of tantrum,
I learned Kindness
As my tears were kissed away by tiny lips
I learned Respect
As I wondered at the profound wisdom
of one so small,
I learned Humility
Seeing the Divine in the eyes of my Child
God Answered My Cry
Know Who I Am
As You Love Your Child
So It is That I Love You.

~Susan Marie Doyle c.1994
                                                                                                   ~Beannaichte' (1-8-12)


 

Saturday, January 7, 2012

"Forgiveness"

~Always 
  FORGIVE
 YOUR
 ENEMIES;
 NOTHING 
ANNOYS
THEM
SO
MUCH.

~Oscar Wilde
(1854-1900)
                                                                                                                                ~Beannaichte' (1-7-12)

 

Friday, January 6, 2012

"Pain"

 Your Pain 
is the breaking of the shell
that encloses your understanding.
Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its
Heart may stand in the Sun,
so must you know Pain.
And could you keep your Heart in the wonder at the daily
Miracles of your Life,
Your Pain would not seem less wondrous than your Joy.
And would you accept the Seasons of your Heart,
even as you have always accepted the Seasons
 that pass over your Fields.
And would you watch with Serenity
through the Winter of your Grief.
Much of your Pain is self-chosen.
It is the bitter potion by which the Physician
within  you heals the sick self.
Therefore, trust the Physician,
and drink its remedy in Silence and Tranquility;
For his hand though heavy and hard,
is Guided by the Tender hands
of the Unseen. 
And the cup he brings,
though it burns your lips,
has been fashioned of the
clay which the Potter 
has moistened
with His own
Sacred 
Tears.
  
~Khalil Gibran
Lebanon
(1883  -1931)
                                                                                                                                ~Beannaichte' (1-5-12)
~In Loving Memory of Bulent Tunakan, M.D.
~We Remember... We Remember.


Wednesday, January 4, 2012

"Friendship"

And a youth said,
" Speak to us of Friendship."
Your Friend is your Needs answered.
  He is your field which you sow with Love
and reap with Thanksgiving.
And he is your board and your fireside.
For you come to him with your Hunger and you seek him for Peace. 
 When your Friend speaks his mind you fear not the "Nay"
 in your own mind, nor do you withhold the"Ay."
And when he is Silent your Heart ceases not to Listen to his Heart;
for without words, in Friendship,
all thoughts, all desires,
all expectations are born and shared,
with Joy that is unacclaimed.
When you part from your Friend, you Grieve Not;
For that which you Love most in him
may be clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.
And let there be no purpose in Friendship
save but the deepening of Spirit.
For Love that seeks aught but the disclosure
of its own mystery 
is Not Love,
but a net cast forth,
and only the unprofitable is caught.
And let your Best be for your Friend.
If he must know the Ebb of your tide,
let him know its Flood also.
For what is your Friend that you should seek him
with hours to kill?
Seek him always with hours to Live.
For it is his to fill your Need,
but Not your Emptiness.
And in the Sweetness of Friendship let there be Laughter,
and Sharing of  Pleasures.
For in the Dew of Little Things
the Heart finds its Morning
and is Refreshed.
 


~Khalil Gibran
(1883-1931)
Lebanon 


                                                                                                                                  ~Beannaichte'
9 December, 2014
                                                                                
~To my "Forever Friends"...
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