MJJC poem or quote of the day

[billyworld99]

hi how about starting a threat with a quote or poem that express our emotions or inspired us each day

here's one

Being At Peace

Just for Today I want to be at Peace. I want to feel that long needed, soothing inner peace inside my soul, inside my bones.

Just for Today I want to be at Peace. Even if it means giving up a few things:

Even if it means giving up those little private conversations I have with myself about other people's driving behavior. Even if it means letting go of a ripe opportunity to judge their selfish driving habits, and even if it means passing up the opportunity to remind myself of how just my values are compared to theirs.

Just For Today I want to be at Peace. I guess, even if it means letting go of other opportunities throughout this day to privately judge others for their selfishness, their stupidity, their thoughtlessness. I guess, even if it means passing up a few opportunities to privately speculate and judge the state of the world, and how much better off it would be if people would just do what I know is best for everyone.

I think that I really want to be at Peace today. Even if it means that I must let go of being right, even when I am right. Even if it means that I have to let go of following out my private conversations in my head about how right I am, how logical, how rational. Even if it means that I must let go of my inner debates on my self esteem, my correctness, my self consciousness, what others think of me, how I might be appearing to others. Even if it means that I won't have the luxury of dwelling in my self consciousness, self pity, or anger.

I really like the way Peace feels. And just for today, I want to feel some peace.

Tomorrow is another day, with plenty of opportunity to renew my judgment of other's selfishness and thoughtlessness, my criticisms of the world's ways, my rightness about the inequality in the world, my obsessive private conversations about my ego and what other's think of me.

Just because I miss a few opportunities for that today, there will still be plenty of opportunity for that tomorrow. I can afford to be at Peace today, because I can always pick up those other habits tomorrow. There will always be other chances to worry, to judge, be angry, self righteous, intolerant.

I don't need to be afraid of giving up my judgment, criticisms, and anxieties Just For One Little Day now do I ?

Just For Today, I want to be at Peace. Even if it means that I'll need to give up some opportunities to show people how much I know about everything, and even if I have to give up a day spent watching for chances to impress others, and make sure they know how much I know.

I may have to let go of an opportunity to correct someone's misinformation, to give them the right facts, or set the record straight.

I heard someone once say, "For peace of mind resign as general manager of the Universe."

I may have to let go of some worry, or self concern about wearing the right clothes, having the right smile, making sure that I don't do anything politically incorrect, knowing everything, and having studied everything with more integrity than anyone else possibly could have, else they would have arrived at the same conclusions that I did. I'll have to give up opportunities to be important, or make sure others know how important I am.

I'll have to tell my ego to take a hike when it demands that I bow down and spend every waking hour of my day re-framing everything into how perfect I am, how wonderful I am, how anything I am.

I'll have to let go of anything that doesn't feel peaceful.
Just For Today.

 

[billyworld99]

"Only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain."


The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers."

"Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk."


"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear."

 

[XxWelshFanxX]

I wasn't sure where to post this so I thought this thread would be my best bet. I wrote this thing, and its about hope. It was inspired me someone I know who is going through a real tough time and the moment and my misfortune at the start of the year, and it can also refer to Michael. Everything he went through, he never gave up hope and I admired him for that. Michael had the vision, he saw what other couldn't see, he saw how important nature and its animals were, he saw these things as hope and that's why he was so passionate about them. He saw the beauty in things.
I wanted to write something similar to what Michael wrote in his Dancing The Dream so I came up with his, I might have gone a bit too ambition with it. The voice of the piece is similar to Michael, he was fulll of wisdom and this piece of writing is too. Let me know what you think. Here it is


A foreign man came up to me, and proclaimed that his life was over.
I told him not to be so shy of hope, for there’s always a way forward.
“I’ve ruined everything, lost it all” he says to me “nothing can bring back all that I loved”
I looked at him and told him not be so adverse; lessons are learnt in life in order for us to move on.
The man whimpered “how can you talk so foolishly about hope when the word is riddled with failings”
He proceeds “wake up, wake up and see for yourself the lack of fortune around us”

I sighed, for this man did not know how to look.
I told him “Sir, I am fully awake, my eyes are open, my heart is beating, I hear the sounds of life, I am awake.”
“I woke up this morning to find a rainbow, a rainbow created by the brilliance of the sun and the bitter sting of rain. I woke up to the sounds of the birds singing even after suffering the dark skies. I woke up and the first thing my feet touched was the ground and the first face I saw was a smile. I woke up when everyone else were still asleep, yet I knew I was not alone. I woke up this morning, because my dreams kept me company through the night. I woke up and all I could think of was moving forward”

The man looked at me in awe; he had never known that these things mattered.

“If you only look closely to what is around you, no matter how whimsical or superficial they are, in each of these things there is an understanding so deep, that it takes a broken heart to realize their existence.” I said to him “ In order for hope to become real, we must fall and break everything we love, we must commit mistakes and suffer the consequences, we must take on judgement in order for us to draw conclusions of our hardship, we must hurt and bleed, and only then can we learn how to repair. Hope is a second chance for our mistakes, hope surrounds us so that we know we’re not alone, to deny that hope is to deny yourself of salvation.”

The foreign man shed a single tear and put forth his hand to me, he said “ may I shake your hand” I accepted his gesture and shook is hollow hand, then he looked deep in my eyes and revealed “ All these years I’ve been searching for hope but to no avail, today I have found what my heart has been urging me to find, I now know what hope looks like” he proceeded “I always thought hope was something that cannot be seen, but if my eyes do not deceive me I see hope right in front of me, hope looks like you, and this is why I am shaking your hand, I’m shaking hands with hope, I have made and agreement, which is long overdue.”

 

[billyworld99]

that's very beautiful thanks for posting