“The cure for anything is salt water, sweat, tears or the sea.”
~Isak Dinesen
March 17, 2012 | Categories: Winter 2012 | Tags: ancient, beach, cure, foam, medicine, minerals, salt, sea, splash, sweat ocean remedy, tears, tonic, water | 14 Comments
“Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.”
~ Joseph Campbell
Rumi, the super-pup, wishes everyone a wonderful weekend!!
Much Love ~ RL
March 16, 2012 | Categories: Winter 2012 | Tags: Campbell, challenge, deeper power, forest, opportunities, overcoming, puppy, Rumi, self, trees | 16 Comments
“It is only when we silence the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we can finally hear the whispers of truth that life reveals to us, as it stands knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts.”
~ K.T. Jong
Have a magnificent Thursday!
~ Robyn Lee
March 14, 2012 | Categories: Winter 2012 | Tags: bay, cloud bursts, doorsteps, fields, houses, life, March, peace, quiet mind, reflections, truth, whispers | 25 Comments
“There is no such thing as an ordinary day.”
~ Jim Goodwin
March 13, 2012 | Categories: Winter 2012 | Tags: branches, contrast, Goodwin, life, nature, ordinary, red, rustic, shirt, surprise, trees, unexpected, woods | 6 Comments
“The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and power of contemplation…”
~Aristotle
Candid subject featured in my photo today, contemplating life– while snapping photos of the
Shinnicock Bay, is me
~ Robyn Lee
Special thanks to guest photographer, SBS, for capturing this moment!
March 12, 2012 | Categories: Winter 2012 | Tags: awareness, contemplation, hip, life, March, nature, pain, Ponquogue Bridge, seagulls, Shinnicock Bay, sky, wind | 8 Comments
“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming – dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.”
~ Edgar Allan Poe
March 11, 2012 | Categories: Winter 2012 | Tags: branches, doubt, dream, fear, hiding, lake, nature, peer, refuge, screen, trees | Leave a comment
“This being human is a guest house.”
~ Rumi
Please click the blue link below to read a powerful little poem by Rumi entitled:
The Guest House
The Guest House ~ Welcome « THROUGH THE HEALING LENS
March 11, 2012 | Categories: Winter 2012 | Tags: acceptance, clearing, emotion, field, guest house, human, nature, pond, Rumi, welcome | 8 Comments
“I suppose that’s the secret, if you’re ever wishing for things to go back to the way they were. You just have to look up.”
~ Lauren Oliver
March 10, 2012 | Categories: Winter 2012 | Tags: acceptance, beach, divine, doubt, faith, hope, Love, nature, ocean, regrets, sea, sky | 9 Comments
“Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free.
Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing.
This is the ultimate.”
~ Chuang Tzu
Wishing everyone a wonderful weekend…
Much Love ~ Robyn Lee
March 8, 2012 | Categories: Winter 2012 | Tags: acceptance, Balanced, Block Island, Centered, Chuang Tzu, Flow, focus, Marial Arts, Mohegan Bluff, Tai Chi | 8 Comments
“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.”
~ Aristotle
March 7, 2012 | Categories: Winter 2012 | Tags: branches, cold, crisp, dry, forest, island, leaves, marvel, sand, trees, winter | 14 Comments
“Still round the corner there may wait, a new road or a secret gate.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
This image was captured late one afternoon when I ventured up an outdoor spiral staircase of a vacant home around the corner from mine…I was looking for Glinda and the Munchkins, but could not find them.
Much Love ~ RL
March 6, 2012 | Categories: Winter 2012 | Tags: around the corner, bay, explore, fantasy, magic, mystery, nature, pond, secret, secret gate, spiral stairs, water, wonder | 13 Comments
“The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.”
~ Pablo Picasso
March 5, 2012 | Categories: Winter 2012 | Tags: balance, branches, clouds, color, flowers, harmony, lake, reflections, weeds, winter | 6 Comments
“The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.”
~ John Ruskin
March 4, 2012 | Categories: Winter 2012 | Tags: earth, fields, fruits, labor, prayer, rest, reward, spirit, toil, wheelbarrow, work | 10 Comments
“I Look For the Sacred in Everyday Living.” ~ Robyn Lee
Please click blue link below to read my thoughts on ‘daily ritual’ :
Ritual « THROUGH THE HEALING LENS
March 3, 2012 | Categories: Winter 2012 | Tags: calm, centeredness, daily ritual, everyday, intention, peace, presence, sea, shore, sunset | 8 Comments
“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 A Wonderful Weekend!
Much Love, Robyn Lee
March 2, 2012 | Categories: Winter 2012 | Tags: barriers, bay fence, beach, heart, Love, nature, open, Rumi, sky, trees | 13 Comments
Have a magnificent Thursday!
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