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The Mastery of Love - Pick a card

If you can heal yourself, then you are going to be ready for a relationship without fear, without need. If you and your partner each work on yourselves, you will see how quickly progress is made. - Don Miguel Ruiz, The Mastery of Love

Un amour plus grand que l'amour

Frères,
Parmi les dons de Dieu,
Vous chercherez à obtenir ce qu'il y a de meilleur.
Eh bien, je vais vous indiquer une voie supérieur à toutes les autres.

J'aurais beau parler toutes les langues de la terre et du ciel,
Si je n'ai pas la charité, s'il me manque l'amour,
je ne suis qu'un cuivre qui résonne,
une cymbale retentissante.
J'aurais beau être prophète,
avoir toute la science des mystères,
et toute la connaissance de Dieu,
et toute la foi jusqu'à transporter les montagnes,
s'il me manque l'amour,
je ne suis rien.
J'aurais beau distribuer toute ma fortune aux affamés,
j'aurais beau me faire brûler vif,
s'il me manque l'amour,
cela ne me sert à rien.
L'amour prend patience,
l'amour rend service,
l'amour ne jalouse pas,
il ne se vante pas,
ne se gonfle pas d'orgueil,
il ne fait rien de malhonnête,
il ne cherche pas son intérêt,
il ne s'emporte pas,
il n'entretient pas de rancune,
il ne se réjouit pas de ce qui est mal
mais il trouve la joie dans ce qui est vrai,
il supporte tout,
il fait confiance en tout,
il espère tout, il endure tout
L'amour ne passera jamais.

Lecture de la première lettre de Saint Paul, apôtre, aux Corinthiens (12,31 -13,8a)

A note from the Universe!

Don't forget, to put a picture of yourself in your scrapbook or on your visionboard!

And whenever imagining the life of your dreams, do the same. Be there, in the picture. Feel the textures, hear the sounds, see the sights, feel the joy, and taste the double-chocolate-ice-cream-latte-mocha breakfast meal.

I'd hate to deliver your new Journey to the wrong person!

Tallyho,

The Universe

Ombres et Lumière

« Ami Photographe. À toi qui peut crier la beauté sans rompre le silence. À toi, voleur de lumière, qui emprisonne le temps sur la pellicule. Apprends-moi à voir d'un oeil nouveau le vieux décor de ma vie. Fais-moi aimer le petit matin, le soleil du jour et les ombres de la nuit... »

-- Maurice Migneault

L'automne...

...que font les fées?

All You Need Is Love - The Beatles

Love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love.

There's nothing you can do that can't be done.
Nothing you can sing that can't be sung.

Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game

It's easy.

There's nothing you can make that can't be made.

No one you can save that can't be saved.

Nothing you can do but you can learn how to be you in time.

It's easy.

All you need is love, all you need is love,

All you need is love, love, love is all you need.

Love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love.

All you need is love, all you need is love,

All you need is love, love, love is all you need.
There's nothing you can know that isn't known.
Nothing you can see that isn't shown.
Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be.
It's easy.

All you need is love, all you need is love,
All you need is love, love, love is all you need.
All you need is love (all together now)
All you need is love (everybody)
All you need is love, love, love is all you need.

Henri Cartier-Bresson - "Behind the Gare Saint Lazare"

Ces gens qui partent en courant sous la pluie...
Dos tournés,
Yeux ailleurs,

Intersections,

Nouveaux chemins,

D'autres fréquences,

On laisse aller...

Dolphin Rings

Life is magical.

Dentelle

Tout est parfait.

Rire!

Se forcer soi-même à rire aux éclats quand on se sent moins bien.

Pourquoi ne pas l'essayer dès maintenant?

http://www.passeportsante.net/DocumentsProteus/PopupHTML/flash_rire.htm

The Great Work

Solar Plexus is full of Light

Heart is speaking

Stomach is full

Life is full
Here, I AM.

Générations

Regardes tes femmes grand-maman,
On a tes yeux brillants, tes belles joues, ton sourire...
Je t'aime

Woodpecker spirit

When a Woodpecker totem enters your life, it indicates that the foundation is there and it is safe to follow through. It will stimulate new rhythms. It reflects a wakening of new mental faculties.

You may be so wrapped up in mental and spiritual activities that you've neglected the physical. Listen to your body's rhythms and sounds and heed what it is telling you.

Those with this totem often find that their path in life will not always conform to society's standards and that their personal unique rhythm needs to be honored. Woodpeckers teach us to honor our personal truth and move through life with perseverance and inner strength. By staying grounded in our pursuits our goals can be obtained.

The woodpecker is known as the Earths drummer. Drumming is the heartbeat of mother earth and is associated with shamanism and the ability to move into other dimensions at will. For those with this totem the woodpecker represents self discovery. As they peck into and through trees and dead wood, hidden layers of ones psyche are revealed. Those with this medicine are good analysts and have strong mental capabilities. They make excellent psychiatrists and psychologists. Woodpeckers are active birds so caution is advised to maintain balance when reviewing any situation or issue. Too much analyzing can result in procrastination.

The woodpecker is able to find food hidden under layers of bark and wood and teaches us to dig deeply to find truth and deceptions. Woodpecker energy is associated with prophecy and the ability to see deeper than surface lies.

Woodpecker is telling us that even if something seems difficult to do, not to give up. To do what works, even if it is unconventional. To set your own pace, your own rhythm.

When Woodpecker bores into a tree in search of the beetles and insects which provide her sustenance, she uses her beak and head to drum out the holes and uncover her meal. This symbolizes the need for one with Birth Totem Woodpecker to gain emotional perspective, to learn when detachment is needed, to literally use her head instead of recklessly following her heart.

This is the process of integrating the emotional Center with that of the Mind/Physical, and a challenging task for one as sensitive and prone to bouts of overwhelming emotion as he. Yet when true discernment can be found, learning when to give freely, and learning when another is merely tapping a life sustaining vein without returning energy, then Woodpecker may find the rhythm of his own true Heartbeat, and make the leap across planes to greet an integrated Self.

Body-Mind-Spirit

Ces 3 mousquetaires! Merci!

Les symptômes de paix intérieure

Les symptômes de paix intérieure, Par Saskia Davis, 1984

· - Une tendance à agir spontanément au lieu d’à partir de peurs basées sur des expériences antérieures;

· - Une habileté indubitable à prendre plaisir à chaque instant;

· - Une perte d’intérêt à juger les autres;

· - Une perte d’intérêt à se juger soi-même;

· - Une perte d’intérêt à interpréter les actions des autres;

· - Une perte d’intérêt pour le conflit;

· - Une perte de l’habileté à s’inquiéter (ceci est un symptôme très sérieux);

· - Épisodes d’appréciation fréquents et exaltants;

· - Sentiments de satisfaction quant à la connexion aux autres et à la nature;

· - Attaques fréquentes de sourire;

· - Une tendance accrue à laisser les choses se produire au lieu de les faire arriver;

· - Une susceptibilité accrue à l’amour offert par les autres, ainsi qu’un élan incontrôlable d’en offrir.

AVERTISSEMENT : Si vous présenter quelques uns ou tous les symptômes ici énumérés, veuillez comprendre que votre condition de paix intérieure est peut-être si avancée qu’elle soit dorénavant incurable. Si vous êtes exposé à quelque personne présentant n’importe quel de ces symptômes, vous vous exposez à vos propres risques.

Diane Arbus - Photographer - 1923-1971

Soon after Arbus began her studies with Lisette Model, she began to devote herself fully to documenting transvestites, twins, midgets, people on the streets and in their homes, and asylum inmates. Arbus's pictures are almost invariably confrontational: the subjects look directly at the camera and are sharply rendered, lit by direct flash or other frontal lighting. Her subjects appear to be perfectly willing, if not eager, to reveal themselves and their flaws to her lens. She said of her pictures, "What I'm trying to describe is that it's impossible to get out of your skin into somebody else's.... That somebody else's tragedy is not the same as your own." And of her subjects who were physically unusual, she said, "Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. [These people] were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats." Arbus's photographs drew immediate attention from the artistic community. She was awarded Guggenheim Fellowships in 1963 and 1966 to continue her work. In 1967 her work was mounted in the New Documents show at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, along with the work of two other influential, new photographers: Gary Winogrand and Lee Friedlander. For the most part, the exhibition received extremely good reviews.
http://photography-now.net/diane_arbus/portfolio1.html

5 of Cups

Zeus...

Virtues of clay

"When Living Clay is consumed, its vital force is released into the physical body and mingles with the vital energy of the body, creating a stronger, more powerful energy in the host. Its particles are agents of stimulation and transformation capable of withholding and releasing energy at impulse. The natural magnetic action transmits a remarkable power to the organism and helps to rebuild vital potential through the liberation of latent energy. When it is in contact with the body, its very nature compels it to release its vital force from which so many plants and animals feed."
LIVING CLAY Nature's Own Miracle CureCalcium Bentonite Clay by PerryA

Merci Lucie! http://aromargil-botanik.com/

Sad clown

I miss you

Smilin'!! Pascale Picard

Surrendering / Giving up

When you surrender, you are calm. When you give up, you are exasperated.

When you surrender, doors open. When you give up, you slam the doors shut.

When you surrender, you soar to unknown heights. When you give up, you delve into the depths of despair.

Beautiful Day?

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Demandez et vous recevrez.

Recevoir, c'est donner la chance aux autres d'offrir une partie d'eux, avec tout le plaisir qu'engendre ce geste.

It

Anxiétés

Mariage, tout en sourires!

Lumière

Tenir la lumière ou s'accrocher à ce qui coule...?

Tenir la lumière et traîner ce qui coule...

Tenir la lumière et assumer ce qui coule...

Fixer la lumière et avancer...!

The Way I Am - Ingrid Michaelson

Life is Beautiful - Sixx:A.M.

You can’t quit until you try

You can’t live until you die

You can’t learn to tell the truth

Until you learn to lie

You can’t breathe until you choke

You gotta laugh when you’re the joke

There’s nothing like a funeral to make you feel alive

Just open your eyes

Just open your eyes

And see that life is beautiful.

Will you swear on your life,

That no one will cry at my funeral?

I know some things that you don’t

I’ve done things that you won’t

There’s nothing like a trail of blood to find your way back home

I was waiting for my hearse

What came next was so much worse

It took a funeral to make me feel alive

Just open your eyes

Just open your eyes

And see that life is beautiful.

Will you swear on your life,

That no one will cry at my funeral?

Just open your eyes

Just open your eyes

And see that life is beautiful.

Will you swear on your life,

That no one will cry at my funeral?

Just open your eyes

Just open your eyes

And see that life is beautiful.

Will you swear on your life,

That no one will cry at my funeral?

Just open your eyes

Just open your eyes

And see that life is beautiful.

Will you swear on your life,

That no one will cry at my funeral?

Belle fin de semaine

Merci!

Les vagues mauves

Enfin une illustration de ce que j'ai vu dans le noir de mes yeux!
Sourire aux lèvres,
Quelle paix...

photo de Tomer Jacobson

Hummingbird

In MEDICINE CARDS: THE DISCOVERY OF POWER THROUGH THE WAYS OF ANIMALS, Jamie Sams and David Carson say that, for many people, the hummingbird is the creature that opens the heart.

When we assume hummingbird consciousness, our life becomes a wonderland of sensuous delights. We live for beauty, delighting in flowers, aromas, fine mist, and delicate tastes.

When it becomes our totem, the hummingbird teaches us to laugh and enjoy the creation, to appreciate the magic of being alive, and the truth of beauty.

Hummingbirds awaken us to the beauty of the present moment. As they dance the four quarters of embodied existence, they bring us medicine to solve the riddle of duality. They also awaken us to the medicinal properties of plants.

In ANIMAL SPEAK, Ted Andrews says hummingbirds teach us how to draw the life essence from flowers. "They can teach us how to use flowers to heal and win hearts in love."

Hummingbirds teach us fierce independance. They teach us to fight in a way where no one really gets hurt. They teach us simple courage. Andrews says the twittering, vibrating sounds of the hummingbirds bring us an internal masage that restores health and balance.

Hummingbirds also inspire us to protect the environment and to preserve old traditions that are in danger of being lost. When Native American ways were being destroyed by the expanding Euro-American culture, the Ghost-Shirt religion was established to try to bring back the animals and old ways through dancing. The leader of the dance was a hummingbird.

Certainly hummingbird magic is available to all who live in the New World. There is something inside the soul of all of us that wants to soar through sunbeams, then dance midair in a delicate mist, then take a simple bath on a leaf.

There is something in our souls that wants to hover at beautiful moments in our lives, making them freeze in time. There is something in us that wants to fly backwards and savor once more the beautiful past.

Some of us are just hummingbird people.

http://hummingbirdworld.com/h/totem.htm

Viva La Vida - Coldplay

An illusion

Type 1

Citation du jour

Les chefs voient en grand,

Les soldats voient en détails,

et c'est la perfection.

-BK

Surrender

Du miel

Miam Miam...
De temps en temps...

Ça fait du bien à l'égo!

Psycho - Puddle Of Mudd

Are you? Aren't we all?

Citation du jour

Fuit on te suit.

Suit on te fuit.

I Dont Care - Apocalyptica

Talking to/of my shadow

Belle journée

Merci

Frog Energy

Frog's song calls down the cleansing power of the rain. Frog is a reminder of the sacred power of tears to tranform and cleanse away sorrow. Frogs will die if away from moisture for too long, and thus Frog reminds us to refresh ourselves, and allow joy to moisten our lives and our hearts. If you are feeling "muddied" by the world, take a moment to dream, to laugh and cry and renew yourself. Frog also reminds us to cleanse our bodies, our environments and our auric fields. People with Frog energy should learn and utilize methods of psychic cleansing.

Frog is able to work equally well in the realms of Earth/Air (conscious) and in Water (unconscious.), taking in the unconsicious almost by osmosis. Frog people are often artists, mystics, psychics and healers. They are often empathic, excellent at reading others and in knowing how to help them heal.

Care must be taken however, not to become swamped by taking in the emotions of others. Frog reminds us to cleanse our bodies, our environments and our auric fields. People with Frog energy should learn and utilize methods of psychic cleansing so that they do not become bogged down. It is imperative to learn how to recognize when people, situations and circumstances are draining energy, and to cleanse them out of your aura so that you may sing freely.

A tadpole's shape mirrors that of the spermazoa. Frogs are often seen as a symbol of fertility and creativity. Frog people should nourish their creative side.

Frog people may go through many metamorphoses during their lives, and may change careers several times. Balance will come through respecting these changes and learning to go with the flow.
http://www.serioussilver.com/totemenergy/frog.html

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Quand y'a du moisi
qui se forme,
appelles un ami.

Finally - Fergie

Fell in love with myself

The Joker

Exister

Exister sans auditoire.

Exister sans accomplir.

Exister seule.

En famille

Les fées!

Visiteur - L'ours - Le contrôle des instincts

Représentant par excellence des symboles très contradictoires, l’ours est tantôt vu comme une bête féroce, tantôt comme le doux compagnon des enfants. Alors, ours sauvage ou ours aimant ?

Les amérindiens le voyaient comme un être de pondération, de juste milieu précisément car l’ourse a une faculté rare qui n’avait pas échappé aux observations chamaniques : Si la saison était mauvaise, si les conditions extérieures n’étaient pas réunies (abondance, possibilité de faire des réserves), Maman ourse, très raisonnablement, diffère la gestation de ses petits et attend des jours meilleurs. Car l’ours est avant tout un pragmatique sachant faire preuve de patience s’il le faut, sachant aussi profiter au mieux des richesses à sa disposition, sans les gâcher ni les sous-estimer.

Dans beaucoup de peuples chamaniques, l'Ours joue un rôle dans les cérémonies d'initiation. Chez les Indiens Pomo par exemple (Californie), c'est lui qui « tue » les candidats à l'initiation afin de les faire s’éveiller à un nouveau stade de conscience. L’ours doit donc aussi être considéré comme celui qui initie.

Les gaulois l’associèrent non sans raison à Artio, déesse de la prospérité terrienne car non seulement l’ours possède une physiologie lui permettant de faire des réserves (caractère prudent et prévoyant) mais l’ours ne daigne mettre le nez dehors qu’au retour des beaux jours, quand la nature est riche et florissante (La vierge en analogie représente quant à elle le temps des moissons), le reste du temps, il hiberne...(économie de ses forces et ressources).

Les celtes comme les chinois voient en lui un guerrier farouche doué d’une redoutable intelligence stratégique : volonté, maîtrise nerveuse et esprit méthodique. C'est un animal violent, symbole de la force primitive et de la sauvagerie. Mais il peut être apprivoisé, et, en cela, il symbolise les forces élémentaires capables d'évoluer progressivement. Notons que le mot Ours en celte, Artos, se retrouve dans le nom d'Arthur (Artoris), le souverain de légende représentant si bien « la maîtrise et la juste utilisation de la force ».

Dans la mythologie grecque il accompagne Artémis et représente le passage d’un état à un autre puisque Artemis se présente sous cette forme quand elle assiste aux rites initiatiques. L’ours est donc surtout le symbole de la transition entre la pulsion animale et la maîtrise humaine.

Une légende venue d’Egypte se répandit à travers toute l’Europe : l’ourson est une créature naissant informe et inachevée et c’est les coups de langue de sa mère qui finissent de le façonner, qui lui donnent forme. Métaphore de la volonté et de l’amour transformant l’informe et la matière brute en un être à part entière.

L’expression « Être un ours mal léché » (désignant une personne rude et brutale) n’a pas d’autre origine. D’ailleurs, les alchimistes, en rapport avec cette croyance, firent de l’Ours le symbole de l’œuvre au noir, premier stade où tout est encore chaos appelé pourtant à se sublimer.

Toujours en droite lignée de ce qui précède, Jung attribue aux rêves d’Ours une valeur d’inconscient qui doit être travaillé : on doit dépasser la primarité bourrue du stade de l’ours. On notera également la fascination de l’ours sur l’homme du fait qu’il est un animal capable de se tenir debout.

D’ailleurs, avant le XIIème siècle (et sous l’influence chrétienne), l’ours est considéré un peu partout (Celtes, germains, slaves) comme le roi des animaux (Il y a peu de lions en Europe…) et le lointain ancêtre de l’homme avec qui il partage la verticalité, l’usage de ses « mains », le goût immodéré pour le miel.

Pline raconte que certaines femmes s’accouplent à des ours et au-delà du mythe, il faut bien y voir la profonde hominisation de l’animal. C’est d’ailleurs parce que l’Eglise redoute cette assimilation du plantigrade à un stade sauvage de l’homme (qu’elle nie) qu’elle fera tout pour détrôner ce dernier au profit du lion.

Bref, l’ours est le symbole par excellence de la maîtrise des instincts et de la bestialité. Il est donc celui qui prépare la paix en corrigeant en premier lieu ses propres excès.

II. Personnalité traditionnelle et conseil

Discret, pragmatique, intelligent, méticuleux, patient, sachant ménager ses forces, bon parent, modeste malgré sa force, solitaire, nerveux, irascible, reclus, routinier, taciturne, territorial.

Partenaires conseillés: Oie et Castor.

Conseil du Shaman: Votre besoin de stabilité et de repères pourrait bien entraîner votre perte : sachez partir à l’aventure et libérez vos émotions, la création d’une famille pourra vous y aider car vous avez toutes les qualités requises, c’est en mettant vos qualités au service d’autrui que vous vous libérerez de votre peur et cesserez d’être un solitaire.
http://www.autourdelalune.com/animal-totem/l-ours-et-la-vierge.html

Toute cette joie

Toute cette joie lors des mariages
Ces surdoses d'amours et de rires

Et mes propres larmes derrière la caméra...

Question du jour

What do you gain from eating other people's shit? What's in it for you?

BLUE RODEO - Trust Yourself

Pascale Picard - Gate 22

Say YES more!

An inspirational text of Karl Moore:

What if THREE simple words could change your entire life?
No kidding.

What if you were sitting on a bus in the East End of London, wishing you were somewhere else... when an apparent stranger whispered three powerful words into your ear.

... And those words changed your life. Forever!

Well, that's what happened. To Danny Wallace, in his comedy cum self-help book "Yes Man."

Now I must admit that "Yes Man" hasn't exactly been at the top of my reading pile...

I received it from a close friend last Christmas, alongside a Chris Rea CD and a box of mints. During the drive home, the mints were devoured and the Chris Rea CD exhausted.

The book however...

Well. Let's just say that it's good friends with the inners of my bedside cabinet.
In the book, Danny is given three immortal words while sitting on a bus....

SAY YES MORE.
Say Yes More.
Say Yes More.
Think about it...

Imagine. Just imagine. What if you said YES more?
What if you literally COULDN'T say "No?"
What if you surrendered completely to the flow of life? What if you let "Yes" take you to exactly where it wanted to take you?

What adventures would you experience if you were ONLY TOTALLY OPEN to life?

Think about it.

How would YOUR day change... if you ONLY said YES to every opportunity that came your way... JUST for today?

And how about you try it... ?

(Oh, and if you're interested, click here to buy "Yes Man" from Amazon USA. Highly recommended ... a very funny [and thought-provoking!] book.)

http://www.karlblog.com/blog/2008/05/say-yes-more.html

Bonne fête du Canada! Happy Canada Day!

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"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes - but in having new eyes." - Marcel Proust