AOM Meditations: 092320

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WELCOME TO AUTUMN!

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“I sat, a solitary man,

In a crowded London shop,

An open book and empty cup

On the marble table-top.

While on the shop and street I gazed

My body of a sudden blazed;

And twenty minutes more or less

It seemed, so great my happiness,

That I was blessed and could bless.”

~W.B. Yeats

(The Winding Stair and Other Poems)

All that mattered was that 

I was blessed and I could bless

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"It is important to realize that forgiveness is a practice

One must continue to practice it to become better at it

Also we must understand that Forgiveness is a process

Requiring the work of the heart to work through the pain

Forgiveness means 

we do not carry the hate of the past in ourselves

Forgiveness is one of the key spiritual arts

To forgive releases the past allowing life to start anew"

~Jack Kornfield

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Years after the war and their release from prison

Two ex-prisoners of war met

One asked the other,

"Have you forgiven your captors yet?"

The other answered,

"No! Never!"

The one then said,

"Well, they still have you in prison, don't they."

~Jack Kornfield

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"Hatred never ceases by hatred

But by Love alone is healed.

This is the ancient and eternal law."

~Buddha

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"Hatred never ceases by hatred

But by Love alone is healed.

This is the ancient and eternal law."

~Buddha

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"Hatred never ceases by hatred

But by Love alone is healed.

This is the ancient and eternal law."

~Buddha

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Between 

Winter and Spring

There is Forgiveness

~AOM

Parting Shot: 100118

Come sit beside me here

Let us commune with Nature

And with each other, my Friend

Peace and Love Be With You

((((HUGS))))

AOM Meditations: 092518

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"Perhaps it’s impossible to wear an identity 

without becoming what you pretend to be."

~Orson Scott Card

(Ender’s Game)

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THE CALL TO LIVE EVERYTHING

"One of the sad things today is that so many people are frightened by the wonder of their own presence. They are dying to tie themselves into a system, a role, or to an image, or to a predetermined identity that other people have actually settled on for them. This identity may be totally at variance with the wild energies that are rising inside in their souls. Many of us get very afraid and we eventually compromise. We settle for something that is safe, rather than engaging the danger and the wildness that is in our own hearts. We should never forget that death is waiting for us. 

A man in Connemara said one time to a friend of mine, ‘Beidh muid sínte siar,’ a duirt sé, ‘cúig mhilliúin blain déag faoin chré’ – We’ll be lying down in the earth for about fifteen million years, and we have a short exposure. I feel that when you recognize that death is on its way, it is a great liberation, because it means that you can in some way feel the call to live everything that is within you. One of the greatest sins is the unlived life, not to allow yourself to become chief executive of the project you call your life, to have a reverence always for the immensity that is inside of you."

~John O'Donohue

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"Today is the perfect day to stop 

and appreciate all that you are. 

Every single little bit. 

Today is the perfect day 

to nurture a love that blooms 

from the inside to the out, 

not from other people, 

but from yourself."

~Nicole Addison

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AOM Meditations: 092418

“Autumn is a second spring 

when every leaf is a flower.” 

~Albert Camus

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“Fall has always been my favorite season. 

The time when everything 

bursts with its last beauty, 

as if nature had been saving up all year 

for the grand finale.” 

~Lauren DeStefano, 

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“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious 

as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house."

~Nathaniel Hawthorne

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“That old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, obligations gathering, books and football in the air ... Another fall, another turned page: there was something of jubilee in that annual autumnal beginning, as if last year's mistakes had been wiped clean by summer.” 

~Wallace Stegner

MUSIC: "Autumn: I. Allegro" by Antonio Vivaldi

GLORIOUS AUTUMN!!!

Antonio Vivaldi 

"Autumn: I. Allegro"

from "The Four Seasons" Concertos for Violin

Joshua Bell, violin

John Constable, harpsichord

Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

YouTube Direct Link: https://youtu.be/e8a4_fsT-4Y

Autumnal Naturists: 092418

Early autumn is a favorite time of year for me

It's warm enough to be naked outdoors

or for wearing just a pair of shorts

Yet, there is a slight chill on the breeze

That hardens my nipples and my penis

My skin becomes very sensitive

As I become more sensual

As soon as I feel autumn's chill

My shirt comes off

WOOOOOOOOOOF I LOVE THE FEELING!

I consider it one of my rutting seasons

As I tend to be even more horny than usual

So come along with  me

Let's shuck off our textile cages

And Enjoy Nature Naturally