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November 24, 2017 By W. Lee Baker

Dance With Delight

I love pictures that make me feel more alive. Either way, looking deeply into the flower and its parts, or a word picture about swimming in a bursting blossom to dance with delight. It might depend if you like actual pictures or word pictures as your way to be refreshed. I am visual, so I like making my pictures literal. Either way, you have your own imagination to use for your own enjoyment.

Having a way to make the leap into your own enjoyment is one of the best things there is for some well deserved time off. Some time ago I was a pretty awkward dancer. OK, very awkward. A casual friend invited me to an evening dance workshop that he was starting called “Dance as if no one is watching”. Well, I went. It was in a dance studio with space and a good floor. I found it was a small group of people who became comfortable with each other. For the evening we just did whatever felt good moving around the softly lighted room to the music.

I found that when I moved the way I wanted,the feelings inside felt good . This was one step along the path to being more and more free to express myself in so many ways. I am so glad to have taken that step and many others to find my way along this path of life. I like the phrase “more and more” to describe changing and becoming yourself. No desire for perfection or self judgement, just noticing improvement as it happens.

This dance with life is a moving work of art, along with all of the rest of nature around us which is adapting, evolving, improving, and thriving in the right conditions as it happens. We humans call that opportunity. We alone have the dominant ability to intend something, and then look for the way to achieve it or wait for the opportunity to grab it.

I hope to support and inspire, so put on comfortable shoes and move your feet, any way you like, just in your own living room, and enjoy.

Filed Under: Meditations, Noticing in everyday life

MEDITATIONS

Dalai Lama

When the days become longer and there is more sunshine, the grass becomes fresh and, consequently, we feel very happy. On the other hand, in autumn, one leaf falls down and another leaf falls down. The beautiful plants become as if dead and we do not feel very happy. Why? I think it is because deep down our human nature likes construction, and does not like destruction.

Dalai Lama
Stuart Wilde ~ 1946

Watch nature, because it is your greatest teacher. It moves and flows and moves on again. There is an incredible beauty out there in the mountains, in the forests, to teach you it’s silence, it’s beauty, it’s humility. Stay aligned to that.

Stuart Wilde ~ 1946
John Burroughs

To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter; to be thrilled by the stars at night: to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring… these are some of the rewards of the simple life.

John Burroughs
Hermann Hesse

For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone. They are like lonely persons. Not like hermits who have stolen away out of some weakness, but like great, solitary men, like Beethoven and Nietzsche.

Hermann Hesse
Native American

We return thanks to our mother, the earth, which sustains us. We return thanks to the rivers and streams, which supply us with water. We return thanks to all herbs, which furnish medicines for the cure of our diseases. We return thanks to the moon and stars, which have given to us their light when the sun was gone. We return thanks to the sun, that has looked upon the earth with a beneficent eye. Lastly, we return thanks to the Great Spirit, in whom is embodied all goodness, and who directs all things for the good of her children.

Native American
Rumi

We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten our former states, except in early spring when we slightly recall being green again.

Rumi
Rainer Maria Rilke

If you trust in Nature, in the small Things that hardly anyone sees and that can so suddenly become huge, immeasurable; if you have this love for what is humble and try very simply, as someone who serves, to win the confidence of what seems poor, then everything will become easier for you.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Ray Stevens - 1939

Everything is beautiful in its own way. Like the starry summer night, or a snow-covered winter’s day. And everybody’s beautiful in their own way. Under God’s heaven, the world’s gonna find the way. There is none so blind as he who will not see. We must not close our minds, we must let our thoughts be free. For every hour that passes by, we know the world gets a little bit older,it’s time to realize that beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.

Ray Stevens - 1939

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FROM W LEE BAKER

I am a testimonial to waking up from the deep sleep buried in clouds of doubt. I wandered lost until I found my way into this life, and I am ever thankful and reverent of the mistakes and losses along the way. Now I hope to offer inspiration to others who find this story.

– W Lee Baker

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