I have come to drag you out of yourself and take you into my heart.
I have come to bring out the beauty you never knew you had and lift you like a prayer to the sky.
If no one recognises you, I do because you are my life and soul.
Don’t run away, accept your wounds and let bravery be your shield.
It takes a thousand stages for the perfect being to evolve.
Every step of the way I will walk with you and never leave you stranded.
– Rumi
Trust… When reaching out means stepping into the void. When there are no signposts to follow or paths to walk Trust and follow your heart’s vision – Stephanie June Sorrell
The joy of lowering your standards! Tough love for anyone with high standards, but ohhhh so effective at maintaining forward momentum rather than tum-te-tum-I’m-still-stuck-ness:
“Much of what we do gets stuck not because we don’t try hard enough, but because we try too hard… we aim too high, too quickly, being prematurely concerned with correctness & results at the expense of practice and process” – Manjusvara.
To nurture your ideas, your momentum, your hopes – lower your standards enough.
Take the step that you can do today 😀
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Tagged High standards, Lowering standards, Nurture, Perfectionist
I feel warmed and fulfilled when I can let in the fact, or permit myself to feel that someone cares for, accepts, admires or prizes me – Carl Rogers
This is a biggy for many people!!!
Have you ever watched someone playing “compliment cricket?” It goes something like this:
“Wow, you’ve got a real talent there!”
….”Oh no, it’s pretty easy really” …. BAT
“You made a real difference to that meeting”
….”It went well, didn’t it? I guess everyone was in a good mood today!” …. BAT
“This is delicious!! I love your cooking!”
…”Anyone can do it, I have a great recipe book” …. HIT FOR SIX
Nana’s Bread Pudding
Any one of those comments could be gracefully received, appreciated and used to nurture our confidence, awareness or ideas as to how we use our talents. But what do we instead? Bat the dratted positive feedback safely out of earshot, claim it was, “nothing really” and protect our littleness.
Well, go join the fielding side for a bit will you?
Catch those kind comments, and hold them long enough to absorb their best intent for you. If you truly find them inaccurate, you can put them down again – but you’ve still done something to provoke that positive comment, haven’t you? What was it? What part of you would it provide nourishment for, if you actually allowed yourself to hear it?
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Tagged Accept, Allow, Compliments, Nurture, Self Care
Every courageous life is lived in the grit and difficulty of existence – David Whyte
Like many kids, I grew up with stories that started with, “Once upon a time…” and ended with, ” … and lived happily ever after.” Excellent, a good cheery start for kids.
But at some point, possibly during adolescence, possibly during second adolescence (aka mid life), you kind of start to realise that somewhere in the ending there really ought to be a mention of the fact that, as well as the happy bit, “Sh*t still happens.”
Sh*t till happens… (and stuff grows!)
Because it does: Things don’t work out; People you love go away, fall ill or have the audacity to die; Your circumstances change in a way you don’t like; You fall in love and sometimes you fall back out again; Dreams come true and then you discover the dream comes with some tedious rubbishy stuff to deal with too…
No rainbow without some rain
So, this quote is nurturing to me because it reminds me that life is amazing and we can blossom into the most wonderful new ways of living and sharing our particular talents. And whilst all that gorgeous stuff is happening, it’s absolutely normal for stuff to hit the fan sometimes, and we manage it as best we can. That’s part of the story, it’s part of the deal. It’s part of life, along with the happiness.
So there’s no need to throw your toys out of the pram if things don’t go your way. Just decide what you can do about it. Keep the faith and carry on, deal with the sh*t and enjoy the happiness 🙂
Oh look, rainbow is right here
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Tagged Courage, David Whyte, Dreams, Nurture, Reality, Shit happens
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul – John Muir
Where nature may heal
Oh, I hardly need to say anything about this one!
Anyone who has taken a walk in nature will know how nurturing wild places are… anyone who’s gazed at a view and been moved by the immense beauty, watched a teeny ant carrying a crazy out-of-proportion load, taken a smiling sniff from a fragrant flower, admired the colours on an Autumn leaf, ambled through woods listening to the birds sing, sat by a giggling stream, gaped at the peaceful grandeur of a loch or lakeside, played on gnarly tors, looked out on fens and moors, mountains and huggy hillsides … oh the list is endless!
Nature fills your senses … sights, sounds, smells, feel and oh yes a home cooked meal sure tastes even better after a walk!
Nature connects us to basics, grounds us and teaches us, teaches us to manage hazards – and then relax and enjoy our experience.
Nature is full of wild beauty and gentle detail. Nature will rain on you, blow your hair sideways, warm you, cool you and sometimes freeze your wotsits off. Nature connects, calms, inspires, nurtures. And it is free.
This is my moment of nurture today, remembering this rich gift and taking a moment outside to reconnect with the eternal wisdom and love that speaks through nature. That and letting rip with a bit of waxing lyrical 😉
And forget not that the earth longs to feel your bare feet and the wind longs to play with your hair – Kahil Gibran
Nature nurture
What’s your favourite bit of nature nurture?
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Tagged Give me strength, healing, John Muir, Kahil Gibran, Nature, Nurture, strength, Wild places
With magnificent views, teeny details, layers of sounds, seasonal scents, the feel of the wind, sun and ground beneath your feet …. out in nature, everything that wants to be soothed or healed seems to do so very gently and naturally.
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in tune once more –John Burroughs
Sunny August afternoon in the Black Mountains
Definitely nurturing 😀
😀
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Tagged Black Mountains, Capel-y-ffin, Ewyas Valley, Fill Senses, John Burroughs, Nurture
One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time – Andre Gide
What do I find nurturing about this quote? It’s the reality of it, and the word “consent” … Setting sail to discover new lands is a choice. You don’t have to set out, but if you want to discover new land, you’re signing up to lose sight of that shore for a bit.
Familiar shore line gone? Don’t panic, it’s part of getting to where you’re going and zillions of people are experiencing the same thing. Sure it’s great to have the certainty of a shore line. But if you’re compelled to explore, you let go of that bit of certainty for a while.
One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time
Posted in Creating Daily Nurture, Nurturing Quotes
Sunset! Gawping at a sunset is definitely nurturing!!!!
I was already in an advanced state of well-nurtured bliss yesterday simply from driving back to this beautiful valley, and having a lovely leisurely amble on the sunny hillside… Then there was a gorgeous sunset too.
So here it is, a beautiful peaceful evening in a beautiful, nurturing valley 😀
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add colour to my sunset sky – Rabindranath Tagore
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Tagged Black Mountains, Capel-y-ffin, Ewyas Valley, Nurture, Sunset, Wales
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