To Fill One's Heart.........

There is one sure way to fill one's heart with Peace. And that is first to fill one's head with it. How? Simple. Begin and practice! Love, Darlene

Stretching for Peace!

Do you stretch to do more than you think you can do!
Have you ever stretched to do less?

In a world that invites and encourages us to do more and more, the way to Peace may be to do less and less.

Think it's not a stretch to do less? Try it!

Love,
Darlene

Voices for Peace

While the internet hosts many angry blogs there are a plethora of voices for Peace and transformation. Here are two I recommend:

Peacequotes@living compassion.org
Tut.com

I don't think you can have too many voices for Peace!

Love,
Darlene

Turn off you TV for Peace!

John Lennon said, "If everyone demanded Peace instead of a television set, then there'd be Peace".

I say, "If everyone focused on Peace as much as they do their TV set, then they'd have Peace".

You could do both you know!

Love,
Darlene

Sacred or Scared?

It's amazing the difference two letters make: reverse the 'a' and the 'c' in Scared and you get Sacred!

It's like that in real life too; when you are scared YOU CAN shift your focus from fear to love as quickly as you can reverse two letters. You can move from seeing only what's scarey to seeing the sacred in any moment.

All you have to do is practice.

Yep, that's all!

Love,
Darlene

Be a loving container......

To have Peace, be the loving container for your life!

How? Practice seeing the gift in EVERYTHING that has ever happened. EVERYTHING!

When you can reflect on it all with love, then you have become the loving container......the anxious rattle subsides and space and time expand.

Cool, huh?

Love,
Darlene

When I am afraid I am not enough
I over function (do too much) to prove I am enough.
When I over function I get resentful.
When I get resentful I feel isolated and unloved.
When I feel isolated and unloved I'm afraid I am not enough.
When I am afraid I am not enough
I over function to prove I am enough.

Viscous circle!

Create Peace instead: Resist the temptation to over function. Create space in your schedule and get connected!

Love,
Darlene

Peace is self care................

"Self care is never selfish - it is simply good stewardship of the only gift you have...the gift you were put on earth to offer to others." Parker Palmer

Take exquisite care of yourself today and Peace will arrive. I promise!

Love,
Darlene

Peace happens when....

......we are "wise enough to see the miraculous in the common" (thanks Thoreau).

Kinda like folks do when they kiss the dirt after surviving a plane crash. 'Cept you don't need to crash to do it!

Peace Practice: Metaphorically kiss the ground today. Several times!

Love,
Darlene

Peaced Birthdays!

A woman took the opportunity on her 30th birthday to perform random acts of kindness - thirty of 'em! She gave gifts that she could afford or performed small services for 30 people SHE DID NOT KNOW.

Here's my birthday challenge! On your birthday perform random acts of kindness. Friends could help and perform them for you, in your name!

Imagine a world where we all perform random acts of kindness on our natal day....in gratitude for our lives.

Tee Hee! Positively revolutionary AND counter cultural!

Let's start a movement.

Love,
Darlene

Tending Peace

Is it a sacrifice to tend a loved one to heal? When you are saving a life or bringing comfort does it feel like a chore? Or does it feel like a privilege and a gift?

Yet the cultural conversation is that we need to sacrifice to heal and create Peace.

What if it simply took loving attention and commitment...... and resulted in joy? Sacrifice? I think not.

Tend Peace....yours and ours!

Love,
Darlene

Peace is not about getting what you want.....

................because so often what we want is not what we truly need, not what is truly best for us! So, ask, pray, intend, and work for what you need. Keep in mind that what we really truly need is often only revealed when we look back!

Life's tricky that way.

Love,
Darlene

Sated for Peace

You can simply declare you are satisfied; you are and have enough! This is a courageous and counter cultural act, where you give more credence to your inner guru than you do to the cultural chatter that says you need more and better.

Not only do you breathe a sigh of relief, Peace shows up!

Love,
Darlene

Holding Peace!

We all hold onto things; thoughts, relationships, positions, stuff. AND WHAT WE HOLD ONTO TAKES HOLD OF US!

So, if you want Peace to take hold of you, consider holding Peace as a practice. Find a small object that represents Peace for you (in your life or in the world) and carry it throughout the day. It might be a shell, a charm or a note with PEACE written on it. Set it down to pick up another object. Pick it up again when your hand is free.

Hold Peace and it will hold you!

Love,
Darlene

A Miracle for Peace

Does Peace take a miracle?

Did you know that the neurons in your brain formed at the rate of 150 PER SECOND.... WHILE YOU WERE IN THE WOMB? There you were not thinking or acting or anything and your FIVE HUNDRED TRILLION synapses were quietly being created. Imagine what is possible when you begin to imagine, envision and act. Anything is possible. ANYTHING! Even Peace.

If Peace takes a miracle, consider that you are it!

Love,
Darlene

Be a Flea for Peace!

This from Marian Wright Edelman:" So often we think we need to make a difference and be a big dog. Let us just try to be little fleas biting. Enough fleas biting strategically can make a big dog very uncomfortable."

Be a flea for Peace!

Love,
Darlene

Gifting Peace

Love is a gift you get only when you are willing to give it away. You have to let go of it, leave it, in order to receive it. Same thing with Peace: Give it and you are more likely to get it!

Love,
Darlene

Nature and Peace

From Louie Schwartzberg, cinematographer, "Beauty and seduction are nature's tools for survival because we protect what we fall in love with; it opens our hearts so we realize we are a part of nature and not separate from it."

Being seduced and awed by beauty, opening our hearts, being connected! Sounds like Peace to me.

Love,
Darlene

Check out Louie's presentation on You Tube.

Peace is a Love Affair

Peace happens when you have a love affair with life...........regardless of circumstance; cold, hot, rich, poor, sick, well. Peace happens when we generate love for whatever is happening.

You can do this. It just take practice, practice, practice!

Love,
Darlene

Stumbling into Peace......

Yesterday I stumbled into a major Peace effort on my way to retrieve something from the local high school! I ran smack dab into a campus media campaign for Invisible Children - raising awareness of the heavy cost to children in the decade long war in Northern Uganda AND raising money to educate those children. There is an amazing video which you can get by going to invisiblechildren.com. And you can encourage your local school to connect to a school in Uganda to support Peace efforts there.

Peace, and the movement toward it, is everywhere!

Love,
Darlene