May is Mental Health Awareness Month ✨ Starting off this month with Metta prayer- as my teacher would say it… meeting ourselves from the orientation of kindness and positive regard. How do you take a mental health moment for yourself? May all beings be happy, healthy, safe, and free from suffering 🙏💖 @namicommunicate . . . #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthawarenessmonth #takeamentalhealthmoment #mentalhealthmonth #metta #mettaprayer #meditation
May is Mental Health Awareness Month ✨ Starting off this month with Metta prayer piece created for a friend - as my teacher would say it… meeting ourselves from the orientation of kindness and positive regard. How do you take a mental health moment for yourself? May all beings be happy, healthy, safe, and free from suffering 🙏💖 @namicommunicate . . . #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthawarenessmonth #takeamentalhealthmoment #mentalhealthmonth #metta #mettaprayer #meditation
Our life is a sacred living text a living Psalm authored by joy, pain and prayer all the broken places that have left their marks their scars. May everything you do every step towards healing, towards love and kindness towards holy-wholeness towards what is true become a prayer. 🌿 Today is Metta Monday When: 2 -3 pm meditation. 3-4pm staying on tea/for sacred conversation. Where: 1765 Glenview Road, Glenview in the Patio Shops Cost: No Fee. Donations and poems appreciated. Where two or more are gathered something beautiful grows. 🌿 #mettaprayer #mettamonday #metta #mettapractice #compassionpractice #mettablessings #mettaoffering #lovingkindnessmeditation #warmthandcare #mayyoubepeaceful #mayyoubehappy #mayyoubefreefromsuffering #mayyourlifebeaprayer #mahummadali
Thank you for this, @thesanctuary.angelldeer. 🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️ #revolutionarylove #peacenow #globaldisarmament #ᴍᴀᴋᴇʟᴏᴠᴇɴᴏᴛᴡᴀʀ #endwar #endallwars #peacemovement #ceasefireforever #liberationforall #liberationforallbeings #endsuffering #havecompassionforothers #practiceempathy #childrenwanttolive #motherswanttolive #fatherswanttolive #mettaprayer #sendmetta #worldpeace #loveeverybody #stopwar #stopallwars #peacemaking #wagingpeace #nonviolence
Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving. KAHLIL GIBRAN 🌿 There will be NO Metta Monday today. I am out of town spending time with my husband and son. See you next Monday, April 29 at 2 pm. 🌿 #mettaprayer #mettamonday #mettaheart #metta #lovingkindnessmeditation #compassionpractice #mayyoubepeaceful #mayyoubehappy #mayyoubefreefromsuffering #forthebenefitofall #kahlilgibran
Morning light awakening prayers. We hung a larger piece from the Golden Prayers series in a new spot...and when I came downstairs the early sunlight illuminated it in such a special softly musical way.. Remembering and feeling the trust & hopes within...with Gratitude for the Gift of each new day... Sending love, tenderness and support to all beings of our planet. One by one by one by One... may You feel it now. 💫🧡💫 #AlltheBeings #prayerweave #WeavesandTouchmaps #LatinxPlanetarian #HarmoniousHolobiont #nurturingcompassion #mettameditation #mettapractice #mettaprayer #allofus #morninglight #interwoven
“Be kind to your body, gentle with your mind and patient with your heart. Stay true to your spirit, cherish your soul and never doubt yourself. You are still becoming, my love, and there is no one more deserving of the nurturing grace of your love.”― Becca Lee Today is Metta Monday When: 2 pm Where: 1765 Glenview Road, Glenview in the Patio Shops Cost: No Fee. Donations and poems appreciated. Where two or more are gathered something beautiful grows. 🌿 #mettaprayer #mettaheart #metta #mettamonday #mettaoffering #compassionpractice #lovingkindnessmeditation #lovingkindness #beccaleepoetry #templeofholy #mayyoubepeaceful #mayyoubehappy #mayyoubefreefromsuffering #forthebenefitofall
May I dwell in the heart. May I be free from suffering, May I be healed, May I know my own wholeness, May I live in peace and be happy. 🙏💗 #mettameditation #mettaprayer #retreat #heartsongnormandie
May you view your own inner eclipse where the light and dark meet listen into your soul into the deepest recess of your heart, asking the Holy to reveal in shadow, in light what is needed for evolution for increasing consciousness within and without in this brief moment of open complete exposure. May you dialogue- journal, live into, the question today, how can I feed my Holy? audibly Ask. Metta Monday at 2:15 pm a later start. giving space to honor the 2:07 pm peak of the eclipse. #mettaprayer #mettamind #mettamonday #mettablessings #mettamantra #lovingkindnessmeditation #compassionpractice #softheart #kindness #bestill #belove #askholy #mayyoubepeaceful #mayyoubehappy #mayyoubefreefromsuffering #forthebenefitofall
The Buddhist Metta Prayer. So simple, yet it always strikes me so deeply. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 #metta #mettaprayer #prayersforpeace #prayforpeace #prayforpeaceandhumanity #endallsuffering #buddhism #buddhistwisdom #buddhistprayer #buddhistpractice #dharma #dharmalessons #thethreejewels #ceasefireforever #endallwars #peacenow #forgiveness #kindness #care #spiritualpractice #spiritualpractices #mayallbeingsbehappy #mayallbeingsbehappyandfree #whatwouldbuddhado #whatwouldjesusdo
~ ~ Metta Prayer ~ May all beings be peaceful. May all beings be happy. May all beings be safe. May all beings awaken to the light of their true nature. May all beings be free. Take some time to love, honour & nurture your body, mind, heart & soul. Namaste divine souls 🙏 Ananda ♡
May we find beauty in the most humblest and the smallest of ways. May it teach us its path of sight, simple, breathless-nothing beauty. May we weep in its presence. Today is Metta Monday When: 2 pm Where: 1765 Glenview Road, Glenview in the Patio Shops Cost: No Fee. Donations and poems appreciated. Where two or more are gathered something beautiful grows. 🌿 #metta #mettamonday #lovingkindnessmeditation #lovingkindness #mettablessings #mettaprayer #mettapractice #mayyoubepeaceful #mayyoubehappy #mayyouknowjoy #mayyoubefreefromsuffering #forthebenefitofall #camillepissarro
"Metta:" in Buddhism is attributed as loving-kindness, friendliness, goodwill, benevolence, inoffensiveness and non-violence. #metta #mettaprayer #mettamantra #community #lovingkindnessmeditation #goodwill #friendliness #benevolence #goodhealth #peace #ssmotobabeyoga
I’ve always found an opportunity for reflection in these finite little captions though I seldom take to them these days because the world is so filled with hate and what can I say to assuage the pain of it all? I guess just a small offering of peace from my tiny corner of the world. It’s ok to celebrate, I tell myself. I can hold the pain of the world and still enjoy my children. I can be torn by beauty and despair. Full of love and anger. I want us to know that we can hold it all. We are strong enough to bear witness to life’s dichotomy, its injustices and its incredible beauty. Today is my birthday and all I can offer is a small message of peace. A lesson from my year. Hold it all. Be openly heartbroken and share your joys too. Be a voice for change yet rest unapologetically. Find peace with life’s dichotomy. Cry in challenge and in awe. Share often. Hold it all. Not hold it all in. May all beings everywhere be happy and free, and may the thoughts, words, and actions of my own life contribute in some way to that happiness and to that freedom for all. #mettaprayer Happy birthday to me. Happy life for all.💓
“What is this precious love and laughter budding in our hearts? It is the glorious sound of a soul waking up!” – Hafiz Outside the daffodils bow in prayer, or are they toppled over by the weight of the snow? This I do not know. I do know, Spring is knocking on our screen doors. Offering us her fragrance of hope and begin anew; brilliance, wakefulness and bloom. The air a crisp, freshly ironed white shirt. The birdsong at dawn budding into a wild collection of warbling sounds, bursting into a glorious morning prayer. a devotional song for our soft bodies in a hard world, offering us remembering-- -- of our daffodil soul, hardy and fragile. Resilient Beauty. Who refuses to unbloom even when covered in a heap of snow. It is Metta Monday. 2pm. For those that live near. All welcome. 🌿 #mettaprayer #mettamind #mettamonday #mettaheart #mettabody #compassionpractice #lovingkindnessmeditation #metta #mayyoubehappy #mayyoubepeaceful #mayyoubefreefromsuffering #forthebenefitofall
It's funny how designs come and go as your favourites when you run a creative business. I've made a decision to not reprint some designs moving forward as I'm bringing some freshness into the Sunshine for Breakfast collections. This lovely meditation and metta prayer was one of the designs on my 'not to print' list - then I had the most beautiful message from a customer who said she received this card from a friend and had to buy the matching print as she adored it so much. 🧡 I guess this is an ask to share your feedback with someone you've bought something from - especially if they've created it. As we're always so quick to share negative feedback, but so often the positive notes can go overlooked. When I painted this illustration (originally for the beautiful @so_peth_knits 🧡) I felt so much love and positive energy flowing into the illustration. I adored the words as well, they truly resonate with me often. The lovely customer's message re-sparked the fire in my belly and the twinkle in my eye to paint lovely things for lovely humans again. So I'm going to try and do just that this week. 🥰 #sunshineforbreakfast #lovelyhumans #mettaprayer #mettameditation #meditationart #sharethepositive #positivevibes #meditation #meditatedaily
May you be gentle with your tender heart. May you be kind to your sensitive delicate and tough as a dandelion soul. May you open into your gorgeous-beauty you and bloom. Today is Metta Monday Drop-in at 2pm. 1765 Glenview Road in Glenview Donations welcome or poems 🌿 #mettaprayer #mettamonday #compassionpractice #lovingkindnessmeditation #metta #danielmead #mayyoubepeaceful #mayyoubehappy #mayyoubefreefromsuffering #forthebenefitofall #mettablessings
Metta Bhavana (Loving Kindness Prayer) “Metta” translates to “Loving Kindness,” “Cultivation of Loving Kindness,” or “universal love,” embodying the wish for the welfare and happiness of all beings. Metta Bhavana, the practice of cultivating loving-kindness, helps individuals develop the ability to regard all beings, including animals, as friends. When initiating the practice after assuming the desired posture, the cultivation of loving-kindness should commence with oneself, denoted by “I.” This initial step holds profound psychological significance, as one who harbors self-hatred or disdain, whether consciously or unconsciously, cannot genuinely extend loving-kindness to others. Subsequently, the practice extends to others by substituting “he,” “she,” or “they.” It begins with someone beloved, progresses to someone liked, then to someone neutral, and finally towards someone who has caused suffering. May I be peaceful, happy, and light in body and spirit. May I be safe and free from injury. May I be free from anger, fear, and anxiety. May I learn to look at myself with the eyes of understanding and love. May I be able to recognize and touch the seeds of joy and happiness in myself. May I learn to identify and see the sources of anger, craving, and delusion in myself. May I know how to nourish the seeds of joy in myself every day. May I be able to live fresh, solid, and free. May I be free from attachment and aversion, but not be indifferent. #mettameditation #mettaprayer #buddhateachings #lovingkindnessmeditation #thichnhathanhgems #thichnhathanh #mettabhavan #selflove #selfcare #universallove #sprituality #mindfulnessmeditation #mindfullness #mindfulliving #mindfulpractice #visuddhimagga #thichnhathanhcollective
Pilgrimage Dharmayatra to the Tissamaharama Raja Maha Vihara Srilanka. The Tissamaharama Raja Maha Vihara is an ancient Buddhist temple in Tissamaharama, Southern Province of Sri Lanka. It was one of the four major Buddhist monasteries established in Sri Lanka, after the arrival of Arhant Mahinda Thera to the country. The site of the Tissamaharama Raja Maha Vihara was consecrated by Buddha himself, who spent some time in meditation there with 500 arhats (individuals who have reached enlightenment), during his third visit to the island. #buddha #buddhist #buddhism #dharma #sangha #Buddha #dharma #sangha #Buddhist #Buddhism #dharma #sangha #Meditation #lovingkindness #metta #MettaBhavana #freemeditation #meditationpractice #lovingkindnessmeditation #bhantedevananda #mindfulness #mettamonday #mettaprayer #mettapractice #blessings #meditationclass #theravada #buddhisttemple
{Paper Prayers} We have seen the truth. And I will not turn away from the horrors. I am struggling with anger, rage, and grief. There is no consolation, only action. There is no comfort, only sitting with discomfort. None of us are free, until we are all free. Down with Empire. Liberation for ALL. . I look at the world Now I understand The Truth How could this catastrophe be allowed to happen? . I’m struggling with anger . Recognizing the Interconnected Is a way of life. . Swipe to see the full collage + Swipe again for another poem that I have been holding close these days. #CallistaBuchen #TakingCare via @poetryisnotaluxury . [METTA PRAYER] May all beings be peaceful. May all beings be happy. May all beings be safe. May all beings awaken to the light of their true nature. May all beings be free. . #ArtAsPrayer #Collage #PaperPrayers #ArtJournal #PoemCrazy #FoundPoetry #ArchetypalCollage #ActiveImagination #Symbolism #TheLivingSymbol #Poetry #MettaPrayer #IStruggleWithAnger #Interconnected #MotherMary
Perché ho scelto questa citazione? La disuguaglianza di potere spesso si traduce in impossibilità di interi gruppi di persone di dare voce alla propria esperienza. E anche nell’ambito dell’accesso al benessere questo è decisamente vero: chi viene o non viene rappresentato e incluso negli spazi di cura? Nel breve saggio “La persona e il sacro” Simone Weil racchiude alcuni suoi pensieri fondamentali: mi piace qui prendere questo in prestito perché parlano chiaro… anche di ciò che sta avvenendo nel mondo oggi. Assistere a questo incessante massacro di una popolazione intera, che non ha voce e soprattutto rappresentazione politica nelle stanze del potere, è qualcosa che mi colpisce nelle viscere. Prendo in prestito altre parole di Weil: “la categoria di uomini […] che detengono il monopolio del linguaggio è una categoria di privilegiati”. E noi che abbiamo il dono della parola e il privilegio di poter parlare abbiamo la responsabilità di parlare per chi non ha voce. Prego incessantemente e dedico sempre la mia pratica affinché tutti gli esseri senzienti possano vivere in pace e liberi dalle cause della sofferenza. Condividi il post se condividi il messaggio 💚 GRAZIE 🙏🏻 #simoneweil #eguaglianza #rippleeffect #pace #metta #mondaymetta #mettaprayer #buddhismo
May you begin today with a trembling heart and your begging bowl prayers, and offer everything you can for awakening. Today is Metta Monday When: 2pm Where: 1765 Glenview Road, Glenview in the Patio Shops Cost: No Fee. Donations and poems appreciated. Where two or more are gathered something beautiful grows. 🌿 #mettaheart #mettamonday #mettaprayer #mettamantra #mettameditation #compassionpractice #lovingkindnessmeditation #lovingkindness #softheart #mayyoubepeaceful #mayyoubehappy #mayyoubefreefromsuffering #nancymellon
“...run my dear from anything that may not strengthen your precious budding wings.” “…run like hell my dear from anyone likely to put a sharp knife into the sacred, tender vision of your beautiful heart.” — Hafiz This poem of Hafiz, We Have Not Come Here to Take Prisoners. A beauty to look up. Download. Memorize to the bone. This wisdom. This sacred action, run….”run my dear. Run like hell” for anyone or anything that does not see you. Does not hold you sacred, does not see the holy moving, breathing, taking form through you…you! The holiness that exists inside everything, everyone. Today is Metta Monday When: 2pm Where: 1765 Glenview Road, Glenview in the Patio Shops Cost: No Fee. Donations and poems appreciated. Where two or more a gathered something beautiful blooms 🌸 #mettaprayer #mettamonday #mettaoffering #compassionpractice #allbeingshappy #allbeingsawaken #lovingkindnessmeditation #mayyoubepeaceful #mayyoubehappy #mayyoubefreefromsuffering #forthebenefitofall #hafiz #tokillamockingbird
'May we have peace, may we have joy, may we be free from suffering' - closing out the month of February's Heart theme. Join me tomorrow at 5 pm at Surprise Park for some free yoga in this beautiful weather! 🧘🏽♀️🧘♂️🌵🏜🌞 You can practice with me on Mondays and Thursdays at 6:30 pm at Elements Yoga studio. Next week, we will start a new theme! #happyhearts #healthyhearts #mettaprayer #newmonthnewtheme #yogawithoma #yogaisfoeveryone #elementsyogaaz
𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐚 𝐏𝐫𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫: May all beings be peaceful. ☮️ May all beings be happy. 😊 May all beings be safe. 🌟 May all beings awaken to the light of their true nature. 🌈 May all beings be free. 🕊️ #MettaPrayer #WishingPeace #LovingKindness #Peace #Happiness #Freedom
" ....there is no loneliness like the loneliness of having your light unmet." – Maria Popova This we each know is the bare truth. Deep in our preverbal bones we know the grief, the loneliness of not being seen, reflected, being mirrored–our gorgeous Light not met. A teacher once long ago shared a deep wisdom truth that has stayed with me now some twenty years, and still rings. A bare truth. As she sat with her Rabbi she asked him, "all these many years you have been sitting with people in their joys and sorrows, what have you found to be the most healing?” He replied, “...just repeating, saying someone's name”. This I know is the bare truth, we can do this for each other. We can gaze. repeat each other’s name. see the light. the beauty of who we each are, and be blown away by the exquisiteness of being human, in all its complexities, and behold the sanctuary of another’s soul. May we see and remember this truth of who we are, the light that pours forth which holds and reflects the beauty of each gorgeous raspberry, of each dry decaying leaf, of each morning joy-grief song, of each human, everywhere. Today is Metta Monday When: 2 pm Where: 1765 Glenview Road, Glenview in the Patio Shops Cost: No Fee. Donations and poems appreciated. Where two or more are gathered beauty blooms.🌸 #mettaprayer #mettaheart #mettamonday #compassionpractice #mettablessings #mettablessing #prayer #baretruth #mirroring #mayyoubepeaceful #mayyoubehappy #mayyoubefreefromsuffering #lovingkindness #lovingkindnessmeditation #forthebenefitofall #beautyabides #loveabides #mariapopova
Naive as it may be, I still believe a future exists where I am happy and held, where the challenging moments finally all make sense, and the hard times are few and far between. Naive as it may be I still keep looking for and finding reasons to smile. . . May you be happy. May you be held. May you be free. . Wishing that on all of us. . Sending you love. . . . #mettayoga #mettaprayer #mettameditation #michiganyoga #omshanti #omshantiom #yogameditation #mettalovingkindness #lovingkindnessmeditation #grandrapidsyoga #blackgirlyogafitness #blackgirlyogamagic #blackyogis #inclusiveyoga #inclusiveteaching
Today has been a day full of Reiki. I’m always reminded of the importance of the little acts of self care that make such a positive difference when I practice Reiki. So many of us are juggling so many balls, trying hard not to let any drop. We are so focussed on all the things we need to do, we are often our own last thought. So here’s a wee thought for you … what if you were to start and end every day with “ Meta”? ✨Show YOURSELF loving kindness .. ✨Place your hand on your heart centre, ✨Take some deep cleansing breaths .... ✨Allowing your breath to then find a natural flow ✨Tell yourself you ARE enough, you ARE loved, You HAVE got this You can even add in a metta prayer: 🤍May I be safe 🤍May I be healthy 🤍May I be happy 🤍May I be at ease 🤍May I be filled with loving-kindness 🤍May I be peaceful 🙏Namaste’ #reiki #reikimaster #energy #takecareofyourownenergy #fillyourowncupfirst #givefromtheoverflow #moretogoaround #apositivetouch #apositivetouchreflexologyandwellness #metta #mettaprayer
{Paper Prayers} A loss can be felt in many ways, and disillusionment is also a form of loss. My prayer is that we harness all the grief and disillusionment, anger and rage, to build a better world. None of us are free, until we are all free. Liberation for all. . GRIEF is a Portal A Temple A Garden Where Tears Become Rain The place of Unfathomable Love I pay homage To the many manifestations. . Swipe to see the full collage + Swipe again for a poem that I have been holding close these days. #GregoryOrr from “How Beautiful The Beloved”, 2009. . [METTA PRAYER] May all beings be peaceful. May all beings be happy. May all beings be safe. May all beings awaken to the light of their true nature. May all beings be free. . #ArtAsPrayer #Collage #PaperPrayers #ArtJournal #PoemCrazy #FoundPoetry #ArchetypalCollage #ActiveImagination #Symbolism #TheLivingSymbol #Poetry #MettaPrayer #Grief #GriefIsAPortal
“Let a teacher wave away the flies and put a plaster on the wound. Don’t turn your head. Keep looking at the bandaged place. That’s where the light enters you.” - Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks Today is Metta Monday When: 2 pm Where: 1765 Glenview Road, Glenview in the Patio Shops Cost: No Fee. Donations and poems appreciated Where two or more are gathered something beautiful grows. 🌸 #mettaprayer #mettaheart #mettamind #mettamonday #compassionpractice #mettabody #mettaoffering #lovingkindness #warmthandcare #rumi #colemanbarks #crackineverything #thatishowthelightgetsin #mayyoubepeaceful #mayyoubehappy #mayyoubefreefromsuffering #forthebenefitofall #belove #softenheart
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I’ve been challenged to say and practice every day for a week. Now I challenge you as well!! How to practice: Say it 1st for yourself Say it 2nd for all those you love and care about Say it 3rd for all those that challenge you Say it 4th for the planet and all living things. Let’s change ourselves and everything and everyone for the better. The world can definitely use some “better” 🙏❤️🌎🙏❤️🌎🙏❤️🌎🙏❤️🌎 #mettaprayer
A change in mindset starts with words of loving kindness you can say to yourself and then allow that mantra to extend to others … spread the positive feelings of love and care. Apply these metta phrases & prayer to yourself first , then extend to those you love, followed by those who are difficult to you, and to those you don’t even know … ♥️ “May you be happy, May you be safe, May you be healthy, May you be at peace.” A practice to soften the heart towards yourself and others is a necessary practice to be kind, address negative emotions and allow you to come back to the present …
In the holy place between you and the land of your heart there is a space. In that space lives your personal prayers, your private tears, and your perfect offering that awaits your warmth and care. Awaits, patiently for you to bring your inspiration out into the world. Go to that land, look there. Risk to sit and listen there. Ask the question, What does love want from me? Scribe what you hear. This is the heart medicine needed of our time. The next evolutionary step– the quest to find yourself again in the simple and forgotten things. Find that. What reverberates an unshakeable quiet knowing on your insides. Offer that out to the world. Then safeguard it with a fierce mother-protection from things that threaten it, displace it, refuse its entry from the outside and inside–all the ways on our interior that we habitually close off, destroy, disappear, pack away our hearts due to old pains, hurts, unresolved worries and sorrows. The old patterns that no longer serve, that were never native to our tender hearts. The season of Lent is near. I am pondering what 40-day journey am I willing to embark on to ‘rend my heart’ more open. Today is Metta Monday When: 2 pm Where: 1765 Glenview Road, Glenview in the Patio Shops Cost: No Fee. Donations and poems appreciated Where two or more are gathered something beautiful grows. 🌸 #mettamonday #mettaprayer #mettapractice #mettabody #mettaheart #mettamind #compassionpractice #lovingkindness #warmthandcare #motherheart #offeryourheart #mayyoubepeaceful #mayyoubehappy #mayyoubefreefromsuffering #forthebenefitofall #carljungquotes #heartmedicine #mettablessings #mettablessing #metta
Habitar nuestro ser tal cual somos, sin juicios, conscientes del poder que tenemos al solo ✨ser✨. 💕🧿🧘♀️🥰🤸🏻♂️🪄💥 #mettaprayer
✨Pause for a metta meditation. ✨Be with this moment and intentionally breathe. ✨Inhale and exhale slowly. Express the metta mantra in full. ✨Inhale and exhale. Express the metta mantra one line at a time. ✨Inhale and exhale. Express the metta mantra in full again. ✨Let it be so. 🙏💖Namaste @hkhigherknowing #metta #mettamantra #mettameditation #mettaprayer #breathe #be #peace
NO Metta Monday today, Feb 5. I am away. We will gather again next Monday, Feb 12 at 2pm. There are anchor poems, quotes, stories, that encircle our life–like koans that we live into, memorize, and return to again and again. They offer us sure-steady footing in the stormy weather and harsh winds of life. They open us to the holy reverberating in our bones. Poems that arise up from the belly of the whale inside that each time we hear we weep. Wail the tenderest of tears. Songs that move our soul to bow down in prayer, dance out loud in wild joy, arms in the air, free, and others that invite us to lay down, cradle our soft body sorrows and brokenness in care. Here is one given to me by my meditation teacher. Twenty years or so ago. I can hear her voice, gentle-kind and fierce-firm, repeating. knocking. Whispering into my heart– do not lose your venture, dear one. On a full sea we are afloat, take the current, there is no time not to love. Life is precious-brief. “There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat; And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.” ― William Shakespeare , Julius Caesar There is no time not to love. Feel its ache. Allow its yearning. Being hard does not heal the world. And her warning prayer, if we do not do our work of awakening, we become brittle. bitter old men and women. There is little time, dear one. #mettamonday #mettaprayer #mettamantra #mettaoffering #compassionpractice #lovingkindness #warmthcare #openkindness #openlove #shakespeare #juliuscaesar #mayyoubehappy #mayyoubepeaceful #mayyoubefreefromsuffering #forthebenefitofall #pabloneruda #pablonerudaquotes #littletime
🙏 𝑀𝒶𝓎 𝒜𝓁𝓁 𝐵𝑒𝒾𝓃𝑔𝓈 𝐸𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓎𝓌𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒 𝐵𝑒 𝐻𝒶𝓅𝓅𝓎. 𝑀𝒶𝓎 𝒜𝓁𝓁 𝐵𝑒𝒾𝓃𝑔𝓈 𝐸𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓎𝓌𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒 𝐵𝑒 𝐻𝑒𝒶𝓁𝓉𝒽𝓎. 𝑀𝒶𝓎 𝒜𝓁𝓁 𝐵𝑒𝒾𝓃𝑔𝓈 𝐸𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓎𝓌𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒 𝐵𝑒 𝒜𝓉 𝒫𝑒𝒶𝒸𝑒. 𝑀𝒶𝓎 𝒜𝓁𝓁 𝐵𝑒𝒾𝓃𝑔𝓈 𝐸𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓎𝓌𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒 𝐵𝑒 𝐹𝓇𝑒𝑒. ☀️ FREEDOM 4in x 6in Watercolor and Ink with Gold Leaf #PalestineSunbird #Freedom #NoWar #NoGenocide #NoViolence #Peace #Love #Compassion #Understanding #Spirituality #Buddhism #WatercolorandInk # #GoldLeaf #Watercolor #WatercolorPainting #Bird #BirdArt #MettaPrayer #ArtistsForCeasefire #PeaceInTheWorld
✨The Sound of Healing✨ #soundbowls #crystalbowl #mettaprayer #healing
🤍 Angels 🪽✨ No words, just a silent prayer wispered from my heart 🤍 “May you be happy, may you be healthy , may you be free from suffering and having peace in your heart🪽✨ #mettameditation #mettaprayer “Life has a way of teaching us that whatever we might plan , we are not the master of our destiny. The energy of the universe is greater than all and the power that we have is to try our best to react with calm , kindness and love “ ~ #quotebyme @juliebwarrior Julie Belanger 💗 *** Day 5 - #yogischoice A pose that enables you to shine your inner light ✨ #shinebrightwithbangkok Hosts: @tidoanhyoga @leapoffaith_yoga @ednayoga_nutri @yoga_yoke_unity Sponsors: @bangkokpants @drinklmnt @buddha_stones @rollgahealth @circe_yoga #angels #prayer #angeltravel #angelwings #mazatlán #mazatlanmexico #canadianyoga #canadianabroad #yogaover50 #yogaisforeverybody #yogaismorethanasanas #kindness @visit_mazatlan Photo : @emmaevestevenson 💖
We tend to lose our knowing along the way. We tend to dim our beauty due to pain. Our brokenness begins to take precedence over our radiance. our Light. And then one day, maybe out of sheer exhaustion, maybe just out of the miraculousness of life, we stop. We stop listening to the voices attempting to rob, box our life. We stop conforming ourselves to what is expected, needed, pushing at us from ‘out there’. My meditation teacher would say again and again, turn, find the ground of your being inside yourself. That is a safe place to land, to be found. That is where the great heartbeat of mystery resides, where your gold resides. Indestructible. Not even you yourself or anyone else can destroy it. Stabilize with practice. Don’t Look for light outside Yourself; look inside; Darkness will do as a Place to start. – Meister Eckhart May you and I keep living into the depths of our being; show up. stand in our beauty, vulnerable and exposed. invite the holy in. daily. embrace the ground of our being inside, our unspeakable radiance-goodness. our quiet-mundane-awe. We actually transform the world From within our hearts. – Rainer Maria Rilke Today is Metta Monday at 2pm. 1765 Glenview Road in the Patio Shops No fee. Donations and poems appreciated. All welcome. _______ #mettaprayer #metta #mettapractice #mettamonday #compassionpractice #lovingkindness #meistereckhart #rainermariarilke #invitetheholy #invitelove #invitelight #lookinside #radiance #beautyholy #mayyoubepeaceful #mayyoubehappy #mayyoubefreefromsuffering #forthebenefitofall
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke I watched the Taylor Swift's "Anti-hero" video before I scribbled this themed post from the #WriterFriendsChallenge. Parts of me are the problem, it’s me. I have started a deeper dive in healing. I am doing the healing work I was never brave enough to attempt before. In the past I would get my toe into therapy, my ankle into meditation, up to my knees in a prescription to this or that or whatever and I would get “better” or get busy elsewhere & stop whatever I was doing and hello wall, again. Since I returned to Northwest New Jersey from California earlier this month I have been very disciplined with myself. I am tough and compassionate. I am forward moving and forgiving. I am randomly smiling, widely, for no apparent reason. I am using the Metta Prayer (the Loving Kindness Meditation) everywhere and anywhere. My writing and journaling has been consistent and true. About ten days ago I spontaneously said, “I am having a reunion with my core self!” I would say it is more like I can see the reunion brochure in my purse and am still gathering all the things on the list I am supposed to bring AND as I work on moving in that direction, I am busily slaying my dragons. I have done more things that I said “I will never,” or “Not this time” or allowed myself to “ghost” another long held dream because of relentless destructive tendencies. With all my learning and then APPLYING what I am learning, it is safe to say… this year to come will be a year I look back on with tenderness, compassion, gratitude and celebration. Today is my birthday. I don’t mind being my anti-hero. I normally don’t root for the anti-hero, but now, I understand her more and am grateful to embrace her. #Antihero #InspiredbyTaylorSwift #InspiredbyTaylor #OGSwiftie #HealingJourney #MettaPrayer #LovingKindness #lovingkindnessmeditation #RainerRilkeQuote #RainerMariaRilke #TodayismyBirthday
一早動物園小姊姊傳來弟弟bobo的取暖照片都融化了我❤️❤️😍😍這種天氣就是要抱緊暖爐啊🐶🐶 看到他過的很好，我就放心了🙏🙏 昨天下午照例走到信賢看看樹看看山看看山嵐，結果路上碰到一隻瘦到皮包骨的流浪小黑，他經過我時，用一種非常絕望悲傷的眼神看了我一眼，然後繼續蹣跚步履在雨中前行。 當下我超級難過怪自己怎麼忘了帶罐罐，更痛苦的事他對人類已經沒有期待徹底絕望的眼神讓我蠻崩潰的。結果昨晚吃不太下也睡不太好一想到他現在飢寒交迫😭😭 早上起床很難得把無量佛經拿出來唸😂😂希望所有生靈可以獲得喜樂、自由、解脫🙏🙏May all the beings be happy, be at peace，and be liberated. #mettaprayer#慈悲觀#下次出門走路時都要記得帶罐罐😭😭#妳不知道那一餐可能是他這禮拜的唯一一餐#荒郊野外真的很多浪浪 #animalsareourfriends#無量壽經 #meerkat❤️
🐌🦋🪳🌱🐞 🍂 #wakeupism #spiritualmemes #mettaprayer #buddhism
Just home from retreat. It was quiet time. Exquisite inner time. Title of the retreat, How the Light Gets In: Radical Wisdom for the Flourishing in Our Broken World led by tender and quiet powerful Mark Burrows @msburrows The opening question was How should we be alive? thrive. flourish. Bring our voice. our beauty into the world. Into ourselves. Bring our brokenness, our deepest beauty into the world. Back into our hearts. and cherish. We looked to the poets to ‘praise the black mud’. to claim our radiance. It was a soft time. Listening. to innerness. to the cracks, painful dark and exquisite to human. The beauty-holy broke that opens us, floods us with our light. Our deepest beauty. Today is Metta Monday. 2pm. 1765 Glenview Road in the Patio Shops No fee. Donations and poems are welcome. Where two or more gather something beautiful blooms. Closing with the bard-mystic Leonard Cohen words, “Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack, a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.” ✨ #mettamonday #mettaprayer #metta #mettaoffering #mettapractice #compassionpractice #markburrows #howthelightgetsin #leonardcohen #beautyholy #brokenopen #mayyoubehappy #mayyoubepeaceful #mayyoubefreefromsuffering #forthebenefitofall #retreattime #meistereckhart
One of my favourite pieces of calligraphy is based on a phrase I found at the bottom of a receipt. Where is the strangest place you ever found an inspirational phrase? #mettaprayer #calligraphy #italiccalligraphy
El diálogo interno que tenemos es vital en la creación de nuestra vida. Lo que nos decimos lo creemos, y lo que creemos lo creamos. Hablémonos con compasión 💖🔮🧘♀️🫶🏼✨🚀💘 #mettaprayer #selfcare #wellbeing #awareness
“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.” - Martin Luther King Jr. Today is Martin Luther King Day. a day honoring the life and legacy of a man who brought hope and healing. a fighter for racial justice and equality. a voice of peace and nonviolence. jailed 29 times to achieve freedom for others. a leader who embodied the ultimate example of bravery, courage, truth, justice, compassion, dignity, humility and service. MLK day is a day of service. May we learn to stand as he did. Today is also Metta Monday. 2pm. 1765 Glenview Road in the Patio Shops No fee. Donations and poems welcome May you remember if you want to change a behavior, surround yourself in a community and with people that are doing so, who are living that way. Where two or more gather something beautiful blooms.🌸 #mettaprayer #metta #mettamonday #mettamantra #compassionpractice #lovingkindness #mlkday #itisaboutlove #itsaboutlove #mayyoubepeaceful #mayyoubehappy #mayyoubefreefromsuffering #forthebenefitofall
{Flower Church} In all corners of the world, there is great suffering. My heart breaks every single day. Every single day I pray for the liberation of all beings: liberation from their oppressors, liberation from the systems that oppress, liberation from the desire to oppress… I pray and I turn to the Flowers, and I pray some more. . divine blossoms luminous sutras the flowers They heal me I praise them all. . Swipe to see the full collage. . [METTA PRAYER] May all beings be peaceful. May all beings be happy. May all beings be safe. May all beings awaken to the light of their true nature. May all beings be free. . #FlowerChurch #FlowerPower #FoundPoetry #Poetry #ArtAsPrayer #Collage #PaperPrayers #ArtJournal #ArchetypalCollage #ActiveImagination #Symbolism #TheLivingSymbol #Poetry #MettaPrayer #Flowers #IPraiseThemAll
Sanghadana 190 Monks and Meditation at Ruwanweli Maha Seya Srilanka. The Ruwanweli Maha Seya, also known as the swarnamali maha seya (lit. ‘the Great Thupa’), is a stupa (a hemispherical structure containing relics) in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka. Two quarts or one Dona of the Buddha’s relics are enshrined in the stupa, making it the largest collection of his relics anywhere. It was built by Sinhalese King Dutugemunu in c. 140 B.C. May we all be well, happy and peaceful, May no harm come to us. May we all also have patience, courage, understanding, and determination to meet and overcome inevitable difficulties, problems, and failures in life. May our parents, our teachers and mentors, our friends and may all living beings across the world be well, happy and peaceful. May no harm come to them. May they also have patience, courage, understanding, and determination to meet and overcome inevitable difficulties, problems, and failures in life. @bhantedevananda @lankaramausa @mettadharmashop #Buddha #dharma #sangha #Buddhist #Buddhism #dharma #sangha #Meditation #lovingkindness #metta #MettaBhavana #freemeditation #meditationpractice #lovingkindnessmeditation #bhantedevananda #mindfulness #mettamonday #mettaprayer #mettapractice #blessings #meditationclass
The most basic kind of peace work starts here May all beings be peaceful May all beings be happy May all beings be safe May all beings be free #mettaprayer #yogamama #onemoment #laketahoe #yoga #movingmeditation
This is what should be done By one who is skilled in goodness, And who knows the path of peace: Let them be able and upright, Straightforward and gentle in speech, Humble and not conceited, Contented and easily satisfied, Unburdened with duties and frugal in their ways. Peaceful and calm and wise and skillful, Not proud or demanding in nature. Let them not do the slightest thing That the wise would later reprove. Wishing: In gladness and in safety, May all beings be at ease. Whatever living beings there may be; Whether they are weak or strong, omitting none, The great or the mighty, medium, short or small, The seen and the unseen, Those living near and far away, Those born and to-be-born — May all beings be at ease! Let none deceive another, Or despise any being in any state. Let none through anger or ill-will Wish harm upon another. Even as a mother protects with her life Her child, her only child, So with a boundless heart Should one cherish all living beings; Radiating kindness over the entire world: Spreading upwards to the skies, And downwards to the depths; Outwards and unbounded, Freed from hatred and ill-will. Whether standing or walking, seated or lying down Free from drowsiness, One should sustain this recollection. This is said to be the sublime abiding. By not holding to fixed views, The pure-hearted one, having clarity of vision, Being freed from all sense desires, Is not born again into this world. Karaniya Metta Sutta: The Buddha's Words on Loving-Kindness. #freepalestine🇵🇸 #buddhanature #purelove #heartchakra #meditation #prayforgaza #mettaprayer #mettameditation #lovingkindness #rebirth #countyourblessings #madrid #london #paris
"And now let us welcome the New Year Full of things that have never been." – Rainer Maria Rilke Today is Metta Monday. Gathering at 2pm. All are welcome. After meditation, we will sit in the ancient tradition “Give Me a Word” – a sacred practice where a word is “given” to walk with you, guide you, open you into the Mystery of your 2024, what your soul is calling you to know. to behold. There is something lovely about a new year with all its promise and possibility knocking at our door. Doors, both open and closed, symbolize transition, transformation, a threshold to the unknown both exciting and disquieting wrapped in one. Doors are places where we pause. Take a moment to find our key, await after ringing a bell, ask for entry. For a nano-second time is suspended still, into a silent-hush, before motion takes form like a whirling dervish before he spins, opens, receives the Beloved. A new year is such a still-point, a threshold moment inviting us to open. beckon the holy. hear Love knocking on our heart’s doors. Welcome a word to orbit around the temple of our Soul. “Why are you knocking at every other door? Go, knock at the door of your own heart.” ― Rumi #mettaprayer #mettamonday #mettapractice #mettaoffering #metta #compassionpractice #lovingkindness #meditation #mayyoubepeaceful #mayyoubehappy #mayyoubefreefromsuffering #rumiquotes #tseliot #rainermariarilke
The Metta prayer. I say it daily in my head. Stabilising and grounding. Try it. Feel it. I think it’s magical. #metta #mettaprayer #love #healing #healingjourney #meditation #refugerecovery
2nd January - Day 341 “May all beings be peaceful. May all beings be happy. May all beings be safe. May all beings awaken to the light of their true nature. May all beings be free.” #thewisdomoftheshamans #mettaprayer #karenbphotography #thewhitegateway #newyearsdaywalk
Metta prayer.
❤️ HAPPY NEW YEAR 2024 🥳 🥂🍾🥳✨ The work I did in 2023 was pure joy in my Hypnotherapy, Reiki and Energy Medicine Practice. I also taught 8 Reiki Workshops, did Touch For Health Kinesiology, loved using Kinetic Shift, and learned more about doing online psychotherapy with my clients. I attended 5 Hypnosis Workshops with the AHA (Australian Hypnotherapists Association) as well as other training to grow myself, and I’ve enjoyed the challenge of stepping into the role of Chair for The Board of Directors for Reiki Australia. It’s been a busy year but 2024 will be even more fulfilling as I undertake some new ways of teaching and healing and new workshops to empower my students and clients. So today I want to take this opportunity to thank all that have shared their journey with me in 2023. My family, friends, clients, students and my different Group Tribes. You are in my circle. We are all connected. Every connection is meaningful and you have each brightened my life and my world by sharing your heart with me. THIS COMING YEAR... May you find joy in the simple things. May you treat others the way you want to be treated. May you treat yourself the way you would treat a best friend. May you have abundance in health, wealth, happiness and wisdom. May you find peace in the centre of every storm. May you see the light inside you that I see. May everything unfold perfectly for your highest good. Happy New Year to you and yours. I wish you Much Love. Namasté Carol xo 💗🙏🏼💗 #carolmacrae #mindbodymagic #hypnosis #reiki #healing #hypnotherapy #reikihealing #energy #happynewyear2024 #mettaprayer
Blessings of Peace & Prosperity in 2024 #mettaprayer 🪷 #belikealotusflower #growthmindset
May all beings) be safe and protected, free from inner and outer harm. May all be happy. May everyone's body support the practice of loving awareness. May all be free from ill-will, affliction, and anxiety. May all be happy and free from suffering. May all find peace in an uncertain world. May all find ease on the middle path between attachment and apathy. 😊🙏 #mettaprayer #buddhistwisdom #newyearwishes
Two Beloved Poets + One Teacher offering begin anew. "Once again a new beginning! Take all the veils of the past and make a new garment." - Rumi 🌸 "Awaken your spirit to adventure; Hold nothing back, learn to find ease in risk; Soon you will home in a new rhythm, For your soul senses the world that awaits you." - John O' Donohue 🌸 "We're coming into the new year, so it is a very good time to make a simple resolution - not a huge, great, big resolution that we're not going to keep, but a simple one that we can keep. Make a commitment. We should not always be making excuses. I'm talking to myself. That is just laziness, right? Make a commitment to do a simple practice like Shamatha or Metta for say 5, 10 or 20 minutes every day. Anybody can do 5 or 10 minutes. Come on. Then gradually, as we realise this is really a very nice thing to do with our time, we can extend it." - Tenzin Palmo 🌸 May 2024 be rich with JOY. May you hold nothing back. May you risk being fully seen, fully you. May you wrap yourself in the holy-goodness of who you are. And when you forget, reach out to those that celebrate, see and relish your Light, your soul friends. ps. no Metta today- See you next Monday, Jan 8 at 2pm. 🌸 #nomettamonday #metta #mettamonday #mayyoubehappy #mayyoubepeaceful #mettaprayer #mayyoubefreefromsuffering #metta2024 #beginanew #new2024 #newbeginnings #mettaoffering #compassionpractice #lovingkindness #rumi #johnodonohue #tenzinpalmo #mettablessings #mettablessing #blessed2024
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Opening Holding Binding Letting go Finding the balance The process of creating. "May all beings be peaceful. May all beings be happy. May all beings be safe. May all beings awaken to the light of their true nature. May all beings be free." Happy New Year 🙏🏽🌀🙏🏽 #mettaprayeroflovingkindness #mettaprayer #crochetstones #crochet #crochetrocks #naturaldyes #textileartist #textileart #textileartistsofinstagram #textileoftheday
May I dwell in safety. May I be happy and healthy. May I be free from afflictions. May I be at peace. May you dwell in safety. May you be happy and healthy. May you be free from afflictions. May you be at peace. May they all dwell in safety. May they all be happy and healthy. May they all be free of afflictions. May they all be at peace. *** Happy New Year, everybody! 🥰🥳❤ #2024 #HappyNewYear #NewYear #NewYears #NewYearsEve #EndofaYear #Metta #MettaPrayer #Maitri #Nyttår #Nyttårsaften #GodyNyttår
May all beings be happy. May they be healthy. May they be at peace. #mettaprayer #lovingkindness #taiwan #buddhism #happynewyear #2024
Metta Prayer of Love and Compassion: May All Beings be happy, healthy and whole. May they have love, warmth and affection. May they be protected from harm, and free from fear. May they be alive, engaged and joyful. ♥️ Love and Compassion start with one self. This is the teaching of one of the greatest masters of all times, start with yourself: May I be peaceful, happy, and light in body and spirit. May I be safe and free from injury. May I be free from anger, afflictions, fear and anxiety. May I learn to look at myself with the eyes of of understanding and love. May I be able to recognize and touch the seeds of joy and happiness in myself. May I learn to identify and see the sources of anger, craving, and delusion in myself. May I know how to nourish the seeds of joy in myself every day. May I be able to live fresh, solid, and free. May I be free from attachment and aversion, but not indifferent. ♡♡♡ Love is not just the intention to love, but the capacity to reduce suffering, and offer peace and happiness. The practice of love increases our forbearance, our capacity to be patient and embrace difficulties and pain. Thank You Master Thích Nhất Hạnh #ThichNhatHanh #MettaPrayer #Love #Reiki Happy New Year My Lovely Soul Family! Sending Reiki Love and Light to All 💕 Wishing everyone health, love and happiness!
I’m not a fan of New Year’s resolutions. I felt like I was “giving up” something, and never saw a huge impact. However, I love doing a vision board at the end of year. It forces me to focus on what I want my life to look like. Being able to see what I want helps me act in ways to get there. #manifesting #visuallearner #visionboard #newyear #dreambig #mettaprayer #mettameditation
Sanghadana 190 Monks and Meditation at Ruwanweli Maha Seya Srilanka. The Ruwanweli Maha Seya, also known as the swarnamali maha seya (lit. 'the Great Thupa'), is a stupa (a hemispherical structure containing relics) in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka. Two quarts or one Dona of the Buddha's relics are enshrined in the stupa, making it the largest collection of his relics anywhere. It was built by Sinhalese King Dutugemunu in c. 140 B.C. May we all be well, happy and peaceful, May no harm come to us. May we all also have patience, courage, understanding, and determination to meet and overcome inevitable difficulties, problems, and failures in life. May our parents, our teachers and mentors, our friends and may all living beings across the world be well, happy and peaceful. May no harm come to them. May they also have patience, courage, understanding, and determination to meet and overcome inevitable difficulties, problems, and failures in life. @bhantedevananda @lankaramausa @mettadharmashop #Buddha #dharma #sangha #Buddhist #Buddhism #dharma #sangha #Meditation #lovingkindness #metta #MettaBhavana #freemeditation #meditationpractice #lovingkindnessmeditation #bhantedevananda #mindfulness #mettamonday #mettaprayer #mettapractice #blessings #meditationclass