Philosophy for Life - What is Yours?

[kathydwells]

Here are some things i wish someone had told me as a child. This is what i've come to know through the years.

As we walk through our temporary home here on earth, we can achieve much, or be a dreamer, it's all OK in the end. You were born with a unique predisposition, and your only duty is to llve that nature to the fullest extent, and harm none along the way. When in doubt, choose the path that allows you to feel, touch, and experience more. When it's your time to go you will look back in satisfaction, knowing you really lived.

Life is filled with the highest highs and the lowest lows. Don't stress, fear or try to avoid the hard stuff--it's futile, it's part of the duality of our world. Simply turn to, breathe through it and keep your eyes on the goal, not the obstacles. If times are tough, hang tight, and hold onto someone or something you love. Because the world shows us: from the darkness, we come again into the light. Always. Have no fear.

Finally, the key to happiness is threefold:
Find your peace.
Wherever or however you find peace of mind...be there, do that.
that is your mandate. If you feel unsettled, something needs
adjusting. Figure it out.
Spread your love.
Love is a verb. You have a lot to give.
Seek your balance.
Everything in moderation, including moderation at times. Don't let
yourself get too stuck in patterns, break out of your mold once in a while.
Don't worry about those who would raise eyebrows, they wish they
had the chutzpah to live as fearlessly as you. That's why our culture
worships adventurers and rock stars. Be one, if only in your own mind. ;-)

Beautiful Kat!!! :clap_1:

 

[Smiling JOe]

Here are some things i wish someone had told me as a child. This is what i've come to know through the years.

As we walk through our temporary home here on earth, we can achieve much, or be a dreamer, it's all OK in the end. You were born with a unique predisposition, and your only duty is to llve that nature to the fullest extent, and harm none along the way. When in doubt, choose the path that allows you to feel, touch, and experience more. When it's your time to go you will look back in satisfaction, knowing you really lived.

Life is filled with the highest highs and the lowest lows. Don't stress, fear or try to avoid the hard stuff--it's futile, it's part of the duality of our world. Simply turn to, breathe through it and keep your eyes on the goal, not the obstacles. If times are tough, hang tight, and hold onto someone or something you love. Because the world shows us: from the darkness, we come again into the light. Always. Have no fear.

Finally, the key to happiness is threefold:
Find your peace.
Wherever or however you find peace of mind...be there, do that.
that is your mandate. If you feel unsettled, something needs
adjusting. Figure it out.
Spread your love.
Love is a verb. You have a lot to give.
Seek your balance.
Everything in moderation, including moderation at times. Don't let
yourself get too stuck in patterns, break out of your mold once in a while.
Don't worry about those who would raise eyebrows, they wish they
had the chutzpah to live as fearlessly as you. That's why our culture
worships adventurers and rock stars. Be one, if only in your own mind. ;-)

WOW! Just as I thought, I am seeing some really deep thoughts. Katmoo, after reading your post, I was reminded of something I did quite often a few years back, and I have been missing doing the results of one occasion since I have been in FL. I was living in a wonderful small town with multiple top notch libraries, two of which I went to for a few hours on a daily basis. Once, I grew so bored with the same subjects day after day, that I went to the computer to select random subjects from which I would read a book. Oh, how I enjoy doing this. While this does not have much to do with my philosophy for life, it does tie together. One subject which I selected at random was knitting. So I selected a how to book for knitting. Don't think that I stop only after reading the book. I never do. I went to the store, purchased some knitting needles and yarn, and began to knit and pearl away. I like to make things. I am not much of a skilled knitter, but I have fun doing it. While in the area of Sonoma California with a friend of mine, we went into a knitting store, and I told the sweet shop owner that I was a beginner and that I wanted to learn to knit a hat. She stopped what she was doing and took time to explain to me the how to's. So I bought a circular needle. That was just the beginning of something special. (There are many special stories and visits with small yarn shop owners that I have from all over the USA that fill in the time between.) I began making hats for friends, family, and people that I met, who have spoken out to me, non-verbally of course. While I have knitted only around 60 hats, each one has a special story. After about the tenth hat, I began keeping a list of the people for whom I made these hats as a way of remembering for whom I had, and more importantly, had not made a hat. I long ago finished the list of friends and family, and have no need for a list, although that could be a book in itself. When I was not making a hat for someone, which may take 3 days or 3 weeks, I was searching for someone who could "use a hat." I have made hats for homeless people, hairless cancer survivors, and many more in between who are in need of a little magic. I don't know that any one person was more in need of any other, but all were magical people, some who have just gone by forgotten by others. While I am making a hat, I am not thinking so much about the hat as the soul who will be getting it. Making the hat connects me to the person. Anyway, this post is way too long, so I will close. Due to the absence of cold weather here, I want to once again, take up the needles and make a hat for someone in a colder environment. I would like to make a new connection, by making a hat for whomever can legitimately claim to be from the most northern place over all others on this board. In order to keep this thread clean, please PM me your city of residence. Let's say that all cities have to be PM to me before the end of this week, and we will have a winner on Monday. To take the words from a well known band, "What do you say?"

 

[RiverOtter]

Here are some things i wish someone had told me as a child. This is what i've come to know through the years.

As we walk through our temporary home here on earth, we can achieve much, or be a dreamer, it's all OK in the end. You were born with a unique predisposition, and your only duty is to llve that nature to the fullest extent, and harm none along the way. When in doubt, choose the path that allows you to feel, touch, and experience more. When it's your time to go you will look back in satisfaction, knowing you really lived.

Life is filled with the highest highs and the lowest lows. Don't stress, fear or try to avoid the hard stuff--it's futile, it's part of the duality of our world. Simply turn to, breathe through it and keep your eyes on the goal, not the obstacles. If times are tough, hang tight, and hold onto someone or something you love. Because the world shows us: from the darkness, we come again into the light. Always. Have no fear.

Finally, the key to happiness is threefold:
Find your peace.
Wherever or however you find peace of mind...be there, do that.
that is your mandate. If you feel unsettled, something needs
adjusting. Figure it out.
Spread your love.
Love is a verb. You have a lot to give.
Seek your balance.
Everything in moderation, including moderation at times. Don't let
yourself get too stuck in patterns, break out of your mold once in a while.
Don't worry about those who would raise eyebrows, they wish they
had the chutzpah to live as fearlessly as you. That's why our culture
worships adventurers and rock stars. Be one, if only in your own mind. ;-)

Great stuff Katmoo

 

[GraytonBound]

Maybe you can start something like this.........

MaryEllen Locher was one of the most respected women in Chattanooga. She died in June at the age of 45 after her 3rd battle with cancer. She left behind a great charity called Children of Breast Cancer, and also this campaign:

"While undergoing treatment for breast cancer, MaryEllen was inspired to found the not for profit Hats from the Heart program, giving free hats to cancer patients onsite at area cancer treatment centers. In less than a year, Hats from the Heart boasts at least 15 distribution sites are all area hospitals and doctor's offices, with two chapters in the planning stages in Northeast Georgia and Bradley County Tennessee."

 

[RiverOtter]

Hey Graytonbound! Did you read Katmoo's post?

 

[GraytonBound]

Hey Graytonbound! Did you read Katmoo's post?

Of course I did

Just wondering what you came away with from it......

 

[Camp Creek Kid]

Maybe you can start something like this.........

MaryEllen Locher was one of the most respected women in Chattanooga. She died in June at the age of 45 after her 3rd battle with cancer. She left behind a great charity called Children of Breast Cancer, and also this campaign:

"While undergoing treatment for breast cancer, MaryEllen was inspired to found the not for profit Hats from the Heart program, giving free hats to cancer patients onsite at area cancer treatment centers. In less than a year, Hats from the Heart boasts at least 15 distribution sites are all area hospitals and doctor's offices, with two chapters in the planning stages in Northeast Georgia and Bradley County Tennessee."

I had not head that MaryEllen Locher died--I remember her well. My husband grew up in Chatt and we lived there 4 years after we were married. That is very sad.

 

[katie blue]

I went to the computer to select random subjects from which I would read a book.

talk about going with the flow! now that's trust.

heh, so now i'm gonna keep my eye out for a long-bearded man with shovel and a beer, knitting wool caps on the beach. whatta vision. i'll be sure to wink your way.

of course, i dont know if you have a beard, we just have to assume you do. ;-)

 

[Smiling JOe]

talk about going with the flow! now that's trust.

heh, so now i'm gonna keep my eye out for a long-bearded man with shovel and a beer, knitting wool caps on the beach. whatta vision. i'll be sure to wink your way.

of course, i dont know if you have a beard, we just have to assume you do. ;-)

You have to be careful with assumptions. We tend to have our on ideas of what others will look like, but we never know until we meet face to face, and even then, it doesn't matter.

 

[Landlocked]

talk about going with the flow! now that's trust.

heh, so now i'm gonna keep my eye out for a long-bearded man with shovel and a beer, knitting wool caps on the beach. whatta vision. i'll be sure to wink your way.

of course, i dont know if you have a beard, we just have to assume you do. ;-)

Well we know what his foot looks like. :laughing1