"Alive" Images - Quotes

"Alive" Images - Quotes - Reflections

Published: Sun, 01/25/26

"Alive"

A windblown tree at the top of a hill, its silhouette overlooking an expansive calm blue sea and sky

A Client of mine named this image “Alive.”

A native of Cape Cod, she knows what it takes

to stay nurtured through long dark cold winters

then arise each spring still joyously Alive.

What nourishes us, our Souls

And makes us continue to stand tall and strong?

I love the personal writings

and thoughts of others that touch my heart.

Beautiful phrases, the sound of words,

the images they create

the feeling in my body as I experience them.

Pathways into deeper levels of feeling or purpose

They resonate within me.

I love the feelings they inspire,
The recognition of what is often wordless.

Tiny meals of sustenance.

I share with you some gems that found their way to me.

You will have your own desires, what deepens your aliveness.

May you enjoy today's discoveries…

and your future soulful treasures.

"Isn’t it time to turn your heart into a temple of fire?"

Rumi

"To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake

is to be continually thrown out of the nest."

Pema Chodron

“What seems to me the highest and most difficult
achievement of art is not to make us laugh or cry,
not to arouse our lust or rage, but to
do what nature does - to set us dreaming.”

Gustave Flaubert

“I must be a mermaid, Rango.
I have no fear of depths
and a great fear of shallow living.”

-Anaiis Nin

“The Four Chambered Heart”

If the wind is going the right way, some birds like to spread their wings and hang in the air appearig not to move a bit.
It is a subtle skill, to remain appreciably steady

amid the forces of drift and gravity,

to be neither rising nor falling."

Kyo Maclear

"Birds Art Life: A Year of Observation"

"He walked slowly home, aware of each footstep
crunching with muffled loudness in the dry snow."

John Williams
“Stoner”