Showing posts with label The Canterbury Tales. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Canterbury Tales. Show all posts

2007-04-30

Saying Goodbye


"Good night sweethearts. Grandpa will take good care of you." - Sofia saying goodbye to her dolls before we leave to go back to her mother's.

"I reawy have to use my magination with this book." - Sofia picking up a copy of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales to read, and seeing the lack of pictures.

"Just fa-woh your heart. Fa-woh your heart and you'll be fine." - Sofia reading "The Little Mermaid"

From a fairy tale when we're young to "The Secret" to living a full and happy life as adults, it's as if we complete the circle by returning to our innocence, reminding me of the song by Enigma off the Pure Moods cd ("Return to Innocence).

Why is it for children life seems so happy and simple? Is it really because they have no responsibilities? Or is it because they intuitively know to let themselves be guided by their hearts, holding truth in one hand and full confidence in the other?

The most successful adults I have studied show the same characteristics; blessed with careers their hearts are truly into, wealthy with inner joy AND dollars as they operate with full confidence and living the truth of who they really are (versus trading their lives for dollars, gaining material possessions and looking to others to validate who they are, and waiting for "one day" to really live).

"When we're children we still remember." - Laura Lee

2007-03-21

You Are an Unwritten Masterpiece



Just a thought....Deeply feeling people allow others to feel deeply.



When Chaucer wrote "The Canterbury Tales" he was near the end of his life. While most writers write their best at an earlier age, he wrote his masterpiece at the end. As I read him I have both "Wow this is good" as well as "What? I don't understand this" thoughts.
Geoffrey Chaucer, deeply disturbed about the current state of affairs in London, wrote a brilliant tale of travelers' tales on their way to Thomas a Beckett's grave. But he did so in Old English (he wrote it in 1387 I think). Nonetheless, a deep, rich tale comes from the pages from a man deeply saddened, yet still courageous and childlike enough to focus his emotions in a more positive and playful light.

This choice allowed him to create something that allows us to feel and enjoy his emotions more than 600 years later.
So if you find yourself a deep-feeling person, allow it to happen. I know at times it means feeling great sadness as well as joy. This is an indication that you feel deeply and richly the emotions of life. You are alive to a great extent.

Simply focus your thoughts on good feelings and what you'd like to have in your life, and use this wonderful ability to feel to attract all the good things to you.

You are powerful, an unwritten masterpiece waiting to happen.
Smile, it is a very good day.







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