posted April 14, 2011 09:16 PM            

"All things change, nothing is extinguished. . . . There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement."

posted April 14, 2011 09:57 PM            

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Originally posted by SunChild:

Thank You Lexx, and Much Love to You, beautiful Lady.

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posted April 14, 2011 10:03 PM            

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Originally posted by juniperb:
When you said metamorphic, it sent me spiraling to Ovid and his work Metamorphoses. In which he said:

"All things change, nothing is extinguished. . . . There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement."

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Oh how beautiful!
Thank you for that!

posted April 15, 2011 01:56 PM            

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Originally posted by Lei_Kuei:
Is your mail down Lexx?

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Sorry I worried you

posted April 15, 2011 02:09 PM            

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Originally posted by SunChild:
I thought you would like it, that style.

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posted April 15, 2011 02:17 PM            

The main character Liz, http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0172769/quotes
has some very good lines.

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Liz Gilbert: I'm sick of people telling me that I need a man.
Felipe: You don't need a man, Liz. You need a champion.

Liz Gilbert: It won't last forever. Nothing does.

Liz Gilbert: In the end, I've come to believe in something I call "The Physics of the Quest." A force in nature governed by laws as real as the laws of gravity. The rule of Quest Physics goes something like this: If you're brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting, which can be anything from your house to bitter, old resentments, and set out on a truth-seeking journey, either externally or internally, and if you are truly willing to regard everything that happens to you on that journey as a clue and if you accept everyone you meet along the way as a teacher and if you are prepared, most of all, to face and forgive some very difficult realities about yourself, then the truth will not be withheld from you.

Liz Gilbert: Dear friends and loved ones: My birthday's coming up soon. If I were home, I'd be planning a stupid, expensive birthday party and you'd all be buying me gifts and bottles of wine. A cheaper, more lovely way to celebrate would be to make a donation to help a healer named Wayan Nuriyasih buy a house in Indonesia. She's a single mother. ln Bali, after a divorce, a woman gets nothing, not even her children. To gain custody of her daughter, Tutti, Wayan had to sell everything, even her bath mat, to pay for a lawyer. For years, they've moved from place to place. Each time, Wayan loses clientele and Tutti has to change schools. This little group of people in Bali have become my family. And we must take care of our families, wherever we find them. Today l saw Tutti playing with a blue tile she'd found in the road near a hotel construction site. She told me: Maybe if we have a house someday, it can have a pretty blue floor like this. When I was in Italy, I learned a word - It's "tutti" with double T, which in ltalian means "everybody." So that's the lesson, isn't it? When you set out in the world to help yourself, sometimes you end up helping Tutti.

Liz Gilbert: Maybe my life hasn't been so chaotic. It's just the world that is and the only real trap is getting attached to any of it. Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.

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posted April 16, 2011 04:26 AM            

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Originally posted by katatonic:
Ruin is a gift. Ruin is [a] road to transformation... ... for sure!

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posted April 16, 2011 04:35 AM            

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Liz Gilbert: I'm sick of people telling me that I need a man.
Felipe: You don't need a man, Liz. You need a champion.

Liz Gilbert: It won't last forever. Nothing does.

Liz Gilbert: In the end, I've come to believe in something I call "The Physics of the Quest." A force in nature governed by laws as real as the laws of gravity. The rule of Quest Physics goes something like this: If you're brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting, which can be anything from your house to bitter, old resentments, and set out on a truth-seeking journey, either externally or internally, and if you are truly willing to regard everything that happens to you on that journey as a clue and if you accept everyone you meet along the way as a teacher and if you are prepared, most of all, to face and forgive some very difficult realities about yourself, then the truth will not be withheld from you.

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~Balance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself.~Felipe

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posted April 16, 2011 07:08 AM            

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Originally posted by abcd efg:
WOW ! And love to you too! Loads of it. Like the fireworks in that video you had linked. That was a nice one. I liked the concept and the singer looks good too.

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Originally posted by LEXX:
Abundant love and happiness to you abcd efg!
Oh yes! That video just feels so right to me!
Just when I think I cannot go on any longer, I get waves of epiphanies that of late take me by utter surprise! Everything changes, fear not the changes! I have come to the realization that I must be myself and not try to force myself to be what others want or want me to do.
When I change it must be for me!
Wherever, whatever I do from hereon must be for myself firstly and no more sacrificing my happiness to please others at the detriment of my complete happiness!
Wake up calls can be shocking indeed!
But to ignore them is how I got into some of the bad situations in the first place.
There can be no illusion on the quest for true life fulfilling happiness!
Fantasy and hopes and dreams are so hypnotically enticing, it is so easy to fall into old self destructive/over sacrificing patterns...again and again.
Reality matters in the big picture and the long run.
When reality is the base, then magic can happen and the dreams and hopes unfold naturally without angst and doubt into something beyond fantasy and illusion.
I am tired of being in the matrix.
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
No more air castles for me.
Changes happen, fear not the changes!
And never change to please others in any way shape or form or make important decisions on anyone's ideal no matter how much they want you to change things about yourself and what they want you to do.
You must want to change, you must be 100% content about important decisions in life,
the choices are yours and yours alone!

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posted April 16, 2011 07:19 AM            

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Originally posted by LEXX:
Liz Gilbert: Maybe my life hasn't been so chaotic. It's just the world that is and the only real trap is getting attached to any of it. Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.

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posted July 28, 2011 10:45 AM            

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I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.

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