Getting
BACK TO BASICS
-IS ESSENTIAL!
Anyone who is busy, needs to get away sometimes,
--back to nature.
Many people have suffered from
emotional, or stress related problems that can
turn into physical problems or symptoms. 'Getting Back to
Nature', and letting the horse, walk you through
the woods, can ease your stress, or muscle
problems. No
beepers, few words, and simple relaxation. Your
cluttered mind will feel open and free.
---Getting
away from problems --will minimize the negative.
---A clear mind, will give you the ‘simple’solutions.
---A relaxed mind can accept --rather than reject.
The horse, is a compatible, humorous, and
affectionate creature. Their
lives are simple, until we frustrate them by
our lack of understanding.
The horse is also very
tolerant of our errors. The young
horse is willing.
The older wiser animal will try to teach us
the lessons we need to learn.
People have a knack of
complicating things, --especially, when with a
horse, who –simplifies.
Reward, and punishment, a
good fight, or love and affection. It’s all there, plus,
immediate gratification, fun, excitement, relaxation, and if you need a challenge, that
too can be yours.
Work with nature, and you will win.
Work against
nature, and you will --get your conflict.
REAL SECURITY, ---is in
understanding good basics.
With good basics, anything is possible.
Ride in the Olympics, or fly to the moon.
The show ring fence is not around ‘you’. It is for
the spectators, who are watching for
'communication, coordination, and confidence and
control of the horse, and self -being the rider .
Without good basics, you
will keep on trying, and fall short of perfection.
Many doors will be opened, --with one KEY!
---That ‘KEY’, ---is understanding!
And --kickin' back, ---in
the daisys!
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-WISDOM-
Any intelligent fool can make
things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius - and a
lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. Albert
Einstein
The human race has one really effective
weapon, and that is laughter.
Mark Twain
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve
your looks. --Charles Gordy
Enjoy the little things,
for one day you may look back and realize they were the big
things. -- Robert Brault
We need a
renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and
in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the
perennial
sense that life is miracle and magic.
-- E. Merrill Root (1895-1973) American Writer
"The most beautiful
and profound emotion we can experience
is the sensation of the mystical. It is the power of all true
science."
-Albert Einstein
"There
were times when I could not afford to sacrifice the bloom of the
present moment to any work, whether of the head or hand.
"Sometimes, on a summer morning, I sat in my sunny doorway from
sunrise till noon, rapt in a revery, amidst the pines and
hickories and sumacs, in undisturbed solitude and stillness, while
the birds sang around or flitted noiseless through the house,
until by the sun falling in at my west window, or the noise of
some traveller's wagon on the distant highway, I was reminded of
the lapse of time.
"I grew
in those seasons like corn in the night, and they were far better
than any work of the hands would have been."
"It is our
basic right to be a happy person, happy family, and eventually a
happy world. That should be our goal." --
Dalai Lama
Truly, I say
to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the
kingdom of heaven. Whoever humbles himself like this child, he is the greatest
in the kingdom of heaven. Whoever receives one such child in my name receives
me; but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it
would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened round his neck and to
be drowned in the depth of the sea.
Matthew 18:3-6
"Rest is not
idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening
to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky,
is hardly a waste of time." -- Sir J. Lubbock
"Work is not
always required ... there is such a thing as sacred idleness, the
cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected." -- George MacDonald
"When busyness is the measure of
time, no matter how much time exists it is never enough." --
Diana Hunt
"Be mindful of
how you approach time. Watching the clock is not the same as watching
the sun rise." -- Sophia Bedford-Pierce
"Live like there's no
tomorrow, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching"
Author Unknown
Do
not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an
experiment. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The great man is he who does not lose his
child's heart.-- Mencius (371-291 B.C.)
We all need space -- free from demands,
deadlines, expectations and judgments -- to explore who we are and what
life is all about. Free time, with absolutely no agenda, is rich with
potential. How can we grow if we have no space and freedom to dream?
"Deny children --
or anyone else -- the chance to do ‘nothing,’ and we may be denying them
the chance to do ‘something’ -- to find and do any work that is truly
important to themselves or to someone else." -- John Holt
What needs attention? "We often spend so much time coping with problems
along our path that we only have a dim or even inaccurate view of what's
really important to us." -- Peter Senge
Where are you struggling in your life? Look at your career, finances, relationships,
growth, health and emotions. Where are you experiencing major challenges?
Of these, which area most needs your attention at this time? Set an
intention to face this struggle and resolve it. ATTENTION on your TENSION
often releases it.
"The measure of success is not whether you have a
tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last
year."-- John Foster Dulles
"A human being is a part of the whole, called by us
‘Universe,’ a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his
thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest - a kind of
optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison
for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few
persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison
by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and
the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this
completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of
the liberation and a foundation for inner security." -- Albert Einstein
"At the heart of personality is the need to feel a
sense of being lovable without having to qualify for that acceptance."
-- Dr. Paul Tournier
Beauty, truth, friendship, love, creation – these are the great values of
life. We can’t prove them, or explain them, yet they are the most stable
things in our lives. -- Jesse Herman Holmes
"A human
being is a part of a whole, called by us universe, a part limited in time
and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something
separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his
consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to
our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our
task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of
compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its
beauty."
- Albert Einstein
We must re-awaken what we were born to be. RMF
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