Ocean In A Drop

You are not a drop in the ocean, you are the entire ocean in a drop.

Rumi

Bora Bora
NDM 2016

Yearning

What is your deepest yearning--

Not, "What do you want?"

What is that inner voice deep down inside of you, the keeper of your secrets, the archivist of your dreams--

What is that voice reminding you of?

?

Trust

“To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you 

swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you 

will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.” 

― Alan Watts

Niue, Cook Islands
2015 NDM

Overwhelmed

"When you feel overwhelmed, you're trying too hard."

                                                     -Thich Nhat Hanh

NDM 2014

Inspired

When you are inspired…dormant forces, faculties, and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be. —Patanjali

NDM 2013

Hurt People Hurt People

Hurt people hurt people. 
That's how pain patterns get passed on, generation after generation after generation. 
Break the chain today. 
Meet anger with sympathy, contempt with compassion, cruelty with kindness. 
Greet grimaces with smiles. 
Forgive and forget about finding fault. 
Love is the weapon of the future." 

-Yehuda Berg

NDM 2014

Hold Fast to Dreams

Hold fast to dreams, 

For if dreams die

Life is a broken-winged bird,

That cannot fly."  

- Langston Hughes

2016 NDM

Vertigo

NDM 2012

“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.” 

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Beyond

"Out beyond ideas of wrong doing and right doing,

 there is a field.

I'll meet you there..." 

~Rumi.

NDM 2014

Unfold Your Own Myth

Hilo, Hawaii

Do not be satisfied with the stories that come before you. 

                                                                                      Unfold your own myth.


                                                                                                                                   -Rumi

Bora Bora pearl

all photos by NDM 2016 all rights reserved

Essence

“Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.” 

          Rilke

Courage...
NDM 2016 Rights Reserved

Shake the World

In a gentle way, you can shake the world...

Mahatma Gandhi

Austin, Texas Graffiti
NDM 2016 all rights reserved

"Don't turn away. 
Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. 
That is where the light enters you."

-Rumi

Austin, Castle Hill Graffiti Park
2016 mdm Rights Reserved

Be the Fountain

"There is a fountain inside you. 
          Don't walk around with an empty bucket."

-Rumi

Photo by NDM 2016. All Rights Reserved

Travel

We travel, some of us forever, 
to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” 

— Anaïs Nin

Akureyri, Iceland
Photo by NDMignone, All rights reserved

Show the World Your Heart

No matter what happens. If the world falls apart,

Show me your purpose. Show me your heart.

                                                                         Rumi

photo by ndm 2016. All Rights Reserved

Dreams

"Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country."

-- Anaïs Nin

Photo by NDM 2016 All rights reserved

Always We Hope....

A little wisdom from Lao Tzu:

Always we hope

someone else has the answer.

Some other place will be better,

some other time

it will all turn out.

This is it.

No one else has the answer.

No other place will be better,

and it has already turned out.

At the center of your being you have the answer;

you know who you are and you know what you want.

There is no need

to run outside

for better seeing.

Nor to peer from a window.

Rather abide at

the center of your being;

for the more you leave it

the less you learn.

Search your heart

and see

the way to do

is to be.

-Lao Tzu (translator unknown)

(Photo of Lahaina,  Maui, Hawaii, by Nicole D Mignone all  rights reserved 2016 )