There is nothing I like better than going for a walk or a bike ride in nature to inspire my spirit to open up to the invisible power of Mother nature! Nature is one powerful inspiration source for my music but also for contacting my inner self and evaluate if I’m a good friend to myself in the now… What am I thinking? Am I stressed? About what? Than I stop and I breathe, I become aware of my body, feel my heart and I invite the unconditional love to clean my soul and my cells and I rest in this feeling for a minute. Am I thinking in constructive manner of myself, others, life, things, money and so on… If not, I decide what I want to believe in and I make sure I feel my new resolution of being kind to myself, hopeful, patient, loving and understanding but also, realistic! Than I thank the universe for all the life and beauty that surround us all. I pray for you too, sending you hopeful thoughts of love and inner peace.
May you take some time to contact your inner potential of love and by doing so, become your best friend! xxx Marcomé
“For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad.”
-Edwin Way Teale
“Nature’s music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions. -Mary Webb
“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.” -Anne Bradstreet
“Thy bounty shines in autumn unconfined
And spreads a common feast for all that live.”
-James Thomson
“Every season has its peaks and valleys. What you have to try to do is eliminate the Grand Canyon.”
-Andy Van Slyke
“Change is a measure of time and, in the autumn,
time seems speeded up. What was is not and never
again will be; what is is change.”
-Edwin Teale
“A few days ago I walked along the edge of the lake and was treated to the crunch and rustle of leaves with each step I made. The acoustics of this season are different and all sounds, no matter how hushed, are as crisp as autumn air.”
-Eric Sloane
Knock on the sky and Listen to the sound. -Zen Saying
“Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting
and autumn a mosaic of them all.”
-Stanley Horowitz
“Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance.”
-Yoko Ono
“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
– Albert Camus
“Autumn begins with a subtle change in the light, with skies
a deeper blue, and nights that become suddenly clear and
chilled. The season comes full with the first frost, the
disappearance of migrant birds, and the harvesting of
the season’s last crops.”
-Glenn Wolff and Jerry Dennis
“If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.”
-Thomas Carlyle
“Those who don’t pick roses in summer won’t pick them in winter either” -German Proverb
“Nature often holds up a mirror so we can see more clearly the ongoing processes of growth, renewal, and transformation in our lives.” -Unknown
“Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth
seeking the successive autumns.”
-George Eliot
“There ought to be gardens for all months in the year,
in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season.”
-Sir Francis Bacon
All photos taken by my husband G. Bélair in Québec, Canada.
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