Spiritual Revelations for Humans Seeking Humanity in Humans ~CordieB.
Archive for change
July 16, 2010 at 3:00 am · Filed under life, Poetry, Riddles, Spiritual Riddles and tagged: change, cordieb, Enlightenment, faith, Grateful, greed, hope, Love, Mirrored Reflections, Poetry, riddle, self, spiritual, spiritual riddle, Spirituality, thankful, thanks giving
This is an update from a post I wrote last year – I’ve added and deleted some of my thanks givings from last year… As you can see, I’ve been blessed throughout the year. Also, I present to you a riddle to help exercise the thankful brain.
1. Today I am thankful that my pain is subsiding. pain is gone!
2. Today I am thankful that I have a good man who deals with my pain with me in a supporting, loving manner.
3. Today I am thankful that my children are doing well.
4. Today I am thankful for the warmth of the summer.
5. Today I am thankful that my fever is subsiding I can’t even remember the fever I spoke of last year.
6. Today I am thankful for another year to live and love and that nothing is constant but change 
(Added today, July 15th, 2010)
What were you thankful for last year this time? What are you thankful for Today?
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Spiritual Riddle
I am the sin of grave covetousness
Bound to mine own self righteousness
Neglecting inner consciousness…
for all my mind craves to possess
I’m the root of imbalance in the land
As visioned pleasures I expand
Amid the poor and weakened man
To whom I dare not lend a hand…
Convincing self in false delight
that I deserve all in my plight…
What I consume is mine own right…
as daytime surely follows night…
The sad thing is I’m never filled,
as nothing ever quite fulfills
the hollow heart that slowly kills
my soul by short lived external thrills…
Hoarding more than I need
can’t quench the thirst of internal needs
with a starving soul and a heart that bleeds…
and decayed root bearing no fruit nor seed…
because one foolishly concedes
to me, (Who Am I – Click Below for Riddle Answer)
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December 29, 2009 at 4:20 am · Filed under Observations and tagged: abandonment, alcoholism, beggar, beginnings, belief system, Beliefs, Believe, change, company, drinking, drunk, enemys, faith, friends, homeless, Love, lush, new, New Year, relationships
Current Mood:
Happy & 
Playful
- Woman Hanging Laundry by Cammile Pissaro, 1887
From Lush to Love
In the very back of the garden, behind the evergreen bush
resides a homeless gent who years ago was labeled a lush
life had dealt him a bad hand; he’d reached the end of his rope
so he drowned his misery and pain and gave up all hope
and as life would have it, with a bottle of wine at his table
the poor gent became just what his peers had labeled
In the middle of the garden under the bright sunshine
stood a single mother hanging cloths on the line
She knew the pain of being judged and ostracized
Yet with the faith of her being, above all obstacles she’d rised
she found a loving connection with the man at her garden’s inn
so she made it a point that he’d have at least one friend
so each day after retrieving her cloths off the line
she’d invite him into her home for a hot meal and wine
he’d tell her the stories that lead to his fall from grace
to each sad story she’d give a positive spin in its place
she reminded him he had a beautiful soul and loving heart
as time moved on he embraced each day with a fresh new start
he developed a positive out look on life and love
Discovering his true self, he became aligned thereof
and as life would have it, with a bottle of wine at the table…
the peaceful gent became just what the kind mother had labeled
~CordieB.
Another Quote for the Day: Don’t let ‘em steal your joy ~Sinbad
Quote for the Day: We are what we believe we are. ~CordieB.
Peace, Light and Love. . . .
September 30, 2009 at 11:00 am · Filed under Observations and tagged: change, cordieb, harmony, heartbreak, hope, joy, Love, peace, spiritual, Spirituality, Wisdom
Good by my love, my seasoned friend
Perhaps we’ll pass paths once again. . .
Perhaps I’ll feel your hot embrace
like gentle rain upon my face…
Perhaps you’ll cause my skin to gleam
with heated days and nights like dreams
I miss your essence, crystal clear…
although you leave me every year
always returning with outward arms
as I await your flowered charms…
and yet I miss you ever so
for you entice my skin to glow
through fiery storms we have discovered
we persevere; we’re endless lovers
Forget me not, even in my slumber
Forget you not,
Click Below for Riddle Answer
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January 22, 2009 at 7:25 pm · Filed under Art, life, Love, Mental Stress, Observations, Original Stuff, Poetry, Spirituality and tagged: change, cordieb, growth, Love, original poem, poem, spiritual, Spirituality, Wisdom
Me, courtesy of CordieB
I am who I am. . .
Am I who I am or. . .
Am I who I think I am. . .
or
Am I who others think I am
or
Am I a collective version of both?
Am I the same as I was yesterday
last year,
5 years ago?
Has there been regression
or
Has there been growth?
Have I learned from my experiences
or do I still do
the same things …
the same way
and receive
the same results
which I know are not
the results I really want. . .
or
Am I beginning to try different things
or do things in different ways
which bring forth new experiences
new lessons . . .
new blessings
But all in all. . .
I am who I am . . .
and I am exactly as my Creator
would have me to be at this very moment!
ok. . . it’s another moment. . .
and another. . .
I wonder how much I’ve changed……. since two lines ago?
That I’ve changed is a wonderful thing to know. . .
for…anything that is not changing…
can not in fact be living…
So, I am…a changing being…
~~Written by CordieB.
January 6, 2009 at 7:29 pm · Filed under Observations and tagged: African American, change, control, cordieb, Courage, Love, Spirituality, strength, Unity, Wisdom
Strength, Courage and Wisdom ~~CordieB
One of the greatest gifts given to me by God is the ability to change my mind ~CordieB.
Let us stop wasting valuable energy trying to change the minds of other people. It is not our job. How and what people think is advanced or limited by their own experiences–their own life lessons–and how well they apply those lessons.
In our presense, other people have the opportunity to grow and perhaps even learn something. Our actions in of themselves will promote change in the hearts of others. When we express ourselves as being capable of loving, listening, sharing, and understanding, we promote the change we so often try to force upon others.
Let us be an example of that we wish to change. Let us spend less time worrying about what other people are thinking or doing and more time creating positive change in ourselves.
February 4, 2008 at 3:49 pm · Filed under Observations and tagged: adaptation, adapting, bending, change, conscious, conscious provoking, Humanity, Love, movement, progress, relationships, Spirituality, Wisdom
Photo courtesy of carf and is licenced under the Creative Commons License
Starting today, each Monday I will be posting quotes on spiritual and/or conscious provoking concepts. I invite all of you wise ones to add your quote or view on the subject, because we can all learn from each other. Throughout the week, reflect on Monday’s theme, and come up with a few life lessons of your own. The theme for this Monday is Change. I will start off with my own and add some that I have gathered.
This morning I am Jubilant.
I am Jubilant to say
Thank God for changing seasons, and for another day.
–CordieB. (Click here to see the whole poem)
However long the night, the dawn will break.
–African Proverb
For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have. The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
–James Baldwin
Never doubt that a small, group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
–Margaret Mead
All things change; nothing perishes.
–Ovid
The most successful people are those who are good at plan B.
–James Yorke
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
–Anais Nin
You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing in.
–Heraclitus
The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created–created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them, changes both the maker and the destination.
–John Schaar
“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”
“We cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life’s morning; for what in the morning was true will in evening become a lie.”
– C.G. Jung
Whosoever wishes to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
Knowledge is not intelligence.
In searching for the truth be ready for the unexpected.
Change alone is unchanging.
The same road goes both up and down.
The beginning of a circle is also its end.
Not I, but the world says it: all is one.
And yet everything comes in season.
–Heraklietos of Ephesos
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
–Anne Frank:
Change in all things is sweet.
–Aristotle (384-322 BC) – Greek philosopher
Life continually evolves. We’re always moving into new experiences, new possibilities. This constant change unsettles the personality, which finds security in stability. But with life always in flux, that security is an illusion. We experience pain by trying to hold on to things that are not solid.
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
–Alice Walker
“Do you wish to save changes?”
Microsoft
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.”
– William Somerset Maugham
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
–Charles Darwin
Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn!
Look to this Day!
For it is Life, the very Life of Life.
In its brief course lie all the
Verities and Realities of your Existence.
The Bliss of Growth,
The Glory of Action,
The Splendor of Beauty;
For Yesterday is but a Dream,
And To-morrow is only a Vision;
But To-day well lived makes
Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness,
And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope.
Look well therefore to this Day!
Such is the Salutation of the Dawn!
–Kalidasa
Life becomes joyful when we can open to the constant flow and ride freely with it. This requires us to let go of the need to control. We need to learn to trust.
“Can it then be that what we call the ‘self’ is fluid and elastic? It evolves, strikes a different balance with every new breath.”
– Wayne Muller
“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.”
–Anatole France
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
–Epictetus:
The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual – for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.
–M. Scott Peck:
The most powerful agent of growth and transformation is something much more basic than any technique: a change of heart.
–John Welwood
Some people change when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.
–Caroline Schoeder
A reporter interviewing A.J. Muste, who during the Vietnam War stood in front of the White House night after night with a candle, one rainy night asked,”Mr. Muste, do you really think you are going to change the policies of this country by standing out here alone at night with a candle?” Muste replied, “Oh, I don’t do it to change the country, I do it so the country won’t change me.
If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.
–Maya Angelou
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
–Mahatma Gandhi
When you blame others, you give up your power to change.
–Dr. Robert Anthony
In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
–Eric Hoffer
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
–Henri Bergson
Verily, God does not change men’s condition unless they change their inner selves;
–The Quaran
Wisdom brightens a man’s face and changes its hard appearance.
–Ecclesiastes 8 – The Bible
Behold, I show you a mystery; we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye…
–Corinthians – The Bible
January 14, 2008 at 4:50 pm · Filed under Christianity, Humanity, Justice, Love, Observations, Spirituality and tagged: change, four seasons, god, Humanity, judgement, judgmental, life, Love, Spirituality, Wisdom
Photo courtesy of Aunt Owwee and is Creative Commons Licenced
There was a man who had four sons. He wanted his sons to learn not to Judge things too quickly. So he sent them each on a quest, in turn, to go and look at a pear tree that was a great distance away.
The first son went in the winter,
the second in the spring,
the third in summer,
and the youngest son in the fall.
When they had all gone and come back, he called them together to describe what they had seen.
The first son said that the tree was ugly, bent, and twisted.
The second son said no it was covered with green buds and full of promise.
The third son disagreed; he said it was laden with blossoms that smelled so sweet and looked so beautiful, it was the most graceful thing he had ever seen.
The last son disagreed with all of them; he said it was ripe and
drooping with fruit, full of life and fulfilment.
The man then explained to his sons that they were all right, because they had each seen but only one season in the tree’s life.
He told them that you cannot judge a tree, or a person, by only one season, and that the essence of who they are and the pleasure, joy, and love that come from that life can only be measured at the end, when all the seasons are up.
If you give up when it’s winter, you will miss the promise of your spring, the beauty of your summer, and fulfilment of your fall.
Don’t let the pain of one season destroy the joy of all the rest.
Don’t judge life by one difficult season.
Persevere through the difficult patches and better times are sure to come some time.
Persevere through the difficult patches and better times are sure to come some time.
Live Simply.
Love Generously.
Care Deeply.
Speak Kindly.
Leave the Rest to God.
Happiness keeps You Sweet.
Trials keep You Strong.
Sorrows keep You Human.
Failures keep You Humble.
Success keeps You Glowing.
But Only God keeps You Going.
November 5, 2007 at 6:44 pm · Filed under Observations, Spirituality and tagged: chance, change, hope, life, proverbs, quotes, Suvikrant
Life brings us the most unexpected at the least expected. One day you think it’s a new beginning and all ends. At times when all ends, there is a great new beginning ready to start. The only constant is surety of the fact…. You have to live life either which ways. –Suvikrant
October 25, 2007 at 5:12 pm · Filed under Christianity, Love, Observations, Original Stuff, Poetry, Spirituality and tagged: change, god, joy, Love, poems, Poetry, prayer, self, today, worry
You know I’ve been having one of the “feeling down” weeks this week; so one morning I started writing this poem; the more I wrote, the more I heard that inner voice of love tell me to “get off my pitty pot.” And so the poem changed from doom to to aspiration, and I thought I’d share it with my web friends.
I’m Worried – Im am Jubilant- By Cordie B. October 23, 2007
This morning I am worried.
I am worried about where I will stay shortly,
I am worried about where I will pray shortly.
This morning I am worried.
I am worried about how I will eat tomorrow;
I am worried about all the pain that will follow.
This morning I am worried.
I am worried about how this relationship will last;
I am worried about that perhaps we don’t have what it takes to surpass.
This morning I am worried.
I am worried that people may think ill of me;
I am worried that I can’t really be me.
This morning I am worried.
I am worried that I may not see the sun again;
I am worried that from now on, I’ll only see more rain.
This morning I am worried.
I am worried that I won’t see by worrying, I’m wasting my time.
For in the broad scheme of all things, there’s neither rhythm nor rhyme.
This morning I’m Jubilant.
I am Jubilant to know
that change is surely certain, all circumstances come and go.
This morning I am Jubilant.
I am Jubilant and free
Because I’ve helped someone along there paths, and it has given joy to me.
This morning I am Jubilant
I am Jubilant to have a fresh new start;
And in the days that come my way, I’ll love with all my heart.
This morning I am Jubilant
I am Jubilant to have another breath;
And in the days I have to live, I’ll be attentive to my health.
This morning I am Jubilant.
I am Jubilant to see;
The worries of my yesterdays were most because of me.
This morning I am Jubilant.
I am Jubilant to see;
Most worries of my yesterdays will never come to be.
This morning I am Jubilant.
I am Jubilant, know why?
For there’s no need on earth I know, for which God won’t supply.
This morning I am Jubilant.
I am Jubilant to say
Thank God for changing seasons, and for another day.
