We won’t grow love, compassion and acceptance by banning people, building walls, or keeping people out.
We will grow love, compassion and acceptance when we open our hearts, and let each other in.
Sharing our stories, our history, our wisdom, our table and, ourselves, will make us a better, wiser, more loving and peaceful human family.
Toni O’Keeffe🔆
To one man, the forest is dark, scary, noisy, uninhabitable and cold.
To another, the forest is filled with light, beauty, peace, offers shelter and is filled with warmth.
We don’t see the forest as it is,
we see the forest as we are.
Look for the light and you’ll find it.
Look for the darkness and you’ll find it.
Your heart and soul will wander to the places the mind takes it. A shift in your perspective can turn the cold grip of the world, into a warm embrace.
Focus on the light and the heart and soul will follow. Focus on the darkness, and, well, you get it.
Toni O’Keeffe🔆
Our lives are an amazing and
colourful adventure of,
sunshine filled days,
wild chaotic storms,
days that are calm,
days that are dull,
days that are painful,
days that are pleasant,
and days that provide
a bit of it all.
No matter how dark
the day has been,
the sun stills comes up,
the stars still shine,
the ocean tides continue
to roll in and out and,
the wind continues to
move the heaviest of clouds
revealing blue skies.
There is calm
before every storm,
There will be calm
after every storm,
Life carries on
after every storm,
and so shall you❤️.
Toni O’KEEFFE🔆
What if we taught our children;
☮️ to value peace over power,
☮️ that a peaceful heart and mind, are stepping stones to a happy life.
☮️ that they can be peaceful while becoming successful.
Hmm, what if 🤔
Toni O’KEEFFE 🔆
There will always be people
who try to make you feel
less than you are,
people who judge you,
can’t see your potential,
or try to make you feel small,
….don’t be one of them.
Be good to your absolutely
perfect and amazing self.
Toni O’Keeffe🔆
As the age-of-grace settles in and our hearts soften, we begin to see life through the warmth of our authentic selves, and see life for how she is supposed to be;
~gentle
~compassionate
~loving
and
~simple
We begin to remember the loving little souls we were, before the outside world got its messy hands on us and pushed us off our path.
This latter stage of life, when the wisdom and experience we’ve acquired over decades is firmly planted, might be the most beautiful stage of life as we begin to see things as they really are. We shine brighter, letting go of the regrets, the fears, the behaviours, and material possessions that have weighed us down.
And, although our physical beauty may begin to fade, there’s a new beauty that blossoms, one that whispers a loving caution to those who follow, urging them to let go and live with lighter hearts and tender souls.
But like “us”, the ones who follow, must live their learning, and, if they’re lucky, they too will reach this gentle point in life when they look back and realize they made life too hard, too complicated, perhaps too angry, too chaotic and too cluttered, and, they’ll realize, it didn’t have to be this way.
On any day, in any moment, we can decide to live gently, compassionately, simply and shine brighter than we ever have. Because one day we all reach an age-of- grace where we look back and wish we had.
Toni O’Keeffe🔆
If you;
…good for you, you know what we’re here to do.
Toni O’Keeffe🔆
There’s a funky little soul residing in you who has the answers you’re looking for.
Step away from the busyness, the noise, and the crazy-makers. Then, close your eyes, relax and let that funky perfect little soul speak, now, LISTEN, really LISTEN.
You’re too beautiful, bright and powerful to let negative, toxic people, the madness around you, or the critics stifle your wisdom OR your magic. So don’t let them🪄
Toni O’KEEFFE🔆
You are not, the struggles, the heartache, the pain, the storms or, the mud you’ve been through.
You are the courage, the strength, the wisdom and the light that got you through it.
You are wiser, stronger, more courageous and capable, than you give yourself credit for.
Seriously, just look how far you’ve come🤗❤️
Toni O’KEEFFE🔆
Stop waiting and worrying, pick a path and grow.
We spend so much of our lives waiting and worrying. Waiting in line, waiting for the right time, the right person, the right place. Waiting for some things to begin and others to end. Worried there will be those who judge or hurt us. Worried we’ll make a mistake, fail or worried we’re heading in the wrong direction.
There is no wrong direction.
There is no wrong path.
There’s only forward.
The paths we choose create experiences. These experiences grow into wisdom. This wisdom becomes the fuel on which we blossom and grow.
You can sit idling at a crossroad full of worry and fear, as life and time passes by, waiting for a sign telling you “you’re allowed to proceed“ or, you can pick a path and go.
So stop waiting, choose a path, appreciate where it takes you, even if it’s painful. Be grateful for the lesson, the joy, the sorrow, the pleasure, the pain, whatever it is……………BE with it.
GO with it. Grow with it.
🌼🪴🌺🌳🌷🌲🌻
Toni O’Keeffe🔆
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