Injury

(photo from sea of shoes)

Injury (n., Eng.): lesión (n., Fr.)

- physical damage or hurt
- Damage or harm done to or suffered by a person or thing
- A particular form of hurt, damage, or loss

Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged.

- Seneca

The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated.

- Marcus T. Cicero

The thing about injury is that the moment it happens, it has already begun to heal.

- Me

Believe

(photo by Garance Dore)

Believe (v., Eng.): Croire (v., Fr.):

• to accept as true or real
• to expect or suppose

Cinderella: Oh, no. No, it isn't true. It's just no use. No use at all. I can't believe. Not anymore. There's nothing left to believe in. Nothing.

Fairy Godmother: Nothing, my dear? Oh, now you don't really mean that.

Cinderella: Oh, but I do...

Fairy Godmother: Nonsense, child. If you'd lost all your faith, I couldn't be here. And here I am.
- Cinderella, 1950

Attendez

Attendez (v. Fr.): Wait (v., Eng)

• To remain or rest in expectation
• To remain or be in readiness

"I learned to wait. Waiting is very important...to find your voice, you have to make room. If you are always busy then luck can not find you."

- Francesco Clemente

See Francesco Clemente's 2008 interview with Charlie Rose here.

Nothing

Nothing, noun (Eng.); Rien (Fr.):

• having no quantitative value.
• Something that has no existence. Yet.

"Being 'in the gap' can be disorienting and even scary. Nothing to hold on to, no sense of direction, not even a hint of what choices and possibilities might lie ahead. But it was just this state of pure potential that existed before the universe was created. All you can do now is to relax into this nothingness... fall into the silence between the words... watch this gap between the outgoing and incoming breath. And treasure each empty moment of the experience. Something sacred is about to be born.

Nothing is not just nothing. It is vibrant with all possibilities. It is potential, absolute potential. It is unmanifest yet, but it contains all. So why in the middle do we make so much fuss? Why, in the middle, becoming so worried, so anxious, so ambitious--why create despair?

Nothingness to nothingness is the whole journey."

- Osho Zen Tarot

Reminisce

When you can see all the good that your life has been, is, and could be, your entire life's vibration will change.

Bask

Bask (verb, Eng.): to lie in or be exposed to a pleasant warmth. To enjoy a pleasant situation.

"But is it such a bad thing to live like this for just a little while? Just for a few months of one's life, is it so awful to...nap in a garden, in a patch of sunlight, in the middle of the day, right next to your favorite fountain? And then to do it again the next day?"
— Elizabeth Gilbert

Soliel

Soliel (noun, Fr.): Sun (noun, En.)

"Living on earth is expensive, but it does include a free trip around the sun every year."- Unknown

It is easy to get caught up in society's view of what is abundant and what is lacking. But it is all just a mind set. If you can just look around yourself for a few minutes at the beginning and end of the day today and note all the things you have in your life, you may begin to realize that your life is filled with so much, even if it seems different from what others may have. Today is the perfect day to begin to train your thoughts to focus on all that is abundant in your life.

Liberté

Liberté (Noun, Fr.): Freedom

"The desire of gold is nor for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson