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Talking about it Tuesday...

12/30/2014

Accordia Music...

“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
― Paulo Coelho

Happy Tuesday beauties! It's the last Tuesday of 2014 and we have lots to talk about today!! I had the opportunity yesterday to hangout with these lovely and VERY talented musicians from Accordia Music. If you should have an special event and are in need of a glorious quartet, please click the link to contact them. This dynamic quartet has been playing together for the past 12+ years and yesterday they had an opportunity to shoot a music video at Stambaugh Auditorium in downtown Youngstown. Their passion for playing animated melodies and stirred hearts even after they were done with their sets. I think I still have goosebumps...It was such an honor to be in the room with them as they serenaded the camera and mesmerized their audience. As I sat there soaking in the sounds of the various pieces they played I began thinking about the dreams and desires we all have lying dormant in our hearts.

As 2014 comes to a close, what are you longing to accomplish? Do you have a talent you'd like to pursue, a dream that has been beating in your chest, an idea that keeps you awake at night? Maybe you always thought it wasn't the right time, right place, or right group of people...but then again, what if it is? Listening to this quartet I felt some dreams awaken within my heart and a supreme responsibility to live them out. It's an honor to wake up every day with breath, love, and the capacity to create an amazing life. As you create your intentions for 2015, set them to music and watch the magic unfold.

May you Sweetly Seek:)
In Gratitude,
Sarah

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Friday Favorites...

12/26/2014

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Happy Friday beautiful hearts...I hope that your holiday celebrations have been full of wonderful moments with family and friends!

I was thinking about today's Friday Favorite and in the hustle and bustle of this rich season, my focus shifted towards a Yogic principal, the final Yama; Aparigraha- Non Possessiveness. This season can at times highlight the accumulation and excess that we cultivate in our own lives. It seems rather fitting then to explore this Yama. When we think of the concept of Aparigraha, words such as nonattachment, nonadhearing, and nongrasping come to mind. Through our journeying, through our wanderings, through our loving and through our heartaches, we can practice this principal of awareness. We are awake people who live our dreams, embrace our discoveries, and believe in the authentic nature of life. Life is constantly conversing with us, requesting that as we practice Aparigraha we simply LET GO. When I think of this Yama, I think of the words of Leonardo de Vinci, "For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return."As the New Year is approaching, I love fully exploring this concept. This Yama translates into the body, mind and spirit. In the body we focus on cleansing and releasing. We use the body as a vehicle of exploration, finding edges, finding breath, and finding release. We are creatures who crave movement. In the mind, we surrender to thoughts of "having less." We metaphorically clean out the closets of our minds, we let go of the lack, we come to the edge of desire and with our next breath we move into a new moment. In Spirit we realize our eternal nature and cultivate a knowing that all is well. Our spiritual lives invites us to notice the bondage of things, of grasping, of clinging. Through the practice of mindfulness we can notice how our attachments keep us from our spirit life.

As you practice noticing this Yama, or ethical principal in your daily life, keep this Buddhist fable in mind:
Two monks were returning to the monastery in the evening. It had rained and there were puddles of water on the road sides. At one place a beautiful young woman was standing unable to walk accross because of a puddle of water. The elder of the two monks went up to a her lifted her in his alms and left her on the other side of the road, and continued his way to the monastery.
In the evening the younger monk came to the elder monk and said, "Sir, as monks, we cannot touch a woman ?"
The elder monk answered "yes, brother".
Then the younger monk asks again, " but then Sir, how is that you lifted that woman on the roadside ?"
The elder monk smiled at him and told him " I left her on the other side of the road, but you are still carrying her "

Notice what you are still carrying with you as you move towards 2015...what you are grasping for, notice the story you continually tell yourself...practice this Yama with kindness and compassion for yourself and others.

May you Sweetly Seek
In Gratitude:)
Sarah

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Thankful Thursday's...

12/25/2014

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Merry Christmas...from our family to yours...wishing you all the joys of this season! May your days be marked with love, peace and light!

I had the opportunity to spend Christmas with 3 of my favorite people! Sharing the day with them warmed my heart and reminded me again about the magic of this season...the anticipation, the wonder and the peace. I feel blessed beyond words by their presence in my life. Our family traditions have changed so much over the years but the constant that remains is our love for one another. Near or far...to me this season is all about celebrating our love for one another...may this celebration last the whole year through!

May you Sweetly Seek

In Gratitude:)

Sarah

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W.O.W. Wednesday...

12/24/2014

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Hi beauties!! This is one of my favorites from childhood to adulthood! May this season brighten your heart and bring you closer to the light of love!!
May You Sweetly Seek:)
In Gratitude,
Sarah

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Talking About it Tuesday...

12/23/2014

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"A mom’s hug lasts long after she lets go." ~Author Unknown

"No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother’s love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over wastes of worldly fortunes sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star." ~Edwin Hubbell Chapin

"Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do." ~Author Unknown

"A mother’s heart is a patchwork of love." ~Author Unknown

Today I want to talk about my mama! She is celebrating her birthday today! I hope the blog can be a tribute to her thoughtful heart. Ever since my brother and I were little she has been a constant source of joy, an eternal nurturer, and as I've gotten older a wonderful friend.
Here's a love letter to her....

Dear Mama,
Do you even know how much I love you?? I see your radiant heart...Today is such a beautiful day of celebration. It's your special day...the day that your heart blessed this Earth. Thank you for being the sweetest, kindest, and most caring mama a girl could ask for. You made our childhood magical...You filled it with handmade treasures, you decorated it with your love and you constantly encouraged us to reach for our dreams. I hope you know how much I love and adore you...as I've grown up over the years, I see and appreciate what a lovely soul you are. Your kindness towards others, your faith in the Divine and your devotion to family. Your life is truly a testament to caring for others. As you move forward this year, my wish is that you are blessed with a blanket of Divine love...may you see yourself as radiant and beautiful as others do! I know that there are years that fill us with sorrow, and years that quietly restore our joy...It is my prayer that as Kahlil Gibran shares, "Your deepest sorrow will one day become your greatest joy." I know you miss Grandma and Grandpa so much...me too...I hope you find reminders of them in your daily life...may their heavenly presence fill you with hope. You truly are an angel among us...may you fly towards all of your hearts desires....wishing you a wild and fun ride! Good Luck:)
All my love,
Sarah Louise

May you Sweetly Seek
In Gratitude:)
Sarah

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Monday Musings...

12/22/2014

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Loving the questions....

Happy Monday beauties! I hope you all had a gorgeous weekend. Today I want to talk about asking questions? When do we ask them? Why do we ask them? If we did receive an answer how would we live our lives differently? If we don't hear an echo from the universe, can we then presume we are alone? I stumbled upon this quote and love its sentiment..."There are years that ask questions, and years that answer." It's amazing, this theme started brewing yesterday and after a nights rest the download came.

I was talking with a friend yesterday...our conversation wove into the theme of love and slowly descended towards loss. We traveled down the road of heartache and refocused to present day. She shared her heartbreak and how she had been struggling with this issue for the past several years. She assured me that she would feel better once she could answer the "why" of the situation. A quote from Carolyn Myss popped into my mind as we were talking and then it fumbled out of my lips, "What if the mystery is the answer and you need to give up needing to know why things have happened as they have?" She stared at me, looking through me; searching for some resolve towards this statement. "Well, I guess I never thought of things in this manner before. I never thought of loving the mystery of these unanswered questions?"

I was thinking this morning about the framework of a question. I was hoping to Google who asked the first question, and how did they await the reply? Were they perched with anxiety and despair, or did they seek to live the journey of the unknown; trusting that the universe is benevolent? We sometimes throw our questions to the wind and patiently wait for a reply. If we don't receive one, we can cease the process of living. We freeze ourselves in time and root into the Earth, awaiting a Spring that may never come in the manner that we had hoped for.

I have lots of unanswered questions in my life...some days I ponder them more than others, but through experience I have found that if I can love the mystery as much as the question then I continue on my path. I come back to the present moment with breath and chose life...Life is happening right NOW....life doesn't stare over its shoulder and wonder why, it simply and gracefully moves forward with ease and support. As Paulo Coelho so gorgeously stated in the Alchemist, "The entire universe is conspiring for your highest good."

As this year comes to a close, maybe there is a question that you can let go of so that life can more frequently express itself through you....or just maybe this is a year when the answer appears...when your path crosses with a stranger that you wouldn't have met had this experience not happened, when you finally get to the business of living abundantly, when you cease looking over your shoulder in regret, or when you realize that the mystery is just as beautiful as the question.

May you Sweetly Seek:)
In Gratitude,
Sarah

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Friday Favorites...

12/19/2014

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"Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas." ~Dale Evans

Happy Friday loves!! Wishing you all the wonder and joy of this season! On Sweetly Seeking, Fridays are all about favorites! From favorite quotes to pictures to people to places...

I was going through old pictures the other day and came across this shot of me by the tree! It simply made me smile. It took me out of the craziness of the season and brought me back to the reason...it's all about love!

May your weekend be full of the wonder of a child's heart...

May you Sweetly Seek

In gratitude:)

Sarah

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Thankful Thursdays...

12/18/2014

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Happy Thursday beautiful hearts!! I'm so thankful to be connected again. I wrote out my post and then the cyber universe made it disappear?! lol...must mean I have another musing in me about this topic!

Today I want to talk about the divine things and my gratitude for them. As Whitman says, divine things that are even more beautiful than words can tell. For the past two years I have been searching for a whole sand dollar. It may sound like an easy feat, but sporadically combing the beaches of FL, all I have ended up with are fragments of this treasure. Sometimes I think I barley appreciated the fragments as I was so focused on the whole. There was a point in my search in which I felt such disappointment because I didn't find this treasure in the way that I wanted to...that thought should've been a tip off to me. This search translates over into life...when we feel slighted that we didn't get a promotion, that a relationship ended, that a door of opportunity closed, all of these experiences wind themselves up into the tapestry of our lives. We cloak ourselves in these sorrows, in these joys....they all count because all of these fragments are us.

This image represents the journey to me...there are these beautiful fragments of life that we gaze upon along the way. Sometimes we are too focused on the end result to appreciate the wonders that show up along our path. Looking back on my search, I spent many wonderful days soaking in the sun, loving the view, and enjoying the fresh salt air. My desire was to find a whole sand dollar...and as luck would have it, I finally did. A wonder that is more beautiful than words can tell...

May you seek with all of your heart and love the process...your journey is the treasure!!

May you Sweetly Seek
In gratitude:)
Sarah

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W.O.W. Wednesday

12/17/2014

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Words of Wisdom Wednesday- Good Will Hunting

Happy W.O.W. Wednesday!! I hope you are all waking up to your own WOW factor this morning! On Sweetly Seeking, Wednesdays are a day of looking for wisdom in everyday life.

This scene from Good Will Hunting inspires a W.O.W. factor every time I see it. I think we all long to have unconditional connections in our lives. We hope to show up and be seen, no matter how many times we have allowed ourselves to be disappointed by our reactions to life. This scene between Matt Damon and Robin Williams is raw and vulnerable. There are a few F-bombs, but I think they add to the enthusiasm of the message.

We never know how our connections might change our lives. May you be inspired today to strike up a conversation with a stranger, reach out to an old friend, or simply be present for all that is unfolding in your life.

May you Sweetly Seek
In gratitude:)
Sarah

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Talking about it Tuesday...

12/16/2014

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"Seeing is believing, but sometimes the most real things in the world are the ones that we can't see."
~The Polar Express

Happy Tuesday! Hope you are all enjoying a great start to your week! I have been loving the twinkle of lights and the sounds of this holiday season. One of my favorite childhood stories during this time of year is The Polar Express. I love the winding tale of belief that travels all the way to the North Pole. The magic of the first gift of Christmas, the wonder of being a child, and the miraculous belief that lives in all of us.

To me this story illustrates a quality of wonder that we are all capable of experiencing. The wonderful ability to believe in something even if we can't see it. The story continues as Santa chooses a child to receive the first gift of Christmas, and as luck would have it the little boy is chosen. When the little boy asks for the jingle bell from Santa's sleigh as the first gift of Christmas he becomes entranced in the magic of the season. Through a series of misfortunes he loses the bell, but it is returned on Christmas morning with a note from Santa. His parents exclaim their disappointment for this old bell that has no sound; while he and his sister Sarah can still hear its jingle. Throughout the years, Sarah too deafens to this sound, but as the story ends, the bell still rings for all who truly believe.

I think the question of belief is always with us no matter what the season. Why do we believe what we believe? Belief is defined as "an acceptance that something exists or is true; especially one without proof."

This gorgeous story reminds me to keep the heart of a child as I move through life. To not be hardened by the disbelief of society, to not question the wonders of the Earth, to sweetly seek all of life's adventures. As Ronald Dahl shares, "And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it."

May this season radiate it's magic into your heart and into your home. May the spirit of wonder and belief shine brightly in your life year after year!

May you Sweetly Seek
In gratitude:)
Sarah

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I'm Sarah, a Capricorn girl, seeking inspiration, beauty, travel, and Samadhi through an inspired life. One of my most treasured passions is writing, so it is my hope that this blog serves as an outlet for my passion as well as inspiration for the readers of it! May you be curious, kind, and fearless as you wind through this journey called life. Enjoy the ride as you Sweetly Seek! (Read my story).

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