Open your eyes a little wider

“Many people have to close their eyes to dream. With you, I only have to open mine…” Unknown

Guest Post by Daniel Juarez – Photographer – SeattleBe Mine Daniel Juarez © copyright Open your eyes a little wider

Art is all about the beauty in nature, objects, and people.  Being an admirer of nature, I find myself constantly amazed and dumbstruck by the beauty before me. Nature isn’t the only thing that does this. Mundane and ordinary everyday scenes suddenly become extraordinary with just a closer look – a simple shift in perspective.  If you find yourself cursing the boring place you now live in, yearning to see new things and wishing you had this or that, I invite you to open your eyes a little wider, and take a closer look…

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Discovering Your Spiritual Path

“Spirituality is about learning to accept every moment in your life. It is the age old adage of “Resist nothing.”

Guest post by Jim Tolles – Spiritual Teacher, Healer, and Writer Discovering your Spiritual Path by Jim Tolles Discovering Your Spiritual Path

Nowadays, finding yourself and discovering your spiritual path are big business. The self help sections and spirituality sections are bulging with books. This isn’t a problem. As far as past times go, this is one of the better ones. But the big issue that I have with a lot of these “self improvement” plans and “finding your spirit guides” techniques is that the most important teacher in your whole life can be forgotten. And that person is you.

Now, I’m a spiritual teacher. And I have an ebook, and I’m sure that I’ll have a hard cover helping to fill up book shelves (at least until ebooks mostly take over the world). But what I and others who really understand the spiritual path are telling you is that you already know your answers. You already know what path you want to take, and the real problem lies in facing your fears and doing it.

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We are all connected by love every moment

“I am the fruit of my history and the explorer of the present and future.” Ellen

The Word Is Love We are all connected by love every moment

Guest Post by Ellen McMahill – Painter/Artist – Sacramento

Without an audience, a painting or any work of art has little meaning except to its creator.  Every painting I make is for an audience, because I am expressing my heart out into the world to inspire everyone who sees it to know that we are all souls on earth experiencing through our bodies and minds – the lives we have chosen to live.  To understand that we are all connected by love every moment is why Enlighten Your Day is an excellent site for my paintings to be seen.  Enlightenment is what we all seek even if we don’t realize that we are.One Color One Class One Religion We are all connected by love every momentEllen McMahill – Bio/Artist Statement

“Each human being has a story. Each visual artist is telling a different story about a private perspective of the world made public through image form, color, and concept. I am the fruit of my history and the explorer of the present and future. With insight and compassion my history becomes the knowledge I use to imagine my art and the contribution I can make to the world through it…    Continue – Read More→