values

Photo © 2008 Ana Yturralde

Choices, oportunities, roads and decissions. Mind, heart, values....

"All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly and rotten. The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten. Therefore it is said that one vital energy pervades the world. Consequently, the sage values Oneness"


When you wake up in front of a wide sea with seagulls flying around and the only sound of the waves, you start thinking of values.

These pictures were taken at the Gueule Tapeé Hospital. Life is the most important value. They don't have a good medical infrastructure, no medical equipment, broken beds, broken pipes, moldy and flaking walls where paint has come off... but there is a high value that keeps them fighting: Life.

We all should have big values to follow with eyes close and open heart.

Photo © 2008 Ana Yturralde

hellooo

Photo © 2008 Ana Yturralde

Even if we change scenaries, life is always around. Watching the world through the car window, countryside landscapes, clouds, mountains... and reasons and meanings remain the same. That makes absolutely sense.

As somebody told me last night: machines don't make flowers, so we better should start planting seeds. Hello, again!!

the bite

Photo © 2008 Ana Yturralde

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. (Mark Twain)

And hmmm we have a wide open sky in front of us. Good that we learned to fly up and down, with eyes closed, fast or slow, forwards or backwards... gliding with the wind.

thanks

Photo © 2008 Ana Yturralde

One thing I've learned in Africa is to see the bright side of life and thank the Universe for all the good things that I have.

This day we really had a big reason to thank God for a beautiful new sunrise. The night before we suffered an accident that could have had terrible consecuences so my friend's friday prayer was really emotive.

I also thanked God my way for this precious, sweet and lovely girl. Love you, Coucou :-)

Photo © 2008 Ana Yturralde

peace and truth at all costs

Photo © 2008 Ana Yturralde

That's, for me, the most valuable things in life together with love and respect, and if I offer it, I expect it.

As we all know, the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top and... oh yes... the truth will set you free, but first it can make you miserable.... But I'm convinced that lessons always arrive when you are ready, and if you can read the signs, you will learn everything you need to know in order to take the next step.

Be True.

trapped

Photo © 2008 Ana Yturralde

A happy baby trapped in a crib. We all need a cosy and warm place where to feel secure and loved. Our small refuge. But we also enjoy adventure and wild getaways. Sometimes you are lucky and find all of it in the same place, in the same heart. What a full and gorgeous feeling!

warning

Photo © 2008 Ana Yturralde

I used to trust people at first glance. And sometimes I judged books by the cover. Luckily I found many interesting books because of that, but unfortunately I had some big dissapointments with people. But even if some people give me a bad first impression, I usually tried to give them the benefit of the doubt. But experience proves that if you get a strange feeling from somebody, that's for something. Feelings are in most cases true. So we should trust those feelings and learn to be careful.
It is really sad to be forced to become skeptical as a result of some people's behaviour, but next time I will be more alert and will listen to the feelings voice.