Like tears
on broken faces
You are real
Without the facades
With all the sorrow
And the pain
Without tomorrow
You are real
No layers to peel
No hidden agendas
Just pure
You are real
For Once
What I see is what I see
I know your intention
For it is Love

__Scotty Reed 2008.2.11

Dust Me Off Tavish

Dust the thoughts that life is sane
Dust me off

Dust the reason that makes it plain
Dust me off

Dust the doubts of love remain

__Scotty Reed 2008.02.06

In this moment
I couldn’t love you more
I couldn’t touch your face
Or feel your hair upon my fingers
Any more

In this moment
Your eyes run deep into my soul
The wind has calmed
The leaves have fallen

All I see is you
Or are you me
Has time stopped upon this water of age
Or lifted high our greatest love

In this moment
I long to hold your hand forever
Run the river of life’s longing
Taste the passion of only you

In This Moment

__Scotty Reed 2008.01.30

My Catalyst of Change

There is a reason we have met
And connected
It’s true there are always reasons
But some reasons have greater purpose
A more powerful meaning
More than others at time
You recognize these… by how they make you feel
“Feel” being the key word here
Feelings are your gates to God
Your highest thought
Your truest meaning
Words are usually from man
But feelings are from God
There are many ways, which God speaks to you
In words
In music
In thoughts
But the one she speaks to you the most through is feeling
Feelings are the door to your soul
I am not sure my angel what this all means right now
But I do know this is a rare moment
So for now, I will hold you dear
Until my heart is paused
This time I am listening
I am not running anymore
Against my worldly reason
Because my love my feelings are out of this world
Out of my mind

You have become my highest thought; the one which contains Joy
My clearest words; those which contain truth
And my grandest feeling; that feeling which I call love.

This time... it's not about me. I wish to be your mirror, your eyes to your soul and the beauty of it all.
__Scotty Reed 12.24.2007

I believe all things have purpose.

Even what we sometimes refer to as tragic (especially these) carry with them a great gift (often times our greatest).

So give me tragic; give me pain! It's just going to make me write better and I know that love lays beyond it.

I've heard it said before that when we can get the courage to look those who have harmed us in the face and thank them for the lesson and the beautiful thoughts and writings they have given us (and mean it) then and only then are we able to move on. That's another word for forgiveness. Forgiveness is not for them... it's for us!

I wish to learn to bless my enemies, to become indifferent to any outcome. Outcomes dont matter; this moment right here, right now does.Yes time is moving on and we couldn't be so fortunate. So cry my angel cry and give the world your beautiful words and celebrate!

_Scotty Reed 1.7.2008

I understand wanting to be different and unique; I respect eccentricity as well but I swear most critics of the status quo are being so just for their own self gratification and therefore no different than those they critique.
_Scotty Reed 2007.12.04

We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it.
__Dave Barry

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
__Samual Johnson

When it's all gone it's only God
__Oprah Show Guest Comment 5.1.2007 (talking about meditation and quieting your mind)

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
__Pablo Picasso

Simplicity is the outward sign and symbol of depth of thought.
__Lin Yutang

I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.
__Stephen Roberts

God talks to everyone. The question is not "whom does god talk to but "who is listening"
__Neale D. Walsch Conversations With God Book I

I like to think of God as a direction rather than an object.
__Unknown

Nothing ends, without a new beginning. Life becomes death as well as death becomes life, and by losing something we often find ourselves.
__Scotty Reed 3.14.2000

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
__Mother Teresa

When you change the way you look at things… the things you look at change.
__Wayne Dyer

You're not a Human Being having a spiritual experience you are a Spiritual Being having a Human Experience.
__Wayne Dyer

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
__Henry David Thoreau

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
__Buddha

An old Cherokee was teaching his grandson about life. "A fight is going on inside me," he said to the boy. It is a terrible fight, and it is between two wolves." "One is evil -- he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. " "The other is good -- he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. " "This same fight is going on inside you and inside every other person, too." The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather, "Which wolf will win?" The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed."
__Unknown

If you are not part of the solution; you are part of the problem
__unknown

You must be the change you want to see in the world.
__Mahatma Gandhi

Do you want to play? You'll have to put your stuff down if you want to play. How far down the rabbit hole do you want to go?
__What The Bleep Do We Know (Movie)

Who can estimate the elevating and refining influences and moral value of flowers with all their graceful forms, bewitching shades and combinations of colors and exquisitely varied perfumes? These silent influences are unconsciously felt even by those who do not appreciate them consciously and thus with better and still better fruits, nuts, grains, vegetables and flowers, will the earth be transformed, man's thought refined, and turned from the base destructive forces into nobler production. One which will lift him to high planes of action toward the happy day when the Creator of all this beautiful work is more acknowledged and loved, and where man shall offer his brother man, not bullets and bayonets, but richer grains, better fruit and fairer flowers from the bounty of this earth.
__Father George Schoener (1864 -1941),The Importance and Fundamental Principles of Plant Breeding

Everything you can imagine is real
__Pablo Picasso

I'd like to live like a poor man with lot's of money
__Pablo Picasso

Everything you can imagine is real. If there is something to steal, I steal it. Art is the elimination of the unnecessary. Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. I'd like to live like a poor man with lots of money. We always have a lot of reasons but only one real one. I alway do what I cannot do so I can learn how to do it. I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else. Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do its bidding. We all know that art is not the truth, art is a lie that makes us realize the truth. Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot and there are others who transform a yellow spot into the sun. God is really only another artist, he made the elephant, giraffe and cat. He has no real style but keeps trying new ideas.
__Pablo Picasso

We always condemn most in others, that which we most fear in ourselves
__Robert M. Pirsig Zen & The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

When faced with conflict always ask "What Would Love Do"
__Neale D. Walsch

Dancing Leaves

The snow came early this year, burying the leaves beneath as if there was a different message to be given another time. I was partially sadden, for I felt I had missed my favorite season… and it continued for days after, covering the earth and it’s un-raked leaves.

Yet today the sun shown bright, and through the clouds the leaves rose to the sky… lifted by the wind, filling the blue air with heavenly beauty. Leaves everywhere… dancing with joy, the sun glistening on each of them. I had never seen anything like it and I wanted it to last forever.

Tears filled my eyes, music played and as I gazed at this magnificent beauty a voice whispered that I might die soon. I sat still, humbled and afraid, taking in what I thought could be my last breath of beauty.

And then suddenly… I was overwhelmingly filled with joy as I sat in amazement of the sky filled with dancing leaves, blue sky and bright light. For at this moment I realized that I was not to die, perhaps I had already had and too, as the leaves, arose to be reborn to dance in Gods beauty.

___Scotty Reed Emberton 11.20.2000

Tears of strangers are only water
_Indian Proverb

It's often necessary to Breakdown in order to Breakout
__Oprah Show October

Be careful of Destination Addiction (thinking you'll be happier when you get someplace other than you are now)

'Shame' is the most damaging emotion to your spirit. It darkens your soul.

_Scotty Reed 8.23.2007

'Desire' is at the root of all suffering