Allow yourself to accept…
- Protection and good fortune.
- Transformation and change.
- Intuition and wisdom.
- Health and healing.
…all that you need and are willing to receive.

#ginger #pieceofheaven collection #wisdomphoto #robertschoutphotography #flower #naturephoto #gardenphoto

I’ve always felt disconcerted when someone has said, “your photos capture nature so well.” Nature cannot be captured. There is too much life, unrevealed and at play, to be captured in a frame. A photo is merely a window that opens to imagine the nature of life. #robertschoutphotos #wisdomphoto

You think I’m gone, dead.
Never to live again.
Because my skin is dry,
my limbs wilted,
you think I’m finished.
Don’t you realize that
one must expend oneself,
and only having done so
will new seeds appear.
Just wait. A new me will appear
in time for spring.
#robertschoutphotos #wisdomphoto

The boats we need are not always ocean liners, cruise ships, or speedboats. Most days all we need is a canoe, paddle boat, or at times, a tugboat. We are, and have the vessels, to cross the waterways of life. We need to recognize the boats we own. #wisdomphoto
#sealifecollection #robertschoutphotos

The roads we must travel can be narrow, rough, hard. The walls so steep making it impossible to escape, climb up, see the future, or experience the light. Yet, there is beauty around every bend and adventure with each foot fall, and wisdom in every step.
#newmexico
#robertschoutphotos #wisdomphoto

Everything and everyone lives and gives forever. Life is not just out on a limb or a day in the sun. We live and give as we die but continue on. As we leave one form we transform into nutrients. We leave lessons that are absorbed by others.
#decomposition #water #wisdomphoto #robertschoutphotos

In the midst of a hot, humid, rainy summer, remember the freshness of spring. Allow its remembrance to cool your body and refresh your mind.

Piece of Heaven collection.
#robertschoutphotos #tulip #springphoto #wisdomphoto #bskyphoto #sharetoinspire
#pieceofheavencollection

Please, invite me to stop. Reflect. Ponder. Contemplate. My mind and life moves at light speed. Offer me a chance to pose and be in repose for a few minutes or hours and I will settle inside. I will mindfully return to the peace within and be grateful.
#wisdomphoto #streetart #robertschoutphotos

Rain
Wisdom falls from you lips, mother. Drench us in understanding . Fill us with acceptance of all cycles. Cleanse our muddled minds. Quench our thirst for life. Let us stand in your mist, our roots soaking up every drop of your love.
#wisdomphoto #listenpoetry #robertschoutphotos #rain

Spent but not finished.
We may feel spent, having done all that we feel we could do. We gave all that we had. It may appear to be the end, but we are not finished. What we’ve said and done lives on. It blows in the wind and seeds life in other minds.
#wisdomphoto #robertschoutphotos #pieceofheaven

Shadows should be embraced not shunned or feared. Shadows appear when light shines brightest upon something. A shadow has no substance of its own. It merely conjures imagination and myth. Our shadow gives pause so we can ask ourselves, “am I comfortable being me?”
#wisdomphoto #robertschoutphotos

Fear can easily creep into one’s mind as one walks through life in a fog. Footing unsure as one traverses roads they must walk. Trepidation as one wonders “what’s on the other side?”
#wisdomphoto #robertschoutphotos #nature #sapavietnam #fogphoto

You can see the trees. You know that they are verdant green. Lush. Beautiful. Even when fog, mist or smog makes it hard to see, you know! That knowing stirs hope, faith and trust within you. “I know there is beauty through the fog. Such is life.” #wisdomphoto #robertschoutphotos #bskyphoto #nature

Sometimes we look through a window from behind walls which we’ve erected and see nothing: windows into relationships, into imagination, into oneself. It is not because nothing is there. What is there is merely shrouded. Be patient. It will appear.
#machupicchu #wisdomphoto #robertschoutphotos #peru

Perspective is everything!
We overlook truth, facts and beauty when we listen or look with singular perspective. It is arrogant to ask another to change their perspective if we are unwilling to change ours.
#wisdomphoto #robertschoutphotography #garden #naturephoto #sharethis to inspire

Let’s Tango! Today!
Why wait for a party? Why wait to be asked to dance? Why wait to sing or to smile? Joy manifests in moments when you allow yourself to express passion, freely. Don’t wait to be invited or asked. Dance!
#robertschoutphotography #streetart #chalkartphoto #sandiego #wisdomphoto

What soul is this that visits me in winged form? It whispers to me of joy and love. A gentle reminder to be at peace with every cycle of change. I must not fear metamorphosis. It may be that which gives me wings. #robertschoutphotography #wisdomphoto #butterfly #gardenmessengers #share to inspire

Nature offers itself freely to see, smell, be one and at peace. We, immature and unconscious of our greed, cut beauty down so we can own it for ourselves, only to have it wither. With each cut the death of beauty comes at our hands. #robertschoutphotography #flower #wisdomphoto #mindfulphoto

We walk through life unconscious to such an extent that it is not enough for nature to burst before us. We don’t stop, see and embrace beauty. So, nature doubles its trumpet blast so that we stop, take notice and smile with gratitude. #datura #flowerphoto #naturephoto #robertschoutphoto #wisdomphoto

As you peer through a doorway you may catch a glimpse of the past while simultaneously seeing a future that if not changed, will repeat the past. Most of all, you can clearly see that civilizations rise and fall in repeated cycles. #machupicchu #peru #robertschoutphoto #ruins #share #wisdomphoto