“how can you be holding me from doing what i want to do, when all i want to do is hold you?”
Source: Bodhi Smith Impressionist Photography
“always remember, you are the sunshine to those who look up to you, and they are your sunbathers...so glow brightly, be that positive enlightenment that radiates joy into their hearts and fills them with warmth and positivity. so that they may do the same one day, unto all those sunbathers who look up to them”
Source: Bodhi Smith Impressionist Photography
“before you,
i stand, and
i realize, that
i never knew how good life was,
before you”
Source: Bodhi Smith Impressionist Photography
“when you are there, be truly present, be into that moment, 100%, and that place, or person, or experience will forever become part of you”
Source: Bodhi Smith Impressionist Photography
“thank you, flower...for showing me how to grow even while being blocked from the sun by the tall redwoods, having to find ways around and through, so my sunshine heart could glow into me, becoming the blossom that is watered and needed, and listened to, and sung to sleep in peaceful, loving arms. thank you for awakening me to my life”
Source: Bodhi Smith Impressionist Photography
“i dreamed, to
breath, to
sigh, to
float, above
clouds, over
watertops, through
fields of flowers, across
sunrise and sunset
painting romance
impressions, all throughout
my every atom.
for the longest time, i
waited, for
my dream flower”
Source: Bodhi Smith Impressionist Photography
“step after step to find this frame in time, a nightlight illuminated me on this night, lighting me up and further helping me to continue to find my way, find meaning and discover my purpose, and my own light glowing inside me”
Source: Bodhi Simplique Impressionist Photography and Insights
“be the lone tree standing in the misty rain, branches outstretched upward tasting the fog, waiting for the air to clear, waiting for clouds to break and give way to blue skies...waiting for the sunbeams to sing down and warm your soul all the way down to your wet roots”
Source: Bodhi Smith Impressionist Photography
“after a hot shower, wipe the mirror and clear the mist covering it...look closely at yourself, see the reflection you want to see...breathe in, breathe out...now, let go of who you are, and become who you can be...”
Source: Bodhi Smith Impressionist Photography
“just as a autumn transforms a beautiful tree, fully ablaze in only its best colors, and blooming in full wisdom from all the seasons, so will the words well spoken bring out the best in the one who puts them into practice”
Source: Bodhi Simplique Impressionist Photography and Insights
“besides time moving on, change is the only constant, the only guarantee in life...i can only hope, as much as humanly possible, the changes turn into a positive in my life”
Source: Bodhi Smith Impressionist Photography
“there is nothing mystifying in the meaningful reason behind the observation: you always see so much more clearly after the mist clears”
Source: Bodhi Simplique Impressionist Photography and Insights
“the redwoods are like no other trees...find a secluded grove and tilt your head back 90 degrees, and look up into the green canopies far above you, your spirits are bound to rise for you are surrounded by such giants of beauty, beautiful spirits themselves reaching for the sky”
Source: Bodhi Smith Impressionist Photography
“look at its shape, with vibrant yellows and oranges, a sunflower can brighten your day...it's as if it is smiling like a happy face painted on the sun...so if you do only one thing all day, let it be to smile, so you can brighten the day of others around you, just like the sunflower”
Source: Bodhi Simplique Impressionist Photography and Insights
“you are everything everywhere...my spirit rises up in your light, my heart blossoms in your colors, and my soul is born into your shade”
Source: Bodhi Simplique Impressionist Photography and Insights
“the stars have seen so much change happen on our planet, but they remain silent, only a witness, smart enough not to resit and fight the change...we can see such infinite wisdom in the stars...”
Source: Bodhi Simplique Impressionist Photography and Insights
“remember, some souls are purely magical, others are just the mystifying reflections of the real thing”
Source: Bodhi Smith Impressionist Photography
“once upon a time, i met a flower. she was so innocent, yet so wise. she was glitter and wildness. softness and sweet fragrance. she was a flock of fireflies that danced through the forest and swam naked in moonlight. she was the first soul i bared myself to, only one i was completely honest with about the things that shamed me...we wandered through the world in a bubble of our own making, floating free, full of pastels so colorful, full of fairy dust, sunbeams, and feathers. we drew people towards us like sirens in the water, wanting what we had. but we fluttered away like butterflies hopping from lily pad to lily pad, giggling all the while. we told each other the real hard truth, and listened, and laughed and cried out our hearts. when i was going through a tough time, she once told me to pick a place, anywhere in the world, and she’d be there with me, even if she couldn't be...she was my flower. she taught me about generosity, about giving with deep trust that it would return somehow somewhere. and it always does. she taught me to love people for who they are, and to just let them be, in their own flower field. i met a flower. she taught me to live in love. to bloom, and listen. now i am alive, in love”
“he could smell her petals, with their warming colors. and hear her silent wisdom as he listened to those colors...and her beauty, behold! wow; oh, how he wanted so badly to keep her and cherish her...but he dare not take her away from the other purple flowers, she was not his to take. because it was there that she was needed, and there he would let her be, standing out above the crowd, where she belonged”
Source: Bodhi Smith Impressionist Photography
“we are made of the sea, of the stars, of the flowers, of the sand, of the breeze...that's why it is not correct to say we are in love, for we are in everything, we are love”
Source: Bodhi Simplique Impressionist Photography and Insights
“we all have bridges we must cross, sometimes with others, sometimes alone...these bridges can lead us across turbulences and trouble, keeping us safe...or, they can be burned down to break contact when we need to forgive and forget, move forward and leave things behind. however, bridges can also be connections to joy and happiness, linking happy moments to more happy moments...bridges are our path across and over, connecting us from within ourselves to all the things that matter on the other side, a true cross...”
Source: Bodhi Smith Impressionist Photography
“when you jump in, love is the sea...and in a sea of love, sometimes the tides cannot seem to carry you close enough, and other times they slam you into the shore, so always be the flower on the wave, carrying your tidings under your petals, joyful to be floating no matter where the sea might take you”
Source: Bodhi Simplique Impressionist Photography and Insights
“when you are one with the special one, love each other so freely, let your love be a moving sea of flowers between the shores of your souls”
Source: Bodhi Simplique Impressionist Photography and Insights
“it is not selfish to be into loving yourself, and be into doing what you love, nor is it selfish to protect those things your love flows into...if anyone questions and doesn't support your methods and reasons for protecting your loves, then they are seriously the true selfish ones...”
Source: Bodhi Simplique Impressionist Photography and Insights
“yeah, sure, the sun will age my skin, and all these giggles and smiles with you will, over time, will crack up my face and give me wrinkles...sunshine, giggles, smiles, you? that's happiness, baby i'm living!”
Source: Bodhi Simplique Impressionist Photography and Insights
“our life is a coloring book...together we color our world onto the vibrant pages with our radiant hues, saturating and warming our lives with a beauty that's so filled with colorful luminosity, just like sparkling sunbeams shining through a thousand colorful leaves ablaze on autumn trees”
Source: Bodhi Smith Impressionist Photography
“falling into the mist
through colorful trees
on wings of love
becoming a part
of colors ablaze
in autumn's leaves
holding each color
with floating kisses
on sighs of feathers”
Source: Bodhi Smith Impressionist Photography
“the sun shines down upon us, the lucky ones...you're the radiant autumn leaves, so bright and vibrant, so vivid and ablaze with warming colors...i am your reflection in the river, only just a bit darker, and hazy opaque, and slightly blurred, more cooled by the waters (but still burning for you)...but we're complimentary mirrors to each other, such beautiful simplicity, two incomplete parts of the perfect whole, we are together one the same...one love in the glowing light”
Source: Bodhi Smith Impressionist Photography
“Let go of who you are, and become who you can be...”
Source: Bodhi Simplique Impressionist Photography and Insights
“Life is good, so good, if you'll only let it be”
Source: Bodhi Simplique Part Sept
“Contemplate without thinking. Be certain only in your uncertainty, content to be completely incomplete. Stop the rush. Slow down time. Breathe and notice. Slow down everything. Let it all be. Shut off the noise. Hush. Relax. Seize this higher moment. Reconnect. Feel and sense what surrounds you. Listen to all the colours of light whisper as they envelope you. See the melody and harmony that float about unnoticed. Taste the solitude of all this wonderment. Smell the beautiful silence. Now discover your peaceful serenity. Then, reach out and touch your faith with all your senses. This is my world. Awaken!”
Source: Bodhi Simplique Part Sept
“there she was, standing out, wildly regal, so eminent from all the others, rising above the crown of royalty...so much more colorful, more luscious, more luminous...so much more beautiful than anything else he had ever seen, all he could do was smile and cry...”
“her reflection captivates me
her darkness teaches me
her essence fills me
her light calms me
her soul caresses me...
she is my fascination
she is is my art
she is my glow
she is my love
she is my dance”
Source: Bodhi Smith Impressionist Photography
“we are only here on this planet for a little while...so dance, and love, and reflect what makes you happy, and then love and dance some more”
Source: Bodhi Smith Impressionist Photography
“if but a moment
i have with you, one that's spent
dancing, i'm content (a haiku by bodhinku)”
“in misty beauty never before seen,
sweet sounds of a forest so serene,
embracing and peaceful, so fresh and clean
as birds songs are whispering their routine.
those reflections gleam in the aquamarine...
morning light glowing on your leaves so pristine,
so angelic, so ageless and always evergreen,
dance with me, my lady, my love, my queen”
“unload the weight of noise, become light enough in spirit and mind to play, and radiate, and reflect, and sing, and dance down the right path”
Source: Bodhi Smith Impressionist Photography
“imagine if you could dance with a tree, floating over the water on a mystic dance floor shared only by you and your tree in alchemy, all amidst a warm morning mist wrapping itself around your legs, up to your belly, as your own impression surrounds you in a dance within your own mirrored reflection, you and your dancing tree...how cool would that be? totally mystifying”
Source: Bodhi Smith Impressionist Photography
“with the right amount of light, even the darkest of darkness glows”
“in photography and as in life, it is the strong contrasts between dualities that make things interesting and beautiful...particularly speaking, darkness has to exist and be present in order for light to glow, and have meaning and purpose”
Source: Bodhi Smith Impressionist Photography
“without your colors, my world would always be like night, it would be so much colder, so dark and colorless...i'd be living in a black and white picture where all the flowers have closed up”
Source: Bodhi Smith Impressionist Photography
“see me as your moonlight
and you're the sky, i'm the satellite
orbiting through your night”
Source: Bodhi Simplique Impressionist Photography and Insights
“i look up in
hope, dreaming to be
brightened up, and
begotten out of
this hazy funk, and
suddenly, i
see
my light glowing
high above me, she
is
warming certainty
wearing her
angelic halo, as
my spirits rise up to
kiss her, i smile
clearly”
Source: Bodhi Smith Impressionist Photography
“the tree tops whisper your name when i'm missing you the most. your shadow is observing me... it all reminds me how much more my life glows in your presence”
Source: Bodhi Simplique Impressionist Photography and Insights
“when i was a little boy, i needed my speedracer nightlight plugged into its wall outlet next to the bed to keep me calm in the darkness, so i could relax and fall asleep...now as a grown man, i find that i am no different, just my nightlight is now a person”
Source: Bodhi Simplique Impressionist Photography and Insights
“i had a dream of you last night, i was all alone in the desert, surrounded by darkness on a desolate playa, and then you came to me and gave me light, you were the moon...i knew it was you, for you were the brightest of all the heavenly bodies, and something of this sort of certainty come but once in a lifetime”
Source: Bodhi Simplique Impressionist Photography and Insights
“you must find your own light, just like the light does”
Source: Bodhi Smith Impressionist Photography
“as a flower, she knew he was no god, because he existed. he just was. and he was always there for her. his being was the heart-shaped light from the way-beyond. and when she saw his glow, felt his warmth, and absorbed his energy into her delicate petals, she now touched magic. and she knew with such a certainty, finally, what love truly was”
Source: Bodhi Smith Impressionist Photography
“laying together on a blanket under the night sky, i see my perfect nightlight just as the moon shines on her body, her soft skin glowing into my soul in effervescence”
Source: Bodhi Simplique Impressionist Photography and Insights
“be true to yourself, only you know your own real truth...so follow your heart down your path through the fog, muting all the noise, and walk out into the meaningful light of the silent truth”
Source: Bodhi Smith Impressionist Photography