D. Bodhi Smith > Quotes

“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”
― Bodhi Smith, Bodhi Simplique Impressionist Photography and Insights

“seduce me at sunrise, dance with me barefoot in the dew on the grass, make me wet and warm, and loved”
― Bodhi Smith, Bodhi Smith Impressionist Photography

“i found my flower, there she was, she caught my eye and captured my heart. i listened to her...she called out to me with her colors and warmth, held me with her softness and beauty, silently asking only that i let her grow, and let her be, and love her for who she was: my flower”
― Bodhi Smith, 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”
― Bodhi Smith, Bodhi Smith Impressionist Photography

“see me as your moonlight
and you're the sky, i'm the satellite
orbiting through your night”
― Bodhi Smith, 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”
― Bodhi Smith, 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”
― Bodhi Smith

“like a simple little lighthouse, my true ideal is to just be...having no trace of seeking, desiring, imitating, or striving, only light and peace”
― Bodhi Smith

“she held him. he held her. all the noise inside and out ceased. the moon shined in through the window, but they glowed as one in their own light. there could be nothing else so special as this moment, no matter how long it lasted, it did not matter because nothing else matters, in this sanctum so pure”
― Bodhi Smith

“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!”
― Bodhi Smith, 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”
― Bodhi Smith, 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”
― Bodhi Smith, Bodhi Smith Impressionist Photography

“travel to that place you always wanted to see, go see it, only excuses are stopping you. say all those things you wanted to say to those people you never said them to, only pride is keeping you from it. learn to do that thing you always wanted to do, and do it, only fear is holding you back...do not instead make up a list of all the stuff you want to do before you die, just start doing it, and do it now. do not wait for 'one day.' experience what you can right here, right now, before it all changes...because it will change. the tides of change are as constant as time itself. as buddha once said, ' nothing is forever except change'...so take nothing for granted, nothing is guaranteed except that it will all change one day...”
― Bodhi Smith, Bodhi Simplique Impressionist Photography and Insights

“she said simply, 'my favorite color is you'...and that's all it took for my heart to be ablaze with love”
― Bodhi Smith, Bodhi Smith Impressionist Photography

“this beautiful bird, a little yellow-breasted finch, landed on my windowsill...she just stopped my time flow...i looked at her, for i could see nothing else mattered in that moment, and she looked directly at me, and then turned her head slightly sideways, and then quickly back...she then sang to me a wonderful melody of tweets and chirps in harmony with the sound of sunshine glowing through her feathers...her wild and innocent essence warmed all my senses, to my core...and all of a sudden with an assured certainty, i knew everything was going to be alright”
― Bodhi Smith, Bodhi Simplique Impressionist Photography and Insights

“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”
― Bodhi Smith, 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”
― Bodhi Smith, Bodhi Simplique Impressionist Photography and Insights

“you are the yellow-breasted finch singing the sound of sunshine into my heart”
― Bodhi Smith, Bodhi Smith Impressionist Photography

“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”
― Bodhi Smith, Bodhi Smith Impressionist Photography

“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”
― Bodhi Smith, Bodhi Smith Impressionist Photography

“on this morning, you feel her touch deeply into your soul as the misty fog lightly brushes in whispering silence across the surface of your being, amidst the soothing fragrance of wet pine needles floating all around...she creeps playfully though in wavy reflections, warming your waters with her magic, her dance, the hope for a new awakening”
― Bodhi Smith, 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”
― Bodhi Smith, Bodhi Smith Impressionist Photography

“before you, 
i stand, and 
i realize, that 
i never knew how good life was, 
before you”
― Bodhi Smith, 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...”
― Bodhi Smith, Bodhi Smith Impressionist Photography

“the evils of ego devour the soul with darkness, destroy all hope, and eat away at any chance of experiencing the pure beauty of a glowing, unspoiled love”
― Bodhi Smith, Bodhi Smith Impressionist Photography

“when you see her unspoiled beauty for the first time, you realize that's why you came this way afterall in the first place”
― Bodhi Smith, Bodhi Smith Impressionist Photography

“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”
― Bodhi Smith, Bodhi Simplique Impressionist Photography and Insights

“the word, 'before,' has the meaning of what is right in front of you, as well as the idea of something that happened in the past....thus it is a word with a beautiful duality, and with in itself carries such a powerful meaning: live each moment before it is too late and you can no longer...and cherish all you have right before you now, because you never know when it will all be gone, all gone before you can even blink, *poof* just like that...”
― Bodhi Smith, Bodhi Simplique Impressionist Photography and Insights

“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”
― Bodhi Smith, Bodhi Smith Impressionist Photography

“he saw her light, seeing his first look of both everything and only one thing, all together at once, all that ever did or ever will matter”
― Bodhi Smith