Seven Sayings About the Phoenix Bird 1) "Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix." ~Christina Baldwin~ 2) "It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes." ~Anne Baxter~ 3) Like the mighty phoenix,    Once again I rise from the flames set to destroy me & take    flight.    I am    Stronger    Glorious    Powerful    Victorious. ~Kirsti A. Dyer, MD, MS~ 4) "The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite, revive from ashes and rise." ~Miguel de Cervantes~ 5) "A mythical bird that never dies, the phoenix flies far ahead to the front, always scanning the landscape and distant space. It represents our capacity for vision, for collecting sensory information about our environment and the events unfolding within it. The phoenix, with its great beauty, creates intense excitement and deathless inspiration." ~The Feng Shui Handbook, Feng Shui Master Lam Kam Chuen~ 6) Beautiful, glorious and sacrificing self for renewal,    you build a pyre and set yourself ablaze. For the    sake of self. Red bird of fire you come forth through    your ashes a new bird shedding the old self which no    longer is needful. You embrace your new strength and    fly to the heights of the sky to the city of the sun and    give the ashes unto the altar of the sun god for your    immortality. Embrace yourself for you are a child of    the sun and will live eternal through birth, death, and    renewal! The spirit never dies! ~Rebecca Wiles, The Phoenix~ 7) When a mother sits by her infant's cradle,    he stands on the pillow,    and, with his wings,    forms a glory around the infant's head.    He flies through the chamber of content,    and brings sunshine into it,    and the violets on the humble table smell doubly sweet.    But the Phoenix is not the bird of Arabia alone.    He wings his way in the glimmer of the Northern Lights    over the plains of Lapland,    and hops among the yellow flowers    in the short Greenland summer. ~Hans Christian Andersen, The Phoenix Bird~ ********Gees! This has been one of the harder subjects to find decent thought-provoking quotes for! I didn't think it would be so difficult, but I bet it's taken me a good hour and a half (or more) to find these quotes. I thought with the fascination this bird holds for some people there would be more thoughts about it. Apparently I was wrong. My sister Kami miscarried in the last couple of days, and it occurred to me yesterday that so far this year can be summed up in one word: Death. My friend Christina, the 15th prophet of my church, Gordon B. Hinckley, an uncle of mine and his brother have all died in the last three and a half months...and now this. It's a wonder I'm not depressed, or as depressed as some would be. It helps knowing that death isn't the end, that there is life of a different kind on the other side of the veil. The eternal kind. And I guess that's what the phoenix symbolizes, huh. Eternity. Rebirth...into a new life. I guess, then, with this outlook the year 2008 can really be summed up with a different, more positive and less scary word: Rebirth. So goes the Circle of Life, eh?

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