Grandpa’s Affirmations
Grandpa’s Affirmations is a digital library collection of positive affirmations my grandfather, “Robert” Fazlul Rahaman kept posted on his wall in the years leading up to his death.
Scanned notecard with text that reads, “The only way out….. is through -”
Scanned October 28, 2019 by J. Giles.
Sent by mail to J. Giles from St. Louis, MO to Dallas, TX April 12, 2013.
Scanned notecard with text that reads, “Don’t bury your head…. In the sand”
Scanned October 28, 2019 by J. Giles.
Sent by mail to J. Giles from St. Louis, MO to Dallas, TX April 12, 2013.
Scanned notecard with text that reads, “Love Your Self you are love, compassion, joy and equanimity 11-7-12”
Scanned October 28, 2019 by J. Giles.
Sent by mail to J. Giles from St. Louis, MO to Dallas, TX April 12, 2013.
Scanned notecard with text that reads, “Open your heart Open your Mind. Be still……. ‘Let Go’”
Scanned October 28, 2019 by J. Giles.
Sent by mail to J. Giles from St. Louis, MO to Dallas, TX April 12, 2013.
Scanned notecard with text that reads, “Keep your focus on the things you can change all the other things will take care of themselves”
Scanned October 28, 2019 by J. Giles.
Sent by mail to J. Giles from St. Louis, MO to Dallas, TX April 12, 2013.
Photo with text that reads, “9-14-11 Light ‘It is light that ….. energetically guides me. I now see that I am more powerful than I have ever allowed myself to imagine. As I continue to remain open my light allows me to witness even more and deeper dimensions of my true self. In my surrendering…… into submission, I allow my light to continually open me to the…….. - realization - of my true self’ ‘This little light of mine…. I gonna let it shine’”
Photo taken with iPhone by J. Giles on November 24, 2012 at Grandpa’s home in St. Louis, MO.
Photo with text that reads, “And the day came when the risk it took to remain… tightly coiled in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to bloom. - Anais Nin”
Text on side appears to read, “For Leo Nation Wed June 6, 2012.” Please note that Grandpa was an Aries and this image was created for him by a friend.
Photo taken with iPhone by J. Giles on November 24, 2012 at Grandpa’s home in St. Louis, MO.
Photo with text that reads, “ Living Our Bigger Story ‘Our central core is a spark of the divine… Most however, haven’t consciously had a direct experience of God or the numinous nature. Though these sacred experiences unfolding within our subjective live(s) on a regular basis- many will discount them as being figments of our imagination.’ - From Living Your Bigger Story - Jacquelyn Small”
Photo taken with iPhone by J. Giles on November 24, 2012 at Grandpa’s home in St. Louis, MO.
Photo with text that reads, “When you meet…… anyone - treat the event as a holy encounter. You…… it’s through others that we either find…. or love ourself”
Photo taken with iPhone by J. Giles on November 24, 2012 at Grandpa’s home in St. Louis, MO.
Photo with text that reads, “Leo Nation 305 ‘To be empty …completely, is not a fearsome thing… it is absolutely essential for the mind to be unoccupied; to be empty, unenforced for then only can it move into unknown depths’ - J, Krishnam ‘Empty Mind’ ‘you bring radical emptiness into the manifest world' - A. Cohen ”
Photo taken with iPhone by J. Giles on November 24, 2012 at Grandpa’s home in St. Louis, MO.
Photo with text that reads, “‘Today I will listen more closely….. to my intuitive voice.’ ‘Love Your Self You are love, compassion, joy and equanimity.”
Photo taken with iPhone by J. Giles on November 24, 2012 at Grandpa’s home in St. Louis, MO.
Photo with text that reads, “‘The Universe The Universe is not a collection of objects… it’s a communion of subjects’ - Thomas Bikky.
‘Deep down in our being we have to understand that we are related, we are connected and this relationship is sacred We are all part of the … sacred universe’ - Satish Kumar”
Photo taken with iPhone by J. Giles on November 24, 2012 at Grandpa’s home in St. Louis, MO.