We're so busy watching out
for what's just ahead of us
that we don't take time to enjoy
where we are.
Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbs
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Showing posts with label autumn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label autumn. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Thursday, November 21, 2013
Curiosity
Look at everything.
Don't close your eyes to the world around you.
Look and become curious and interested in
what there is to see.
John Cage
Sunday, November 3, 2013
Sunday, December 9, 2012
Peace
Our capacity to make peace with another person
and with the world depends very much on our
capacity to make peace with ourselves.
Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ
Friday, November 2, 2012
Loving Circles
Open your fists
into embraces
Open your arms' length
into loving circles.
James Broughton
Friday, October 12, 2012
Wonder
To pray is to take notice of wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all our attainments.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Friday, June 29, 2012
From Life
RCC_9877, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
Faith comes from life, commitment, not from proof.
W. Gunther Plaut, One Voice
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Creature
RIC_9589-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Seeking perfection?
RIC_8354-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
Artists who
seek perfection in everything are those who
cannot attain it in anything.
Gustave
Flaubert
Saturday, October 29, 2011
Patience
RIC_8970-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
The root of the Italian word for patience, pazienza, comes
from pax or pacem, Latin for peace. Within patience, there
is peace. So simple, yet so startling.
W. S. Merwin, , "Pazienza," Twenty Poems to Nourish Your Soul, Selected and
Introduced by Judith Valentine and Charles Reynard
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Writing & Reading
Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.
Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Friday, December 18, 2009
Life
Life should not be measured by the breaths we take, rather by moments that take our breath away.
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Heaven on Earth
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth.
Mark Twain
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Miracles
But that is the thing about miracles: it is perception that determines them as such, not facts.
Camilla Gibb, sweetness in the belly
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Possibilities
Writers know that when we write, we feel the world move; it is flexible, crammed wih possibilities.
David Grossman
Friday, October 30, 2009
Where God Begins
When you come to an end, that's where God begins.
Reb Albert Lewis, Mitch Albom' s have a little faith: a true story
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
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