Nothing/Everything

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When we are nothing, we are in a fine position to receive everything from God.

Richard Rohr, Everything Belongs

This world

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This world is too beautiful to be true,
and too beautiful not to be true.

Roo Borson, Kim Maltman & Andy Patton, Pain Not Bread

Beauty

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When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blind to beauty. 

Khalil Gibran

Empty Handed

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Born empty handed,

Die empty handed.

I witnessed life at its fullest,

Empty handed.

Marlo Morgan

Language

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If our language is inadequate,
our vision remains formless,
our thinking and feeling are still
running in the old circles,
our process may be “revolutionary”
but not transformative.

Adrienne Rich

i thank You God

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i thank You God for most this amazing
day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes

e. e. cummings

Beannacht ("Blessing")

May the nourishment of the earth be yours,
may the clarity of light be yours,
may the fluency of the ocean be yours,
may the protection of the ancestors be yours.

And so may a slow
wind work these words
of love around you,
an invisible cloak
to mind your life.

John O'Donohue, Beannacht ("Blessing")

Wonder

When I admire the wonder of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in worship of the Creator.

Mahatma Ghandi