Follow effective action with quiet reflection

Follow effective action with quiet reflection.
From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
Peter F. Drucker



Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature

Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature,
and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito’s wing that falls on the rails.

Henry David Thoreau

Find your confidence in your insecurity

One of my major teachers gave me the instruction, he said he wanted me for a year to have [as] my main practice to always go into my insecurity. And he said, I want you to find your confidence in your insecurity, not by trying to get rid of your insecurity.

Pema Chodron

The obscure we see eventually

The obscure we see eventually.  The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.

Edward R. Murrow

Every action of our lives

Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. 

 Edwin Hubbell Chapin

Everybody needs beauty

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
John Muir

Water

If we have no peace ...

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

Mother Teresa

Life meets each of us where we need to be met

Life meets each of us where we need to be met, leading us to the doors with our names on them.
Barbara Brown Taylor

We discover in ourselves ...

We discover in ourselves what others hide from us and we recognize in others what we hide from ourselves. Vauvenargues

The eye sees ...

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
Henri Bergson

Dream sheep

Off-duty

A heartbeat at my feet

My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.

Edith Wharton

Pay Attention

Pay attention
Be astonished.
Tell about it.
Mary Oliver