A Holiday Wish

The moment one gives close attention to anything

The moment one gives close attention to anything,

even a blade of grass,

it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably 

magnificent world in itself.

~Henry Miller

Clouds come floating into my life

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.  ~Rabindranath Tagore

Remember

Not a day passes over the earth but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words, and suffer noble sorrows.

Charles Reade

Wild Geese

Wild Geese

You do not have to be good.

You do not have to walk on your knees

for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.

You only have to let the soft animal of your body

love what it loves.

Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.

Meanwhile the world goes on.

Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain

are moving across the landscapes,

over the prairies and the deep trees,

the mountains and the rivers.

Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,

are heading home again.

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,

the world offers itself to your imagination,

calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting -

over and over announcing your place

in the family of things.

Mary Oliver

Always be a first-rate version of yourself

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

Judy Garland

To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty

To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same field, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Go to your fields and your gardens

Go to your fields and your gardens, and you shall learn that it is the pleasure of the bee to gather honey of the flower,

But it is also the pleasure of the flower to yield its honey to the bee.

For to the bee a flower is a fountain of life,

And to the flower a bee is a messenger of love,

And to both, bee and flower, the giving and the receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.

Kahlil Gibran

The world needs dreamers

The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers.  But above all, the world needs dreamers who do. ~Sarah Ban Breathnach

We do not see nature with our eyes

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.~William Hazlett

For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it.

For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.

Ivan Panin