We need silence ...

See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence.... We need silence to be able to touch souls.  

~Mother Teresa

New Year's Resolutions

May my feet rest firmly on the ground
May my head touch the sky
May I see clearly
May I have the capacity to listen
May I be free to touch
May my words be true
May my heart and mind be open
May my hands be empty to fill the need
May my arms be open to others
May my gifts be revealed to me
So that I may return that which has been given.

The Terma Collective

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

 

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

Happpy Holidays!

Happy Holidays!

Take care of each moment

Take care of each moment and you will take care of all time.Buddha

There is no experience that exists

There is no experience that exists in this life

that does not have the power to lead you to freedom.

Amrit Desai

Movement is medicine

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
Henry David Thoreau