Posts tagged ‘photo’
Wisdom of Joseph Campbell
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.
- Joseph Campbell
Getting in rhythm with the flight of the geese
Finding God Everywhere and Nowhere
If what we need is here within creation, this does not mean that the presence of God will suddenly become obvious to us. As we have already seen, though God is in all things and underpins them as their animating source and destiny, at the same time we must admit that God is not to be reduced to or identified with anything in creation. God is everywhere and nowhere at the same time. God is transcendent.
- The Dark Night of the Soil an essay in Wendell Berry and Religion, edited by Joel James Shuman and L. Roger Owens
Weekly Photo Challenge: Curves
A little wisdom from the late Phyllis Diller:
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
And I daresay that what child doesn’t smile (and scream with delight) when riding along the curves of a roller coaster!
The Dawn Has Come
Dawn brings the light after the dark of night
Mystery
Penetrate the heart of just one drop of water, and you will be flooded by a hundred oceans.
- Mahmûd Shabistarî,
Can we even imagine all that is contained in a drop of water?
The Work of Angels
Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, “Grow, grow.”- The Talmud
Every blade of grass – and every poppy and purple flower too!
The Gift of the Breath
Breathing in . . .
Breathing out . . .Every breath we draw is a gift of God’s love; every moment of existence is a grace.
- Thomas Merton
Can Love Ever Fail?
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by its own fullness, not by its reception.- Harold Loukes
Making Sense fo the World
Everything in the world makes sense and is wonderful if viewed through open eyes.- Jose Ortega y Gasset
Seeing the beauty of rust on an old truck
Welcoming What Is Now
Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. Why? Because it is all we ever have.
- Pema Chödrön
Welcoming the morning
