School of Unlearning

This month I am using quotes from the wonderful book, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse, by Charlie Mackesy.

“What do you think is the biggest waste of time?”

“Comparing yourself to others,” said the mole.

“I wonder if there is a school of unlearning.”

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Smallness

This month I am using quotes from the wonderful book, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse, by Charlie Mackesy.

“I’m so small,” said the mole.

 “Yes,” said the boy, “but you make a huge difference.”

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Each Day Is a Journey

Each day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.

– Matsuo Basho

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Canyon Carvings

Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms, you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.

– Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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Turn to Earth

It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the Earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility.

– Rachel Carson

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Enter the Forest

The forest is not made of abstractions. It is not even made of separate, interacting objects. The forest is instead made of relationship.

– David George Haskell

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Our Loving Sun

Earth would die if the sun stopped kissing her.

– Hafiz

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We Are an Expression of Earth

We are not separate beings in the Universe, who live on Earth, we are a mode of being of the Universe, an expression of Earth. We did not come into this world, we grew out from it, in the same way that an apple grows out from an apple tree. Every cell of my body is part of the larger living system that is me.

– Michael Dowd

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Cultivation

Just as cultivating a garden requires turning over the ground, pulling weeds, planting, and watering, doing the work of love is all about taking action.

– Bell Hooks

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Happy Mothers’ Day

Hope looks at all things the way a mother looks at her child, with a passion for the possible. That way of looking is creative. It creates the space in which perfection can unfold. More than that, the eyes of hope look through all imperfections to the heart of all things and find it perfect. The eyes of hope are grateful eyes. Before our eyes learned to look gratefully at the world, we expected to find beauty in good looking things. But grateful eyes expect the surprise of finding beauty in all things.

– David Steindl-Rast

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