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Category: Spirituality
Weekly Photo Challenge: Golden Hour
It is said that the best times to photograph landscape is during the “golden hour”, that magical time near dawn or dusk when the sun’s light adds a special magical light to all. The bright sunlight that we experience later in the day can… Continue Reading “Weekly Photo Challenge: Golden Hour”
Wisdom from the Medieval Mystic
The day of my spiritual awakening was the day I saw and knew I saw God in all things and all things in God. – Mechtild of Magdeburg Mechtild a Beguine, was a medieval mystic, who lived c. 1207 – c. 1282/1294.
Permeated with God
Reality is permeated, indeed flooded, with divine creativity, nourishment, and care. – Marcus J. Borg, Conflict, Holiness, and Politics
Wise Words from The Buddha
If you light a lamp for someone else, it will also brighten your path. – The Buddha
Breathe – Just Breathe
The whole universe is breathing as our breath; we limit the process by our assumption that we are doing the breathing. – Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, Alchemical Wisdom I like to think, sometimes, when meditating that I am not so much breathing, as being… Continue Reading “Breathe – Just Breathe”
A Thought to Remember in the Dry Passes of Our Lives
Dryness promotes the formation of flower buds…flowering is, after all, not an aesthetic contribution, but a survival mechanism. – Ann Haymond Zwinger, The Mysterious Lands
Thoughts on Hope – 16
At the bottom of the heart of every human being there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience of crimes committed, suffered and witnessed, that is good and not evil will be done to her. It is this… Continue Reading “Thoughts on Hope – 16”
Thoughts on Hope – 15
Hope has two beautiful daughters – their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are. – St. Augustine
Thoughts on Hope – 14
[The one] who has health, has hope. And [the one] who has hope, has everything. – Arab Proverb
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