Category: Spirituality

Your Soul Is Alive

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.… Continue Reading “Your Soul Is Alive”

Intrusions of Beauty

Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is. Saul Bellow

Paintings

Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty. John Ruskin

A Thousand Miracles

To walk in nature is to witness a thousand miracles. Mary Davis

The State of Wonder

When we enter a state of wonder, an opening is created; a possibility arises for us to view the world differently and to come to a different understanding. Rachel Macy Stafford

What Do We See?

What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sort of person you are. C.S. Lewis

Happiness?

Happiness is a direction, not a place. Sydney J. Harris

Be Kind

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle. Philo of Alexandria

Extending Compassion

As we learn to have compassion for ourselves, the circle of compassion for others — what and whom we can work with, and how — becomes wider. Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart

The Wisdom of the Dalai Lama

You must not hate those who do wrong or harmful things; but with compassion, you must do what you can to stop them — for they are harming themselves, as well as those who suffer from their actions. Dalai Lama