Between the Cracks

Gratitude is exultation awaiting between the cracks of normalcy.

– Frederic Potter

During the month of January, I have always used quotes about gratitude, and still do. This year I am using only black and white images as it is most important to cultivate gratitude when there is a grayness around us. It is easy to give thanks when we are surrounded by technicolor.

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Gratitude’s Return

In gratitude for your own good fortune you must render in return some sacrifice of your life for other life.

– Albert Schweitzer

During the month of January, I have always used quotes about gratitude, and still do. This year I am using only black and white images as it is most important to cultivate gratitude when there is a grayness around us. It is easy to give thanks when we are surrounded by technicolor.

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Our Treasures

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

– Thornton Wilder

During the month of January, I have always used quotes about gratitude, and still do. This year I am using only black and white images as it is most important to cultivate gratitude when there is a grayness around us. It is easy to give thanks when we are surrounded by technicolor.

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Feast of All Saints

To be a saint is to be fueled by gratitude, nothing more and nothing less.

– Ronald Rolheiser

During the month of January, I have always used quotes about gratitude, and still do. This year I am using only black and white images as it is most important to cultivate gratitude when there is a grayness around us. It is easy to give thanks when we are surrounded by technicolor.

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Everything Is Our Teacher

When you forget all your dualistic ideas, everything becomes your teacher, and everything can be the object of worship.

– Shunryu Suzuki

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Our Illusions

We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.

– Carl Sagan

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Can We Imagine Beauty

How beautiful can life be? We hardly dare imagine it.

– Charles Eisenstein    

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The Way Is in the Heart

The way is not in the sky, the way is in the heart.    

– The  Buddha

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Importance of a Rose

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.

– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

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Joy of Living

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

– Emily Dickinson

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