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The Miraculous Flower
The Miraculous Flower
If we belong to the sun and its warmth, to the bud and the sprout, to the miraculous flower, we also belong to the wind, the naked branch, the cold.
- Fabiana Fondevila
Rewards of a Simple Life
To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter; to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
- John Burroughs
Peace Is Every Step
Peace is every step.
The shining red sun is my heart.
Each flower smiles with me.
How green, how fresh all that grows.
How cool the wind blows.
Peace is every step. It turns the endless path to joy.
- Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace is Every Step
Friend of Silence
God is the friend of silence. We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. See how nature — trees, flowers, grass — grows in silence; see the stars, the moon, and the sun, how they move in silence.
- Mother Teresa
The Bud’s Undoing
The flower is always the bud’s undoing. Let go then.
- Pavithrka K. Mehta
The Miracle of Gratitude
The miracle of gratitude is that it shifts your perception to such an extent that it changes the world you see.
- Robert Holden
Drinking Tea
Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the earth revolves.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Meditation
When we wash clothes, chop wood, water the vegetables, or drive the car – wherever we are, whatever we are doing, if the energies of mindfulness are present in our mind and body, then we are practicing meditation.
- Thich Nhat Hanh, The Energy of Prayer
Exit or Entry?
Every exit is an entry somewhere else.
- Tom Stoppard
The Cosmic Dance
The silence of the spheres is the music of a wedding feast. The more we persist in misunderstanding the phenomena of life, the more we analyze them out into strange finalities and complex purposes of our own, the more we involve ourselves in sadness. But it does not matter much because no despair of ours can alter the reality of things, or stain the joy of the cosmic dance which is always there.
- Thomas Merton
This is one of the “Cool Globes” that was on display at Chrissy Field in 2008.
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