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Tag: Beauty
Lost in Art, Lost in Paris
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. – Thomas Merton I can’t imagine a more beautiful place to be found and lost than Paris. And the impressionist work in Musee D’Orsay is wonderful to behold. I found this… Continue Reading “Lost in Art, Lost in Paris”
What Shall We Do Today?
But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love. – Kahil Gibran
Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. – Carl Jung
Let the Beauty We Love Be what We Do
Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are a hundred ways to kneel and kiss the ground. – Rumi
Wisdom from Rachel Carson
I remember reading Silent Spring by Rachel Carson when I was in high school (seems like ages ago!). It seems we still have not learned from her wisdom. The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe… Continue Reading “Wisdom from Rachel Carson”
More on Beauty
Somewhere between 551 and 491 BCE, Confucius observed the same thing that we might say today: Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it. – Confucius
Wisdom of Kahil Gibran
Here is another author that I read in high school; The Prophet was quite popular those days. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love. – Kahil Gibran
God’s Handwriting
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God’s handwriting – a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing. –… Continue Reading “God’s Handwriting”
Drink of the Experience of Spring, While It Is Still Spring
The one who neglects to drink of the spring of experience is apt to die of thirst in the desert of ignorance. – Ling Po
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