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The Mysterious

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.

True Seeing

But the eyes are blind. One must look with the heart.

Finding Art

Art is not simply works of art; it is the spirit that knows beauty, that has music in its soul and the color of sunsets in its handkerchief, that can dance on a flaming world and make the world dance too.

The Great Book

Our children need to learn not only how to read books composed by human genius but also how to read the Great Book of the World. Reading this Great Book is natural to children.

Change

All that you touch you Change. All that you Change Changes you. the only lasting truth is Change.

The Law of Nature

Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature.

Key to Joy

The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased.

Poem or Picture

“A picture is a poem without words.”

Joy Is Not Naive

Choosing to have joy is not naively thinking everything will be easy. It is courageously believing that there is still hope, even when things get hard.

Deep Ecology

Deep Ecology is a worldview and associated way of life grounded in the new cosmology. It branches out of the awareness that the environment is not “out there,” separate from us, but that we are part of vast cosmological, geological and biological cycles which… Continue Reading “Deep Ecology”