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Posted on January 4, 2015
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Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray. – Jalaluddin Rumi, Essential Rumi, versions by Coleman Barks
Category: Finding God, SpiritualityTags: bay, bolinas, chair, clouds, coleman barks, essential rumi, lawn chair, nature, pacific ocean, photo, photography, quote, rumi, san francisco bay
Posted on November 18, 2014
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If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset. – Krishnamurti
Category: BeautyTags: clouds, cloudy sky, glacier national park, krishnamurti, lake, mountains, nature, photo, photography, quote, sunset
Posted on November 4, 2014
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People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy. – Anton Chekhov
Category: JoyTags: anton chekov, clouds, cloudy sky, happiness, happy, nature, oregon, photo, photography, quote, room without a roof, volcano
Posted on September 23, 2014
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Love all God’s creation, the whole and every grain of sand of it. Love every leaf, every ray of God’s light. Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive… Continue Reading “Loving Even the Storm”
Posted on September 16, 2014
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This is one of my favorite quotes from poetry: Earth’s crammed with heaven And every common bush Afire with God But only he who sees, Takes off his shoes. The rest sit round it, And pluck blackberries. -Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Posted on May 31, 2014
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It is a blessed thing to know that no power on earth, no temptation, no human frailty can dissolve what God holds together. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Posted on May 2, 2014
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Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. ~ Benjamin Franklin
Posted on April 3, 2014
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What kind of seeing should we do during this Lenten season? In Buddhism they talk about Beginner’s Mind. Perhaps we should work at Beginners Sight. Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time… Continue Reading “Seeing with Beginners Sight”
Category: LentTags: beginners' sight, betty smith, clouds, cloudy sky, crane creek park, lent, lenten reflection, nature, photo, photography, quote, seeing, sight, vineyard
Posted on February 24, 2014
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Prayer is energy, the energy of love and transformative power. It is given to us to use for the good of all creation. In prayer God gives us the fuel of life, and asks us to live it. Margaret Silf in The Gift of… Continue Reading “Prayer Is Energy”
Category: PrayerTags: clouds, lands end, margaret silf, monterey pine, nature, photo, photography, prayer, quote, san francisco, sky
Posted on February 22, 2014
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The most ideal landscape is the one that is. – Lynn Crawford