Tag: clouds

Let Yourself Be Drawn

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

Is Your Heart Open to Beauty or to Worries?

If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset. –  Krishnamurti

Clap Along If You Feel like a Room without a Roof

People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy. – Anton Chekhov

Loving Even the Storm

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”

The Tetons – Crammed with God’s Beauty

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  

Grateful – That God Holds It All Together

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

Wisdom from Benjamin Franklin

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. ~ Benjamin Franklin

Seeing with Beginners Sight

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”

Prayer Is Energy

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”

Finding the Ideal

The most ideal landscape is the one that is. – Lynn Crawford