Tag: forest

How Do We Find the Path?

  A path is made by walking on it. – Zhuangzi

We Create Hope

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence. – Lin Yutang

Where, O Where, Shall We Find God?

Earth’s crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning from Aurora Leigh

A Light-Hearted Moment

When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile. – Bob Edwards

Wisdom from the Zen Tradition

From of old there were not two paths. “Those who have arrived” all walked the same road. -Zenrin, The Gospel According to Zen

Seeking God

God guides those who seek [God’s] good pleasure into the ways of peace, bringing them out from the shadows into the light by {God’s] act of will and guiding them into a straight path. The Qur’an

Are We in Tune with the Eternal?

It is an ecological, theological, and biological reality: The more we are in tune with eternal nature, the more we will be able to hear the still small voice withing and have explosions of inspirational insight. – Dr. Rober Schuller

Wisdom from Dag Hammarskjold

The longest journey is the journey inward. – Dag Hammarskjold

Be the Thing You See

Be the Thing You See To look at any thing, If you would know that thing, You must look at it long: To look at this green and say ‘I have seen spring in these Woods,’ will not do–you must Be the thing you… Continue Reading “Be the Thing You See”

Optimism

Today’s Easter poem from Education for Justice is by Jane Hirshfield. Optimism More and more I have come to admire resilience. Not the simple resistance of a pillow, whose foam returns over and over to the same shape, but the sinuous tenacity of a… Continue Reading “Optimism”