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What Can I Let Happen in my Life?
Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes and the grass grows by itself. -Zenrin, from The Gospel According to Zen
How True Is This?
I came across this quote and wondered, “How true is this for me? Do I want it to be true for me? What am I willing to do to make it not be so?” I would like to buy $3 worth of God, please,… Continue Reading “How True Is This?”
Nature Is Our Teacher
Nature is [our] teacher. She unfolds her treasures to [our] search, unseals [the] eye, illumes {the] mind, and purifies [the] heart; an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of [nature’s] existence. – Alfred Billings Street
Is Your Soul Alive?
Is your soul alive? How can you tell? If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things in nature have a message you… Continue Reading “Is Your Soul Alive?”
Weekly Photo Challenge: Nostalgia
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were. ― Marcel Proust
Breathe – Just Breathe
The whole universe is breathing as our breath; we limit the process by our assumption that we are doing the breathing. – Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, Alchemical Wisdom I like to think, sometimes, when meditating that I am not so much breathing, as being… Continue Reading “Breathe – Just Breathe”
Thoughts on Hope – 12
Prayer is hope’s breathing. When we stop praying, we stop hoping. – Pedro Casaldaliga
Thoughts on Hope – 11
Everything can be taken from us but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way. – Victor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning
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