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Look at the Moon
When you look at the moon, you think, “I’m really small. What are my problems?” It sets things into perspective. We should all look at the moon a bit more often. – Alain de Botton
The Value of Beauty
As I walked down the avenue, the late afternoon sun was turning the lovely and dying sycamore leaves into fragments of brilliant stained glass, and i said to myself, “This alone is worth the price of admission to our broken and glorious world. –… Continue Reading “The Value of Beauty”
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”
Let Us Cultivate Joy in Our Lives
From joy springs all creation By it is sustained Towards joy it proceeds And to joy it returns. – Mundaka Upanishad in The Nine Muses by Angeles Arrien
The Rose Just Is
These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones. They are what they are; they exist with God today. There is not time to them. There is simply the rose. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
How to Survive in Difficult Times
In difficult times you should always carry something beautiful in your mind. – Blaise Pascal
Beauty in Unexpected Places
We know that God loves beauty, for the Almighty allows it to flourish everywhere, even in unexpected places. – Ben Zion Bosker
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