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Weekly Photo Challenge: Golden Hour
It is said that the best times to photograph landscape is during the “golden hour”, that magical time near dawn or dusk when the sun’s light adds a special magical light to all. The bright sunlight that we experience later in the day can… Continue Reading “Weekly Photo Challenge: Golden Hour”
Wisdom from the Medieval Mystic
The day of my spiritual awakening was the day I saw and knew I saw God in all things and all things in God. – Mechtild of Magdeburg Mechtild a Beguine, was a medieval mystic, who lived c. 1207 – c. 1282/1294.
Permeated with God
Reality is permeated, indeed flooded, with divine creativity, nourishment, and care. – Marcus J. Borg, Conflict, Holiness, and Politics
Wise Words from The Buddha
If you light a lamp for someone else, it will also brighten your path. – The Buddha
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 – 15
Hope has two beautiful daughters – their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are. – St. Augustine
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
Thoughts on Hope – 10
Hope is essential to generate the needed warm temperature and loving atmospher required to ensure that the forces of cynicism, greed and violence do not suck the life out of the divine dream a-birthing in you. – Edward Hays
Thoughts on Hope – 9
It was a chilly, overcast day when the horseman spied the little sparrow lying on its back in the middle of the road. Reining in his mount, he looked down and inquired of the fragile creature, “Why are you lying upside down like that?”… Continue Reading “Thoughts on Hope – 9”
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