Tag: nature

To Be Alive

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable…but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

The Proper Place of Peace

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.

One or Two Steps?

Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.

Faith Is

Faith is only found when needed,only real when used.Until then it is a seed . . .

Shaping the Mind

As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

A Strong Mind

If you have a strong mind and plant in it a firm resolve, you can change your destiny.

Just Living

“Just living is not enough,” said the butterfly, “one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower.

Celebrating Wildflowers

For me, celebrating the wildflowers or the birds is like a kind of worship.

Watering

Learn to selectively water the positive seeds and flowers in you by attending to them. There are enough weeds. You don’t have to encourage them.

The Blossom

We are always interested in the flower, but not the tedium of the blossoming. But that process from bud to blossom is when things really happen.