Tag: nature

What Is Enough?

Do we really need much more than this? To honor the dawn. To visit a garden. To talk to a friend. To contemplate a cloud. To cherish a meal. To bow our heads before the mystery of the day. Are these not enough? –… Continue Reading “What Is Enough?”

Wednesday of Hope – Hold Fast to Dreams

Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird, That cannot fly. – Langston Hughes

Planting and Reaping

What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action. – Meister Eckhart

Wednesday of Hope – Hope Is Not Unrealistic

The most unrealistic person in the world is the cynic, not the dreamer. Hope only makes sense when it doesn’t make sense to be hopeful. – Paul Hawken

Bring forth a Flower

Find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a flower. – Shigenori Kameoka

How Beautiful Can Life Be?

How beautiful can life be? We hardly dare imagine it. – Charles Eisenstein

Wednesday of Hope – Courage to Fail

Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts. – Winston Churchill

When Is Time Really Wasted?

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

Wednesday of Hope – Humor and Perspective

The only thing I can recommend at this stage is a sense of humor, an ability to see things in their ridiculous and absurd dimensions, to laugh at others and at ourselves, a sense of irony regarding everything that calls out for parody in… Continue Reading “Wednesday of Hope – Humor and Perspective”

All is the Moon

There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon. – Matsuo Basho