Tag: nature

Wisdom from the Dalai Lama

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life. – His Holiness the Dalai Lama

A World Full of Gifts

You have given me Your love, filling the world with Your gifts. – Rabindranath Tagore, The Heart of God

Wisdom of Imagination and Art

What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience? – Rollo May, The Courage to Create

Wisdom of Perspective

Whenever feeling downcast, each person should vitally remember, “For my sake, the entire world was created. -Baal Shem Tov

Wisdom Right before our Eyes

For the month of September, the subject will be Wisdom. Guidance streams through the whole of creation, and in any moment we can recognize the form it is taking right before our eyes. – Patricia Campbell Carlson – sister of Br. David Steindl-Rast, OSB

Let’s Live in Amazement!

  Those who are awake live in a constant state of amazement. – Jack Kornfield

Emptiness in Bloom

  Emptiness is bound to bloom, like hundreds of grasses blossoming. – Eihei Dogen, Sky Flowers

Where Do We Find Heaven?

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. – Henry David Thoreau

A Month of Rachel Carson – Week 5

Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. – Rachel Carson

A Month of Rachel Carson – Week 4

It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility. – Rachel Carson