Tag: photography

Weekly Photo Challenge: Fresh

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their ownfreshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. – John Muir

Expect the Dawn

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn. – Henry David Thoreau

With Whom or with What Does Your Heart Beat?

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature. – Joseph Campbell

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

How Much Do You Value Freedom? Whose Freedom?

All good things are wild, and free. – Henry David Thoreau Why do we prefer to contain them?

Heart Touching Words of Rumi

– Jalaluddin Rumi Essential Rumi, versions by Coleman Barks

Wise Words from The Buddha

If you light a lamp for someone else, it will also brighten your path. – The Buddha

Weekly Photo Challenge: Nostalgia

Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were. ― Marcel Proust