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Mystery in the Cosmos

Occasionally – at a waterfall, on a walk, hugging someone we love- we glimpse a trace of infinity. Something inside us remembers the oneness. • Daniel C. Matt in God and the Big Bang  

Mystery in a Traffic Light

Life’s wonder and mystery can be discovered as easily at a traffic light as on a mountaintop. • Ezra Bayda in Saying Yes to Life

Forgiveness of the Violet

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. -Mark Twain in Untrain Your Parrot by Elizabeth Ham ilton

To Develop the Eye of an Artist

To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage. – Henri Matisse

Another View of Compassion

Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things. – Thomas Merton in The Mystic Hours by Wayne Teasdale

All Creation Teaches Us

One should pay attention to even the smallest crawling creature for these may have a valuable lesson to teach us. – Black Elk in All Our Relatives by Paul Goble

Using Wise Caution

Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river. – A Chang Proverb in Generous Strangers by John Skoyles  

Wisdom of Don Quixote

Sanity may be madness but the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be. -Don Quixote

Choose Hope

Once you choose hope, anything’s possible. -Christopher Reeve

How Do You Know What Is Important?

A certain Bektashi dervish was respected for his piety and appearance of virtue. Whenever anyone asked him how he had become so holy, he always answered: “I know what is in the Koran.” One day he had just given this reply to an enquirer… Continue Reading “How Do You Know What Is Important?”