Posted on August 9, 2026
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“God is the friend of silence. We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. See how nature — trees, flowers, grass — grows in silence; see the stars, the moon, and the sun, how they move in silence.
Posted on April 19, 2026
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“April brings the primrose sweet, scatters daisies at our feet.” — Sara Coleridge
Posted on March 29, 2026
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We are so brief. A one-day dandelion. A seedpod skittering across the ice. We are a feather falling from the wing of a bird. I don’t know why it is given to us to be so mortal and to feel so much. It is… Continue Reading “Brevity”
Posted on February 18, 2026
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You must not hate those who do wrong or harmful things; but with compassion, you must do what you can to stop them — for they are harming themselves, as well as those who suffer from their actions.
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Posted on November 23, 2025
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The gratitude that we encounter helps us believe in the goodness of the world and strengthens us thereby to do what’s good.
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Posted on July 2, 2025
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The flower is always the bud’s undoing. Let go then.
Posted on April 20, 2025
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Our task is to take this Earth so deeply and wholly into ourselves that it will resurrect within our being.
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Posted on March 9, 2025
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“Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the time I am being carried on great winds across the sky.”
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Posted on March 2, 2025
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A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms.
Posted on December 15, 2024
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Treasure this day and treasure yourself truly, neither will ever happen again.
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