why we live here
Each Spring it’s my heart that stirs first of all ……Muso Soseki this principle of breathing through the heart sings us seamlessly into the web that gathers sky to moss to river……settle into spring...
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There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living. …..David Starr Jordan have we remembered to fully embrace the all? the flow? the making of our daily lives?….....
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Celtic wisdom was deeply aware that Nature had a mind and spirit of its own. Mountains have great souls full of memory. A mountain watches over a landscape and lures its mind towards the horizon....
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Hokusai says look carefully He says pay attention, notice. He says keep looking, stay curious. He says there is no end to seeing. He says everything is alive- Shells, buildings, people, fish...
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We can easily fill our days with activity. We buy, we sell, we move from place to place. There is always more to be done, always a way to keep from staring into the still pool where life is more than...
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The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best which is within us. We’re all assigned a piece of the garden, a corner of the universe that is ours to transform. Our corner of the universe is...
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Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. ~Kahlil Gibran there are memories that find us reveling in the fine light of soft beauty…..the fragile ached of vulnerability and precious clarity about...
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To be beautiful means to be yourself.You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. When you are born a lotus flower, be a beautiful lotus flower, don’t try to be a magnolia...
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Sometimes it’s the fragile things that make life beautiful, like the swath of sunlight that pours through the windows in the morning. In the living room, its distended patches illuminate rungs on the...
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Becoming aware and mindful is not some magical tool where you will only experience pleasant moments. Instead, loving awareness will illuminate and hold everything- the success and delight and the pain...
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