Beauty

Seen Unseen

July 25, 2011

Sometimes I can kid myself into believing that things are just as I think they are or as I’ve been told they are.  Our families, cultures, and religions tell us things are a certain way.  We hear the messages long before we can understand them.  By the time we can understand we don’t question because [...]

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Do Something

July 18, 2011

  “I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.”  Helen Keller I can do something today.  I can add value, beauty, or goodness in some way [...]

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Mutual Feeling of Communion

July 7, 2011

  “Be good to those who stay behind, and be quiet and confident in their presence.  Do not torment them with your doubts, and do not shock them with your confidence or your joy, which they cannot understand.  Try to establish with them a simple, sincere mutual feeling of communion that need not change if [...]

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Dare to Dream

June 24, 2011

“The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.”  James Allen What are you dreaming?  Leave a comment below to let us [...]

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Let Your Heart Break Open and Expand

June 23, 2011

‘If you’re really listening, if you’re awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break; its purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold ever-more wonders.”  Andrew Harvey We have this tendency to guard our hearts so carefully against breaking. [...]

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Magical Thinking

June 17, 2011

Do I believe in some sort of magic?  If I do this then that will happen?  If I am good enough, generous enough, spiritual enough, then all good things will happen to me, and if I’m not, then bad things will happen? Sometimes I feel the magical thinking bubble up in me.  I believe it [...]

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My Peep | It’s the Little Things

June 16, 2011

It’s the little things, ya’ll.   I went into the garage and heard an agitated cheeping.  I knew there was a nest in there so I went straight to it.  Beneath the nest was Peep!  She had fallen out and was hollering!  I picked her up and placed her back in the nest.  Her parents [...]

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The Coyote Days of Summer

June 9, 2011

Not a care in the world, Coyote lounges in the backyard–sated with rodents and Canadian geese.  This seems to be his favorite haunt as the hunting is aplenty.  I love watching him and he seems not the least bit concerned by me. My Jackahuahua chases him off from time to time–with great pride.  I worry [...]

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A Love Like That

June 2, 2011

“The sun never says to the earth, ‘You owe me’ Look what happens with a love like that. It lights up the whole sky.” Hafiz Thank you, Kendall. Related Posts:Mutual Feeling of CommunionLet Your Heart Break Open and ExpandMagical Thinking

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How to Improve the World

June 1, 2011

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”  Anne Frank It’s so easy to complain about what’s wrong in the world, isn’t it?  I wonder how much time and energy we waste in the moaning–time and energy that could be freed up to serve the world. [...]

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