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Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you’re riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live! — Bob Marley, 1945–1981 > read more

05/23/2012

Published on 2012-05-22 23:05:49

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water. — Christopher Morley, 1890–1957 > read more

05/22/2012

Published on 2012-05-21 23:05:20

We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and a mystery. — H.G. Wells, 1866–1946 > read more

05/21/2012

Published on 2012-05-20 23:05:39

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country. — Anais Nin, 1903–1977 > read more

Finding Home at the Rainbow’s End in Durness Scotland

Published on 2012-05-19 23:05:33

To be rooted is perhaps the most important but least understood need of the human soul. —Simone Weil, 1909–1943 At what some have called the very edge of the world, in the Glen of the Stranger, this wanderer was introduced to a destination elusive to many, that mysterious place known as home. The encounter was [...] > read more

05/19/2012

Published on 2012-05-18 23:05:17

…I believe that God is born anew each morning… creating the world at this very moment. He did not create it at a distant moment in time, then forget about it. — Leon Joseph Cardinal Suenens, 1904–1996 > read more

05/18/2012

Published on 2012-05-17 23:05:36

If we represent knowledge as a tree, we know that things that are divided are yet connected. We know that to observe the divisions and ignore the connections is to destroy the tree. — Wendell Berry, 1934– > read more

05/17/2012

Published on 2012-05-16 23:05:26

If you look through all the different cultures, right from the earliest, earliest days with the animistic religions, we have sought some kind of explanation for our life, for our being, that is outside of our humanity. — Jane Goodall, 1934– > read more

05/16/2012

Published on 2012-05-15 23:05:24

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. — L.P. Hartley, 1895–1972 > read more

05/15/2012

Published on 2012-05-14 23:05:02

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. — Natalie Goldberg, 1948– > read more

05/14/2012

Published on 2012-05-13 23:05:28

Whether you are 60 or 16, there is in every human being’s heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what’s next, and the joy of the game of living. — Samuel Ullman, 1840–1924 > read more

05/13/2012

Published on 2012-05-12 23:05:43

The nature of God is a circle of which the centre is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere. — Anonymous > read more

05/12/2012

Published on 2012-05-11 23:05:30

Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides. — Junichiro Tanizaki, 1886–1965 > read more

05/11/2012

Published on 2012-05-10 23:05:55

God is like a mirror. The mirror never changes, but everyone who looks at it sees something different. — Rabbi Harold Kushner > read more

05/10/2012

Published on 2012-05-09 23:05:57

If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster. — Stephen R. Covey, 1932– > read more

05/09/2012

Published on 2012-05-08 23:05:22

Stuff your eyes with wonder…live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. — Ray Bradbury, 1920– > read more

05/08/2012

Published on 2012-05-07 23:05:46

Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations. — Earl Nightingale, 1921–1989 > read more

05/07/2012

Published on 2012-05-06 23:05:49

I would rather believe that God did not exist than believe that He was indifferent. — George Sand, 1804–1876 > read more

05/06/2012

Published on 2012-05-05 23:05:28

Sometimes when I go for walks, there’s also complete stillness; there’s no mental labeling of sense perceptions. There’s simply a sense of awe or wonder or openness, and that’s beautiful. — Eckert Tolle, 1946– > read more

05/05/2012

Published on 2012-05-04 23:05:00

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. — James Thurber, 1894–1961 > read more

05/04/2012

Published on 2012-05-03 23:05:48

How blessings brighten as they take their flight. — Edward Young, 1681–1765 > read more

Findhorn’s Nature Sanctuary & A Circle of Songs

Published on 2012-05-02 23:05:11

There is no pattern the human mind can devise that does not exist already within the bounds of nature… Everything we do, see, write, notate, all are an echo of the deep seams of the universe. Music is the invisible world made visible through sound. ― Kate Mosse, 1961 – > read more

05/02/2012

Published on 2012-05-01 23:05:49

Like a gardener, I believe that what goes down must come up. - Lynwood L. Giacomini, 1955- > read more

05/01/2012

Published on 2012-04-30 23:05:42

You are to gather up the joys and sorrows, the struggles, the beauty, love, dreams and hopes of every hour that they may be consecrated at the altar of daily life. –MacRina Wiederkehr > read more

04/30/2012

Published on 2012-04-29 23:05:19

Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here. - Marianne Williamson, 1952- > read more

04/29/2012

Published on 2012-04-28 23:05:08

I’ve looked from both sides now, From win and lose, and still somehow, It’s life’s illusions I recall. I really don’t know life at all. - Joni Mitchell, 1943- > read more

04/28/2012

Published on 2012-04-27 23:05:28

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence. - Lin Yutang, 1895-1976 > read more

04/27/2012

Published on 2012-04-26 23:05:10

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God’s creation. - Maya Angelou, 1928- > read more

04/26/2012

Published on 2012-04-25 23:05:49

Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hate. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness. - William Arthur Ward, 1921-1994 > read more

04/25/2012

Published on 2012-04-24 23:05:47

May you learn to be a good friend to yourself. - Irish blessing > read more

04/24/2012

Published on 2012-04-23 23:05:45

There is more to life than increasing its speed. - Mohandas K. Gandhi, 1869-1948 > read more

04/23/2012

Published on 2012-04-22 23:05:32

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky; that is the interior of the soul. - Victor Hugo, 1802-1885 > read more

04/22/2012

Published on 2012-04-21 23:05:19

God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things done. – Henry Emerson Fosdick, 1878 – 1969 > read more

04/21/2012

Published on 2012-04-20 23:05:35

Life is like riding a bicycle– in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving. - Albert Einsten, 1879-1955 > read more

04/20/2012

Published on 2012-04-19 23:05:41

For the birds that cannot soar, God has provided low branches. - Turkish proverb > read more

04/19/2012

Published on 2012-04-18 23:05:03

Prayer is a kind of calling home every day. And there can come to you a serenity, a feeling of at-homeness in God’s universe, a peace that the world can neither give nor disturb, a fresh courage, a new insight, a holy boldness that you’ll never, never get any other way. - Earl G. Hunt, [...] > read more

The Isle of Skye & The Search That Never Ends

Published on 2012-04-17 23:05:35

The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet. ~Rebecca H. Davis, 1831 – 1910 > read more

04/17/2012

Published on 2012-04-16 23:05:44

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. — Dr. Seuss, 1904–1991 > read more

04/16/2012

Published on 2012-04-15 23:05:40

When man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time. — The Work of the Chariot > read more

04/15/2012

Published on 2012-04-14 23:05:28

I began to have an idea of my life, not as the slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know. — Joanna Field, 1900–1998 > read more

04/14/2012

Published on 2012-04-13 23:05:29

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. — Ralph W. Sockman, 1889–1970 > read more

04/13/2012

Published on 2012-04-12 23:05:05

But who can paint like nature? Can imagination boast, Amid its gay creation hues like hers? — James Thomson, 1700–1748 > read more

04/12/2012

Published on 2012-04-11 23:05:25

No more important duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theatre of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin, 1814–1880 > read more

04/11/2012

Published on 2012-04-10 23:05:45

Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider. — Saint Augustine of Hippo, 354–430 A.D. > read more

04/10/2012

Published on 2012-04-09 23:05:59

Live in rooms full of light. — Aulus Cornelius Celsus, c.25 B.C.–c.50 A.D. > read more

04/09/2012

Published on 2012-04-08 23:05:38

On certain mornings, as we turn a corner, an exquisite dew falls on our heart and then vanishes. But the freshness lingers, and this, always, is what the heart needs. The earth must have risen in just such a light the morning the world was born. — Albert Camus, 1913–1960 > read more

04/08/2012

Published on 2012-04-07 23:05:04

Allow your dreams a place in your prayers and plans. God-given dreams can help you move into the future He is preparing for you. — Barbara Johnson, 1947–2009 > read more

04/07/2012

Published on 2012-04-06 23:05:24

It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility. — Rachel Carson, 1907–1964 > read more

04/06/2012

Published on 2012-04-05 23:05:33

He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool–shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple–teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep–wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise–follow him. — Proverb > read more

04/05/2012

Published on 2012-04-04 23:05:37

Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher. — Oprah Winfrey, 1954– > read more

04/04/2012

Published on 2012-04-03 23:05:14

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. — Karl Menninger, 1893–1990 > read more

04/03/2012

Published on 2012-04-02 23:05:58

Beginnings are scary. Endings are usually sad, but it’s what’s in the middle that counts. So, when you find yourself at the beginning, just give hope a chance to float up. And it will. — Birdee Pruitt character in Hope Floats > read more

04/02/2012

Published on 2012-04-01 23:05:32

God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined. — Saint Augustine, 354–450 A.D. > read more

04/01/2012

Published on 2012-03-31 23:05:02

A happy life consists in tranquility of the mind. — Cicero, 106 B.C.–43 B.C. > read more

03/31/2012

Published on 2012-03-30 23:05:15

There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free. — Walter Cronkite, 1916–2009 > read more

03/30/2012

Published on 2012-03-29 23:05:08

Isn’t everyone a part of everyone else? — Budd Schulberg, 1914–2009 > read more

03/29/2012

Published on 2012-03-28 23:05:00

None of us knows…what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives. — Kathleen Norris, 1947– > read more

03/28/2012

Published on 2012-03-27 23:05:53

Prayer is exhaling the spirit of man and inhaling the spirit of God. — Edwin Keith > read more

03/27/2012

Published on 2012-03-26 23:05:09

Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory. — Betty Smith, 1896–1972 > read more

03/26/2012

Published on 2012-03-25 23:05:44

What you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows through an open window on a hot day. Your part is to open the windows of your mind. — Vernon Howard, 1918–1992 > read more

3/25/2012

Published on 2012-03-24 23:05:49

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best. — Walt Whitman, 1819–1892 > read more

03/24/2012

Published on 2012-03-23 23:05:20

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning. — Ivy Baker Priest, 1905–1975 > read more

03/23/2012

Published on 2012-03-22 23:05:22

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there. — Chanakya, 350–283. B.C. > read more

03/22/2012

Published on 2012-03-21 23:05:05

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. — Oscar Wilde, 1854–1900 > read more

03/21/2012

Published on 2012-03-20 23:05:38

The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car… a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little. — Ben Sweetland > read more

03/20/2012

Published on 2012-03-19 23:05:59

Each time dawn appears, the mystery is there in its entirety. — Rene Daumal, 1908–1944 > read more

Old Hurts & Healing Pageantry of Chiapa de Corzo Parachicos

Published on 2012-03-18 23:05:28

Dance like there’s nobody watching, Love like you’ll never be hurt. Sing like there’s nobody listening, And live like it’s heaven on earth. — William W. Purkey, 1929– Arriving on the outskirts of Chiapa de Corzo, we were surprised at the unexpected quiet, hearing only our own footsteps and the gentle flapping of the jewel-colored [...] > read more

03/14/2012

Published on 2012-03-13 23:05:41

Life itself it the most wonderful fairy tale of all. — Hans Christian Anderson, 1805–1875 > read more

03/13/2012

Published on 2012-03-12 23:05:21

And all the loveliest things there be, Come simply, so it seems to me. — Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1892–1950 > read more

03/12/2012

Published on 2012-03-11 23:05:27

All (life) is pattern… but we can’t always see the pattern when we’re part of it. — Belva Plain, 1919– > read more

03/11/2012

Published on 2012-03-10 23:05:19

It is not easy to find happiness inside ourselves and it is impossible to find it elsewhere. — Agnes Repplier, 1855–1950 > read more

03/10/2013

Published on 2012-03-09 23:05:59

Earth does not belong to us; we belong to the earth. — Chief Seattle, c. 1780–1866 > read more

03/09/2012

Published on 2012-03-08 23:05:33

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning. — J.B. Priestly, 1894–1984 > read more

03/08/2012

Published on 2012-03-07 23:05:01

I looked up at the dark sky and prayed to God for a better break in life and a better chance to do something for the little people I loved. — Jack Kerouac, 1922–1969 > read more

03/07/2012

Published on 2012-03-06 23:05:48

There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart. — Celia Thaxter, 1835–1894 > read more

03/06/2011

Published on 2012-03-05 23:05:22

Like Confucious of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and the angels. I have enough for this life. — Pearl Buck, 1892–1973 > read more

03/05/2012

Published on 2012-03-04 23:05:15

Synchronicity hints at the unified world behind the illusory veil of the material universe. — Roger S. Jones > read more

03/04/2012

Published on 2012-03-03 23:05:02

Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don’t let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity. — R.I. Fitzhenry > read more

03/03/2012

Published on 2012-03-02 23:05:08

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away. — Elvis Presley, 1935–1977 > read more

03/02/2012

Published on 2012-03-01 23:05:00

Each of us makes his own emotional weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits. — Fulton J. Sheen, 1895–1979 > read more

03/01/2012

Published on 2012-02-29 23:05:43

Every day we are engaged in a miracle we we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child — our own two eyes. All is a miracle. — Thich Nhat Hanh, 1926– � > read more

02/29/2012

Published on 2012-02-28 23:05:23

Fortunately,…analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist. — Karen Horney, 1885–1952 > read more

02/28/2012

Published on 2012-02-27 23:05:34

He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder. — M.C. Escher, 1898–1972 > read more

02/27/2012

Published on 2012-02-26 23:05:01

Dear friend, theory is all grey, And the golden tree of life is green. — Goethe, 1749–1832 > read more

02/26/2012

Published on 2012-02-25 23:05:18

If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. . . . A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good. — Thomas J. Watson, 1874–1956 > read more

02/25/2012

Published on 2012-02-24 23:05:37

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us… the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1815–1902 > read more

02/24/2012

Published on 2012-02-23 22:57:45

I asked for wonder, and He gave it to me. — Brendan Manning > read more

02/23/2012

Published on 2012-02-22 23:01:51

Dear Lord, be good to me the sea is so wide and my boat is so small. — Irish Fisherman’s Prayer > read more

02/22/2012

Published on 2012-02-21 22:54:46

If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair. — Erica Jong, 1942– > read more

02/21/2012

Published on 2012-02-20 23:05:23

The clouds gathered together, stood still and watched the river scuttle around the forest floor, crash headlong into haunches of the hills, with no motion of where it was going, until exhausted, ill and grieving, it slowed to a stop just twenty leagues short of the sea. — Toni Morrison, 1931– > read more

02/20/2012

Published on 2012-02-19 23:05:17

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the things you did do. So throw out the bow lines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the tradewinds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. — Mark Twain, 1835–1910 > read more

02/19/2012

Published on 2012-02-18 23:05:57

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that’s your own self. - Aldous Huxley, 1894-1963 > read more

02/18/2012

Published on 2012-02-17 23:05:16

The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast and you miss all you are traveling for. - Louis L’Amour, 1908-1988 > read more

02/17/2012

Published on 2012-02-16 23:05:31

Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms, you would never see the beauty of their carvings. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, 1926–2004 > read more

02/16/2012

Published on 2012-02-15 23:05:25

To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it — this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another til he be starved and destroyed. — Sir Walter Scott, 1771–1832 > read more

02/15/2012

Published on 2012-02-14 23:05:06

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues. — Duke Ellington, 1899–1974 > read more

02/14/2012

Published on 2012-02-13 23:05:51

Hunting God is a great adventure. — Marie de Flores > read more

02/13/2012

Published on 2012-02-12 23:05:00

Genuine beginnings begin with us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities. — William Bridges > read more

02/12/2012

Published on 2012-02-11 22:46:50

The soul of man is immortal and imperishable. — Plato, 427–347 B.C. > read more

02/11/2012

Published on 2012-02-10 21:55:14

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain. — Adlai E. Stevenson, Jr., 1900–1965 > read more

02/10/2012

Published on 2012-02-09 23:05:17

Count your blessings. Once you realilze how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence. — Og [...] > read more

02/09/2012

Published on 2012-02-08 23:05:37

I do not accept any absolute formulas for living. No preconceived code can see ahead to everything that can happen in a man’s life. As we live, we grow and our beliefs change. — Martin Buber, 1878–1965 > read more

07/06/2011

Published on 2011-07-05 23:05:17

It is one of man’s curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them. - Joseph de Maistre, 1753-1821 > read more

07/05/2011

Published on 2011-07-04 23:05:09

Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory. - Betty Smith, 1896-1972 > read more

07/04/2011

Published on 2011-07-03 23:05:47

Without inspiration, the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks. –Johann Gottfried von Herder, 1744 – 1803 > read more

07/03/2011

Published on 2011-07-02 23:05:27

Still round the corner there may wait A new road, or a secret gate. - J.R.R. Tolkien, 1892-1973 > read more

07/02/2011

Published on 2011-07-01 23:05:01

Dear friend, theory is all grey, And the golden tree of life is green. ~Goethe, 1749 – 1832 > read more

07/01/2011

Published on 2011-06-30 23:05:21

Growing up is after all only the understanding that one’s unique and incredible experience is what everyone shares. - Doris Lessing, 1919- > read more

06/30/2011

Published on 2011-06-29 23:05:43

Happiness is not a station to arrive at, but a manner of travelling. ~Margaret Lee Runbeck, 1905 - 1956 > read more

06/29/2011

Published on 2011-06-28 23:05:01

None of us knows…what unexpected opportunity is just round the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives. - Kathleen Norris, 1947- > read more

06/28/2011

Published on 2011-06-27 23:05:39

Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery. - Ram Dass, 1931- > read more

06/27/2011

Published on 2011-06-26 23:05:42

He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder. - M.C. Escher, 1898-1972 > read more

06/26/2011

Published on 2011-06-25 23:05:56

Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. - Lewis Carroll, 1832-1898 > read more

06/25/2011

Published on 2011-06-24 23:05:56

The world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical, and more, to whosoever will think of it. - Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881 > read more

Fire & the Faithful Couple in Mariposa Grove

Published on 2011-06-23 23:05:23

All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost: the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadows shall spring; renewed shall be a bla > read more

06/23/2011

Published on 2011-06-22 23:05:35

Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren’t any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on earth, you wouldn’t be here in the first place. –R. Buckminster Fuller, 1893 – 1983 > read more

06/22/2011

Published on 2011-06-21 23:05:33

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis for man’s desire to understand. - Neil Armstrong, 1930- > read more

06/21/2011

Published on 2011-06-20 23:05:18

I want to look at life — at the common places of existence – as if we had just turned a corner and ran into it on the first time. - Christopher Fry, 1907-2005 > read more

06/20/2011

Published on 2011-06-19 23:05:42

Because God’s gifts put man’s best dreams to shame. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1806-1861 > read more

06/19/2011

Published on 2011-06-18 23:05:51

To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy – and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful. - Robert Heinlein, 1907- > read more

06/18/2011

Published on 2011-06-17 23:05:53

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. - Ralph W. Sockman, 1889-1970 > read more

06/17/2011

Published on 2011-06-16 23:05:53

You play the hand you’re dealt. I think the game’s worthwhile. - C.S. Lewis, 1898-1963 > read more

06/16/2011

Published on 2011-06-15 23:05:37

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief. - Gerry Spense, 1929- > read more

06/15/2011

Published on 2011-06-14 23:05:54

When I no longer thrill to the first snow of the season, I’ll know I’m getting old. - Lady Bird Johnson, 1912-2007 > read more

06/14/2011

Published on 2011-06-13 23:05:56

Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. - Samuel Johnson, 1717-1784 > read more

06/13/2011

Published on 2011-06-12 23:05:25

It is the spirit that knows beauty, that has music in its soul and the color of sunsets in its headkerchiefs; that can dance on a flaming world and make the world dance, too. - W.E.B. DuBois, 1868-1963 > read more

06/12/2011

Published on 2011-06-11 23:05:40

Nature, with her equal mind, Sees all her sons at play; Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away. - Matthew Arnold, 1822-1888 > read more

06/11/2011

Published on 2011-06-10 23:05:30

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change. - Buddha, c. 563-483 BCE > read more

Painted Ladies’ Night to Shine on Martha’s Vineyard

Published on 2011-06-09 23:05:04

Every person has an ideal, a hope, a dream, which represents the soul. We must give to it the warmth of love, the light of understanding and the essence of encouragement. ~Colby Dorr Dan I disembarked from the Martha’s Vineyard ferry in mid-afterno > read more

06/09/2011

Published on 2011-06-08 23:05:47

Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life – learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some. - Robert Fulghum, 1937- > read more

06/08/2011

Published on 2011-06-07 23:05:28

06/07/2011

Published on 2011-06-06 23:05:58

When your inner eyes open, you can find immense beauty hidden within the inconsequential details of daily life. - Timothy Ray Miller > read more

06/06/2011

Published on 2011-06-05 23:05:49

All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, The Lord God made them all. - Cecil Frances Alexander, 1818-1895 > read more

06/05/2011

Published on 2011-06-04 23:05:06

Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life. - Adele Brookman > read more

06/04/2011

Published on 2011-06-03 23:05:19

Surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy! - Louise Bogan, 1897-1970 > read more

06/03/20011

Published on 2011-06-02 23:05:26

06/02/2011

Published on 2011-06-01 23:05:39

The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searchi > read more

06/01/2011

Published on 2011-05-31 23:05:14

I mean, there’s little enough in this life, really, and you only find it worth living for the odd moments, and if you think you’re going to have those odd moments again, then it makes life wonderful and have meaning. - Anthony Burgess, 19 > read more

05/31/2011

Published on 2011-05-30 23:05:10

There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub. - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, 1926-2004 > read more

5/30/2011

Published on 2011-05-29 23:05:16

I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me, but I find I am grateful for having loved them. The gratitude has finallly conquered the loss. ~Rita Mae Brown, 1944- > read more

05/29/2011

Published on 2011-05-28 23:05:27

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. - T.S. Eliot, 1888-1965 > read more

05/28/2011

Published on 2011-05-27 23:05:49

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. - > read more

Skyline Drive: Almost Heaven

Published on 2011-05-26 23:05:12

Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So…get on your way. ~Dr. Seuss, 1904 – 1991 In a silken voice, the radio announcer intoned “Generations—your music” and indeed, as I headed out of Charlottesville, Virginia on Route > read more

05/26/2011

Published on 2011-05-25 23:05:22

Like Confucious of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and the angels. I have enough for this life. - Pearl Buck, 1892-1973 > read more

05/25/2011

Published on 2011-05-24 23:05:55

Never think that God’s delays are God’s denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius. – Comte De Buffon, 1707 – 1799 > read more

05/24/2011

Published on 2011-05-23 23:05:06

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere. - Francois de la Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680 > read more

05/23/2011

Published on 2011-05-22 23:05:45

You can see a lot just by observing. - Yogi Berra, 1925- > read more

05/22/2011

Published on 2011-05-21 23:05:02

Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1809-1894 > read more

05/21/2011

Published on 2011-05-20 23:05:26

For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear. - Marilyn C. Barrick > read more

05/20/2011

Published on 2011-05-19 23:05:38

Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things. - Miyamoto Musashi, 1584-1645 > read more

05/19/2011

Published on 2011-05-18 23:05:36

I want to look at life–at the common places of existence– as if we have just turned a corner and ran into it for the first time. - Christopher Fry, 1907-2005 > read more

05/18/2011

Published on 2011-05-17 23:05:49

I would rather believe that God did not exist than believe that He was indifferent. - George Sand, 1804-1876 > read more

05/17/2011

Published on 2011-05-16 23:05:33

We do not remember days, we remember moments. - Cesare Pavese, 1908-1950 > read more

05/16/2011

Published on 2011-05-15 23:05:10

And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being. - Black Elk, 1863- > read more

05/15/2011

Published on 2011-05-14 23:05:33

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief. - Gerry Spence, 1929- > read more

05/14/2011

Published on 2011-05-13 23:05:21

This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that other will wish to join us. - Hubert H. Humphrey, 1911-1978 > read more

05/13/2011

Published on 2011-05-12 23:05:24

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that’s unlocked and opens inward; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push. - Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1889-1951 > read more

05/12/2011

Published on 2011-05-11 23:05:47

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery, 1900-1944 > read more

05/11/2011

Published on 2011-05-10 23:05:31

That’s the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they’ve been all along. - Madeleine L’Engle, 1918-2007 > read more

05/10/2011

Published on 2011-05-09 23:05:14

Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new. - Ursula K. LeGuin, 1929- > read more

05/09/2011

Published on 2011-05-08 23:05:59

The unexamined life is not worth living. - Socrates, 469-399 B.C. > read more

05/08/2011

Published on 2011-05-07 23:05:44

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. - Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991 > read more

05/07/2011

Published on 2011-05-06 23:05:12

I thank You God for this most amazing day; for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a true blue dream of sky; and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes. - e.e. cummings, 1894-1962 > read more

Time Travelling in the Catskills

Published on 2011-05-05 23:05:13

The great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one’s daily life, in one’s neighbors, friends, and family, in one’s backyard. ~Abraham Maslow, 1908 – 1970 Clermont, Germantown, New York Rip V > read more

05/05/2011

Published on 2011-05-04 23:05:40

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. - Greek proverb > read more

05/04/2011

Published on 2011-05-03 23:05:55

I am happy and content because I think I am. - Alain Rene Lesage, 1668-1747 > read more

05/03/2011

Published on 2011-05-02 23:05:34

Ask and it shall be given you; seek and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. - New Testament, Matthew vii > read more

05/02/2011

Published on 2011-05-01 23:05:59

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882 > read more

05/01/2011

Published on 2011-04-30 23:05:31

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to be put out on the troubled sea of thought. - John Kenneth Galbraith, 1908-2006 > read more

04/30/2011

Published on 2011-04-29 23:05:29

Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible. – Stanislaw Lem, 1921-2006 > read more

04/29/2011

Published on 2011-04-28 23:05:13

I pay no attention to anybody’s praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings. – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756-1791 > read more

04/28/2011

Published on 2011-04-27 23:05:52

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, wherever you are, you need one. – Jane Howard, 1935-1996 Chaa Creek, Belize > read more

04/27/2011

Published on 2011-04-27 00:05:09

If, every day I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all lease to me, not given, I will never despair. - Erica Jong, 1942- > read more

04/26/2011

Published on 2011-04-26 00:05:37

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness. - Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962 > read more

04/25/2011

Published on 2011-04-24 23:05:14

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, dispairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. – Agatha Christie, 1891-1976 > read more

04/24/2011

Published on 2011-04-23 23:05:26

The most profound joy has more of gravity that of gaeity in it. – Michel de Montaigne, 1533-1592 > read more

04/23/2011

Published on 2011-04-22 23:05:13

When man takes one step toward God, God take more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time. – The Work of the Chariot > read more

04/22/2011

Published on 2011-04-21 23:05:34

If people and their manner of living were alike everywhere, there would not be much point in moving from one place to another. - Paul Bowles, 1910-1999 > read more

04/21/2011

Published on 2011-04-20 23:05:32

Learn what you are and be such. – Pindar, 522-438 B.C. > read more

04/20/2011

Published on 2011-04-19 23:05:43

The nature of God is a circle of which the centre is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere. – Anonymous > read more

04/19/2011

Published on 2011-04-18 23:05:37

We move along the surface of things {but} there times when we stop. We sit still. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper. – James Carroll, 1943- > read more

04/18/2011

Published on 2011-04-18 00:05:43

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man. - Euripides, 484-406 B.C. > read more

04/17/2011

Published on 2011-04-17 00:05:45

There but for the grace of God go I. - Attributed to John Bradford, 1510-1555 > read more

04/16/2011

Published on 2011-04-16 00:05:36

Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by. - Carl Sandburg, 1878-1967 > read more

Yucatan’s Fountain of Youth

Published on 2011-04-14 23:05:54

One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. -Ella Maillart, 1903 – 1997 I arrived at Cancun International Airport on the Yucatan’s east coast feeling like a dry well. Along with everyone else disem > read more

04/14/2011

Published on 2011-04-13 23:05:59

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible. – Saint Thomas Aquinas, 1225-1274 > read more

04/13/2011

Published on 2011-04-13 00:05:20

There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart. - Celia Thaxter, 1835-1894 > read more

04/12/2011

Published on 2011-04-12 00:05:27

Life is a song — sing it. Life is a game — play it. Life is a challenge — meet it. Life is a dream — realize it. Life is a sacrifice — offer it. Live is love — enjoy it. - Sai Baba, 1830′s-1918 > read more

04/11/2011

Published on 2011-04-10 23:05:55

God is like a mirror. The mirror never changes, but everyone who looks at it sees something different. – Rabbi Harold Kushner > read more

04/10/2011

Published on 2011-04-09 23:05:28

I began to have an idea of my life, not as the slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know. – Joanna Field, 1900-1998 > read more

04/09/2011

Published on 2011-04-08 23:05:07

Courage is fear that has said its prayers. – Dorothy Bernard, 1890-1955 > read more

04/08/2011

Published on 2011-04-08 00:05:36

If we represent knowledge as a tree, we know that things that are divided are yet connected. We know that to observe the divisions and ignore the connections is to destroy the tree. - Wendell Berry, 1934- > read more

04/07/2011

Published on 2011-04-06 23:05:08

04/06/2011

Published on 2011-04-05 23:05:12

Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much the heart can hold. – Zelda Fitzgerald, 1900-1948 > read more

04/05/2011

Published on 2011-04-04 23:05:33

Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty… were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words. – Rainer Mari > read more

04/04/2011

Published on 2011-04-04 00:05:58

To feel that one has a place in life solves half of the problems of contentment. - George Woodberry, 1855-1930 > read more

04/03/2011

Published on 2011-04-03 00:05:14

Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle. - Lewis Carroll, 1832-1898 > read more

04/02/2011

Published on 2011-04-02 00:05:41

An authentic life is the most personal form of worship. Everyday life has become my prayer. - Sarah Ban Breathnach > read more

Cathar Country & A Continuum of Curious Travelers

Published on 2011-03-31 23:05:08

It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points… the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny > read more

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