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The universe is full of magical things waiting for our wits to grow sharper. - Eden Phillpots, 1862-1960Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

God has editing rights over our prayers. He will…edit them, correct them, bring them in line with His will and then hand them back to us to be resubmitted. - Stephen CrottsPlease visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this

Madeira, Portugal

Published on 2012-12-06 23:05:44

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience. - Randolph Bourne, 1886-1918Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Big Sur, California

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

Everybody needs beauty… places to play and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike. John Muir, 1838-1914Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Kihnu, Estonia

Published on 2012-12-04 23:05:24

We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color. - Maya Angelou, 1928-Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accomp

Geriskipou, Cyprus

Published on 2012-12-03 23:05:41

Dancing faces you towards Heaven, whichever direction you turn. - Terri Guillemets, 1973-Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Etretat, France

Published on 2012-12-02 23:05:42

He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder. - M.C. Escher, 1898-1972Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Scotland’s Lochs Embraced by Long Arm of the Past

Published on 2012-12-01 23:01:14

Geography is destiny. ~Abraham Verghese, 1955 -

12/01/2012

Published on 2012-11-30 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, 1918–1992Please visit View from the Pier to v

Arundel, England

Published on 2012-11-29 23:05:22

You don’t get harmony when everybody sings the same note. - Doug FloydPlease visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Taormina, Sicily

Published on 2012-11-28 23:05:33

If one wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. - Charles de Montesquieu, 1688-1755Please visit View from the

Quebec, Canada

Published on 2012-11-27 23:05:34

Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece. - Denis E. Waitley, 1933-Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that

Santa Fe, New Mexico

Published on 2012-11-26 23:05:48

A warrior must cultivate the feeling that he has everything needed for the extravagant journey that is his life. What counts for a warrior is being alive. Life in itself is sufficient, self-explanatory and complete. - Carlos Castaneda, 1925-1998Pleas

Kingston, New York

Published on 2012-11-25 23:05:16

Our most important decisions are discovered, not made. We can make the unimportant ones but the major ones require us to wait with the discovery. - Anne Wilson SchaefPlease visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Tofino Botanical Gardens, British Columbia

Published on 2012-11-24 23:05:50

Insist on yourself; never imitate… Do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Chiapa de Corzo, Mexico

Published on 2012-11-23 23:05:40

Life is like an ice cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time. - Charles M. Schulz, 1922-2000Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Baltic Sea

Published on 2012-11-22 23:05:07

Humans are amphibians– half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. - C.S. Lewis, 1898-1963Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Isle of Mull’s Loch na Keal Renews a Lost Sense of Awe

Published on 2012-11-21 23:04:17

Seek much, get something; Seek little, get nothing. ~Scottish Proverb

Old San Juan, Puerto Rico

Published on 2012-11-20 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 others will wish to join us. - Hubert H. Humphrey, 1911-1978Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Venice, Italy

Published on 2012-11-19 23:05:54

We must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose. - Indira Gandhi, 1917-1984Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Seljalandsfoss, Iceland

Published on 2012-11-18 23:05:32

The road goes ever on and on down from the door where it began. Nor far ahead the road has gone, and I must follow, if I can, pursuing it with eager feet, until it joins some larger way where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot sa

Vittoriosa, Malta

Published on 2012-11-17 23:05:07

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving. - Anatole France, 1844-1924Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

V-Bar-V Heritage Site, Arizona

Published on 2012-11-16 23:05:36

All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why. - James Thurber, 1894-1961Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Durness, Scotland

Published on 2012-11-15 23:05:47

Yes, there is Nirvana; it is in leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem. - Kahlil Gibran, 1883-1931Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this po

Middleburg, Virginia

Published on 2012-11-14 23:05:25

Creatures of a very particular making, we need to know the cultural blinders that narrow our world view as well as the psychological blinders that narrow our view of our personal experience. ~Christina BaldwinPlease visit View from the Pier to view t

Chaa Creek, Belize

Published on 2012-11-13 23:05:07

Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn. –Charlie Parker, 1920-1955Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Northumberland Strait, Nova Scotia

Published on 2012-11-12 23:05:00

Genuine beginnings begin with us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities. — William BridgesPlease visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Seville, Spain

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

In life as in dance: Grace glides on blistered feet. - Alice AbramsPlease visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Dragor, Denmark

Published on 2012-11-10 23:05:26

The stillness of the early morning enables me to take in and enjoy many things which pass me by during the bustle of the day. - Rosemary Verey, 1918-2001Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Lagunas de Montebello, Mexico

Published on 2012-11-09 23:05:42

You and I are but specks of that rhythmic urge which is Brahma, which is Allah, which is God. - Ruth St. Denis, 1879-1968Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

The Inspiration of Tayrona National Park & Colombia’s People

Published on 2012-11-08 23:05:26

The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavour is taking the first step, making the first decision. ~Robyn Davidson, 1950-

Mount Bethel Cathedral, Trinidad

Published on 2012-11-07 23:05:42

We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom and fun. - William Glasser, 1925Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Guincho, Portugal

Published on 2012-11-06 23:05:02

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, There is rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not man less but nature more. - Lord Byron, 1788-1824Please visit View from the Pier

Big Sur, California

Published on 2012-11-05 23:05:51

You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf. - Jon Kabat-Zinn, 1944-Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Estonia

Published on 2012-11-04 23:05:41

Afflictive emotions– our jealousy, anger, hatred, fear– can be put to an end. When you realize that these emotions are only temporary, that they always pass on like clouds in the sky, you also realize they can ultimately be abandoned. - T

Larnaka, Cyprus

Published on 2012-11-03 23:05:29

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. - Chinese proverbPlease visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Colloiure, France

Published on 2012-11-02 23:05:22

Eat when you are hungry. Drink when you are thirsty. Sleep when you are tired. - Buddhist proverbPlease visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Dingle Town, Ireland

Published on 2012-11-01 23:05:35

Grab your coat, and get your hat, Leave your worry on the doorstep, Just direct your feet, To the sunny side of the street. - Dorothy Fields, 1904-1974Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Published on 2012-10-31 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-Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this p

Madeira, Portugal

Published on 2012-10-30 23:05:52

For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God. - Saint Teresa of Avila, 1515-1582Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Unexpected Connections at Arundel Castle

Published on 2012-10-30 16:35:15

Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-law. But always meeting ourselves. - James Joyce, 1882-1941 This picture was taken in the town of Arundel, in southern England, where the college I attended had a campus for many years. [...]Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Arundel, England

Published on 2012-10-29 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, 1874–1956Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Taormina, Sicily

Published on 2012-10-28 23:05:09

I saw the angel in the marble and I carved until I set him free. - Michelangelo, 1475-1564Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Quebec, Canada

Published on 2012-10-27 23:05:08

When the well is dry, we know the worth of water. - Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Warrenton, Virginia

Published on 2012-10-26 23:05:45

Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807 – 1882 Warrenton, VirginiaPlease visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Saugerties, New York

Published on 2012-10-25 23:05:17

Patterns of the past echo in the present and resound through the future. - Dhyani YwahooPlease visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Vancouver, British Columbia

Published on 2012-10-24 23:05:03

Forgiveness is the art of admitting we are like other people. - Christina Baldwin, 1946-Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

San Lorenzo Zinacantan, Mexico

Published on 2012-10-23 23:18:58

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men. - Herman Melville, 1819-1891Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Tallinn, Estonia

Published on 2012-10-22 23:05:26

There is no black-and-white situation. It’s all part of life. Highs, lows, middles. - Van Morrison, 1945-Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Prague, Czech Republic

Published on 2012-10-21 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, 1907-2005Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Old San Juan, Puerto Rico

Published on 2012-10-20 23:05:13

The universe is built on a plan, the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect. - Paul Valery, 1871-1945Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Positano, Italy

Published on 2012-10-19 23:05:39

Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have. - AnonymousPlease visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Kerio, Iceland

Published on 2012-10-18 23:05:04

I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water. - Bible, Isaiah, 41:18Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

M’dina, Malta

Published on 2012-10-17 23:05:48

The longest part of the journey is said to be the passing of the gate. - Marcus Terentius Varro, 116-27 B.C.Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Sedona, Arizona

Published on 2012-10-16 23:05:17

To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention on a landscape, a poem, a geometrical problem, an idol, or the true God– that he completely forgets his own ego and desires, he is praying. - W.H. Auden, 1907-1973Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Highland folk Museum, Scotland

Published on 2012-10-15 23:05:34

Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. - Malcolm Forbes, 1919-1990Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Charleston, South Carolina

Published on 2012-10-14 23:05:28

I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery. - Luis Barragan, 1902-1988Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Ambergris Caye, Belize

Published on 2012-10-13 23:05:58

Joy is what happens when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are. - Marianne Williamson, 1952-Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Evangeline Trail, Nova Scotia

Published on 2012-10-12 23:05:49

The perception of beauty is a moral test. - Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Barcelona, Spain

Published on 2012-10-11 23:05:49

I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzap course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy. - Kelly Miller, 1863-1939Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Copenhagen, Denmark

Published on 2012-10-10 23:05:33

Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. - Mary Jean IronPlease visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Santa Fe, New Mexico

Published on 2012-10-09 23:05:02

You are all separate beads strung together on that one thread, God. - Sri Sathya Sai Baba, 1926-Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Sudbury, Massachusetts

Published on 2012-10-08 23:05:34

Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries. - Corita Kent, 1918-1986Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Rambert Village, Trinidad

Published on 2012-10-07 23:05:10

Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one. Nikolai Berdyaev, 1874-1948Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

The Algarve, Portugal

Published on 2012-10-06 23:05:22

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? - Albert Camus, 1913-1960Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Point Lobos, California

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

Surrender to the flow. - Mike GordonPlease visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Kihnu, Estonia

Published on 2012-10-04 23:05:22

Bloom where you are planted. - Mary EngelbreitPlease visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Pafos, Cyprus

Published on 2012-10-03 23:05:52

The mere sense of living is joy enough. - Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Trouville, France

Published on 2012-10-02 23:05:55

If you ask me what I came into this world to do, I will tell you; I came to live out loud. - Emile Zola, 1840-1902Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Cartagena & the Magical Catalyst of Mid-Life

Published on 2012-10-01 23:05:20

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it. Thomas Dekker, 1570-1632

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Published on 2012-09-30 23:05:16

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, 1533-1592Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Arundel, England

Published on 2012-09-29 23:05:28

We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light. - Mary Dunbar, 1906-1960Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Palermo, Sicily

Published on 2012-09-28 23:05:46

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. - James Boswell, 1740-1795Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Quebec, Canada

Published on 2012-09-27 23:05:57

Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art. - Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Skyline Drive, Virginia

Published on 2012-09-26 23:05:37

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water. - Christopher Morley, 1890 – 1957Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Clermont Estate, Germantown, New York

Published on 2012-09-25 23:05:25

The heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good; and thanks to this artiface we manage to endure the burdens of the past. ~Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1928 -Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Kennedy Lake, British Columbia

Published on 2012-09-24 23:05:35

May you have precisely as much happiness as your heart can hold. - Irish blessingPlease visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Randolph’s Leap & Letting Go

Published on 2012-09-23 23:05:01

There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination. ~Leigh Hunt, 1784 – 1859

Kihnu, Estonia

Published on 2012-09-22 23:05:32

Amidst the confusion of the times, the conflicts of conscience, and the turmoil of daily living, an abiding faith becomes an anchor to our lives. - Thomas S. Monson, 1927-Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Prague, Czech Republic

Published on 2012-09-21 23:05:39

A wretched soul, bruised with adversity; we bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burdened with like weight of pain, as much or more we should ourselves complain. - William Shakespeare, 1564-1616Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Old San Juan, Puerto Rico

Published on 2012-09-20 23:05:42

All good things come to he who waits. - ProverbPlease visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Capri, Italy

Published on 2012-09-19 23:05:44

How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward. - Spanish proverbPlease visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

09/19/2012

Published on 2012-09-18 23:05:14

Create around one at least a small circle where matters are arranged as one wants them to be. - Anna Freud, 1895-1982Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Marsalokk Bay, Malta

Published on 2012-09-17 23:05:42

He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye. - Buddha, 563-483 B.C.Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

V-Bar-V Heritage Site, Arizona

Published on 2012-09-16 23:05:52

You have brains in your head, You have feet in your shoes, You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. - Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Lefkara, Cyprus

Published on 2012-09-15 23:05:26

The work praises the man. - Irish proverbPlease visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Southern Vermont

Published on 2012-09-14 23:05:12

When you make the finding yourself – even if you’re the last person on earth to see the light – you’ll never forget it. - Carl Sagan, 1934-1996Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Chaa Creek, Belize

Published on 2012-09-13 23:05:52

Life itself is the most wonderful fairytale of all. - Hans Christian Anderson, 1805-1875Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia

Published on 2012-09-12 23:05:27

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. - T.S. Eliot, 1888-1965Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Granada, Spain

Published on 2012-09-11 23:05:24

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time. - Anna Freud, 1895-1982Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Christiania, Denmark

Published on 2012-09-10 23:05:35

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, 1917–1973Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Santa Fe, New Mexico

Published on 2012-09-09 23:05:53

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance. - Arnold H. Glasow, 1905-1998Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Nantucket, Massachusetts

Published on 2012-09-08 23:05:04

The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of world and wake up in another quite different and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found? - J.B. Priestly, 1894-1984Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Wildfowl Trust, Trinidad

Published on 2012-09-07 23:05:44

Even more importantly, get comfortable with the discomfort that accompanies ambiguity. Give up your addiction to having all your ducks in a row. - Mitch DitkoffPlease visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Madeira, Portugal

Published on 2012-09-06 23:05:23

The hillside’s dew-pearled; the lark’s on the wing; the snail’s on the thorn; God’s in His Heaven –All’s right with the world. - Robert Browning, 1812-1889Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Big Sur, California

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

A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings. - James Allen, 1855-1942Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Gulf of Alaska

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

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible. – Saint Thomas Aquinas, 1225-1274Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Angels & Ammas Found at Findhorn

Published on 2012-09-03 23:05:16

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. ~Maya Angelou, 1928 -

St. Malo, France

Published on 2012-09-02 23:05:56

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiousity keeps leading us down new paths. - Walt Disney, 1901-1966Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Inch Strand, Ireland

Published on 2012-09-01 23:05:45

Follow Your Bliss. –Joseph Campbell, 1904-1987Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Published on 2012-08-31 23:05:23

Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don’t count on harvesting Golden Delicious. - Bill Meyer, 1892-1957Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Mykonos, Greece

Published on 2012-08-30 23:05:40

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude. – Denis Waitley, 1924 -Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Arundel, England

Published on 2012-08-29 23:05:50

Life is God’s novel. Let him write it. - Isaac Bashevis Singer, 1902-1991Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Ortygia, Sicily

Published on 2012-08-28 23:05:39

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. - Marcel Proust, 1871-1922Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Quebec, Canada

Published on 2012-08-27 23:05:33

Intense love does not measure; it just gives. Mother Teresa, 1910-1997Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

New Orleans, Louisiana

Published on 2012-08-26 23:05:28

God, give us the grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. - Reinhold Niebuhr, 1892-1971Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Upper Hudson River Valley, New York

Published on 2012-08-25 23:05:18

The wide world is all about you; you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out. - J.R.R. Tolkien, 1892-1973 Upper Hudson River Valley, New YorkPlease visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Kennedy River, British Columbia

Published on 2012-08-24 23:05:28

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings. - Arthur Rubinstein, 1886-1982Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Chiapas, Mexico

Published on 2012-08-23 23:05:54

The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle. - Marcus Aurelius, AD 121-180Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Saaremaare, Estonia

Published on 2012-08-22 23:05:41

Sometimes the most urgent things you can possibly do is take a complete rest. - Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Prague, Czech Republic

Published on 2012-08-21 23:05:36

There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree. - Victor Hugo, 1802-1885Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Happy 21st Estonia

Published on 2012-08-20 23:04:04

Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together. ~Edgar Winter, 1946 -

08/20/2012

Published on 2012-08-19 23:05:22

Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. Nothing ever happens twice alike. — Joseph Addison, 1672–1719Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

08/19/2012

Published on 2012-08-18 23:05:29

The Road goes ever on and on down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the road has gone, and I must follow, if I can, pursuing it with eager feet, until it joins some larger way where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say. –J.R.R. Tolkien, 1892-1973Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

08/18/2012

Published on 2012-08-17 23:05:34

You are used to listening to the buzz of the world, but now is the time to develop the inner ear that listens to the inner world. It is time to have a foot in each world and it can be done. — Saint BartholomewPlease visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

08/17/2012

Published on 2012-08-16 23:05:40

You must trust your intuition– you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what do decide. - Ingrid Bergman, 1915-1982Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

08/16/2012

Published on 2012-08-15 23:05:50

Arrange whatever pieces come your way. — Virginia Woolf, 1882–1941Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

08/15/2012

Published on 2012-08-14 23:05:22

Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance. - Mary Caroline Richards, 1916-1999Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Chaa Creek, Belize

Published on 2012-08-13 23:05:41

And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to bloom. - Anais Nin, 1903-1977Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

08/13/2012

Published on 2012-08-12 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, 1908-2006Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

08/12/2012

Published on 2012-08-11 23:05:51

They don’t know how the world is shaped. And so they give it a shape, and try to make everything fit it. They separate the right from the left, the man from the woman, the plant from the animal, the sun from the moon. They only want to count to two. - Emma Bull, 1954-Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

08/11/2012

Published on 2012-08-10 23:05:23

Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts, and strives without fear to do justice to them. - Berthold Auerbach, 1812-1882Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

08/10/2012

Published on 2012-08-09 23:05:57

Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought. - Robert Green Ingersoll, 1833-1899Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

08/09/2012

Published on 2012-08-08 23:05:27

A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing. It takes somehting from the world, and has something to give in return. - Sarah Orne Jewett, 1849-1909Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

08/08/2012

Published on 2012-08-07 23:05:47

Each day that passes, your choices will come and go. They are like diamonds in a chest of jewels, each waiting to be discovered. - Dr. Shad HelmstetterPlease visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

08/07/2012

Published on 2012-08-06 23:05:44

The world is not black and white. More like black and grey. - Graham Greene, 1904-1991Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

08/06/2012

Published on 2012-08-05 23:05:45

Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are. - Chinese proverbPlease visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

08/05/2012

Published on 2012-08-04 23:05:43

Prayer is essentially man standing before his God in wonder, awe, and humility. - George Appleton, 1902-1993Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

08/04/2012

Published on 2012-08-03 23:05:45

I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity to see the face of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that. - Paul McCartney, 1942-Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

08/03/2012

Published on 2012-08-02 23:05:43

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. - Indira Ghandi, 1917-1984Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

08/02/2012

Published on 2012-08-01 23:05:36

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore… whilst the great ocean of truth lay before me. - Sir Isaac Newton, 1642-1727Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

08/01/2012

Published on 2012-07-31 23:05:28

Few of us ever live in the present, we are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone. - Louis L’Amour, 1908-1988Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

07/31/2012

Published on 2012-07-30 23:05:56

Never give up and never face the facts. Ruth Gordon, 1896–1985Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Lefkara Lace & the Pattern of Tradition

Published on 2012-07-29 23:05:26

If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it. Johan Huizinga, 1872 – 1945 During a 2010 visit to Cyprus, I made a quest to view the fabled traditional handiwork of Lefkara—lace so finely wrought that Leonardo da Vinci traveled here to purchase pieces to adorn Milan Cathedral. Known as the birthplace [...]Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

07/29/2012

Published on 2012-07-28 23:05:56

If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best things that God invents. Robert Browning, 1812–1889Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

07/28/2012

Published on 2012-07-27 23:06:27

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844–1900Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

07/27/2012

Published on 2012-07-26 23:05:23

The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too. Teresa of Avila, 1910–1997Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

07/26/2012

Published on 2012-07-25 23:05:18

Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the true image of Self when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed. Indra Devi, 1899–2002Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

07/25/2012

Published on 2012-07-24 23:05:35

I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world’s variety and uniqueness. Maya Angelou, 1928–Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

07/24/2012

Published on 2012-07-23 23:05:59

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869–1948Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

07/23/2012

Published on 2012-07-22 23:05:26

Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view. Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803–1882Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

07/22/2012

Published on 2012-07-21 23:05:06

Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life. Adele BrookmanPlease visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

07/21/2012

Published on 2012-07-20 23:05:20

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live. Marcus Aurelius, 121–180Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

07/20/2012

Published on 2012-07-19 23:05:59

The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort, — the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing– the opening a wonderfully joyous moment. Andy Rooney, 1919–Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

07/19/2012

Published on 2012-07-18 23:05:06

I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate. Arthur Wing Pinero, 1855–1934Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

07/18/2012

Published on 2012-07-17 23:05:01

It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis. Margaret Bonanno, 1950–Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

07/17/2012

Published on 2012-07-16 23:05:11

When somebody is angry with us, we draw a halo around his or her head, in our minds. Does the person stop being angry then? Well, we don’t know. We know, though, that when we draw a halo around a person, suddenly the person starts to look like an angel to us. John Lennon, 1940-1980 [...]Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

07/16/2012

Published on 2012-07-15 23:05:28

I have had more than a half a century of such happiness. A great deal of worry and sorrow, too, but never a worry or sorrow that was not offset by a purple iris, a lark, a bluebird, or dewy morning glory. Mary McLeod Bethune, 1875–1955Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

07/15/2012

Published on 2012-07-14 23:05:32

…for no man lives in the external truth among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied wall. Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850–1894Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

07/14/2012

Published on 2012-07-13 23:05:49

The Future . . . something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour… whatever he does, wherever he is. C.S. Lewis, 1898–1963Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

07/13/2012

Published on 2012-07-12 23:05:49

In the colorful reflection we have what is life. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749–1832Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

07/12/2012

Published on 2012-07-11 23:05:11

Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust– we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper. Albert Einstein, 1879–1955Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

07/11/2012

Published on 2012-07-10 23:05:51

The best thing we can do is to make wherever we’re lost look as much like home as we can. Christopher Fry, 1907–2005Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

07/10/2012

Published on 2012-07-09 23:05:53

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it. Harry Emerson Fosdick, 1878–1969Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

Lafayette Cemetery # 1 in New Orleans a Fertile Ground for Life Lessons

Published on 2012-07-08 23:50:58

Life rises out of death, death rises out of life; in being opposite they yearn to each other, they give birth to each other and are forever reborn. ― Ursula K. Le Guin, 1929 -

07/08/2012

Published on 2012-07-07 23:05:48

There are only two ways to live . . . one is as though nothing is a miracle . . . the other is as if everything is. Albert Einstein, 1879–1955Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

07/07/2012

Published on 2012-07-06 23:05:35

I have perceived that to be with those I like is enough. Walt Whitman, 1819–1892Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

07/06/2012

Published on 2012-07-05 23:05:37

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, 1892–1973Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

07/05/2012

Published on 2012-07-04 23:05:00

It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one’s steps to the upper air – there’s the rub; the task. Virgil, 70–19 B.C.Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

07/04/2012

Published on 2012-07-03 23:05:45

The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1808–1882Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

07/03/2012

Published on 2012-07-02 23:05:46

Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once you grow up. Pablo Picasso, 1881–1973Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

07/02/2012

Published on 2012-07-01 23:05:45

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, . . . whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. Sir Isaac Newton, 1642–1727Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

07/01/2012

Published on 2012-06-30 23:05:53

Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a moment. - Pearl Bailey, 1918-1990Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

06/30/2012

Published on 2012-06-29 23:05:19

Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide. — Marva Collins, 1936–Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

06/29/2012

Published on 2012-06-28 23:05:06

One’s real life is often the life that one does not lead. — Oscar Wilde, 1854–1900Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

06/28/2012

Published on 2012-06-27 23:05:07

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, [...]Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

06/27/2012

Published on 2012-06-26 23:05:43

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification. — Hermann Hesse, 1877–1962Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

06/26/2012

Published on 2012-06-25 23:05:00

Big Blue Mountain Spirit, The home made of blue clouds, I am grateful for that mode of goodness there. — Apache chantPlease visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

06/25/2012

Published on 2012-06-24 23:05:32

It’s as hard to see one’s self as to look backward without turning around. — Henry David Thoreau, 1817–1862Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

06/24/2012

Published on 2012-06-23 23:05:52

No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots more securely; the fragile trees are those that have grown in a sunny valley. — Seneca, c.4 B.C.–A.D. 65Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

06/23/2012

Published on 2012-06-22 23:05:43

The small force that it takes to launch a boat into the stream should not be confused with the force of the stream that carries it along. — Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844–1900Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

06/22/2012

Published on 2012-06-21 23:05:36

I want to look at life–at the common places of existence– as if I have just turned a corner and ran into it for the first time. — Christopher Fry, 1907–2005Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

06/21/2012

Published on 2012-06-20 23:05:25

The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live. — Joan BorysenkoPlease visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

06/20/2012

Published on 2012-06-19 23:04:36

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery, 1900–1944 Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

06/19/2012

Published on 2012-06-18 23:05:05

Slow down and enjoy life. It’s not only the scenery that you miss by going too fast – you also miss the sense of where you are going and why. — Eddie Cantor, 1892–1964Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

06/18/2012

Published on 2012-06-17 23:05:13

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known god. — Corrie Ten Boom, 1892–1983Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

06/17/2012

Published on 2012-06-16 23:05:42

Because God’s gifts put man’s best dreams to shame. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1806–1861Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.

06/16/2012

Published on 2012-06-15 23:05:38

Faith is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there. — Cullen Hightower, 1923–

06/15/2012

Published on 2012-06-14 23:05:42

If man insisted on always being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it. — Herodotus, 484–430 B.C.

06/14/2012

Published on 2012-06-13 23:05:16

One of the dreariest spots on life’s road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you. — Faith Baldwin, 1893–1978

06/13/2012

Published on 2012-06-12 23:05:36

At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one’s lost self. — Brendan Francis, 1923–1964

06/12/2012

Published on 2012-06-11 23:05:53

In the summer, the song sings itself. — William Carlos Williams, 1883–1963

Ullapool Encounters With Serendipity

Published on 2012-06-10 23:06:37

The entire universe is a great theater of mirrors, a set of hieroglyphs to decipher; everything is a sign, everything harbors and manifests mystery. — Alice A. Bailey, 1880–1949 Serendipity means a “happy accident” or “pleasant surprise” — finding something good or useful without looking for it. In the tiny village of Ullapool in the [...]

06/10/2012

Published on 2012-06-09 23:05:46

Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery, 1900–1944

06/09/2012

Published on 2012-06-08 23:05:04

Is life worth living? Aye, with the best of us, Heights of us, depths of us – Life is the test of us! — Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, 1861–1933

06/08/2012

Published on 2012-06-07 23:05:08

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one. — Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884–1962

06/07/2012

Published on 2012-06-06 23:05:29

We have a beautiful mother Her green lap immense Her brown embrace eternal. — Alice Walker, 1944–

06/06/2012

Published on 2012-06-05 23:05:33

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis for man’s desire to understand. — Neil Armstrong, 1930–

06/05/2012

Published on 2012-06-04 23:05:42

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

06/04/2012

Published on 2012-06-03 23:05:46

There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not. — Evelyn Underhill, 1875–1941

06/03/2012

Published on 2012-06-02 23:05:48

With him for a sire and her for a dam, what should I be but just what I am? — Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1892–1950

06/02/2012

Published on 2012-06-01 23:05:57

God enters by a private door into every individual. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803–1882

06/01/2012

Published on 2012-05-31 23:05:44

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity. — Kahlil Gibran, 1883–1931

05/31/2012

Published on 2012-05-30 23:05:21

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day, and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person’s life at a given moment. — Viktor Frankl, 1905–1997

05/30/2012

Published on 2012-05-29 23:05:51

Looking for and enjoying beauty is a way to nourish the soul. The universe is in the habit of making beauty. There are flowers and songs, snowflakes and smiles, acts of great courage, laughter between friends, a job well done, the smell of fresh-baked bread. Beauty is everywhere. — Matthew Fox, 1940–

05/29/2012

Published on 2012-05-28 23:05:49

Life must be understood backwards; but… it must be lived going forward. — Soren Kierkegaard, 1813–1855

05/29/2012

Published on 2012-05-28 23:05:49

Life must be understood backwards; but… it must be lived going forward. — Soren Kierkegaard, 1813–1855

05/28/2012

Published on 2012-05-27 23:05:35

One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it. — Henry Moore, 1898–1986

05/28/2012

Published on 2012-05-27 23:05:35

One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it. — Henry Moore, 1898–1986

05/27/2012

Published on 2012-05-26 23:05:38

Joy is a subtle elf; I think one’s happiest when he forgets himself. — Cyril Tourneur, 1575–1626

05/27/2012

Published on 2012-05-26 23:05:38

Joy is a subtle elf; I think one’s happiest when he forgets himself. — Cyril Tourneur, 1575–1626

05/26/2012

Published on 2012-05-25 23:05:29

A day is a miniature eternity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803–1882

05/26/2012

Published on 2012-05-25 23:05:29

A day is a miniature eternity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803–1882

05/25/2012

Published on 2012-05-24 23:05:31

Every man must get to heaven his own way. — Frederick the Great, 1712–1776

05/25/2012

Published on 2012-05-24 23:05:31

Every man must get to heaven his own way. — Frederick the Great, 1712–1776

05/24/2012

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

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

05/24/2012

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 [...]

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

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–

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–

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

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–

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

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

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

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

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–

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–

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

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

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–

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

05/04/2012

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

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

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 –

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-

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

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-

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-

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

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-

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

04/25/2012

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

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

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

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

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

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

04/20/2012

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

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

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, [...]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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–

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

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

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.

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.

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

03/30/2012

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

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

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–

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

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

03/26/2012

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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 [...]

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

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

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–

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

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

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

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

03/07/2012

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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– �

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

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

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

02/26/2012

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

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

02/24/2012

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

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

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

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–

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–

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

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

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

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

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

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

02/14/2012

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

Hunting God is a great adventure. — Marie de Flores

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

02/12/2012

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

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

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

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 [...]

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