Month: March 2016

Simple moments

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Sometimes all it takes
to be happy
is a dime on the sidewalk.

Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser

Why look elsewhere

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There is no need to run outside
For better seeing,
Nor to peer from a window. Rather abide
At the center of your being;
For the more you leave it, the less you learn.
Search your heart and see
If he is wise who takes each turn:
The way to do is to be.
Lao Tzu
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At home here

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Into the house where joy lives

Happiness will gladly come

Japanese saying

The wisest way

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If you must look back,  do so forgivingly

If you must look forward,  do so prayerfully

However, the wisest thing you can do

is to be present in the present….

gratefully.

Maya Angelou

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Easter Sunday: Presence

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sunday

The ordinary miracles begin. Somewhere
a signal arrives: “Now,” and the rays
come down. A tomorrow has come. Open
your hands, lift them: morning rings
all the doorbells; porches are cells for prayer.
Religion has touched your throat. Not the same now,
you could close your eyes and go on full of light.

William Stafford, Today

Absence

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saturday

We are asked to live in companionship with patterns and dynamics that are either disappearing, have not fully emerged or can never be fully named;

patterns perhaps already changing into forms for which we have yet no language.

It might be liberating to think of human life as informed by losses and disappearances

as much as by gifted appearances,

allowing a more present participation and witness to the difficulty of living

David Whyte, The Poetic Narrative of our Times