Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.
Camille Pissarro, 1830 – 1903, Danish-French Impressionist/ Neo-Impressionist painter
Humble places
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What peace is
Peace is this moment without judgement.
This moment in the heart-space where everything that is, is welcome.
Dorothy Hunt, Peace Is This Moment Without Judgment
The well within
If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.
Richard Bach
Embrace destiny
The wise person leans on a pillar that is never shaken,
Travels a road that is never blocked,
is endowed from a resource that is never exhausted,
and learns from a teacher that never dies.
They are successful In whatever they undertake, and arrive wherever they go.
Whatever they do, they embrace destiny and go along without confusion.
Wen-tzu, Taoist, disciple of Lao Tzu
The Source
Happy are those who know
behind all words, the Unsayable stands,
and from that source, the Infinite
crosses over to gladness, and us.
Free of those bridges we raise
with constructed distinctions;
so that always, in each separate joy,
we gaze at the single, wholly mutual core.
Rilke, Happy are those who know, translated by Jane Hirshfield
The Gracious eye
Graciousness is a quality of mind that does not separate truth and beauty. Talk of truth always makes it sound as if truth were the cardinal virtue. Yet without beauty, truth becomes blind and can be turned into a blunt and heartless imperative. When we hold beauty and truth together, truth will always have a sense of compassion and gentleness.
Sometimes the so-called facts of a situation actually tell us little or nothing about the heart of an experience. Only in the light of beauty can we come to see what is really present. This is true also of the way in which we view our own life. If we were to describe our life strictly in terms of its factual truth, most of its interesting, complex, and surprising dimensions would remain unmentioned. The gracious eye can find the corners where growth and healing are at work even when we feel weak and limited. It is no wonder that Jesus said; the gentle shall inherit the earth.
John O Donohue, Divine Beauty, The Invisible Embrace
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