Tag: Life

Sunday Quote: at rest

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To be happy at home

is the ultimate result of all ambition

Dr Samuel Johnson

A strange fact

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It never ceases to amaze me:

we all love ourselves more than other people,

but care more about their opinion than our own

Marcus Aurelius

Sunday Quote: transformation

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The future enters into us,

in order to transform itself in us,

long before it happens.

Rilke

Blessed

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Even with all our technological accomplishments and urban sophistication, we consider ourselves blessed, healed in some manner, forgiven, and for a moment transported into some other world, when we catch a passing glimpse of an animal in the wild: a deer in some woodland, a fox crossing a field, a butterfly in its dancing flight southward to its wintering region, a hawk soaring in the distant sky.

Thomas Berry : Sunbeams, January 2021

Sunday Quote: live by love

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Trust your heart
if the seas catch fire
(and live by love
though the stars walk backward)

e.e.cummings

Know your own song

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A bird gets up every morning and sings its song.

It does not wait to hear what other birds are singing, nor does it look to see if another bird is getting more notice. It knows its song innately and sings.

This is nature: knowing your own song

Michele Oka Doner, 1945 – American artist and author