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
Tag: Life
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
Sunday Quote: Self
The mind creates many senses of self as it pursues what it desires or responds to lacks in our environment. We often identify with these adaptations, even if they are not worth calling our self
On the journey to myself I’ve been so many people
Indigo Williams, English Poet
An unfolding process
It’s only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly.
That again is part of this paradox.
You cannot rip away caterpillarness.
The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control.
Ram Dass
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
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