January 2012
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The more I can love everything — the trees, the land, the water, my fellow men,...
– Carl Simonton
When we surround ourselves with sounds of nature, we are soothed and healed,...
– Ani Williams
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We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but...
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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On Being Blog: Illuminating Maine's Deep Winter... →
Click the link to see the incredible light show!
beingblog:
by Nancy Rosenbaum, producer
“Castle in the Park” at Deering Oaks Park in Portland, Maine. (photo: David LaCasse)
The holidays are over and there’s no getting around the fact that it’s January and bitter cold in the Upper Midwest. The days, while inching longer into light, are still short. Now is the time of deep winter, when a...
December 2011
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Miracles are to come.
With you I leave a remembrance
of miracles: they are by...
– e.e. cummings (via whatshewanted)
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Christmas 2011
fromoutoftheblue:
I adapted this from the notes within A Course in Miracles.
http://www.fromoutoftheblue.com
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Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the...
– Paracelsus (via lucifelle)
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… every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
– Basho 1644 – 1694
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In the end we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we...
– Baba Dioum, Senegalese conservationist (b. 1937)
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A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and...
– Carl Sagan (via oniverse)
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We must protect the forests for our children, grandchildren and children yet to...
– Qwatsinas, Nuxalk Nation (via celestialcat)
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Bodhi Day
wordslessspoken:
Thursday, December 8, is Bodhi Day, a Buddhist holiday that commemorates the day that the Buddha achieved enlightenment, translated as bodhi in Sanskrit or Pali. Bodhi Day is celebrated on the eighth day of the 12th lunar month and observed with meditation, dharma, and kindness toward others. Celebrating with metta & mindfulness.
How do the geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the seasons? How do...
– Elizabeth Kubler-Ross (via theelegantuniverse)
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Among the Brahma-Viharas, the word used for compassion is ‘karuna’. But almost...
– A Rich Mandala on Anukampa.
Thank you dear one.
(via sharanam)
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We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be...
– Mahatma Gandhi (via sunshinesoul8)