“I know of no pleasure deeper than that which comes from contemplating the natural world and trying to understand it.”
David Attenborough
Fall Colors
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Stillness and Quiet
Time and again, we miss out on the great treasures in our lives because we are so restless. In our minds we are always elsewhere. We are seldom in a place where we stand and in the time that is now.
John O’DonohueWe can discover in the latter years of our life that moments of stillness and quiet can be great friends. If we embrace these friends we can experience less restlessness and spend less time caught up in our heads, a sometimes formidable neighborhood. The less time in our heads the less likely we are to miss out on some part of the journey through life. When I can stand in the now, I can receive the great treasure of a starburst.
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Start of the Day
Hello, sun in my face.
Mary Oliver
Hello you who made the morning
and spread it over the fields…
Watch, now, how I start the day
in happiness, in kindness.I would add to her start of the day, a bicycle ride to a favorite coffee shop and an image of the sunrise along the way. Weather app suggests the possibility of 90 degrees today. Toasty!
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The Cosmic Dance
When we are alone on a starlit night, when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove of junipers to rest and eat; when we see children in a moment when they are really children, when we know love in our own hearts; or when, like the Japanese poet, Basho, we hear an old frog land in a quiet pond with a solitary splash – at such times the awakening, the turning inside out of all values, the “newness,” the emptiness and the purity of vision that make themselves evident, all these provide a glimpse of the cosmic dance.
Thomas MertonAnd today is National Coffee Day.
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Learning To See The Miracles
If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.
Buddha
