December 2010
54 posts
“Aren’t there annunciations
of one sort or another
in most lives?
Some...”
– Denise Levertov, via dotMagis (thank you Claire)
“Aren’t there annunciations
of one sort or another
in most lives?
Some...”
– Denise Levertov, via dotMagis (thank you Claire)
“Stop waiting for others to change. Recognize that every person has the right to...”
– Wayne Dyer. From Whiskey River. (via crashinglybeautiful)
“Stop waiting for others to change. Recognize that every person has the right to...”
– Wayne Dyer. From Whiskey River. (via crashinglybeautiful)
“Tell people something they know already and they will thank you for it.
Tell...”
– Found at Monbiot
“Tell people something they know already and they will thank you for it.
Tell...”
– Found at Monbiot
“Living is being born slowly. It would be a little too easy if we could borrow...”
– Antoine de Saint -Exupery, Flight to Arras, 1942
(via madaeli26)
“Living is being born slowly. It would be a little too easy if we could borrow...”
– Antoine de Saint -Exupery, Flight to Arras, 1942
(via madaeli26)
“For age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress, and...”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (via dailyinspiredthoughts)
“For age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress, and...”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (via dailyinspiredthoughts)
“Your life is not about you. You are about life!”
– Richard Rohr
“Your life is not about you. You are about life!”
– Richard Rohr
“The theological virtue of hope is the patient and trustful willingness to live...”
– Richard Rohr
paynehollow:
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Geese appear high over us
pass, and the sky closes. Abandon,
as in love or sleep, holds
them to their way, clear
in the ancient faith: what we need
is here. And we pray, not
for new earth or heaven, but to be
quiet in heart, and in eye,
clear. What we need is here.
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~ Wendell Berry
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“I had an experience… I can’t prove it, I can’t even explain it, but everything...”
– “Ellie Arroway” in Contact (via heartmindspirit)
“In the driest whitest stretch
Of pain’s infinite desert
I lost my sanity
And...”
– Rumi, translated by Andrew Harvey (via awakeinthedream)
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony. Thomas Merton
“Whatever the tasks, do them slowly
with ease,
in mindfulness,
do not do any...”
– Thich Nhat Hanh
“Whatever the tasks, do them slowly
with ease,
in mindfulness,
do not do any...”
– Thich Nhat Hanh
“The Lord your God is with you,
he is mighty to save.
He will take great...”
– Zephaniah 3:17
“My soul is like the oar that momently
Dies in a desperate stress beneath the...”
– Sidney Lanier
“The sage guides his people by putting himself last. Desiring nothing he knows...”
– Lao Tse
“Wordiness in the divine office counts for almost nothing before God”
– Hildegard of Bingen
“I don’t think literature would be possible in a determined world. We might go...”
– — Flannery O’Connor (The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O’Connor)
“The first revolutionary act is to call things by their true names”
– Rosa Luxemburg
“Who cannot speak
has no need to learn.
You look for a new word-
today it’s...”
– Srečko Kosovel “Who Cannot Speak,” (via aclockwithouthands)
“Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives,...”
– Elizabeth Goudge
“Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to...”
– G K Chesterton
“The world will be saved by beauty”
– From Dostoevsky’s The Idiot, found at Blisschick