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It isn't all over; everything has not been invented; the human adventure is just beginning

- Gene Roddenberry –

When we come upon beautiful things . . . they act like small tears in the surface of the world that pull us through to some vaster space.

Elaine Scarry
On Beauty and Being Just

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

- Lou Holtz -

Perpetual gratitude toward people around us initiates habits of thankful prayer. It also starts a chain reaction of giving thanks, till our friends and loved ones and our whole world become imbued in grateful living.

Edward Hays
The Great Escape Manual

There is hope if people will begin to awaken that spiritual part of themselves, that heartfelt knowledge that we are caretakers of this planet.

- Brooke Medicine Eagle -

Beauty seen makes the one who sees it more beautiful.
David Steindl-Rast
A Listening Heart

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

- Edgar Degas -

Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don’t claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.
Jalaluddin Rumi

Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.

- Saul Bellow –

First thing in the morning, before you meet or greet anyone, remember to greet all of nature, all visible and invisible creatures. Say to them: "I am grateful for your work, I love you and want to be in harmony with you!" At this very moment, in response to your greeting, all of nature will open to you and send you energy for the entire day.

Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
Prosveta Publishing

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

- Charles Dickens –

God is not too hard to believe in. God is too good to believe in, we being such strangers to such goodness. The love of God is to me absolutely overwhelming.

Rev. William Sloane Coffin
Religion and Ethics Newsweekly, 8/27/04

What is love after all but trusting in the unknown.

- Marty Rubin –

As we learn to have compassion for ourselves, the circle of compassion for others -- what and whom we can work with, and how -- becomes wider.

Pema Chödrön
When Things Fall Apart

There are no traffic jams when you go the extra mile.

- Zig Ziglar –

If you look at every human being as a Divine mirror, you will know yourself and understand life.

Sherif Baba

Each detail in a city should reflect that human beings are sacred

- Enrique Penalosa -

The little things? The little moments? They aren't little.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

A heartfelt smile gives warmth enough for three winters.

Mongolian Proverb

Why not go out on a limb? That's where the fruit is.

- Will Rogers –

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.

- Kahlil Gibran –

What is love after all but trusting in the unknown.

- Marty Rubin –

How beautiful can life be? We hardly dare imagine it.

- Charles Eisenstein –

It isn't all over; everything has not been invented; the human adventure is just beginning

- Gene Roddenberry –

Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.

Robert Bresson

Don't be put off by people who know what is not possible. Do what needs to be done, and check to see if it was impossible only after you are done.

- Paul Hawken –

Money often costs too much.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson –

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

- Victor Hugo

Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only true gift is a portion of thyself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life offers its wisdom generously. Everything teaches. Not everyone learns.

- Rachel Naomi Remen -

Every morning is like a new reincarnation into this world. Let us take it then for what it is and live each moment anew.

Paul Brunton

“Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.”
- Philip K. Dick

A thankful person is thankful under all circumstances. A complaining soul complains even in paradise.

Baha'u'llah

You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people if you don't serve the people.

- Cornel West –

“The evening of a well spent life brings its lamps with it.”

- Joseph Joubert

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.

- Plutarch –

Any place is sacred ground, for it can become a place of encounter with the divine Presence.

David Steindl-Rast
A Listening Heart

Our knowledge has made us cynical; our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.

- Charlie Chaplin, in 'The Great Dictator' –

What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room.

Ray Charles

Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality.

- Emily Dickinson –

Every act of love is a work of peace no matter how small.
Blessed Mother Teresa

“Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.”
Harlan Miller

Compassion is to share the pain without sharing the suffering.

- Shinzen Young -

To see a world in a grain of sand, and heaven in a wildflower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.

William Blake

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.

Rachel Carson

If God sends you down a stony path, may God give you strong shoes.

Irish Blessing

“We ask ourselves, "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?" Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God.”

- Marianne Williamson

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson –

Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being. Each of us owes the deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this inner light.

Dr. Albert Schweitzer

When people go to work they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.

- Betty Bender –

Life does not accommodate you; it shatters you. Every seed destroys its container, or else there would be no fruition.

Florida Scott-Maxwell
The Measure of My Days

“He does not believe who does not live according to his belief.”

- Thomas Fuller

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.

- Paul Boese –

Tuesday, Sep. 11
The Glory of God is a human being fully alive.
St. Irenaeus

“Love and time; those are the only two things in all the world and all of life that cannot be bought, but only spent.”

- Gary Jennings

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

- Marcus Antonius –