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Beauty is the illumination of your soul.

When one flower blooms spring awakens everywhere

A friend is a loved one who awakens your life in order to free the wild possibilities within you.

Sometimes ideas hold us down; they become heavy anchors that hold the bark of identity fixated in shallow, dead water.

May my life flow like a river, ever surprised by its own unfolding.

The mind is an old crow/Who knows only to gather dead twigs

It is strange to be here. The mystery never leaves you.

The ego is the false self-born out of fear and defensiveness.

A blessing is a circle of light drawn around a person to protect, heal and strengthen.

When a blessing is invoked, a window opens in eternal time.

When you've gone as far as you can go, quietly await your next beginning.

It's strange to be here, the mystery never leaves you alone.

Each of us is a secret envoi of the earth. We

A day is precious because each day is essentially the microcosm of your whole life.

Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship is always an act of recognition.

May you respond to the call of your gift, and find the courage to follow its path.

So at the end of this day, we give thanks
For being betrothed to the unknown.

If you have everything the world has to offer you, but you do not have love, then you are the poorest of the poorest of the poor.

We live in an intense and visually aggressive age; everything is drawn outward toward the sensation of the image.

Each one of us was sent here for a special destiny.

At a deeper level, each person is the custodian of a completely private, individual world.

Functionalism is lethal when it is not balanced by a sense of reverence. Without reverence, there is no sense of presence or wonder.

Behind your image, below your words, above your thoughts, the silence of another world waits.

In our mediocrity and distraction, we forget that we are privileged to live in a wondrous universe.

To look at something that can gaze back at you, or that has a reserve and depth, can heal your eyes and deepen your sense of vision.

All human creativity issues from the urgency of longing.

To gaze into the face of another is to gaze into the depth and entirety of his life.

In the name of the Fire,
The Flame
And the Light;
Praise the pure presence of fire
That burns from within
Without thought of time.

May you experience each day as a sacred gift woven around the heart of wonder.

The human journey is a continuous act of transfiguration.

I would love to live like a river flows,
carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.

Each of us is an artist of our days; the greater our integrity and awareness, the more original and creative our time will become.

Grace is the permanent climate of divine kindness; the perennial infusion of springtime into the winter of bleakness.

Habit is a strong invisible prison.

One of the most precious things you should always preserve in a friendship and in love is your own difference.

May the nourishment of the earth be yours, may the clarity of light be yours, may the fluency of the ocean be yours,

Keep Something Beautiful in your Heart to Survive Difficult Times and Enjoy Good Times.

The sacred duty of being an individual is to gradually learn how to live so as to awaken the eternal within you.

We do not need to go out and find love; rather, we need to be still and let love discover us.

Truth is paradox.

When time is reduced to linear progress, it is emptied of presence.

If you have a trust in and an expectation of your own solitude, everything that you need to know will be revealed to you.

The joyful heart sees and reads the world with a sense of freedom and graciousness.

There is an instinct that emerges when we get quiet with people. We know who's close.

Human presence is a creative and turbulent sacrament, a visible sign of invisible grace.

You lose the balance of your sould if you not learn to take care of yourself.

When you find the person you love, an act of ancient recognition brings you together.

T. S. Eliot that say And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And to know the place for the first time. L

We are sent into the world to live to the full everything that awakens within us and everything that comes toward us.

Each of us carries a unique world within our hearts.

It is lovely to meet an old person whose face is deeply lined, a face that has been deeply inhabited, to look in the eyes and find light there.

A friend is someone who wishes what is good for the other.

It is human longing that makes us holy.

The duty of priviledge is absolute intregity

You can never love another person unless you are equally involved in the beautiful but difficult spiritual work of learning to love yourself.

Let the flame of anger free you of all falsity.

It's a dangerous thing to name yourself wrongly or to name yourself unjustly.

The one you love, your anam cara, your soul friend, is the truest mirror to reflect your soul.

In order to inherit your freedom, you need to go towards it. You have to claim your own freedom before it becomes yours.

Creativity is rich with unexpected possibility. Know-how is mere fragmented mechanics which lacks tradition.

When you forgive, some deeper, divine generosity takes you over ... When you cannot forgive, you are a prisoner of the hurt done to you.

May I live this day ... Compassionate of heart, / Gentle in word, / Gracious in awareness / Courageous in thought, / Generous in love / Eternal Echoes

When you listen with your soul, you come into rhythm and unity with the music of the universe.

The Celtic mind was not burdened by dualism. It did not separate what belongs together

The infinite is a light sleeper. The moment the self awakens, the force of the infinite begins to stir.

Take time to see the quiet miracles that
seek no attention

You can trust the promise of this opening;
Unfurl yourself into the grace of beginning
That is at one with your life's desire.

For millions of years, an ancient conversation has continued between the chorus of the ocean and the silence of the stone.

A book is a path of words which takes the heart in new directions.

When you steal a people's language, you leave their soul bewildered.

So much depends not on how awkward destiny is, but rather on how openly it is embraced.

Light is incredibly generous, but also gentle.

I think the divine is like a huge smile that breaks somewhere in the sea within you, and gradually comes up again.

Fear changes into courage, emptiness becomes plenitude, and distance becomes intimacy.

Silence is the voice of the mystery. Silence let us dream again.

Your soul is the priestess of memory, selecting, sifting, and ultimately gathering your vanishing days toward presence.

We do not need to operate according to the idea of a predetermined program for our lives.

The way you look at things is the most powerful force in shaping your life.

Inspiration is always a surprising visitor.

Imitate the habit of twilight,/Taking time to open the well of color/That fostered the brightness of day.

The visible is only the shoreline of the magnificent ocean of the invisible.

Poetry is the place where language in its silence is most beautifully articulated. Poetry is the language of silence.

A person's beauty is sophisticated and sacred and is far beyond image, appearance or personality.

To the judgmental eye, everything is closed in definitive frames. When the judgmental eye looks out, it sees things in terms of lines and squares.

Often regret is very false and displaced, and imagines the past to be totally other than it was.

Nature is the direct expression of the divine imagination.

The essence of who you are is ultimately mysterious, ungraspable and numinous-completely different from every other structure of matter.

I am sure of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections.

I always was kind of on the edge of the church when I was fully in it, cos I was always asking the questions ... And I could never believe blindly.

An unknown world aspires toward reflection.

Fashioned from the earth, we are souls in clay form. We need to remain in rhythm with our inner clay voice and longing.

The human face is the subtle yet visual autobiography of each person,

Beauty is a free spirit and will not be trapped within the grid of intentionality.

The only difference between a young person at the height of their exuberance and a very old person who is frail and physically wasted is time.

The unity of four elements is what constitutes and sustains our existence in this world.

The earth is full of thresholds where beauty awaits the wonder of our gaze.

To have true integrity, poise, and courage is to be attuned to the silent and invisible nature within you.

The eternal world and the mortal world are not parallel, rather they are fused.

The world rests in the night.

The false burdens fall away. We come into rhythm with ourselves. Our clay shape gradually learns to walk beautifully on this magnificent earth. A