Meditation

What's encouraging about meditation is that even if we shut down, we can no longer shut down in ignorance. We see very clearly that we're closing off. That in itself begins to illuminate the darkness of ignorance. ~Pema Chödrön

Autumn's Fire

Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt. ~William Allinghamy

Harvest

Believe in yourself, your neighbors, your work, your ultimate attainment of more complete happiness. It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in Autumn. ~B. C. Forbes

Drum Dance

He who cannot dance will say: "The drum is bad”.
~African Proverb

Rainbow

Leroy bet me I couldn't find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a stupid bet because the rainbow was enough.
~Rita Mae Brown

Smile

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it. ~Andy Rooney

Praying

Some people pray to a totem pole, some people pray to a sun, some people pray to a god. It all works for them. It all comes back to what you think. ~Thich Nhat Hanh


Happy Autumn!

Music

We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound. ~Zoltan Kodaly

Repetition

Repetition is the mother of learning. ~Russian proverb

Ocean

Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent. ~H. P. Lovecraft

Walk Alone

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Twice the Child

An old man is twice the child. ~ William Shakespeare

Courage

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use. ~Ruth Gordon

Just back from vacation and spending 9 days with my nephews (7 & 9), I needed courage at times :)

Presence

The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence.
When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers. ~Thich Nhat Hanh