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"Each moment is fragile and fleeting. The moment of the past cannot be kept, however beautiful. The moment of the present cannot be held, however enjoyable. The moment of the future cannot be caught, however desirable. But the mind is desperate to fix the river in place: Possessed by ideas of the past, preoccupied with images of the future, it overlooks the plain truth of the moment. The one who can dissolve her mind will suddenly discover the Tao at her feet, and clarity at hand." ~  Hua hu Ching: The Unknown Teachings of Lao Tzu

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Sometimes you find yourself in the middle of nowhere, and sometimes in the middle of nowhere, you find yourself. ~ Unknown

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• "Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"

"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat.

"I don't much care where –" said Alice.

"Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat.

"– so long as I get somewhere," Alice added as an explanation.

"Oh, you're sure to do that," said the Cat, "if you only walk long enough."

                              ~ Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ~ Lewis Carroll

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"A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning." ~ James Dickey


& That's the mood here this morning. . .hud-hud effect?

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"To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower 

Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour." 

~ William Blake

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“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.” ~ Albert Einstein

...Time and Patience. . .

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Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow. ~ Richard Burton

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Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.~ Sam Keen

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To see the summer sky

Is poetry, though never in a Book it lie

True poems Flee

 ~ Emily Dickinson 

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Without self-expression life lacks spontaneity and joy.

Without service to others, it lacks meaning and purpose. ~ Laurence G. Boldt

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Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms. ~ Ikkyu Sojun

Eckhart Tolle -I

“Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.” - Eckhart Tolle

Pasternak -I

“I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and of little value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.” ― Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

Joseph Campbell - The goal of life

"The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature." ~ Joseph Campbell

Atisha - I

The greatest achievement is selflessness. The greatest worth is self-mastery. The greatest quality is seeking to serve others. The greatest action is not conforming with the world's ways. The greatest magic is transmuting the passions. The greatest generosity is non-attachment. The greatest goodness is a peaceful mind. The greatest patience is humility. The greatest effort is not concerned with results. The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go. The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.

~ Atisha ~

Winter Air

"It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake,

the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. 

This crisp winter air is full of it. ~

John Burroughs" - "Winter Sunshine"

Thoreau -I

Finding yourself yoked to Matter and to Time. Not a mosquito left. Not an insect to hum. Crickets gone into winter quarters. Friends long since gone there, and you left to walk on frozen ground, with your hands in your pockets. Ah, but is not this a time for deep inward fires? - Henry David Thoreau