Now, as the spring grows warm, Time, revolving in its perpetual round, again calls back the west winds. Mother earth, refreshed, puts on her brief youth and now, loosened from frost, the ground turns green and sweet. Am I deceived, or is my power of song also returning, and has inspiration come to me through the bounty of spring? Through the bounty of spring it has come and again gains strength – who would believe it? – and now demands some outlet for itself…
~ John Milton
Don’t yearn to be a philosopher.
Don’t yearn to be a great teacher..
The insight you can offer pales in comparison to Mother Nature…
Step outside your ego and steep yourself in her wisdom…
Her truths are timeless…
She doesn’t need us…
We need her…
~ J. Marion Brown
The healing of our present woundedness may lie in recognizing and reclaiming the capacity we all have to heal each other, the enormous power in the simplest of human relationships: the strength of a touch, the blessing of forgiveness, the grace of someone else taking you just as you are and finding in you an unsuspected goodness…
~ Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D.
The only thing wrong with trying to please everyone is that there’s always at least one person who will remain unhappy. You…
~ Elizabeth Parker
Silence is noisy until we become accustomed to it. In silence we can hear the sound of our own pulse and heartbeat, the flowing rhythms of our own blood in our veins, – and the rhythm of the Universe – in the inner ear. When we quiet the endless verbal chatter echoing through our language-filled brains, there is a quieter, more universal mode of communication and knowing waiting to be tapped…
~ T. Manekshaw
Known is a drop, Unknown is an Ocean 