“Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things they are transformed.”
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Quote from Contemplative Monk (FaceBook)
Tag: beauty
Sunday Morning
Angels unaware
Angels are wonderful but they are so, well, aloof.
It’s what I sense in the mud and the roots of the
trees, or the well, or the barn, or the rock with
its citron map of lichen that halts my feet and
makes my eyes flare, feeling the presence of some
spirit, some small god, who abides there.
If I were a perfect person, I would be bowing
continuously.
I’m not, though I pause wherever I feel this
holiness, which is why I’m so often late coming
back from wherever I went.
Forgive me.
~ Mary Oliver, “Forgive Me” in Blue Horses
Sources: Poem – Thank you Whiskey River. Photo – Lichen by Mathieu Noël
Basic goodness
Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.
Quote: Jack Kornfield
Photo: Mi Pham
found at gratefulness.org
the middle of difficult
“Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background,
they stand out,
there for the first time we see how beautiful they are.”
~Rainer Maria Rilke
the color of sunsets
Art is not simply works of art; it is the spirit that knows beauty,
that has music in its soul and the color of sunsets in its handkerchief,
that can dance on a flaming world
and make the world dance too.
Quote: W.E.B. DU BOIS
Photo: Katherine Minott
gratefulness.org
Carrie's Bench 
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