“Everyone needs a practice which polishes them, to wear away at the obscuring mindstuff which settles like debris on one’s way of seeing. In our hearts, we know there is meaning to it all, an ordering nature to the chaos, but like a dream that slips away into forgetting, we have to practice at coming into its coherency. Without such a practice, we fall prey to the belief that the toxic fog of consensus culture is the real reality. When in fact, it is only the ‘not-beauty’ behind which beauty is hiding.”
-Toko-pa Turner
Tag Archives: Nature
A Pilgrimage in Itself
“A day of silence can be a pilgrimage in itself.”
-Hafiz
“Silence is a communing of a conscious soul with itself.”
-Henry David Thoreau
In Spirit
“I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit…. what business have I in the woods, if I am thinking of something out of the woods?
-Henry David Thoreau
Beams of Love
“We are here to learn to endure the beams of love.”
-William Blake
Raise Your Words
“Raise your words
not your voice.
It is rain that grows flowers,
not thunder.”
-Rumi
Lose Your Mind Find Your Soul
“And into the forest I go to lose my mind and find my soul”
– John Muir
The Light Always Returns
“What the forest knows and can teach each of us as we walk and pause quietly among the still trees, is that the light always returns.”
-Andrea Fereshtek
For Arlisa and Shannon – showering you with Light, Love & Healing Warmth!!
The Listening Heaven
“Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.”
– Rabindranath Tagore
Melting into Music
“The snow is melting into music.”
-John Muir
Earth Like a Child
“It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.”
-Rainer Maria Rilke
Awakening, illuminating, unfolding, empowering… Spring begins in all her glory today! Every day new and glorious, seen from new eyes like those of a child instills wonder and awe. Like a poem. Like the heart itself.