“Earth’s crammed with heaven…
But only he who sees, takes off his shoes.”
–Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh
“Truth is not something outside to be discovered,
it is something inside to be realized.”
–Osho
“Thought can organize the world so well that you are no
longer able to see it.”
-Anthony de Mello
Wakefulness this new morning brought a deep feeling of wonder and mystery…
Beautiful sense of being immersed.
Sun streaming through the windows.
Warmth of knowing and not knowing.
There will be many wonders and mysteries today!
“It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.”
-Antoine Rivarol
“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.”
-Anais Nin
“We have to be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.”
-Paulo Coelho
“I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.”
-Harry Emerson Fosdick
“As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.”
-A. C. Benson
“No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky.”
-Llewelyn Powys
“A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders.”
-Edward Plunkett
I see wonders everywhere! From tiny stills in the forest, to the incomprehensible star majesty, these gifts surround us, asking nothing but our attention. Power, calm, wind, clouds, big trees, rocks, the creatures… so much – just so very much, to mesh with us and take in. In gratitude and with a long sweet breath, the day is embraced, the wonders absorbed…
“There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
–Albert Einstein-Albert Einstein
“The world is full of magic things,
patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
-W.B. Yeats
May your day and night be filled with wonder, miracles and magic!
I don’t talk about being a vegetarian very much – it’s my deal, for reasons I’ve thought long and hard about, and I don’t feel the need to judge or comment on other people’s choices.
Loving the animals and choosing not to eat them is an easy choice for me. The little guy on the video explains it better than I could…
“Everything is energy and that’s all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics.”
-Bashar? (many times attributed to Einstein, but from what I researched, most likely Bashar?)
I get lost in the concepts, connections and potentials of the Energy that makes up all of us – makes up everything – from our planet, to the animals, to the rocks and mountains. It is a mesmerizing subject that compels endless hours…
Einstein did say this,
“Matter is energy. Energy is Light. We are all Light Beings”.
-Albert Einstein
These are not touchy-feely statements – these are tenants of physics. The implications are empowering and staggering in the ways we can be here in the world as energy beings. We are energy, we are connected, we are powerful beyond measure in the creation of our life. Change your vibration and you change your world.
In this Spring Time of unfolding life, this energetic nature that we share with all the creatures and with our planet, seems more pronounced, closer to the surface, easier to feel and touch.
Think good thoughts, feel your energy, touch your connections, direct your intentions. Be in love with life!
Life will love you back!!
“We’re fields of energy in an infinite energy field.”
–e.e. cummings
We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.”
-John Muir, The Mountains of California
The tree pictured below is traveling the same Milky Way as the rest of us, and as Carl Sagan says, “down deep, at the molecular heart of life” shares essentially the same components that make up we humans. I would love to feel the energy of this tree!
It is 3,200 years old and so massive it was impossible to get the whole tree into one photograph. This majestic giant sequoia is called The President and is located in California’s Sierra Nevada. It is 247 feet tall, 27 feet in diameter, and the article I read said it holds some 2 billion needles – the most of any tree on our planet. The tree is still growing, adding one cubic meter of wood per year!
This photo was quite an endeavor and labor of love requiring a pulley system with levers for climbers and requiring 32 days and 126 separate photos that are pieced together. (the little tiny red dot at the bottom of the picture is a person!)
Indeed! What a truly, wonderful, spectacular world!!
From the BBC, Lonely Planet, this video has beautiful photographs of the planet’s wonders with David Attenborough’s voice reading the words from “What A Wonderful World”.
Enjoy your World!!
“What A Wonderful World” (Song Lyrics),
Written by: George David Weiss, George Douglas and Bob Thiele
I see trees of green,
red roses too.
I see them bloom,
for me and you.
And I think to myself,
what a wonderful world. I see skies of blue,
And clouds of white.
The bright blessed day,
The dark sacred night.
And I think to myself,What a wonderful world.The colors of the rainbow,
So pretty in the sky.
Are also on the faces,
Of people going by,I see friends shaking hands.
Saying, “How do you do?”
They’re really saying,
“I love you”. I hear babies cry,
I watch them grow,
They’ll learn much more,
Than I’ll ever know.
And I think to myself,
What a wonderful world. Yes, I think to myself,
What a wonderful world.Oh yeah.
The video below provides ten minutes of beautiful images, wisdom filled words, and a simple and profound perspective that may change your days. Take a minute (well, ten minutes). I promise it will be worth it…
Time and a sense of wonder. Amazing what depth they bring to your hours and your sense of gratitude.
Time and wonder – I hope you can give those gifts to yourself today.
Winter’s serene time and space has left me open and in-tune to the minute changes, nuances, and majesty of Spring’s unfolding. Day by day wonders are absorbed on a soul level. There is a deep comprehension of all the powerful growth that the earth’s veins are sprouting forth.
It is felt, it is known, it is heard, it is experienced.
“The peace and beauty of a spring day had descended upon the earth like a benediction. ”
– Kate Chopin
“When spring comes the grass grows by itself. ”
– Tao Te Ching
“It is always quietly thrilling to find yourself looking at a world you know well but have never seen from such an angle before.” -Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life
“I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting as it were, into the system of beings, in identifying myself with the whole of nature.” -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Everywhere water is flowing, moving, seeking new adventures. Awakening the earth, trees, sprouts, bushes and bears. The melting brings a sweet song and a green promise.
What will you make of the promise of Spring?
“Because when the spring comes,
it melts the snow one flake at a time”
-Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
“Spring rain conveyed
under the trees in drops”
-Matsuo Basho
“Daughter of heaven and earth, coy Spring,
With sudden passion languishing,
Teaching barren moors to smile,
Painting pictures mile on mile,
Holds a cup of cowslip wreaths
Whence a smokeless incense breathes.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
