“The snow is melting into music.”
-John Muir
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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.
Driven by the Spheres
“I saw eternity the other night,
like a ring of pure and endless light,
All calm as it was bright;
And round beneath it, Time in hours, days, years,
Driv’n by the spheres…”
-Henry Vaughan
A Little Parenthesis in Eternity
“We are travelers on a cosmic journey, stardust swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment. A little parenthesis in eternity.”
-Paulo Coelho
Light the Way for Love
LIGHT THE WAY FOR LOVE by Susan Frybort (from Open Passages: Doors and Windows to the Soul)
They say beauty comes from a spirit that has weathered many hardships in life and somehow continues with resilience. Grace can be found in a soul who ages softly, even amid the tempest.
I think the loveliest by far is the one whose gentle heart bears
a hundred scars from caring, yet still finds a way to pick up the lamp, one more time, to light the way for love.
Fiery Kiss to the Night
“O setting sun! though the time has come, I still warble after you, if none else does, unmitigated adoration.”
-Walt Whitman
“There’s a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they’re absolutely free. Don’t miss so many of them.”
-Jo Walton
“A sunset is the sun’s fiery kiss to the night.”
-Crystal Woods
The Miracle in Everything
“To walk quietly until the miracle in everything speaks is poetry, whether we write it down or not.”
~ Mark Nepo
Within My Heart
“I looked in temples, churches and
mosques; but I found the Divine within
my heart.”~ Rumi
One Vast Awakened Thing
“I have lots of things to teach you now, in case we ever meet, concerning the message that was transmitted to me under a pine tree in North Carolina on a cold winter moonlit night.
It said that Nothing Ever Happened, so don’t worry. It’s all like a dream. Everything is ecstasy, inside. We just don’t know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever. Close your eyes, let your hands and nerve-ends drop, stop breathing for 3 seconds, listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson you forgot, which was taught in immense milky way soft cloud innumerable worlds long ago and not even at all. It is all one vast awakened thing. I call it the golden eternity. It is perfect.”
-Jack Kerouac
Goodbye 2017 (and thank you); Welcome 2018!
As 2017 comes to a close at midnight, my heart is full with memories. I know more with each passing day that the sweetness is in awareness. Awareness of all of the magic, majesty and wonder all around, in every single second. In the trees, the wild ones, the big night sky, the wind, every snow flake, the fragrance of pine, my dog’s intent gaze, the eyes of a stranger, the touch of my beloved… The moments of wonder stitch together in a tapestry of hours, days, weeks, and thus this year was made. Moments of awareness, of being here now, slowly weave together our lives. There is so very much to treasure, absorb, experience, and be with. How beautiful.
It leaves me breathless for all that 2018 may bring… It is a precious thing to be alive in this world.
So…goodbye 2017 and thank you!
And to 2018, sending heartfelt wishes for all of us to write on our hearts, pause in the silence of the forest, visit the area of the soul where words don’t penetrate, be peaceful and wild, and Love, Love, Love, in the wondrous moments that will create our new year!
“Write it on your heart… that every day is the best day of the year.”
-R. W. Emerson
“Pausing to experience the silence of the forest during winter months is a gift of presence.”
-Andrea Fereshteh
“Some events are in the area of the soul where words cannot penetrate.”
-Neil Cassady
“There is peaceful. There is wild. I am both at the same time.”
-Nayyirah Waheed
“What is done in love is done well.”
-Vincent Van Gogh
