Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart ... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens
~ Carl Gustav Jung

Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach
~ Pissaro

We are the captains of our own ships sailing the sea of life, but in times of stormy weather, you will discover true friends when they don't hesitate to be a lighthouse
~ Dodinsky

If the energy is strong and pure, the body will naturally be vibrant and healthy.
~ Chi Kung - Healing

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words
~ Bernard Meltzer

People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive
~ Joseph Campbell

Though a swift stream is divided
By a boulder
In its headlong flow,
Though divided,
On it rushes,
And at last unites again.
~ Sutoku

The grand show is eternal
it is always sunrise somewhere;
the dew is never dried all at once;
a shower is forever falling;
vapour is ever rising.
Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming,
on sea and continents
and islands, each in its turn,
as the round earth rolls

John Muir

If you want to follow the doctrine of the One, do not rage against the World of the Senses. Only by accepting the World of the Senses can you share in the True Perception
~ Seng-ts'an

The deepest words
Of the wise man teach us
The same as the whistle of the wind when it blows
Or the sound of the water when it is flowing
~ Antonio Machado

... For the artistic trend slumbering in the breast of every person and expressing itself so richly in the child, never dies in us.
~ Wilhelm Stekel - Psychology of the Artist

In Buddhism, there is the view that all life is sacred, human and all other living beings. Without some sort of moral compass, it would all dissolve, there would be chaos. Animals for the most part live in balance with nature and there are societal 'laws' there. Respect for the rights, liberties, territory and the very lives of other beings is for me the basis of how I wish to conduct my life
~ Tim

The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
~ E. O. Wilson

The earth will not continue to offer its harvest, except with faithful tewardship. We cannot say we love the land and then take steps to destroy it for use by future generations
~ Pope John Paul II

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

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared
~ Buddha

One kind word can warm three winter months
~ Japanese proverb

Everyone should consider his body as a priceless gift from one who he loves above all, as a marvelous work of art of indescribable beauty and mastery beyond human conception, and so delicate and frail that a word, a breath, nay a thought, may injure it ....
~ Nicolas Tesla

Running water never grows stale, so you've got to just keep on flowing
~ Bruce Lee

Calming allows us to rest, and resting is a precondition for healing. When animals in the forest become wounded, they find a place to lie down and they rest completely for many days. They don't think about food or anything else. They just rest and they get the healing they need .... our body and our mind have the capacity to heal themselves if we allow them to rest.
~ The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching

Over the past decade, when we had no serious national adversaries, U.S. defense spending has gone from about a third of total worldwide defense spending to 50 percent. In other words, we spend more on defense than the planet's remaining countries put together
~ Fareed Zakaria - August 3, 2011

Warmth
Happiness
Grace
Joy

Feelings
Great
Little
Precious

Appreciation
Body
Movement
Mind
Intuition

Gratitude

~ Tim

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The internet and social networks are making neighbors of us all. It is amazing that each of us can speak with other people in many lands

I wish for all people love, compassion, respect and caring. I have a deep love of nature .... to be there is so calming. I wish for all people and all beings to be connected to the joy and beauty of the world

Still waters run deep, passionate, many interests, eclectic