Tag Archives: words
Reading Nature
Lectio Divina in Nature Step out onto the Planet. Draw a circle a hundred feet round. Inside the circle are 300 things nobody understands, and, maybe nobody’s ever really seen How many can you find? ~Lew Welch Lew Welch, Ring … Continue reading
Being Better
The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better. ~St. Francis
Living The Truth
You do not think yourself into a new way of living, you live yourself into a new way of thinking. ~St. Francis
Sleep
The sleep of the working man is pleasant whether he eats little or much but the full stomach of the rich man does not allow him to sleep. ~Ecclesiastes
Clearing A Spot
To begin is half the work. ~ Decimus Magnus Ausonuius.
We Are All One
Emergent theories seem to confirm what mystics have been telling us all along—that we are one, not just all human beings, but all creation, the entire universe. As much as we may imagine and act to the contrary, human beings … Continue reading
Street Sign
Love Expressed Well
Empty Nest
The day a child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise. ~ Alden Nowlan
Arabian Proverb
Four things come not back; the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, the neglected opportunity. ~Arabian Proverb
True Wisdom
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. ~Socrates
Solitude or Loneliness
Language has created the word ‘loneliness’ to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word ‘solitude’ to express the glory of being alone. ~ Paul Tilich
Actions
Actions speak louder than words and they tell the truth.
Obviously
The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply. ~Kahlil Gibran
