we

 

Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.

Swami Vivekananda

heart

Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.

Rumi

old

How old are you? As old as my tongue and older than my teeth.

Jonathan Swift

words

Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

Rumi

mind

 

All things are preceded by the mind, led by the mind, created by the mind.

Lord Buddha

 

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.

Federico Fellini

kinder

 

It is a little embarrassing that, after forty-five years of research and study, the best advice I can give to people is to be a little kinder to each other.

Aldous Huxley

character

 

In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.

Augustine of Hippo

life

 

The art of life is the most distinguished and rarest of all the arts.

C.G. Jung

despair

 

The most common form of despair is not being who you are.

Søren Kierkegaard

faith

 

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

presence

 

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer that person is your presence.

Thich Nhat Hanh

wound

 

What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for and to do it so unconsciously.

Haruki Murakami

love

 

I fall in love everyday, with ideas and sensations, people I see. I hold them long enough to let them go, but I keep them in my heart and in my soul.

Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

imagination

 

The effort of the imagination is to turn the boundary into a horizon. The boundary says, 'Here and no further.' the horizon ways, 'welcome.'"

Barry Lopez

opener

Be an opener of doors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 

old

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Malala Yousafzai

read

 

Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else. 

Ivern Ball

acceptance

 

Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.

Eckhart Tolle

peace

may peace prevail on earth and in me

peace

 

True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King

moment

 

The practice of staying present will heal you. Obsessing about how the future will turn out creates anxiety. Replaying broken scarios from the past causes anger or sadness. Stay here, in this moment.

c. mcnutt

voice

 

To gain your own voice, forget about having it heard.

Allen Ginsberg

music

 

My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require.

Edward Elgar

understand

 

Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be mater of their feelings and thoughts.

Anton Chekhov

music

 

The earth has music for those who listen.

William Shakespeare

joy

 

Joy is not made to be a crumb.

Mary Oliver

art

 

All the art of living in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

Henry Ellis

unite

 

Love, friendship, and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.

Anton Chekhov

ignorance

 

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

Plato

secret

 

This is the real secret of life - to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

Alan Watts

strength

Strength shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

believed

If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.

Jean Cocteau

hope

 

Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Paris

 

A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of life.

Thomas Jefferson

right

 

The time is always right to do what is right.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

learned

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. - It goes on.

Robert Frost

tragedies

 

There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it. 

George Bernard Shaw

you

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

peace

 

may peace prevail on earth and in me.

do

 

If you feel something calling you to dance or write or paint or sing, please refuse to worry abouth whether you're good enough. Just do it.

Glennon Doyle

courage

What would life be if we didn't have the courage to risk something?

Vincent van Gogh

interior life

Though we do not wholly believe it yet, the interior life is a real life, and the intangible dreams of people have a tangible effect on the world.

James Baldwin

run

 

Run my dear,  From anything that may not strengthen your precious budding wings.

Hafez

love

 

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.

Arthur Rubinstein

done

You will know that you are completely done with something when you give it up and you feel freedom instead of loss.

Emily Maroutain

love

 

Love is the state in which man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Friedrich Nietzsche

continue

My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.

Maya Angelou

silence

 

And please forgive the silence for you know, of course, the love is there.

Anne Sexton

2023

 

Happy New Year

may 2023 be a better year for all of us.