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Post by snowstorm on Apr 11, 2019 7:31:44 GMT
"In the first week of April the weather turned suddenly, unseasonably, insistently lovely. The sky was blue, the air warm and windless, and the sun beamed on the muddy ground with all the sweet impatience of June. Toward the fringe of the wood, the young trees were yellow with the first tinge of new leaves; woodpeckers laughed and drummed in the copses and, lying in bed with my window open, I could hear the rush and gurgle of the melted snow running in the gutters all night long. In the second week of April everyone waited anxiously to see if the weather would hold. It did, with serene assurance. Hyacinth and daffodil bloomed in the flower beds, violet and periwinkle in the meadows; damp, bedraggled white butterflies fluttered drunkenly in the hedgerows. I put away my winter coat and overshoes and walked around, nearly light-headed with joy, in my shirtsleeves."
Donna Tartt
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Post by snowstorm on Apr 16, 2019 22:52:51 GMT
"Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand."
"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC"
Kurt Vonnegut
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Apr 18, 2019 7:16:18 GMT
Post by snowstorm on Apr 18, 2019 7:16:18 GMT
"Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays."
Henny Youngman
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Apr 18, 2019 11:36:05 GMT
Post by Admin on Apr 18, 2019 11:36:05 GMT
"What if our religion was each other. If our practice was our life. If prayer, our words. What if the temple was the Earth. If forests were our church. If holy water--the rivers, lakes, and ocean. What if meditation was our relationships. If the teacher was life. If wisdom was self-knowledge. If love was the center of our being."
~ Ganga White
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Apr 18, 2019 12:00:04 GMT
Post by snowstorm on Apr 18, 2019 12:00:04 GMT
"What if our religion was each other. If our practice was our life. If prayer, our words. What if the temple was the Earth. If forests were our church. If holy water--the rivers, lakes, and ocean. What if meditation was our relationships. If the teacher was life. If wisdom was self-knowledge. If love was the center of our being." ~ Ganga White A beautiful quote and it makes Henny Youngman's look mean. But he was happily married for 59 years, a comedian. His wife must have put her earmuffs on when he told jokes :-)
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Apr 21, 2019 8:39:33 GMT
Post by snowstorm on Apr 21, 2019 8:39:33 GMT
"Easter is the only time when it’s perfectly safe to put all of your eggs in one basket."
Evan Esar
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Post by snowstorm on Apr 21, 2019 8:44:47 GMT
"The brain-disease model overlooks four fundamental truths: (1) our capacity to destroy one another is matched by our capacity to heal one another. Restoring relationships and community is central to restoring well-being; (2) language gives us the power to change ourselves and others by communicating our experiences, helping us to define what we know, and finding a common sense of meaning; (3) we have the ability to regulate our own physiology, including some of the so-called involuntary functions of the body and brain, through such basic activities as breathing, moving, and touching; and (4) we can change social conditions to create environments in which children and adults can feel safe and where they can thrive.
When we ignore these quintessential dimensions of humanity, we deprive people of ways to heal from trauma and restore their autonomy. Being a patient, rather than a participant in one’s healing process, separates suffering people from their community and alienates them from an inner sense of self."
Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
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Apr 23, 2019 6:57:08 GMT
Post by snowstorm on Apr 23, 2019 6:57:08 GMT
"When I was a kid growing up, we had a cherry tree in the backyard, 100 years old. I climbed it, and it gave shade in the summertime and excellent cherries in the late summer. Having cherry blossoms around gives the best springtime vibe ever."
Andrew Wyatt
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Post by snowstorm on Apr 24, 2019 10:26:05 GMT
"The story goes that a public sinner was excommunicated and forbidden entry to the church. He took his woes to God. 'They won't let me in, Lord, because I am a sinner.'
'What are you complaining about?' said God. 'They won't let Me in either."
Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
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Post by snowstorm on Apr 24, 2019 10:27:23 GMT
"The splendor of a human heart that trusts it is loved unconditionally gives God more pleasure than Westminster Cathedral, the Sistine Chapel, Beethoven’s “Ninth Symphony”, Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers”, the sight of 10,000 butterflies in flight, or the scent of a million orchids in bloom. Trust is our gift back to God, and he finds it so enchanting that Jesus died for love of it."
Brennan Manning, Ruthless Trust: The Ragamuffin's Path to God
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Post by snowstorm on Apr 25, 2019 6:25:55 GMT
"Our bodies have five senses: touch, smell, taste, sight, hearing. But not to be overlooked are the senses of our souls: intuition, peace, foresight, trust, empathy. The differences between people lie in their use of these senses; most people don't know anything about the inner senses while a few people rely on them just as they rely on their physical senses, and in fact probably even more."
C. JoyBell C.
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Post by Admin on May 20, 2019 9:38:45 GMT
''There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the heart of man that will not go out no matter how dark the world becomes...''
Leo Tolstoy
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Post by Admin on May 20, 2019 10:57:50 GMT
"If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you... For whoever has not known himself has known nothing, But whoever has known himself has simultaneously achieved knowledge About the depth of all things."
🌟The Gospel of St. Thomas
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Post by Admin on May 25, 2019 7:15:29 GMT
A Knowledge Evoked From Within
"Godlike qualities lie sleeping within us, the spiritual things that mark us immortal. For here within the heart is the Kingdom of Heaven, and the only recompense a man needs is to become aware of his own divinity. It is there, a creative power within us, by whose virtue he who has patience to endure and work shall behold the fruit of his efforts-the human family glorified and brought to the goal his heart tells him may be reached. An order of life shall yet be established by those who have gone through the schools of experience, birth after birth, round after round, until they lifted themselves out of the strain and sorrow. Their building will be of a new kind, a type of civilization higher than anything we have read or imagined. The minds of men will expand in the atmo- sphere of universal brotherhood; earth will give up its secrets and the stars declare the mighty mystery of their lives; things of old unheard of will come from the hearts of men; we shall hear the answer to the pleadings of the advance-guard."
Katherine Tingley,
The wisdom of the heart, page 16
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Post by snowstorm on May 25, 2019 15:08:13 GMT
"The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people in life recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation. For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you."
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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