There is no companion so companionable as Solitude, Thoreau reminds me as I carry a hot cup of tea back to bed.
The answers to your questions will come, but only after you know which ones are worth asking. Wait. Live your questions. Then ask. Become open to the changes that the answers will inevitably bring. Th...
Thank you for the gift of this wonderful day.
St. Francis of Assisi explains the creative process this way: the woman who works with her hands only is a laborer; the woman who works with her hands and her head is a craftswoman; the woman who work...
Sometimes when we awaken from the bad dream of disowning ourselves, we think that the sojourn to self-discovery is a new one. But it is an ancient quest. SOMETHING MORE THE BOOK OF LOVE
Poetry affords us a respite in which we may gather renewed strength for the old struggle to adapt ourselves to reality. —ROBERT HAVEN SCHAUFFLER
Nobody can duplicate your work because there’s no one in the world like you. They can imitate, but they can’t duplicate. Your work is born of your sensibilities, temperament, experience, emotion, pass...
Loving and Leaving the Good Life: • Do the best you can, whatever arises. • Be at peace with yourself. • Find a job you enjoy. • Live in simple conditions; housing, food, clothing; get rid of clutter....
Longfellow believed that situations that call forth our coping abilities are celestial benedictions in dark disguises, sent not to try our souls, but to enlarge them.
Lift up your worries and ask for grace to get through the rest of the day.
Ithaka As you set out in search of Ithaka Pray that your journey be long, full of adventures, full of awakenings. Do not fear the monsters of old… You will not meet them in your travels if your though...
Hands to work, hearts to God. —SHAKER AXIOM
Gardening is an instrument of grace. —MAY SARTON Gardening
For thousands of years the creation of mandalas—circular, geometric designs—has been part of both Eastern and Western spiritual traditions.
February arrives cold, wet and gray, her gifts disguised for only the most discerning spirits to see. Gentle is our path. Gratitude is the thread we weave into the fabric of our daily lives this month...
Every day we’re given chances to embrace the new.
Cultivate happiness. Hone your sense of humor; it’s the most irresistible asset any of us can possess.
Certain springs are tapped only when we are alone. The artist knows he must be alone to create; the writer, to work out his thoughts; the musician to compose; the saint, to pray.
Beguile us in the way you know, poet Robert Frost
Autumn to winter, winter to spring, Spring into summer, summer into fall— So rolls the changing year, and so we change; Motion so swift, we know not that we move. —DINAH MULOCK CRAIK Since ancient tim...