A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body, Margaret Fuller
A hobby affords us a marvelous opportunity to awaken our natural talents.
Simple abundance, 1: an inner journey; 2: a spiritual and practical course in creative living; 3: a tapestry of contentment
You develop patience that enables you to wait gracefully and gratefully until the best arrives because you know it will.
You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world. —SHEILA GRAHAM
With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, William Wordsworth wrote, we see into the life of
What would summer be without the contemplation of the preserved, the pickled, the potted, the candied, the brandied—the fabulous foodstuffs of fancy pantries? Like
To live fully, outwardly and inwardly, not to ignore external reality for the sake of the inner life, or the reverse—that’s quite a task. —ETTY HILLESUM
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to keep your soul alive, Robert Louis Stevenson reminds us.
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition. —SAMUEL JOHNSON
These are only hints and guesses, Hints followed by guesses, and the rest Is prayer, observance, discipline, thought and action. —T. S. ELIOT
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world. —ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers
The thirteenth-century German mystic Meister Eckehart believed, If the only prayer you ever say in your life is ‘ThankYou,’ it will be enough.
The outward and visible way in which we move through our daily round—the time, creative energy, emotion, attitude, and attention with which we endow our tasks—is how we elevate the mundane to the tran...
The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes—ah, that is where the art resides. —ARTUR SCHNABEL
The love of words, the bonds of home and family, and her spirit of adventure.
The fields are harvested and bare, And Winter whistles through the square. October dresses in flame and gold Like a woman afraid of growing old. —ANNE MARY LAWLER
The Simple Abundance path encourages us to be patient until we find what’s perfect for us, rather than continue to waste our money, energy, and emotion settling for second-best or the second-rate.
The Gratitude Journal is a polite, daily thank-you note to the Universe