Take a rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.
~ Ovid
Earth
To have ideas is to gather flowers. To think is to weave them into garlands.
~ Anne-Sophie Swetchine (1869)
I have ideas and I’m gathering flowers but I’m not quite ready to weave them into garlands just yet.
(Canyon Loop Trail near Boulder, Colorado.)
And we: spectators, always, everywhere, looking at everything, and never from! Who’s turned us around like this, so that whatever we do, we always have the look of someone going away? Just as a person on the last hill showing him or her the whole valley one last time, turns, and stops, and lingers — so we live, and are forever leaving.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Love is not to be cultivated. Love cannot be divided into divine and physical; it is only love — not that you love many or the one. That again is an absurd question to ask: ‘Do you love all?’ You know, a flower that has perfume is not concerned who comes to smell it, or who turns his back upon it. So is love. Love is not a memory. Love is not a thing of the mind or the intellect. But it comes into being naturally as compassion, when this whole problem of existence — as fear, greed, envy, depair, hope — has been understood and resolved.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Mystery is not the denial of reason but its honest confirmation: reason, indeed, leads inevitably to mystery: mystery and reality are the two halves of the same sphere.
~ Walt Whitman
The more zigzag the way, the deeper the scenery. The winding path approaches the secluded and peaceful place.
~ Huang Binhong
What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.
~ The Buddha
BH is back. Or I’m back, now that I’ve sorted things out a little. Mostly I needed to sort out myself as I misunderstood some of what was happening here at the blog (regarding the photos).
My apologies to those of you who subscribe to the blog via email. I’m guessing from the comments that you received a boat load of emails regarding new posts. I was bulk editing the old posts that I had switched to private, putting them back as public posts. Now that I know emails will go out like that, I’ll spare you and bring back the old posts one at a time, every once in a while. That way they’ll seem almost new. Maybe. 😀
Thanks for your patience while I figured things out. I appreciate it.
Practice being gentle, respectful and loving toward the life force in all things. Remind yourself that your efforts do make a difference, even if you think they are minuscule in comparison to the magnitude of the problem.
~ Wayne Dyer
To analyze the charms of flowers is like dissecting music; it is one of those things which it is far better to enjoy than to attempt to understand.
~ Henry T. Tuckerman
(Anglins Fishing Pier. Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, Florida.)
Nothing should be prized more highly than the value of each day.
~ Johann von Goethe
Bountiful Healing 