Keep a Lamp Burning

 "If we want a love message to be heard,
 it has got to be sent out.
To keep a lamp burning,
we have to keep putting oil in it."
~ Mother Teresa

♡ Hello, sunshine. Hello!

This Mother Teresa quote reminds me of the song "Dream Baby Dream" by the band Suicide, written by its members Martin Rev and Alan Vega. 

"Come on and open up your heart."

Here is the Bruce Springsteen cover, unforgettable live:

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Your Soul

"Your soul suffers if you live superficially." 

~ Albert Schweitzer

Electricity of Life

"Enthusiasm is the electricity of life.
How do you get it?
 You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit."
~ Gordon Parks

Secret to Life

 "The secret to life is life is enjoying the passage of time."
~ James Taylor

Creativity Is the Joy

"Creativity is the joy of not knowing it all." 

~ Ernie J. Zelinski

Men Think

  "Men think and God laughs."
~ Yiddish Proverb

Understanding That Bringeth Peace

"I do not want the peace which passeth all understanding,
I want the understanding that bringeth peace."
~ Helen Keller

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Sound Beginning

"A life without purpose is a languid,
drifting thing; Every day we ought to review our purpose,
saying to ourselves: This day let me make a sound beginning,
 for what we have hitherto done is naught!"
  ~ Thomas a Kempis

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Sun's Rays

"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand.
The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus."
~ Alexander Graham Bell

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Natural Flights

Thursday, March 2, 2006

"The natural flights of the human mind
are not from pleasure to pleasure,
but from hope to hope."
~ Samuel Johnson

When I Sing

"God respects me when I work
and loves me when I sing."
~ Rabindranath Tagore

On the Mountain

"On the mountain,
joy and sorrow close companions."
~ Fritz Marz


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Newer Every Day

"We turn, not older with years,
but newer every day."
~ Emily Dickinson


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Grant Me the Courage

"Grant me the courage not to give up
even though I think it is hopeless."
~ Chester W. Nimitz


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Not Alone

"You are not alone."~ Billy Graham


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Lasting Companion

"She was no longer wrestling with the grief,
but could sit down with it
as a lasting companion
and make it a sharer in her thoughts."
~ George Eliot


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Words Possess

"Words possess

primitive mystical
incantatory healing powers…
Their articulation represents
a complete, lived experience.~ Ingrid Bengis


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Two Angels White

 "My delight and thy delight

Walking, like two angels white,
In the gardens of the night. "~ Robert Bridges


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Depth of Need And Despair

"From the depth of need and despair,
people can work together,can organize themselves
to solve their own problemsand fill their own needs
with dignity and strength."~ Cesar Chavez

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Mutual Self-Giving

"Love is a mutual self-giving
which ends in self-recovery."
~ Fulton J. Sheen


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The Life You've Imagined

East Honolulu, Hawaii

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
Live the life you've imagined.
As you simplify your life,
the laws of the universe will be simpler."
~ Henry David Thoreau

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Long Live the Sun

Asheville, North Carolina

"Long live the sun which gives us
such beautiful color."
~ Paul Cézanne


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Reflection, Much Writing

"Analysis, reflection, much writing,
ceaseless correction--there is all my secret."
~ Johann Sebastian Bach

The sunrise is a poem that writes itself.

Look at the words glow...

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Life is Sweet

"Life is sweet,
Life is all so very short,
Life is sweet."
~ Natalie Merchant


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Teach Us Delight

"Teach us delight in simple things."
~ Rudyard Kipling

The morning sky is always worth it.

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Hope Springs Eternal

"Hope springs eternal in the human breast;
Man never is, but always to be blest."
~Alexander Pope

I love it when the new sky explodes with color!

Life is a celebration of passionate colors...

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Supreme Insight

"Any supreme insight is a metaphor."
~ Charles H. Parkhurst

Imagine all we will see

when we just look a little more.

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Will Be

"I’m not a has been.
I’m a will be."
~ Lauren Bacall


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Perches in the Soul

"Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the souls.
And sings the tune without the words.
and never stops at all."~ Emily Dickinson

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Believe It

"Believe it and achieve it."
~ Napoleon Hill


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Most Important Word

"The most important word
in the English language is hope.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt


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Outposts of the Universe

"Like buried treasures,

the outposts of the universe
have beckoned to the adventurous
from immemorial times."
~ George Ellery Hale


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Let Go of Certainties

"Creativity requires the courage
to let go of certainties." 
~ Erich Fromm


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The Best

"It is a funny thing about life;
if you refuse to accept anything but the best
you very often get it."
W. Somerset Maugham

Here I live, atop my blessed Harmony Ridge, my own Walden Pond, The Best place in the world. That special place where I can connect with my higher self.

Each morning, waiting for the sun to rise, I say my prayers, reflect, and center myself. Secluded, protected, at peace. Alive. Usually the rest of my world is fast asleep as I touch the sky with my heart.


Today's Daily Celebration: Abigail Adams

Wake at Dawn

"Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.
To melt and be like a running brook
that sings its melody to the night.

To wake at dawn with a winged heart
and give thanks for another day of loving."
~ Kahlil Gibran

Sense of Living

"Find ecstasy in life;
the mere sense of living
is joy enough."
~ Emily Dickinson

Amen of the Universe

"Love is the final end
of the world's history,
the Amen of the universe."
~ Novalis

Majesty in Simplicity

"There is a certain majesty
in simplicity."~ Alexander Pope

Everyone is an Explorer

"Everyone is an explorer.
How could you possibly live your life
looking at a door and not open it?"
~ Robert D. Ballard

Our Brilliance

"Deliver us to our brilliance."
~ Marianne Williamson

Open My Eyes

"At any given moment,
I open my eyes and exist."
~ Ugo Betti