Spring Comes
Sit quietly, do nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.
ZEN SAYING
For Now
There exists only the present instant . . . a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence.
MEISTER ECKHART, 1260–1328
Think Big
Dear Ones
Beware of the tiny gods frightened men create
To bring an anaesthetic relief to their sad days.
HAFIZ
Spring Fruits
The fruit of letting go is birth.
MEISTER ECKHART
Explosive Power
God is not nice, God is not an uncle, God is an earthquake.
TALMUD SAYING
Why Worry?
That the birds of worry and care fly above your head, this you cannot change.
But that they make nests in your hair, this you can prevent.
CHINESE PROVERB
Time Out
Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.
KAHLIL GIBRAIN
Love and Happiness
For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter in the night,
For health and food for love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Healthy Options
Be very careful of your health. The devil employs a trick to deceive good souls. He incites them to do more than they are able, in order that they may no longer be able to do anything.
ST VINCENT DE PAUL, 1581–1660
Who Dares Wins
To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily.
Not to dare is to lose oneself.
SØREN KIERKEGAARD, 1813–1855
Seeing is Believing
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY, 1900–1944
All You Need is Love
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
OSCAR WILDE, 1854–1900
Honeytrap
Life is a flower for which love is the honey.
VICTOR HUGO, 1802–1885
Prisoners
To forgive is to release a prisoner within us.
ANON
Beauty
See deep enough and you see musically; the heart of nature is everywhere music if you can only reach it.
THOMAS CARLYLE, 1795–1881
All Things Bright and Beautiful
When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blind to beauty.
KAHLIL GIBRAN
True Character
Character is doing the right thing when nobody is watching.
J.C. WATTS, B. 1957
Ageing Gracefully
Do not regret getting older. It is a privilege denied to many.
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
Persistence
I do dimly perceive that while everything around me is ever changing, ever dying there is underlying all that change a living power that is changeless, that holds all together; that creates, dissolves and recreates. For I can see that in the midst of death life persists; in the midst of untruth, truth persists in the midst of darkness light persists.
MAHATMA GANDHI, 1869–1948
The Pursuit of Perfection
Here below, to live is to change and to be perfect is to have changed often.
ST JOHN HENRY NEWMAN, 1801–1890
The Wishing Well
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are alive.
There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them.
GEORGE ELIOT
The Extraordinary Ordinary
Notice the intimate connection between God and what is otherwise everyday and ordinary.
POPE FRANCIS
Right Timing
Ní hé lá na gaoithe lá na scoth.
A windy day is no day for thatching.
IRISH PROVERB