Robin N. posted an article on Bountiful Healing - Nov 27, 2009, 3:04 pm
(Afternoon sunlight hitting the wall.) The time is ripe for looking back over the day, the week, the year, and trying to figure out where we have come from and where we are going to, for sifting thro...
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Robin N. posted an article on Bountiful Healing - Nov 17, 2009, 2:35 pm
Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own backyard, if you but dig for them. ~ Russell H. Conwell I think I’m going to forever associate sunflowers...
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Robin N. posted an article on Bountiful Healing - Nov 14, 2009, 4:06 pm
It is not by meticulous care in avoiding all contaminations that we can keep our clean and give it grace, but by urging it to give vigorous expression to its inner life in the very midst of all the du...
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Robin N. posted an article on Bountiful Healing - Nov 12, 2009, 8:10 am
Every exit is . . .  an entrance somewhere else. ~ Tom Stoppard
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Robin N. posted an article on Bountiful Healing - Nov 10, 2009, 6:15 am
(The kitchen table.  Robbins Crossing.  November 2009.) We inherit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted — our names, the color of our eyes and the texture of our hair, the unfo...
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Robin N. posted an article on Bountiful Healing - Nov 8, 2009, 9:24 am
Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul. ~ Simone Weil
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Robin N. posted an article on Bountiful Healing - Nov 6, 2009, 2:03 pm
Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel
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Robin N. posted an article on Bountiful Healing - Nov 4, 2009, 6:57 pm
As we grow old …  the beauty steals inward. ~  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Robin N. posted an article on Bountiful Healing - Nov 2, 2009, 1:14 pm
(November moonrise.) The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless. ~ Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Robin N. posted an article on Bountiful Healing - Oct 29, 2009, 3:05 pm
We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision. ~ Author unknown This is not my usual style, but I liked the light, colors and shapes in an otherwise blurry photo so I blurred and twisted t...
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Robin N. posted an article on Bountiful Healing - Oct 26, 2009, 9:38 am
The more we let each voice sing out with its own true tone, the richer will be the diversity of the chant in unison. ~ Angelus Silesius
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Robin N. posted an article on Bountiful Healing - Oct 24, 2009, 1:28 pm
(Autumn in the woods.) behind me the autumn wind blows me home ~ Issa, 1806
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Robin N. posted an article on Bountiful Healing - Oct 23, 2009, 10:55 am
(Floating on the colorful reflections.) Learn to pause …  or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you. ~ Doug King
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Robin N. posted an article on Bountiful Healing - Oct 21, 2009, 4:26 pm
Whatever we do to any other thing in the great web of life, we do to ourselves, for we are one. ~ Brooke Medicine Eagle
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Robin N. posted an article on Bountiful Healing - Oct 19, 2009, 9:45 am
(Sunshine on water.) Most people can look back over the years and identify a time and place at which their lives changed significantly.  Whether by accident or design, these are the moments when, be...
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Robin N. posted an article on Bountiful Healing - Oct 17, 2009, 9:33 pm
(Harvest sunset) What sky!  What light!  Ah in spite of all it is a blessed thing to be alive in such weather… ~ Samuel Beckett
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Robin N. posted an article on Bountiful Healing - Oct 14, 2009, 9:08 am
(A change of season) Clinging to the past is the problem.  Embracing change is the answer. ~ Gloria Steinem
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Robin N. posted an article on Bountiful Healing - Oct 13, 2009, 11:04 am
(Reflections on a Saturday evening in October.) If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the underst...
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Robin N. posted an article on Bountiful Healing - Oct 12, 2009, 12:12 pm
(Leaves above and below.) The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. ~ Oscar Wilde
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Robin N. posted an article on Bountiful Healing - Oct 11, 2009, 12:46 pm
(Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.  Photo © 2009 by Robin) No matter what your spiritual condition is, no matter where you find yourself in the universe, your choice is always the same:  to ...
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Robin N. posted an article on Bountiful Healing - Oct 10, 2009, 10:06 am
Kel at the Xfacta has issued another Art Attack challenge so off I went to Wordle to capture a word cloud using the url from Bountiful Healing. Here it is:
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Robin N. posted an article on Bountiful Healing - Oct 8, 2009, 3:32 pm
(The gift of the butterfly.) I took a walk earlier today.  I’ve been shut up in the house with illness for what feels like way too long and I needed some fresh air, sunshine, and exercise. As...
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Robin N. posted an article on Bountiful Healing - Oct 7, 2009, 5:22 pm
(A long hike.  Golden Gate Canyon State Park, Colorado.  Photo © 2009 by Robin) The divine is not something high above us.  Is is in heaven, it is in earth, it is inside us… ~ Morihei Uesh...
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Robin N. posted an article on Bountiful Healing - Oct 5, 2009, 8:10 am
(Greeting the morning.  Photo © 2009 by Robin) Authentic spirituality awakens the soul, reconnects us with the sacred, and fills us with the passion of life.  Spiritual development is not about re...
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Robin N. posted an article on Bountiful Healing - Oct 3, 2009, 7:44 pm
(Melting frost.  Photo © 2009 by Robin) Begin doing what you want to do now.  We are not living in eternity.  We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand — and melting like ...
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Robin N. posted an article on Bountiful Healing - Oct 2, 2009, 4:55 pm
(Have a seat.  Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.  Photo © 2009 by Robin) Sometimes we take quite a journey — physically or mentally or emotionally — when the very love and happin...
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Robin N. posted an article on Bountiful Healing - Oct 1, 2009, 3:18 pm
(The golden leaf.  Photo © 2009 by Robin) I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house.  So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air. ~ Na...
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Robin N. posted an article on Bountiful Healing - Sep 29, 2009, 3:09 pm
(Sky reflections on a stormy day.  Photo © 2009 by Robin) You don’t need organized religion to connect with the universe.  Often a church is the only place you can go to find peace and quiet...
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Robin N. posted an article on Bountiful Healing - Sep 28, 2009, 2:16 pm
(High up.  Photo © 2009 by Robin) Sometimes people get the mistaken notion that spirituality is a separate department of life, the penthouse of existence.  But rightly understood, it is a vital aw...
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Robin N. posted an article on Bountiful Healing - Sep 27, 2009, 7:08 pm
(Deer medicine.  Photo © 2009 by Robin) Authentic spirituality awakens the soul, reconnects us with the sacred, and fills us with the passion of life.  Spiritual development is not about religious...
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Robin N. posted an article on Bountiful Healing - Sep 26, 2009, 9:51 pm
(Going into the woods.  Photo © 2009 by Robin) It is such a secret place, the land of tears. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Robin N. posted an article on Bountiful Healing - Sep 25, 2009, 3:49 pm
(Following the bee.  Photo © 2009 by Robin) Life is a mosaic of pleasure and pain — grief is an interval between two moments of joy.  Peace is the interlude between two wars.  You have no r...
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Robin N. posted an article on Bountiful Healing - Sep 24, 2009, 3:33 pm
(Sunshine on a cloudy day.  Photo © 2009 by Robin) True happiness is an acceptance of life as it is given to us, with its diminishment, mystery, uncontrollability, and all. ~ Michael Gellert Earl...
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Robin N. posted an article on Bountiful Healing - Sep 23, 2009, 8:20 am
(Overlooking Lake Haiyaha.  Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.  Photo © 2009 by Robin) I am I plus my surroundings; and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself. ~ Jose Orte...
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Robin N. posted an article on Bountiful Healing - Sep 22, 2009, 2:14 pm
(Colorado harebell.  Photo © 2009 by Robin) What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.  These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they d...
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Robin N. posted an article on Bountiful Healing - Sep 21, 2009, 12:46 pm
(On Old Fall River Road.  Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.  Photo © 2009 by Robin) To me travel is a triple delight:  anticipation, performance, and recollection. ~ Ilka Chase I’m ...
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Robin N. posted an article on Bountiful Healing - Sep 20, 2009, 3:17 pm
(A zinnia posing in the dark.  Photo © 2009 by Robin) It’s the knack for noticing specific things that enlarges our awareness of the world. ~ Julie Cameron Some music, just because. And a ...
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Robin N. posted an article on Bountiful Healing - Sep 19, 2009, 5:33 pm
(As I float on the pond, a view of the cattails.  Photo © 2009 by Robin) Leisure requires the evidence of our own feelings, because it is not so much a quality of time as a peculiar state of mind&#...
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Robin N. posted an article on Bountiful Healing - Sep 16, 2009, 1:10 pm
(Willow and reflections.  Photo © 2009 by Robin) … joy and sorrow are inseparable … together they come and when one sits alone with you … remember that the other is asleep upon yo...
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Robin N. posted an article on Bountiful Healing - Sep 12, 2009, 8:38 pm
(Bench, cherry tree, and the Reading bridge.  Harrisburg, PA.  Photo © 2008, 2009 by Robin) Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time...
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Robin N. posted an article on Bountiful Healing - Sep 11, 2009, 8:58 am
(On the trail to Dream Lake.  Rocky Mountain National Park.  Photo © 2009 by Robin) The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to...
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Robin N. posted an article on Bountiful Healing - Sep 10, 2009, 9:40 am
(Searching for peace in a waterfall.  Photo © 2009 by Robin) Whatever your fate is, whatever the hell happens, you say, ‘This is what I need.’  It may look like a wreck, but go at it a...
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Robin N. posted an article on Bountiful Healing - Sep 9, 2009, 9:22 am
(In the garden at Blossom.  Photo © 2009 by Robin) onlookers at a funeral… the autumn wind ~ Issa, 1821
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Robin N. posted an article on Bountiful Healing - Sep 8, 2009, 1:11 pm
(A sad and rainy day.  Photo © 2009 by Robin) One’s suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields — even to sadness. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Southern Mail, 1929, ...
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Robin N. posted an article on Bountiful Healing - Sep 3, 2009, 9:46 am
(On the road to Estes Park.  Photo © 2009 by Robin) We are not going around in circles, we are going upwards.  The path is a spiral. ~ Hermann Hesse
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Robin N. posted an article on Bountiful Healing - Sep 2, 2009, 8:49 am
(Photo © 2009 by Robin) Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling; true happiness involves full use of one’s powers and talents. ~ John W. Gardner
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Robin N. posted an article on Bountiful Healing - Sep 1, 2009, 9:48 am
(Blanketflower.  Maybe. Photo © 2009 by Robin) For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? ~ Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
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Robin N. posted an article on Bountiful Healing - Aug 31, 2009, 11:46 am
‘ (Bridge over the South St. Vrain Creek.  Colorado.  Photo © 2009 by Robin) A portal is a transitionary device of sight or sound that functions as a sort of third gravitating body between ...
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