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Feb 2, 2012, 11:28 am
It looks, it smells, it feels like springtime. The air is warm and moist, not cold and dry, with a green and earthy scent instead of the odor of decaying vegetation usually present during the fall and winter months. The daffodils have sent up green shoots, responding to the sunshine and the unse... Comment - Like
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Feb 1, 2012, 2:27 pm
At sunrise this morning I watched a red squirrel climbing up one of our maple trees in the front yard. We don’t often see squirrels except for the occasional glimpse of one back in the woods. The rest of the property — near the pond and in the meadows — is too open for them, and the hawks ... Comment - Like
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Jan 31, 2012, 2:34 pm
being blown about by the winds
of everyday life
no time for the last small stone
Day 31. Throwing the last small stone of January into the river. I’m sorry to say I had to rush through this last one as my day has been almost filled with appointments. Happily, the last one involves meeting... Comment - Like
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Jan 30, 2012, 11:31 am
When she looked up, she closed her eyes against the brilliance of the sun, feeling the warmth spread across her face. The brightness was still there, penetrating the darkness behind her eyelids. Bright, bold yellows radiated outwards in star-like patterns. Miniature suns in blazing reds and ho... Comment - Like
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Jan 29, 2012, 7:40 pm
in the herb garden in winter
time advances so quickly
it appears to stand still
Day 29. Comment - Like
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Jan 28, 2012, 1:59 pm
blown about by the North Wind
the tang of woodsmoke
drifts in and out
sparrows spiraling
weaving
black polka dots overhead
meandering across a drab gray sky
mobs of snowflakes arrive
silently rioting and gathering
in patches and drifts
the blue jay in the woods
screeches
in a counter-dem... Comment - Like
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Jan 27, 2012, 6:21 pm
moving slowly from image to image
soaking up, breathing in, captivated by
the light and color of art
on a gray and snizzling day
a marvelous way to wile away an afternoon
as we sail through the January Doldrums
on our way to the February Funk
Day 27. ”Snizzling” is not a word (that I ca... Comment - Like
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Jan 26, 2012, 12:09 pm
Warm air up above
Cold air down below
Rain transmuted to ice
In the church of
the temperature inversion
A small stone for Day 26. Comment - Like
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Jan 25, 2012, 10:48 am
immersing myself in melancholy
(a pity party with whine and cheese)
life gives me a sudden chiropractic treatment of the mind
(an attitude adjustment)
pulling me out of the muck of my own making
opening me up to possibility
and joy
Day 25.
As I mentioned on my other blog yesterday, we are sa... Comment - Like
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Oct 27, 2011, 11:52 am
Fairytales were maps formed of blood and hair and bones; they were the knots of the sub-conscious unwound. Every word in every tale was real and as true as apples and stones. They all led to the story inside the story.
~ Alice Hoffman Comment - Like
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Oct 26, 2011, 10:10 am
Autumn light
Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame.
B. K. S. Iyengar Comment - Like
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Sep 22, 2011, 6:47 am
Moths in the meadow on a breezy morning
All beings are encompassed within one all-encompassing great energy: So I understood from the coolness of this morning’s passing breeze.
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Sep 19, 2011, 6:18 am
I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
~ Emily Dickinson Comment - Like
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Sep 9, 2011, 8:58 am
What is it that you contain? The dead. Time. Light patterns of millennia opening in your gut. Every minute, in each of you, a few million potassium atoms succumb to radioactive decay. The energy that powers these tiny atomic events has been locked inside potassium atoms ever since a star-s... Comment - Like
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Sep 8, 2011, 6:10 am
Celebrate each season, for you too, are transformed with the turns of the earth.
~ Arthur Dobrin Comment - Like
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Sep 7, 2011, 6:58 am
Is childhood ever long enough, or a happy time, or even a beautiful summer day? All of these carry the seeds of the same fierce mystery that we call death.
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Sep 6, 2011, 6:00 am
Paint Mines Interpretive Park. Calhan, Colorado. August 2010.
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.
~ T. S. Eliot
I’m not sure I have many followers here at Bountiful Healing anymore. I’ve let the blog stagnate, occasionally bringing back the post... Comment - Like
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May 22, 2011, 11:29 am
I look back with gladness to the day when I found the path to the land of heart’s desire, and thank Fate ceaselessly with a loud voice that she did not permit town to sap all the years away while the heart was turning to wind-voices and flower-faces and the hands of kindly earth.
~ Mrs. George Cr... Comment - Like
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May 11, 2011, 9:28 am
(Apple blossoms.)
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
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May 10, 2011, 9:00 am
Don’t disregard your life. It is too precious. This moment, right now, is the only life you will ever have. You can’t store it up for the ideal time. When you walk, walk with your whole body and mind joining the floor. Place your eyes in the soles of your feet, walking as if the floor ... Comment - Like
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Apr 25, 2011, 8:51 am
The first drops of rain always bring a smile on our faces. The smell of wet soil, the damp grass, and the slosh of puddles under our feet makes us want to dance with wanton joy. Rains make a heart go romantic. Ever danced in the rain? The feeling is inexplicably beautiful. Hold your sweeth... Comment - Like
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Apr 15, 2011, 8:30 am
Life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and now.
~Thich Nhat Hanh Comment - Like
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Mar 23, 2011, 8:19 am
Be not the slave of your own past –
plunge into the sublime seas,
dive deep, and swim far,
so you shall come back
with self-respect,
with new power,
with an advanced experience,
that shall explain
and overlook
the old.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Comment - Like
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Mar 21, 2011, 8:48 am
The wind blows hard among the pines
Toward the beginning
Of an endless past.
Listen: you’ve heard everything.
~ Shinkichi Takahashi, Zen Poems of China and Japan, Lucien Stryk, p. 125 Comment - Like
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Mar 5, 2011, 10:22 pm
The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice there is little we can do to change until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.
~ Daniel Goleman
Winter has been teaching me about itself this yea... Comment - Like
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Feb 25, 2011, 7:54 am
As human beings, not only do we seek resolution, but we also feel that we deserve resolution. However, not only do we not deserve resolution, we suffer from resolution. We don’t deserve resolution; we deserve something better than that. We deserve our birthright, which is the middle way, an op... Comment - Like
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Feb 19, 2011, 11:45 am
Your beloved and your friends were once strangers. Somehow at a particular time, they came from the distance toward your life. Their arrival seemed so accidental and contingent. Now your life is unimaginable without them. Similarly, your identity and vision are composed of a certain constell... Comment - Like
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Feb 12, 2011, 12:04 pm
I like to live in the sound of water, in the feel of the mountain air. A sharp reminder hits me: this world still is alive; it stretches out there shivering toward its own creation, and I’m part of it. Even my breathing enters into this elaborate give-and-take, this bowing to sun and moon, d... Comment - Like
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Feb 9, 2011, 9:03 am
(At the bridge.)
The answer is never the answer. What’s really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you’ll always be seeking. I’ve never seen anybody really find the answer — they think they have, so they stop thinking. But the job is to seek my... Comment - Like
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Feb 3, 2011, 4:17 pm
(Approaching the abyss)
We have no where to go (really) but down — eventually we must all let go and jump — it is supposedly that act which propels us to the next level — to enlightenment. What would bring us to this point — where are we willing to give up the self? Does the fall into t... Comment - Like
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Jan 17, 2011, 10:54 am
Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive — that you can touch the miracle of being alive — then that is a kind of enlightenment.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh Comment - Like
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Jan 7, 2011, 10:45 pm
(The storage room. Washington, D.C.)
Wonder begins with the element of surprise. The now almost obsolete word ‘wonderstruck’ suggests that wonder breaks into consciousness with a dramatic suddenness that produces amazement or astonishment. Because of the suddenness with which it appears, ... Comment - Like
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Jan 2, 2011, 7:52 pm
(Making yourself a(t) home. Washington, D.C.)
All altruism springs from putting yourself in the other person’s place.
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Nov 22, 2010, 9:13 pm
A mind that is passionate is inquiring, searching, looking, asking, demanding, not merely trying to find for its discontent some object in which it can fulfill itself and go to sleep. A passionate mind is groping, seeking, breaking through, not accepting any tradition; it is not a decided mind, no... Comment - Like
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Nov 15, 2010, 10:58 am
Listen closely.
The eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been going on, and will go on and on. This is because the world is nothing but a dream and is just thought of and the everlasting eternity pays no attention to it.
~ Jack Kerouac Comment - Like
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Nov 10, 2010, 7:25 am
It’s hard to remember that this day will never come again. That the time is now and the place is here and that there are no second chances at a single moment.
~ Jeanette Winterson Comment - Like
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Nov 9, 2010, 9:23 am
(Atop Bald Mountain. Boulder, Colorado.)
Merely looking at the world around us is immensely different from seeing it.
~ Frederick Frank Comment - Like
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Nov 4, 2010, 9:50 pm
The markets of the world are flowing with goods and services produced by the interplay of sun and earth, air and water, and the inexhaustible imagination and energy of human beings. Whenever you touch an object made or conveyed by humans, you are touched by all the people who have reached their ha... Comment - Like
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Nov 2, 2010, 6:35 am
I was born upon thy bank, river,
My blood flows in thy stream,
And thou meanderest forever
At the bottom of my dream.
~ Henry David Thoreau Comment - Like
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Oct 29, 2010, 11:08 am
Many a time have I merely closed my eyes at the end of yet another troublesome day and soaked my bruised psyche in wild water, rivers remembered and rivers imagined. Rivers course through my dreams, rivers cold and fast, rivers well-known and rivers nameless, rivers that seem like ribbons of blue ... Comment - Like
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Oct 28, 2010, 8:58 am
It does not require a large eye to see a large mountain. The reason is that, though the eye is small, the soul which sees through it is greater and vaster than all the things which it perceives. In fact, it is so great that it includes all objects, however large or numerous, within itself. For... Comment - Like
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Oct 25, 2010, 2:02 pm
(Terraces.)
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
If you subscribe to Bountiful Healing, you have probably noticed the occasional flurry of activity regarding new posts that turn out to be old posts. A while back I switched mos... Comment - Like
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Oct 23, 2010, 8:03 pm
If we are not attached to outcomes then we will not suffer from the pain of fallen expectations.
~ Master Cheng Yen Comment - Like
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Oct 14, 2010, 11:19 am
Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.
~ John Muir Comment - Like
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Oct 6, 2010, 9:58 am
Change is a measure of time and, in the autumn, time seems speeded up. What was is not and never again will be; what is is change.
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Sep 27, 2010, 3:44 pm
(Looking into the eye of a horse.)
A lovely horse is always an experience… It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words.
~ Beryl Markham Comment - Like
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Sep 23, 2010, 5:13 pm
There is a language older by far and deeper than words. It is the language of bodies, of body on body, wind on snow, rain on trees, wave on stone. It is the language of dream, gesture, symbol, memory. We have forgotten this language. We do not even remember that it exists.
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