Spirituality

Spirituality for me is recognizing that I am connected to the energy of all creation, that I am part of it -- and it is always part of me ... Allowing the truth of who you are -- your spiritual self -- to rule your life means you stop the struggle and learn to move with the flow of your life.
(Oprah Winfrey, Words That Matter, by The Editors of The Oprah Magazine, p. 133)
7 February 2016

This Day Belongs To Me

C&O Canal Boat - Cumberland, MD

Photo by Mr. Dickie

This day belongs to me. I can do wonderful things with it, creative things, including the creation of order in my surroundings and in my mind. Nobody else owns my particular segment of time, so it depends only on me how well I will fill every moment to the satisfaction. ... live one day at a time. This is that day.
(One Day At A Time In Al-Anon, 30 July)
5 March 2015

Do You Own It?

God has lent us the earth for our life ...

It belongs as much to those who are to come after us, 

and whose names are already written in the book of creation, 

as to us.

(John Ruskin, in The Little Book Of Virtues, 22 February)

31 July 2013

History

[Throughout history] Dishonorable, cowardly decisions invariably have led us to corruption and destruction.  Honorable, visionary decisions have led us to creation and advancement.  (Larsen and Hegarty, Believing In Myself, 21 November) 26 November 2011

Henry David Thoreau

The night veils without doubt a part of this glorious creation; but day comes to reveal to us this great work, which extends from earth even into the plains of the ether. (Henry David Thoreau, Walden, p. 374)

The perch swallows the grubworm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the perch; and so all the chinks in the scale of being are filled. (Henry David Thoreau, Walden, p. 376) 22 July 2011