“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.” ~ Thomas Merton ❤️

“The Simple Path Silence is Prayer Prayer is Faith Faith is Love Love is Service The Fruit of Service is Peace” ~ Mother Teresa ❤️

"Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean." ~ John Muir ❤️

“Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.” ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson May your evening be enchanting ❤️

“Live simply so others may simply live.” ~ Mother Teresa ❤️

“Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Good morning my friends! I hope that you have a delicious day ❤️

“The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.” ~ Pema Chodron If we can set aside our anger, perhaps we'll see the love lessons that are unfolding before us. Perhaps we'll learn to be the light. I hope that you have a most special evening my friends ❤️

“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.” ~ Carl Sagan ❤️

"To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle." ~ Walt Whitman Good morning Bluesky! ♥️

“We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.” ~ Jimmy Carter ❤️

"The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected." ~ Robert Frost Good morning my friends. I hope that your day is filled with love and laughter ♥️

“Home is the nicest word there is.” ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder I am home from the hospital now, and all seems to be going as well as could be expected. Thanks to all for the well wishes! ❤️

Good morning my friends! I ended up spending the night in the hospital, but things are going well. I expect that I will be released later today. I hope that you have a blissful day ♥️

“By acting compassionately, by helping to restore justice and to encourage peace, we are acknowledging that we are all part of one another.” ― Ram Dass Have a splendid Tuesday ❤️

Tomorrow morning I'm scheduled for hip replacement, so I may be offline for a couple of days... maybe not. We'll see how I'm feeling. Have a wonderful evening my friends ❤️

“In Love’s service, only wounded soldiers can serve.” ~Thornton Wilder There are so many that need help just to survive, and more coming every day. It's time for the wounded and the broken to rise up and be the love. You were born to be the light. Now shine ❤️

“You are not too old and it is not too late to dive into your increasing depths where life calmly gives out its own secret.” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke ❤️

“The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale Good morning Bluesky! Have yourself a most excellent day ❤️

“Peace begins with a smile..” ~ Mother Teresa It's so very tempting to be the Righteous Indignation. Instead, be the Peace. Be the Understanding. Be the energy that illuminates us all, and let no circumstance deter you from that path. If you'll love them, you'll find them hard to stay mad at. ❤️

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“It is impossible for you to go on as you were before, so you must go on as you never have.” ~ Cheryl Strayed Good morning kind folks! Sometimes we need to just sit down in a beautiful place and understand. If you're wondering what love would do, be love, and then you'll know. ❤️

“All good things are wild and free.” ~ Henry David Thoreau I've had an extraordinary day, and I hope that you have as well. May your evening be sweet and dreamy. ❤️

Please, be kind to your body and your mind. It starts with you. Be the light, be the love. ❤️

“Walking is man's best medicine. ” ~ Hippocrates Good morning! My love affair with walking is the only reason that I'm still alive. My journey of healing leads me through the forests, over the mountains, beside the rivers. Take good care of yourselves, and have a wonderful day ❤️

“Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you/ That you may be my poem/ I whisper with my lips close to your ear/ I have loved many women and men, but I love none better than you.” ~ Walt Whitman Have a splendid evening my friends ❤️

“People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.” ~ Dalai Lama XIV ❤️

"We do not learn from experience… we learn from reflecting on experience" ~ John Dewey Good morning Bluesky! ❤️

“Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become.” ~ Paramahansa Yogananda Have a great night! ❤️

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.” ~ Dr. Seuss ❤️

“Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.” ~ Thomas Merton Have a delightful evening ❤️

“Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life.” ~ Mother Teresa ❤️

“May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children.” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke Good morning my friends ❤️

“I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.” ~ Gustave Flaubert Have a delicious evening my friends ❤️

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“The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can't be organized or regulated. It isn't true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.” ~ Ram Dass Good morning ❤️

“I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.” ~ Hermann Hesse Sweet dreams ❤️

“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.” ~ Henry David Thoreau ❤️

~enjoy!

“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.” ~ Rumi Good morning my friends. Now is the time to feel joy, to spread joy, to be joy. Have an amazing day ❤️

“Reflection is the lamp of the heart. If it departs, the heart will have no light.” ~ Imam Al-Haddad ❤️

“Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh Good morning! ❤️

This is a young northern cardinal. The feathers are both the red of the male cardinal and the reddish brown of the female. The beak is transitioning to the yellow beak of the adults. Photo taken in my backyard. #birds 🪶 #birdwatching #birdwatcher #birdnerd #nature #photography

"Not all those who wander are lost" J. R. R. Tolkien ❤️

“I will practice coming back to the present moment...not letting regrets and sorrow drag me back into the past or letting anxieties, fears, or cravings pull me out...” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh Good morning ❤️

I thought that it was time for me to share a Behind The Scenes photograph. Have a wonderful evening ❤️

“You have to live through it and love it and move on and be better for it and run as far as you can in the direction of your best and happiest dreams across the bridge that was built by your own desire to heal.” ~ Cheryl Strayed ❤️

“I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.” ~ Mother Teresa Good morning good people! It's time to be the love. It's time to find the ways. It's time to put our broken hearts and minds to work. Don't hide your wounds. They will light the path! ❤️

“Everything we are is at every moment alive in us.” ~ Arthur Miller ❤️

"The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep." ~ Rumi Good morning my friends!

“The more you know, the less you need.” ~ Yvon Chouinard Have a delightful evening ❤️