Everything comes round again...

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Under the volcanoes, La Antigua Guatemala 2006, by Catherine Todd

Do not grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

Rumi

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rumi 

The Garden is my Church

Tiger Lilies in my garden, Oxford NC 2005 by Catherine Todd

The Garden is my Church

and benches are my pews
lilies are candle bearers

fountain is holy water

sun and moon eternal
birds in God's choir

God speaks in silence

God says I AM

Every tree is full of angels

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Fountain in my garden, Oxford NC 2010, by Catherine Todd

Holiness comes wrapped in the ordinary.
There are burning bushes all around you.
Every tree is full of angels.
Hidden beauty is waiting in every crumb.

Macrina Wiederkehr, O.S.B
A Tree Full of Angels

Laugh at the Sky

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Artwork Copyright Ann Baranowski 2011

 

When you realize how perfect everything is

you will tilt your head back

and laugh at the sky.

Buddha

That which God said

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 Artwork Copyright Ann Baranowski 2011

That which God said to the rose,
and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty,
He said to my heart,
and made it a hundred times more beautiful.

• III, 4129

Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

Jewels of Remembrance : A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance: Containing 365 Selections from the Wisdom of Rumi (1996

wikiquote.org/wiki/Rumi

Envy

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Artwork Copyright Ann Baranowski 2011 

Envy according to the aspect of its object is contrary to charity,

whence the soul derives its spiritual life…

Charity rejoices in our neighbor's good,

while envy grieves over it.

St. Thomas Aquinas

No Measure of Health

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Artwork Copyright Ann Baranowski 2011

It is no measure of health

to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Krishnamurti

Silence

Artwork Copyright Ann Baranowski 2011

God's first language is Silence.

All else is a poor translation.

Thomas Keating, Trappist monk

Providence

Artwork Copyright Ann Baranowski 2011

Concerning all acts of initiative and creation,

there is one elementary truth:

that the moment one definitely commits oneself,

Providence moves, too.

Prayer to Heal All Wounds ~ "Glowing"

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I ask God to heal us every day. Forgive those who have trespassed against us.
Heal our wounds. Grant peace to our souls and peace to the world.

Amen

Sorrow & Story

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All sorrows can be borne if you tell a story about them.

~ Karen Blixen

Train To Birmingham ~ Kevin Welch

I know this page is for quotes, but this song is poetry. 
I would love this blog to be for favorite songs, poems & more.
Seems to me this is Welch's prayer of coming home.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PctiJNoAG9Y 

Kevin Welch with the Kevin Bennet band recorded in Australia preforming
the John Haitt song Train to Birmingham. Haitt never recorded this song.

Train To Birmingham

performed by Kevin Welch, songwriter John Hiatt 

Ridin' on this train
Drinkin' whiskey for my pain
'Nother good ol' boy goin' home

And every town I see
Wants to take a part of me
That's the price that you pay
When you roam

Chorus:
And I cry when I have to
And I lie when I can
Oh, but I die a little slower
On the train to Birmingham

I walk with holes in both my shoes
Got a guitar full of blues
One way ticket for my remedy

It's the same ol' lonesome song
I'm singin' all night long
Hey porter, are we out of Tennessee?

Repeat Chorus

Every year I take a train
To Alabama in the rain
I get that lonesome feelin' in my bones

You know, I never get to Birmingham
You know, gettin' there ain't the plan
I just like the feel of goin' home

Repeat Chorus

On the train to Birmingham


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A Spiritual Life

 

Paradiso Canto by Gustave Dore 

"The reward of a spiritual life is a spiritual life."

 

 

Favorite Quotes ~ To Do List

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.

George Washington


A Nun's Life: http://anunslife.org/2008/09/30/be-still-and-know-that-i-am-god/


All shall be well. All shall be well. And all manner of things shall be well.
~ Julian of Norwich


 “It is Well With My Soul”
When peace like a river, attendeth my way, When sorrows like sea billows roll;
Whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to say, It is well, it is well, with my soul.
~ hymn composed by Horatio Spafford

"The Milky Way was the Wolf's trail- the route to heaven."
~ A Sacred Spirit, The Wisdom of the Wolf

http://www.fortunecity.com/greenfield/wolf/599/asacredspirit.htm

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from http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/2761662.Margaret_Lee_Runbeck

Apology is a lovely perfume; it can transform the clumsiest moment into a gracious gift.  ~Margaret Lee Runbeck

"Silence make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts."
— Margaret Lee Runbeck

tags: friendship

"Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling."
— Margaret Lee Runbeck

tags: happiness , keep-it-light

"Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling."
— Margaret Lee Runbeck

"Learning is rebellion....Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before."
— Margaret Lee Runbeck

"Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts."
— Margaret Lee Runbeck

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http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rumi


Not yet sourced by chapter:

• Every tree and plant in the meadow seemed to be dancing, those which average eyes would see as fixed and still.

• God's joy moved from unmarked box to unmarked box,
  from cell to cell.

• Observe the wonders as they occur around you.
  Don't claim them. Feel the artistry
  moving through, and be silent.
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• If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it.

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Vespers, Evening Prayer:  ... As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

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Those Who Appear
In Your Life
Whether To Help Or
To Harm You Are
All Given By GOD
Meet All Of Them With
A Peaceful Heart But
With A Warrior’s Spirit
You’ll Fail Many Times
But
In Failing You’ll Learn
And In Learning You’ll
Find Your Way.
Remember There Are
No Mistakes In Life
Only Lessons &
Lessons Will Keep
Repeating Themselves On
Until Learned … (:
 
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http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2010/01/13/castaneda-and-the-warriors-spirit-2/


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The most difficult thing in this world is to adopt the spirit and attitude of a warrior. It is no use being sad, complaining, feeling unjustly treated, and believing someone is doing something negative. No one is doing anything, and certainly not to a warrior.


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‎"We all have our days. It's when our mind is on the injustice all the time and it grows, blooms, now you have a garden, crop and miles and miles of weeds who wants weeds plant something that will produce something good. It all starts out a bad habit and becomes a way of life. Unless we plant seeds harvest and replant some poor souls do that with weed seed!"

from Kayla Wilson Clark on FB

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Love rests on no foundation. It is an endless ocean, with no beginning or end.

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From my uncle John Merrick:

In looking for a Alan Watts quote on "war", I came across this on which I found enlightening.

     "I had a discussion with a great master in Japan... and we were talking about the various people who are working to translate the Zen books into English, and he said, "That's a waste of time. If you really understand Zen... you can use any book. You could use the Bible. You could use Alice in Wonderland. You could use the dictionary, because... the sound of the rain needs no translation."


These  metaphors of consciousness are reflective of the Taoist way of non-contentious willing and non-conceptual understanding in connection with the idea and practice of virtue.


from

"Venturing upon dizzy heights: lectures and essays on philosophy, literature" ... By Bruce Ross

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Every time you express gratitude or compassion for any aspect of yourself or someone else, you breathe life in.

Mariah Fenton Gladis
Tales of a Wounded Healer


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If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.
Thomas á Kempis 

Thomas á Kempis, Author of the 'Imitation of Christ', born at Kempen in the Diocese of Cologne, in 1379 or 1380; died 25 July, 1471. 

See: "It is impossible to exaggerate the influence of those years in the formation of his character." 

He was born into the artisan class.

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14661a.htm  


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"So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains. And we never even know we have the key." ~ Eagles, "Already Gone."

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Most of us look at our ideals, say how far we are from them, and get depressed. But it is heroic simply to say, "Here are my ideals," state them before the world, and then spend your life trying to live up to them.

Keshavan Nair
New Dimensions Radio interview


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Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future. Oscar Wilde 


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 "To study the Buddha Way is to study the self, to study the self is to forget the self, and to forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things."
~ Master Dogen


Zazen is a particular kind of meditation, unique to Zen, that functions centrally as the very heart of the practice. In fact, Zen Buddhists are generally known as the "meditation Buddhists." Basically, zazen is the study of the self. 


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The Seven Deadly Sins

and many more...

Let's do this group, and then find their antidote. There's links to other wiki pages.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_deadly_sins

 See: an allegorical image depicting the human heart subject to the seven deadly sins, each represented by an animal (clockwise: toad = avarice; snake = envy; lion = wrath; snail = sloth; pig = gluttony; goat = lust; peacock = pride).


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It Is Well With My Soul - The Innocence Mission

2 Chronicles 7:14

New International Version (NIV)

14 if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. More


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To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love all pray in their distress, and to these virtues of delight return their thankfulness.

William Blake
The Divine Image

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We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
Joseph Campbell

Note from AB on this one: 

 

Cat, I hear you so clearly on that one!!! I think it is part of the constant "brainwashing" we received...this is where I have to intervene on my own behalf, and be the gentle, compassionate, completely on my side "mother" actually say things to sooth myself, comfort myself...those things we were supposed to learn from our moms, dads to do for ourselves. We got the opposite and we never learned the skill of self-comfort.

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The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too.

W.H. Murray
"The Scottish Himalayan Expedition"

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The future has many names. For the weak it is unattainable. For the fearful it is the unknown. For the bold it is opportunity.

Victor Hugo
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"One's destination is never a place but a new way of seeing things."

                                                                 - Henry Miller

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Real life isn't always going to be perfect or go our way, but the recurring acknowledgement of what is working in our lives can help us not only to survive but surmount our difficulties.

Sara Ban Breathnach---
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A person educated in mind and not in morals is a menace to society.

Author: Juanita Kidd Stout

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I got half-a-dozen paintings from that shattered plate.

Georgia O'Keeffe

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"There are big ships and small ships.

But the best ship of all is friendship."

~ Author Unknown

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