All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. Martin Buber

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NO: USE ORIGINAL (above)

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. Martin Buber. FINISH!

Royal Illuminated Decorative Alphabet (Golden)

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Royal Illuminated (Golden). Purchased 10/10/13 from Christ Images christimages@outlook.com, christimages.org/gifts/illuminated_letters_download.htm $19.95. Lg & small size.They have other fonts too.
UPDATE 2018: website "for sale," no longer exists. (???)

The Creative Life, Waiting to be Born

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The garden is my church and everything in it...

Lute Player

Golden Lilies in my NC Garden 2006

Fountain in our garden in Oxford, North Carolina 2006

The garden is my church... and everything in it.

~ Catherine Todd, 2006

The lover of nature is the true worshipper of God.

Bowl of Saki, August 13, by Hazrat Inayat Khan

The Three P's

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Practice the Three P's: Patience Pardon Prayer

Laugh until you weep

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Laugh until you weep

Laugh until you weep. Weep until there's nothing left but to laugh at your weeping. In the end it's all one.

Resurrection

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Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go out and do it.

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Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go out and do it.

Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. Howard Thurman

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. Some are ready to change and others are not.

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't.It's that some people are ready to change and others are not. James Gordon.

We are all recovering, all the time, from something or someone!

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We  are all recovering, all the time, from something or someone!!

Love  R R  June 2013

“For a positive outlook,

Keep your heart & mind open to happiness.

Practice makes perfect.”

We are the Creators of our World

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Aridi Fractal 1X008

We blame others for our sorrows and misfortunes, not perceiving that we ourselves are the creators of our world.
 Bowl of Saki, June 6, 2013 by Hazrat Inayat Khan
. Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:
 Externally we are a single being, but internally we are a world. As vast as is the world around us, so vast is the world within. Asif says, 'The limitation of the sky and land cannot be compared with man's heart. If man's heart be wide, there is nothing wider than this.' All can be accommodated in it; heaven earth, sun, moon, all are reflected in it. It becomes itself the whole. This world becomes as one chooses to make it. If man only knew that! But since he does not know that, the world is not heaven, but has become its opposite. We blame others for our sorrows and misfortunes, not perceiving that we ourselves are the creators of our world; that our world has an influence upon our life within as well as upon our life without. http://wahiduddin.net/mv2/VII/VII_17.htm

The world is a magical place full of people waiting to be offended by something

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Attitude is the principle thing in life.

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Attitude is the principle thing in life. It is not the conditions in life which change life for us, but mostly it is our * attitude toward life and its conditions * upon which depends our happiness or unhappiness.  ~ Bowl of Saki, June 3, 2013, by Hazrat Inayat Khan

The Journey is the Destination

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Who knows where life will take you, the road is long & in the end the journey is the destination.

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution.

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Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution.

Norman Vincent Peale

Truth and Perceived Truth

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Obviously "truth" is meaningless to some people. They would rather blame someone, some thing, some time or some place: anything other than themselves. I have been the recipient of this all my life. And there is nothing I can do about it
but live my life "to the best of my ability." 

Dear God please show me The Way.

TRUTH

"I agree with you about truths and perceived truths, just like with our estrangements.  Everyone experiences things in their own way, and then their perceptions and misconceptions become their reality. And that's why it's so hard for any resolutions or reconciliations to occur (especially long term) and especially without professional help, courts of law, etc.

P.M. / K.A. 

"positive reassurances aren't so helpful, if they are part of mixed messages."

Truth and Perceived Truth

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Obviously "truth" is meaningless to some people. They would rather blame someone, something, some time or some place: anything other than themselves. I have been the recipient of this all my life. And there is nothing I can do about it
but live my life "to the best of my ability." 

Dear God please show me The Way.

TRUTH

"I agree with you about truths and perceived truths, just like with our estrangements.  Everyone experiences things in their own way, and then their perceptions and misconceptions become their reality. And that's why it's so hard for any resolutions or reconciliations to occur (especially long term) and especially without professional help, courts of law, etc.

P.M. / K.A. 

"positive reassurances aren't so helpful, if they are part of mixed messages."

How to live magnificently in this world

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One can live magnificently in this world if one knows how to work and how to love. ~ Leo Tolstoy

 

I don't know how to do either, but it's good to read it here.

Maybe that day will come even for people like me. ~ CT