Stillness

Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
~Hermann Hesse

Your Path

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity . . . and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
~William Blake

Fine Feathers

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.
~Aesop

Mt. Rainier

You must dare to disassociate yourself from those who would delay your journey... Leave, depart, if not physically, then mentally. Go your own way, quietly, undramatically, and venture toward trueness at last.
~Vernon Howard

An Adventure

You must pray that the way be long,
full of adventures and experiences.
~Constantine Peter Cavafy

Summer woods

I care not so much what I am to others
as what I am to myself.
~Michel de Montaigne
French essayist (1533 - 1592)

Douglas Squirrel

"Knowing what will happen in the future, we are faced with a simple choice: either we resolve not to become attached to people and things, or we decide to love them even more fiercely."
~Amélie Nothomb
The Character of Rain

How do you experience?

"Once in awhile it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way they have been told to."
~Alan Keightley

Townsend's Warbler

Didn't I tell you it was there?
You could have found it without any trouble at all.
The south wind is warm;
The sun shines peacefully;
The birds warble their glad songs.
Spring blossoms in every treetop.
~Jakushitsu

We all quote

"By necessity, by proclivity and by delight, we all quote."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson