Simply This

Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things. ~Thomas Merton

"Humankind has not woven the web of Life.  We are but one thread within it.  Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.  All t...

  Walking Meditation The mind can go in a thousand directions. But on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, a ge...

Wholeness is already here "Just the simple feeling of being is enough,  the simplicity and aliveness of this ." ~f...

“Nothing we see or hear is perfect.  But right there in the imperfection  is perfect reality."   ~Shunryu Suzuki

“Eternity is really long, especially near the end.” ~Woody Allen

"The secret of life is that there are no secrets.  Life is always showing itself." ~Byron Katie

"How do you let go  of attachments to things?  Don't even try.  It's impossible.  Attachment to things drops away by...

"You are the aperture through which the  universe is looking at and exploring itself." ~Alan Watts

"We are here to awaken from the illusion of our separateness."  ~Thich Nhat Hanh

"I never know how much of what I say is true."  ~Bette Midler image: cholla cactus flowers / May 2012

Hare today...gone tomorrow.

early morning Reid Park / Tucson, AZ/ May 2012 Linking to Weekend Reflections

The world shines about me, luminous as the moon, smiling like a rose, and a sweet benediction flows through everything existing. How bea...

 Beyond what we wish  and what we fear may happen we have another life, as clear and free as a mountain stream. ~ Rumi

"We don't love others when we find them beautiful, we find others beautiful when we love them." ~Josei Toda - Japanese ...

"Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor betw...

“Can words describe the fragrance of the very breath of spring?” ~Neltje Blanchan Image: Lemon blossom / Tucson, AZ / March 2012

“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.” ~Margaret Atwood

"The very things we wish to avoid, reject, and flee from turn out to be the 'prima materia' from which all real growth com...