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Had to share...a good reminder for me that was sent in a newsletter I received.


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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
-Marcel Proust, French novelist

You've got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old - whatever 'the old' means for you.  ~Sarah Ban Breathnach

The following is the philosophy of Charles Schultz, the creator of the "Peanuts" comic strip. You don't have to actually answer the questions. Just read the e-mail straight through, and you'll get the point ( Read more... )

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Surrender to love is the hardest damn work I have ever done in my life. Put me working in prisons to teach murderers how to give good massages or give me women who haven't slept without nightmares in ten years, but don't ask me to be open and receive tender loving care of someone who is going to know all my dirty laundry and stick around anyway!

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Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.

It is a great art to saunter.

- Thoreau, journal entry; excerpted in Thoreau and the ( Read more... )

THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made
Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honeybee
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.

And I shall have some peace there, for peace
        Comes dropping slow.
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Only in Silence

As we continue to unfurl our presence on earth,
must everything have a name and a use?

Robert Perkins