A Pause For Beauty
Your path you must decide. You will find only what you bring in.
What is the Godhead? It is the passing of a bottle with all your soul.
- Enkan
Make yourselves nests of pleasant thoughts. None of us knows what fairy palaces we might build of beautiful thought -- proof against all adversity. Bright fancies, satisfied memories, noble histories, faithful sayings, treasure houses of precious and restful thoughts, which care cannot disturb, nor pain make gloomy, nor poverty take away from us.
- John Ruskin, The Works Of John RuskinAt times, our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
- Albert Schweitzer, Reverence For LifeWhen you look at the dark side, careful you must be. For the dark side looks back. . . Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny. Consume you, it will. . . Your path you must decide. . . You will find only what you bring in.
– Yoda, Star Wars: The Jedi Path
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The directory of all chapters (early drafts) here:
The Gentle Arts Of Living A Quality Life On Your Own Terms.
There will be many revisions prior to publication, projected for November.
Heron Dance:
Creating A Life Worth Living
(What I’ve Learned)
It starts with gratitude. A Pause For Beauty, our daily e-journal, is an expression of gratitude for the beauty and mystery of life, of wild nature.
Make a unique contribution to others’ lives based on what makes you unique: your unique skills, experience and dreams. Your song within. We need that from you.
Be generous. Share. Your first question, “How do I best serve others?” not “What’s in it for me?”
Work. Have persistence. Don’t give up. Expect the world to be indifferent at first.
It ends just as it started: with and expression of gratitude.
“Thank you for being a part of my journey, for spreading the word, for supporting my work.”
Gratitude, love, harmony, beauty are the positive energies of the universe. Serve them and have faith.
Faith is always an adventure. . .