4/23/27 AM TM
Why I Wake Early
“Hello, sun in my face.
Hello, you who made the morning
and spread it over the fields
and into the faces of the tulips
and the nodding morning glories,
…
Watch, now, how I start the day
in happiness, in kindness.”
~ Mary Oliver
4/22/26 PM TM
“Although I am a typical loner in daily life,
my consciousness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth,
beauty, and justice has preserved me
from feeling isolated.”
~ Albert Einstein
4/22/26 AM TM
“Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes.
Because for those who love with heart and soul
there is no such thing as separation.”
~ Rumi
4/21/26 PM TM
“Although I am a typical loner in daily life,
my consciousness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth,
beauty, and justice has preserved me
from feeling isolated.”
~ Albert Einstein
4/21/26 AM TM
“The path of awakening is not about becoming who you are.
Rather it is about unbecoming who you are not.”
~ Albert Schweitzer
4/20/26 PM TM
“Every thought, as has every spoken word, has some influence on the thinker and on his surroundings. Just as a stone thrown into a pond produces waves …
The whole universe is influenced by every thought, word, and action of every individual.”
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
4/20/26 PM TM
“All journeys have secret destinations
of which the traveler is unaware.”
~ Martin Buber (Austrian philosopher, 1878-1965)
4/19/26 PM TM AN IRISH BLESSING
“May the road rise to meet you,
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face
…
May green be the grass you walk on,
May blue be the skies above you,
May pure be the joys that surround you,
May true be the hearts that love you.”
4/18/26 AM TM
“Talent hits a target no one else can hit;
Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
~ Arthur Schopenhaur
4/17/26 PM TM
“The primary indication of a
well-ordered (or enlightened) mind is a man’s ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company.”
~ Seneca
4/16/26 PM TM
“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.”
~ Socrates, Greek philosopher. Born 470 or 469 BC, died 399 BC.
“Happiness and freedom begin with one principle.
Some things are within your control and some are not.”
~ Epictetus – Stoic philosopher. Lived from 85-155 AD.
4/16 AM TM
“Life is amazing. And then it's awful. And then it's amazing again.
Breathe in the amazing, hold on through the awful, and relax and exhale during the ordinary. That's just living heartbreaking, soul-healing, amazing, awful, ordinary life. And it's breathtakingly beautiful.”
~ L.R. Knost
4/16/26 PM TM
“ I salute the light within your eyes where the whole universe dwells.
For when you are at that center within you and I am in that place within me,
we shall be one.”
~ Crazy Horse, a chief of the Oglala band of Lakota Sioux
4/16/26 AM TM
“To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.”
~ Lao Tzu, 571 BC, ancient Chinese philosopher and writer
“Be still, and know that I am God.”
~ Psalm 46:10
4/14/26 PM TM
“Transcendental Meditation is not a selfish thing. Even though you are diving in and experiencing the Self, you’re not closing yourself off from the world. You’re strengthening yourself, so that you can be more effective when you go back into the world.”
~ David Lynch's message…
4/14/26 AM TM
A Living
~ Emily Lewis Penn
“Every single blade of grass
has its own special song.
Reb Nachman
Have you ever wondered
what you do for a living
changes how
you encounter the world?
…
a pen in your other hand,
instead of flying away?”
4/13/26 PM TM
“Yes
And sometimes
it all arrives at once.
The anxiety, the fear,
the voices that scratch
your confidence like
a chalkboard and somehow
all the oxygen in the room
suddenly becomes water
…
The answer is
this is temporary,
and yes, you will.”
~ Rudy Francisco
4/13/26 AM TM
“All of humanity's problems stem from
man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
~ Blaise Pascal, 1623 – 1662, a French mathematician,
physicist, inventor, philosopher, and Catholic writer.
“Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.”
~ Blaise Pascal
4/12/26 PM TM
“Just keep in mind:
the more we value things
outside our control,
the less control we have.”
~ Epictetus, 50-135 AD, Greek stoic
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having fewer wants.”
~ Epictetus
4/12/26 AM TM
I Worried
“I worried a lot. Will the garden grow, will the rivers
flow in the right direction, will the earth turn
as it was taught,
…
Finally I saw that worrying had come to nothing.
And gave it up. And took my old body
and went out into the morning,
and sang.”
~ Mary Oliver
4/11/26 PM TM
“Love feels no burden,
thinks nothing of trouble,
attempts what is above its strength,
pleads no excuse of impossibility…
It is therefore able to undertake all things.”
~ St Thomas Aquinas
4/11/26 AM TM
“Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.
…
There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature—the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter.”
~Rachel Carson
4/10/26 PM TM
“Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible concatenations, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable.
…
To that extent I am, in point of fact, religious.”
~ Albert Einstein
4/10/26 AM TM
“Health is greatest wealth – guard it with daily care!”
~ Virgil, 70 BC to 19 BC, was an ancient Roman poet
of the Augustan period. He composed several of the
most famous poems in Latin literature, including the epic Aeneid.
4/9/26 PM TM
“And I have felt
A presence that disturbs me with the joy
Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime
…
And the blue sky, and in the mind of man:
A motion and a spirit, that impels
All thinking things, all objects of all thought,
And rolls through all things.”
~ William Wordsworth
4/9/26 AM TM
“The secret to living well and longer is:
eat half, walk double, laugh triple,
and love without measure.”
~ Tibetan proverb
4/8/26 PM TM
“The most effective way to show compassion
to another is to listen, rather than talk.
…
In the practice of compassionate listening,
you listen with only one purpose,
which is to give the other person
the chance to speak out and to suffer less.”
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
4/8/26 AM TM
“… Never do we think of failure at all, for as we think now, that is what we will get.”
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
“It may take a little self-discipline
Be simple, be kind, stay rested
Attend to your own inner health and happiness.”
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
4/7/26 PM TM
“If you feel something calling you to dance or write or paint or sing, please refuse to worry about whether you are good enough.
Just do it. Be generous.
Offer a gift to the world no one else can offer: Yourself.”
~Glennon Doyle
“Beauty is whatever gives joy.”
~ Edna St Vincent Millay
4/7/26
Stream of Life
“The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures.
I feel my limbs are made glorious by the touch of this world of life. And my pride is from the life-throb of ages dancing in my blood.”
~Rabindranath Tagore