offerings

forgiveness

"...we are asked to forgive those who have injured us. Unless we have first judged and condemned them for what they did, there would be no reason for us to forgive them. Rather we would have to forgive ourselves for judging... if we do judge, no matter how great the injury or how premeditated, we are at fault... we see that we can forgive only ourselves...

in doing so, we also forgive the person whose action we resented... I must remind myself constantly that I can never know any other person's motives and conditioning; I must accept them as they are..."

-anonymous

alley

stories

There were many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream, whatever that dream might be.
-Pearl S. Buck

Fieldstone

Fieldstone Nursery - set

blue

jewish buddhism

Be here now.
Be someplace else later.
Is that so complicated?

-fwd

attention

Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.

-Simone Weil

Erene

http://www.myspace.com/erenemusic

hose

silence

When it seems humanly impossible to do more in a difficult situation, surrender yourself to the inner silence and thereafter wait for a sign of obvious guidance or for a renewal of inner strength.

- Paul Brunton
"Meditations for People in Crisis"

postcards

the universe

The whole universe is breathing as our breath; we limit the process by our assumption that we are doing the breathing.

- Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan "Alchemical Wisdom"

pear blossoms