in the garden

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noreply@blogger.com (in the garden) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:32:00 +0000

Happy Thanksgiving, Rebekah!

crossing

noreply@blogger.com (in the garden) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:30:00 +0000

water

noreply@blogger.com (in the garden) — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:34:00 +0000

from the market

noreply@blogger.com (in the garden) — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:09:00 +0000

inevitable

noreply@blogger.com (in the garden) — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:00:00 +0000

In being with dying, we arrive at a natural crucible of what it means to love and be loved. And we can ask ourselves this: Knowing that death is inevitable, what is most precious today?

-Roshi Joan Halifax

porch

noreply@blogger.com (in the garden) — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:58:00 +0000

core

noreply@blogger.com (in the garden) — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:58:00 +0000

O love, O pure deep love, be here, be now
Be all; worlds dissolve into your stainless endless radiance,
Frail living leaves burn with you brighter than cold stars:
Make me your servant, your breath, your core.

-RUMI

cabbage

noreply@blogger.com (in the garden) — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:55:00 +0000

winter coat

noreply@blogger.com (in the garden) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:00 +0000

rowhouse

noreply@blogger.com (in the garden) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:40:00 +0000

Westminster

noreply@blogger.com (in the garden) — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:46:00 +0000

laugh

noreply@blogger.com (in the garden) — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:44:00 +0000

We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if for only a moment.

-May Sarton

@ the orchard

noreply@blogger.com (in the garden) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:14:00 +0000

of light, of love

noreply@blogger.com (in the garden) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:24:00 +0000

The heart is right to cry even when the smallest drop of light, of love, is taken away... You are right to do so in any fashion until Gd returns to you.

-Hafiz

ship

noreply@blogger.com (in the garden) — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:27:00 +0000

joy

noreply@blogger.com (in the garden) — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:26:00 +0000

Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for pleasure: you were created for joy. And if you do not know the difference between pleasure and joy you have not yet begun to live.

-Thomas Merton

water

noreply@blogger.com (in the garden) — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:31:00 +0000

to live by them

noreply@blogger.com (in the garden) — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:22:00 +0000

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

-John Fitzgerald Kennedy

shells

noreply@blogger.com (in the garden) — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:52:00 +0000

rare

noreply@blogger.com (in the garden) — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:49:00 +0000

Imagine a blind turtle roaming the depths of an ocean the size of the universe. Up above floats a wooden ring, tossed to and fro on the waves. Every hundred years, the turtle comes, once, to the surface. To be born a human being is said by Buddhists to be more difficult than for that turtle to surface accidentally with its head poking through the wooden ring.

And even among those who have a human birth, it is said, those who have the great good fortune to make a connection with the teachings are rare, and those who really take them to heart and embody them in their actions even rarer—as rare, in fact, “as stars in broad daylight.”

a glimpse

Buddah brow

noreply@blogger.com (in the garden) — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:59:00 +0000

as long

noreply@blogger.com (in the garden) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:01:00 +0000

For as long as space exists
And sentient beings endure,
May I too remain,
To dispel the misery of the world.

-Shantideva

yellow and blue

noreply@blogger.com (in the garden) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:55:00 +0000

labyrinth

noreply@blogger.com (in the garden) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:35:00 +0000

worship

noreply@blogger.com (in the garden) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:33:00 +0000

Make your meditation a continuous state of mind. A great worship is going on all the time, so nothing should be neglected or excluded from your constant meditative awareness.

-Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa