We are not human beings having a spiritual experience.
We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Archive for November, 2006
Spiritual beings
Posted in Teilhard de Chardin, favorite things on November 16, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Did St. Francis really preach to the birds?
Posted in favorite things on November 16, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Did St. Francis really preach to the birds?
Whatever for?
If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.
Rebecca West
The first peace…
Posted in favorite things, peace on November 15, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
The first peace, which is the most important,
is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers,
and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit,
and that this center is really everywhere,
it is within each of us.
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good in the worst of us…
Posted in favorite things on November 14, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
There is so much good in the worst of us,
and so much bad in the best of us,
that it ill behooves any of us
to find fault with the rest of us.
James Truslow Adams
Peace
Posted in Mother Teresa, favorite things, peace on November 14, 2006 | 1 Comment »
I bought a bookmark from Neighbor For Neighbor at the Gift Fair today.
It had a good quote by Mother Teresa on it:
Peace begins with a smile.
Or just after…
Posted in favorite things on November 9, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
I do not know which to prefer
…
The blackbird whistling
Or just after.
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another favorite line from
”Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”
by Wallace Stevens
Dancing butterflies
Posted in Issa, favorite things, haiku on November 5, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
dancing butterflies–
my journey is forgotten
for a while
Issa
Today
Posted in favorite things on November 3, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
My life is a gift of God given not in years, but a day at a time. …
Yesterday is gone, never to return. I must not worry about it, but leave it in the hands of God.
Tomorrow and all that it holds is God’s secret and its coming is not assured. …
Today is God’s gift.
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