Dewdrops

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Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy. I choose joy over despair. Not because I have my head in the sand, but because joy is what the earth gives me daily and I must return the gift.

Robin Wall Kimmerer

A photograph shouldn't 

be just a picture, 

it should be a 

philosophy.

                Amit Kalantri

Happiness is not 

something you can chase. 

It is something you 

have to allow.   

 Brianna Wiest

Real religion is the

transformation of

anxiety into laughter.

  Alan Watts

Dewdrops on a lotus leaf

Holding truths beyond belief

In holy eyes

Compassion gleams

Wisdom flows

In gentle streams.

Silence speaks

What words cannot

In emptiness

Full truth is taught.

And in the spaces

Between all things

The highest power 

un-endingly sings

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Kindness Sets The Heart Free

 A L O H A  From
H  O  N  O  L  U  L  U

Kindness has a beautiful 

way of reaching down 

into a weary heart and 

making it shine like 

the rising sun. 

   Unknown

The sun himself is weak 

when he first rises, and 

gathers strength and courage 

as the day gets on.

Charles Dickens

Lilium philadelphicum (Wood lily)

A single act of kindness 

throws out roots in 

all directions, and the 

roots spring up and 

make new trees.

   Amelia Earhart

Every act of kindness

is a piece of love 

we leave behind.

  Paul Williams

Accept that you are 

a work in progress, 

both a revision and a draft: 

you are better and more 

complete than earlier versions 

of yourself, but you also have 

work to do. Be open to change. 

Allow yourself to be revised.

Maggie Smith

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Laughing, And Invite Them In

 A L O H A  From
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This being human is

a guest house.

Every morning

is a new arrival.

A joy, a depression,

some momentary awareness

comes as an unexpected visitor...

Welcome and entertain them all.

Treat each guest honorably.

The dark thought, the shame,

the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in.

Be grateful for whoever comes,

because each has been sent

as a guide from beyond.

Rumi

Faces Reflect the morning, Untethered, Untouched by clouds. Seen across a quiet space. Nothing to hold, nothing to let go.

Cloudia

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 Relationships  

 are the point,  

 not the tool. 

 Jon Osorio 

Stay hopeful;

you never know what

tomorrow will bring.

Buddha

She sits- small and still- the world reflected in her eyes.

She gazes- wide open as the sky, each thought a bird lifting, vanishing.

Pixie

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Relax. 

It’s going to be OK, girl!

Oprah Winfrey

A Wish Lantern Set Out

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To see the Summer Sky

Is Poetry, though never 

in a Book it lie—

True Poems flee—

Emily Dickinson

 Canna indica – 

The Indian Shot, Seed Sack

Hope is a helium balloon. 

It is a wish lantern set out 

into the dark sky of night.

 Sharon Weil

The wall is silence, 

the grass is sleep,

Tall trees of peace 

their vigil keep,

And the Fairy of Dreams 

with moth-wings furled

Plays soft on her flute 

to the drowsy world.

                       Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

Find the sweetness 

in your own heart,

then you may find the 

sweetness in every heart. 

     Rumi

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 A L O H A  From

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Hope is a discipline.

Mariame Kaba 

They say nobody is

coming to save you, but many people

have saved me, even if they

didn’t intend to.

It can be as small as

a smile from a stranger, a nudge from an animal,

words from a writer, the lyrics to a song,

an observant friend.

we are all saving

each other every single day in tiny seemingly

insignificant ways. Iris Rose

No more apologies

for a bleeding heart

when the opposite is

no heart at all.

Danger of losing our

humanity must be met

with more humanity.

Toni Morrison

Embrace with tender affection

the whole of humanity,

especially the poorest,

the weakest, the

least important.

Pope Francis

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Heart Keeping

 A L O H A  From

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Listen to your life.

See it for the fathomless

mystery it is. In the

boredom and pain of it,

no less than in the excitement

and gladness:

touch, taste,

smell your way to the holy

and hidden heart of it,

because in the last analysis

all moments are key moments,

and life itself is grace. Frederick Buechner

Keep your heart 

clear and transparent

And you will never be bound.

A single disturbed thought, 

though, creates 

ten thousand distractions...

And you’ll go further 

and further astray.

Ryōkan

Release the weight

That you've been holding.

The heart knows how

To heal.

Slowly, surely, kindly.

Choose the stillness

As your method.

And calm

Will steer you home. 

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