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Thought for the day....... "Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art." Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
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Thought for the day....... "Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet." Joseph Addison (1672-1719)
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Thought for the day....... "As long as men inquire, they will find opportunities to know more upon these topics than those who have gone before them, so inexhaustibly rich is nature in the innermost diversity of her treasures of beauty, order and intelligence." Louis Agassiz (1807-1873)
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Thought for the day....... "If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is Nature's way." Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC)
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Thought for the day....... "Man, being servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he as observed in fact or thought of the course of nature; beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything." Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
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Thought for the day....... "God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December." J.M. Barrie
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August 10, 2016 Thought for the day....... "The idea that the earth was created just for us engenders a dangerous sense of entitlement. We need to acknowledge the damage we are doing. Other species managed to exist for millions of years without causing mass extinction.” Carl Safina
August 11, 2016 Thought for the day....... “We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.” Brian Cox
August 12, 2016 Thought for the day....... “Each person you meet is an aspect of yourself, clamoring for love.” Eric Micha'el Leventhal
August 13, 2016 Thought for the day....... “Our task must be to free ourselves… by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.” Albert Einstein
August 14, 2016 Thought for the day....... "Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept." Saint Francis de Sales
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Thought for the day....... "There's an alternative. There's always a third way, and it's not a combination of the other two ways. It's a different way." David Carradine
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Thought for the day....... "Wanting to find a place where everything’s OK is just what keeps us miserable. Always looking for a way to have pleasure and avoid pain is how we keep ourselves in samsara. (the vicious cycle of suffering) As long as we believe there is something that will permanently satisfy our hunger for security, suffering is inevitable. The truth is that things are always in transition. ‘Nothing to hold on to’ is the root of all happiness." Pema Chodron
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Thought for the day....... "A pedestal is as much a prison as any small space." Gloria Steinem
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Thought for the day....... "At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants." Egon Schiele
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Thought for the day....... "I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets." Hamlin Garland
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Thought for the day....... "Vision connects you. But it also separates you. In my work, and my life, I feel a desire to merge. Not in terms of losing my own identity... but there's a feeling that life is interconnected, that there's life in stones and rocks and trees and dirt, like there is in us." Bill Viola
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Thought for the day....... "Whenever I have found myself stuck in the ways I relate to things, I return to nature. It is my principal teacher, and I try to open my whole being to what it has to say." Wynn Bullock
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Thought for the day....... "Sense the blessings of the earth in the perfect arc of a ripe tangerine, the taste of warm, fresh bread, the circling flight of birds, the lavender color of the sky shining in a late afternoon rain puddle, the million times we pass other beings in our cars and shops and out among the trees without crashing, conflict, or harm." Jack Kornfield
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Thought for the day....... "If there is one thing clear about the centuries dominated by the factory and the wheel, it is that although the machine can make everything from a spoon to a landing-craft, a natural join in earthly living is something it never has and never will be able to manufacture. It has given us conveniences (often most uncomfortable) and comforts (often most inconvenient) but human happiness was never on its tray of wares." Henry Beston (1888-1968)
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Thought for the day....... "The breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air than in the hand." Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
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Thought for the day....... "I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning." Andy Warhol
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Thought for the day....... "Attention is an intentional, unapologetic discriminator. It asks what is relevant right now, and gears us up to notice only that." Alexandra Horowitz
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Thought for the day....... "When you argue with reality, you lose - but only always." Byron Katie
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Thought for the day....... “You can never find the actual object “self” or “ego.” You only find the movement that seems to refer to an ego.” Scott Kiloby
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Thought for the day....... “What a relief to not have to be right! How much more interesting it is to change the dialogue, from one of exclusion to one of inclusion, where other viewpoints are welcomed and respected." Jonathan Lareau
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Thought for the day....... “What we observe is not nature in itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.” Werner Heisenberg (1958)
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Thought for the day....... “Miracles... seem to me to rest not so much upon... healing power coming suddenly near us from afar but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that, for a moment, our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there around us always.” Willa Cather
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Thought for the day....... “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 at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that its center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.” Black Elk
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Thought for the day....... "I may be furious, pacing the room up and down; at the same time I know what I am, a centre of wisdom and love, an atom of pure existence. All subsides and the mind merges into silence. " Nisargadatta
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Thought for the day....... "Passion can transform the mind, body and spirit...Passion can align you with the wisdom of nature and the power of what is in your heart.” JoLynne Valeri
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Thought for the day....... “Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.” Jack Kornfield
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Thought for the day....... “Labor Day differs in every essential from other holidays of the year in any country. All other holidays are in a more or less degree connected with conflict and battles of man’s prowess over man, of strife and discord for greed and power, of glories achieved by one nation over another. Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.” Samual Gempers
Celebrating the workers of the world, a day to contemplate every blessing we enjoy and how many hands and hearts make it all possible! Have a first rate day!!!
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Thought for the day....... "Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results." James Allen
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9-7-2016 Thought for the day....... "There are no choices that are really a detour that will take you far from where you're wanting to be - because your Inner Being is always guiding you to the next, and the next, and the next. So don't be concerned that you may make a fatal choice, because there aren't any of those. You are always finding your balance. It's a never ending process." Abraham Hicks
9-8-2016 Thought for the day....... "Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion." Lorraine Anderson (1952- )
9-9-2016 Thought for the day....... “[D]etachment means letting go and nonattachment means simply letting be.” Stephen Levine
9-10-2016 Thought for the day....... “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.” Albert Einstein
9-11-2016 Thought for the day....... “Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Thought for the day....... "Commitment to the truth…means a relentless willingness to root out the ways we limit or deceive ourselves from seeing what is, and to continually challenge our theories of why things are the way they are. It means continually broadening our awareness. It also means continually deepening our understanding of the structures underlying current events." Peter Senge
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Thought for the day....... "We've got to be as clear-headed about human beings as possible, because we are still each other's only hope." James Baldwin
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Thought for the day.......“We need, in a special way, to work twice as hard to help people understand that the animals are fellow creatures, that we must protect them and love them as we love ourselves.” Cesar Chavez
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Thought for the day....... “Human beings are a part of the animal kingdom, not apart from it. The separation of "us" and "them" creates a false picture and is responsible for much suffering. It is part of the in-group/out-group mentality that leads to human oppression of the weak by the strong as in ethic, religious, political, and social conflicts.” Marc Bekoff
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Thought for the day....... "When walking or resting in nature, honor that realm by being there fully. Be still. Look. Listen. See how every animal and every plant is completely itself. Unlike humans, they have not split themselves in two. They do not live through mental images of themselves, so they do not need to be concerned with trying to protect and enhance those images. The deer is itself. The daffodil is itself. Eckhart Tolle
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Thought for the day....... "It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land." Sitting Bull
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Thought for the day....... "Watch an animal, a flower, a tree, and see how it rests in Being. It is itself. It has enormous dignity, innocence, and holiness. However, for you to see that, you need to go beyond the mental habit of naming and labeling. The moment you look beyond mental labels, you feel that ineffable dimension of nature that cannot be understood by thought or perceived through the senses. It is a harmony, a sacredness that permeates not only the whole of nature but is also within you." Eckhart Tolle
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Thought for the day....... "We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain." Saint Augustine
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Thought for the day....... "Death, like generation, is a secret of Nature." Marcus Aurelius (121-180)
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Thought for the day....... "One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy." Jane Austen (1775-1817)
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Thought for the day....... "A great silent space holds all of nature in its embrace. It also holds you." Eckhart Tolle
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Thought for the day....... "It was in the forest that I found 'the peace that passeth understanding'." Jane Goodall
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Thought for the day....... "I am in love with this world . . . I have climbed its mountains, roamed its forests, sailed its waters, crossed its deserts, felt the sting of its frosts, the oppression of its heats, the drench of its rains, the fury of its winds, and always have beauty and joy waited upon my goings and comings." John Burroughs
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Thought for the day....... “In order to enter the path of forgiveness, we have to lose our feeling of both superiority and inferiority. Each of us has hurt another, each of us has been hurt.” Jean Vanier
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Thought for the day....... “There are occasions when you can hear the mysterious language of the Earth, in water, or coming through the trees, emanating from the mosses, seeping through the undercurrents of the soil, but you have to be willing to wait and receive.” John Hay (1916-2011), The Immortal Wilderness
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Thought for the day....... "Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts; and if people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish." John Muir (1838-1914)
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Thought for the day....... “Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it's about letting go of control.” Adyashanti
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Thought for the day....... "We are all on a life long journey and the core of its meaning, the terrible demand of its centrality is forgiving and being forgiven." Martha Kilpatrick
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Thought for the day....... "Forgiveness is a deep process, which is repeated over and over and over again in our hearts. It honors the grief and it honors the betrayal. And in its own time, it ripens into the freedom to truly forgive." Gina Sharpe, "The Power of Forgiveness"
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