Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.
~ Virginia Woolf
Photo: Padma Inguva (via Aberrant Beauty). Quote: via Memory’s Landscape
Day and night, gifts keep pelting down on us
July 31, 2016 by 25 Comments
Day and night, gifts keep pelting down on us.
If we were aware of this, gratefulness would overwhelm us. But we go through life in a daze.
A power failure makes us aware of what a gift electricity is; a sprained ankle lets us appreciate walking as a gift, a sleepless night, sleep.
How much we are missing in life by noticing gifts only when we are suddenly deprived of them.
~ David Steindal-Rast, A Listening Heart from The Spirituality of Sacred Sensuousness
Notes: Photo – via Your Eyes Blaze Out
SMWI*: It’s a shame that sometimes
October 24, 2015 by 19 Comments
It’s a beautiful thing
to have lungs that allow you to breathe air
and legs that allow you to climb mountains,
and it’s a shame that sometimes
we don’t realize that that’s enough.
– honalie
Notes:
- Photo: Mennyfox55. Quote – Honalie (via themindmovement)
- SMWI*: Saturday Morning Work-Out Inspiration
A Small Golden Light
December 28, 2014 by 38 Comments
I hope that in the future they invent a small golden light that follows you everywhere and when something is about to end, it shines brightly so you know it’s about to end.
And if you’re never going to see someone again, it’ll shine brightly and both of you can be polite and say, “It was nice to have you in my life while I did, good luck with everything that happens after now.”
And maybe if you’re never going to eat at the same restaurant again, it’ll shine and you can order everything off the menu you’ve never tried. Maybe, if someone’s about to buy your car, the light will shine and you can take it for one last spin. Maybe, if you’re with a group of friends who’ll never be together again, all your lights will shine at the same time and you’ll know, and then you can hold each other and whisper, “This was so good. Oh my God, this was so good.”
~ Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You
Notes: Image: icanpaintarainbow. Quote: Your Eyes Blaze Out
