“Soften my heart,
O God of living waters,
that the shower of Scripture
I am about to read
may enrich the soil of my soul.
Rain down your wisdom
in sacred streams
to carry me like an upturned leaf
through the currents of this gray day.
Amen.”
Edward Hays
Prayers for a Planetary Pilgrim
“The happiness of the bee
and the dolphin is to exist.
For man it is to know that
and to wonder at it.”
Jacques Yves Cousteau
“She was illusive. She was today.
She was tomorrow.
She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower,
the flitting shadow of an elf owl.
We did not know what to make of her.
In our minds we tried to pin her to a corkboard
like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through
and away she flew.”
Jerry Spinelli about ‘Stargirl’
“Every day we are engaged in a miracle
which we don’t even recognize…
a blue sky…white clouds…green leaves.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
“Live your dreams and you nurture your spirit,
nurture your spirit and you dance your bliss,
dance your bliss and the world becomes a
celebration of authentic loving harmony.”
Micheal Teal
“There is one spectacle grander than the sea,
that is the sky;
there is one spectacle grander than the sky,
that is the interior of the soul.”
Victor Hugo
“Flowers have spoken to me more than
I can tell in written words.
They are the hieroglyphics of angels,
loved by all men for the beauty of their character,
though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.”
Lydia M. Child
“The curious paradox is that
when I accept myself just as I am,
then I can change.”
Carl Rogers
“Nature will bear the closest inspection.
She invites us to lay our eye level with
her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.”
Henry David Thoreau
“In the cherry blossom’s shade
there’s no such thing as a stranger.”
Kobayashi Issa
