"Don't lose the trail of wisdom's scent. While on this hunt, don't go astray, worrying if every little thing is good or bad. You are the traveler, you are the path, and you are the destination. Be careful never to lose the way to yourself." — Shihab al-Din Yahya Suhrawardi

Credit: Non-GMO project (Facebook) “Man, despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments, still owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.” – Paul Harvey (1978)

“Our lives are not as limited as we think they are; the world is a wonderfully weird place; consensual reality is significantly flawed; no institution can be trusted, but love does work; all things are possible; and we all could be happy and fulfilled if we only had the guts to be truly free and the wisdom to shrink our egos and quit taking ourselves so damn seriously.” —Tom Robbins

Crows in Winter ~ NC Wyeth

“A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn’t telling or teaching or ordering. Rather he seeks to establish a relationship of meaning, of feeling, of observing. We are lonesome animals. We spend all life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say — and to feel — ‘Yes, that’s the way it is, or at least that’s the way I feel it. You’re not as alone as you thought.’” - John Steinbeck

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"If while washing dishes, we think only of the cup of tea that awaits us, thus hurrying to get the dishes out of the way as if they were a nuisance, then we are not “washing the dishes to wash the dishes.” What’s more, we are not alive during the time we are washing the dishes. In fact we are completely incapable of realizing the miracle of life while standing at the sink. If we can’t wash the dishes, the chances are we won’t be able to drink our tea either. While drinking the cup of tea, we will only be thinking of other things, barely aware of the cup in our hands. Thus we are sucked away into the future—and we are incapable of actually living one minute of life." ~Thich Nhat Hanh (Book: The Miracle of Mindfulness (Art: Painting by Anna Ancher)