" Each beautiful thing, a flower, the song of a bird, awakens in our soul the memory of our origin.
Learn how to listen to the voice of beautiful things,
to make us understand the voice of our soul."  

Mevlevi Dervishes

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I paraphrase Eckhart Tolle: "Earth, 114 million years ago, one morning, just after sunrise: The first flower ever to appear on the planet opens up to receive the rays of the sun...and suddenly there would have been an explosion of color and scent all over the planet-if a perceiving consciousness had been there to witness....The first recognition of beauty was one of the most significant events in the evolution of human consciousness."

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"We must make room in oneself for the immensity of the Universe"

Teachers of South American Indians

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I slip in and out of the Sea at night with this
Amazed soul I have.

Follow my tracks in the sand that lead
Beyond thought and space,

Join me with your hands, wings, hoofs of fins
In my sublime applause.

Join me in the pure atmosphere of gratitude
For life.

I slip in and out of the Moon each night
With a gracious ease
With the brilliant heart I have.

Hafiz.
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" Love is an infinite Sea whose skies are a bubble of foam.
Know that it is the waves of Love that  turn the wheels of Heaven,
Without Love, nothing in the world would have life.
How is an inorganic thing transformed into a plant?
How are plants sacrificed to become rich with spirit?
How is spirit sacrificed to become Breath,
One scent is potent enough to make Mary pregnant?
Every single atom is drunk on this Perfection and runs towards It
And what does this running secretly say but " Glory be to God."
 
Rumi   (Andrew Harvey "Light upon Light").

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"The little prince crossed the desert and met with only oneflower"

A flower with three petals

‘Where are the men?’ the little prince asked, politely.

Men? She echoed. ‘ I think there are six or seven of them in existence.
I saw them, several years ago. But one never knows where to find them. The wind blows them away. They have no roots, and that makes life very difficult.’.. "

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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" ..Can you find another market like this?

Where ,

with one rose you can buy hundreds of rose gardens.

Where ,

for one seed you get a whole wilderness?

For one weak breath,

the divine wind?...."

Rumi

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LOVE LETTER TO THE MILKY WAY

I want to tell you about love

There are approximately 1 trillion galaxies

I want to tell you about

In the Milky Way there are about 100 billion stars

I want to tell you

Love is the breath of the cosmos

I want to write a love letter to the Milky Way

Everything is an expression of the galaxy

My 30 trillion cells

The four noble truths

The eight - fold path

The five precepts

The seven energy centers of the body

Everything is the Milky Way

Including my lover,

and every kiss

of every lover that’s ever

loved

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Your skin

the texture of the cosmos

the religion beyond religion

I want to know you like the wind knows the canyon

or the rain knows the rivulets

Lightening is continuously striking in 100 places every moment

The universe spills through our dreams

The future belongs to the most compelling story

Even the word "love"

is not adequate to define

the force that wove

the fabric of

space-time

If we could sense everything at once

like Krishna entering with all the memory of his past

incarnations

then I could tell you about love.

Drew Dellinger

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CHILDREN MEDITATION 

May all beings of all kinds,

in all directions

be happy and in peace.

Above and below,

Near and far,

High and low.

All types of beings.

Humans and non-humans.

Seen and unseen.

All the animals, birds, and fishes.

All beings and creatures,

With no exceptions.

May they be happy.

May they be free.

I open my heart

and accept the loving-kindness

of every being and creature

in return.

I let that love into my heart.

And I share the benefits of this

meditation with every one

Gregory Kramer

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" There are hundreds of thousands of stems linking us

to everything in the cosmos,

supporting us and making it possible for us to be.

Do you see the link

between you and me?

If you are not there, I am not there, "  

Thich Nhat Han

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“Every being exists in intimate relation with other beings and in constant exchange of gifts with each other. But this relationship is beyond pragmatic use. It is rather a mutual sharing of existence in the grand venture of the universe itself.”  

Thomas Berry

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“SINGLE- CELLED ELEGANCE

Successful microbes mutate
They see an evolutionary need,
become the seed that spawns a
different being. They seize
chance opportunities, try new
paths, have no fear of changing
appearances. These single cells
hold the keys to transformation.
They equate stagnation with death
and see that the releasing form is the
only way to enter into essence.”

Danna Faulds