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Quote of the Month

December,2024   

It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.

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W.T. Ellis

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Quote of the Month

November,2024   

We receive this food in gratitude to all beings who have helped to bring it to our table and vow to respond in turn to those in need with wisdom and compassion.

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Buddhist Blessing

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Quote of the Month

October,2024   

I want my life to be my best work of art. I want to try to live thoughtfully and intentionally and sculpt my humanity into something that will please me at the end of my life.

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Jewel

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Quote of the Month

September,2024   

The labyrinth is not a maze or a puzzle to be solved but a path of meaning to be experienced.

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Alex N. Pattakos, Ph.D.

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Quote of the Month

August,2024   

Sometimes the best map will not guide you

You can't see what's round the bend

Sometimes the road leads through dark places

Sometimes the darkness is your friend

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Bruce Cockburn

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July,2024   

Vita Brevis

Ars Longa

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Hippocrates

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June,2024   

The best films are those that leave us questioning our own beliefs and values.

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Roger Ebert

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May,2024   

Make good trouble wherever and whenever you can.

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Joan Baez

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April,2024   

 A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down...If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book, nothing can help him.

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Edna St. Vincent Millay

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March,2024   

 The boundaries which divide life from death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends and where the other begins?

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Edgar Allan Poe

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February,2024   

 Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

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H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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January,2024   

 Ring out, wild bells to the wild sky, the flying cloud, the frosty light...

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Alfred Lord Tennyson

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 December,2023   

 It makes no difference as to the name of the God, since Love is the real God of all the world. 

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Apache Wisdom

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 November,2023   

How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?

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Meno

photo courtesy of Brian Thompson BNEW4LIFE

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 October,2023   

The meaning of life is to see.

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Hui Neng

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 September,2023   

To approach the Badlands is to find a gap in the known and expected world.

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Robert Kroetsch

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 August,2023   

The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity.

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George Carlin

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 July,2023   

I have often wondered what was going on in her mind as she gazed over the water as the sun was beginning to set.

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 June,2023   

My father was like God.

Busy elsewhere.

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Winston Churchill

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 May,2023   

Nobody loves me but my mother

And she could be jivin' too

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B.B. King

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 April,2023   

He who binds to himself a joy

Does the winged life destroy;

But he who kisses the joy as it flies

Lives in eternity's sun rise.

William Blake

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 March,2023  

When the mind is festering with trouble or the heart torn, We can find healing among the silence of mountains or fields, or listhen to the simple, steadying rhythm of waves. When serenity is restored, new perspectives open to us and difficulty can begin to seem like an invitation to new growth.

John O'Donohue

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 February,2023  

Love is so short

Forgetting so long

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Pablo Neruda

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 January,2023  

Why do people say, "Grow some balls"? Balls are weak and sensitive. If you wanna be tough, grow a vagina. Those things can take a pounding.

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Betty White

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December,2022 

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.

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Blaise Pascal

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November,2022 

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. 

It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite-only a sense of existence.

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Henry David Thoreau

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October,2022 

Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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September,2022 

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.

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Martin Buber

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August,2022 

A bird sings not because it has an answer,

it sings because it has a song.

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Maya Angelou

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July, 2022

You can observe a lot by just watching.

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Yogi Berra

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June, 2022

Trying to figure out who you are is like trying to take a snapshot of a river.

It’s hard to know because it’s constantly moving.

But I’ve tried to make each moment accurate to my perception of it.

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Peter Coyote

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