Get Inspired: Open Sky Quotes November 2009

Posted by: danny on Monday, November 9th, 2009

People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle.

But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth.

Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child — our own two eyes.

All is a miracle.

Thich Nhat Hanh

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“You never enjoy the world aright till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till 
you are clothed with the heavens and crowned with the stars: and perceive
yourself to be the sole heir of the whole world…till you more feel it than your 
private estate, and are more present in the hemisphere, considering the glories 
and beauties there than in your own house.”

Thomas Traherne

“We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass – grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.”

Mother Teresa

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“A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.”

James Russell Lowell

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What is rooted is easy to nourish

What is recent is easy to correct

What is brittle is easy to break

What is small is easy to scatter

Prevent trouble before it arises.

Put things in order before they exist.

The giant pine tree

Grows from a tiny sprout.

The journey of a thousand miles

Starts from beneath your feet.

Tao Te Ching, Verse 64

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“Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky…seems to impart a quiet to the mind.”

Jonathan Edwards

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“It is a marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.”

Henry David Thoreau