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Awakening to Beauty

I see these things with an intense joy, and while I observe, there is no observer, only a beauty that is almost like love.  For an instant, I am absent, my self and my problems, my anxieties, my troubles; nothing but this wonder exists. -Krishnamurti   During the Italian Renaissance,

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Transitions

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. -Hellen Keller For the past twelve years I have been immersed in Renaissance Italy, and Venice in particular.  Over

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Life Goes On

In the life of the spirit, we are always at the beginning. Amour a l’affut (Love on the Lookout) I read this quote many years ago and have forgotten where or who said it; but it has stayed with me and often comes to mind.  Probably it pops up when

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Pothos

An enchanted life has many moments when the heart is overwhelmed by beauty and the imagination is electrified by some haunting quality in the world or by a spirit or voice speaking from deep within a thing, a place, or a person. From The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life  by Thomas

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Getting Guidance from a Tree

The life of the world, innate in everything, is clearly propagated into plants and trees, like the body-hair and tresses of its body.  -Marsilio Ficino We can say that the earth has a vegetative soul.  -Leonardo da Vinci Promise me that when I die, I shall be buried near–as near

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On Outer Beauty, Inner Joy

Outer Beauty, Inner Joy: Contemplating the Soul of the Renaissance began from my love of going to Italy, loving what I saw and felt, and wanting to know and understand more.  I’ve always been a student of religion and spirituality, even when I was a child. My interest centered mainly

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