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Seven Ways to Deal with Uncertainty
Create from your Inner Light
Leave Space for the Unknown
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,
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
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
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
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
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
