Vignettes

“Spiritual values transcend the material
artifacts that we can touch and see.
They take us into the realm
of beauty, inspiration and love”
~Nido Qubein

sunset, light, values,

“If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.”
~Buddha

purity, goodness, flowers,

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
~Maya Angelou

butterfly, nature, beauty,

“How lovely the little river is, with its dark changing wavelets! It seems to me like a living companion while I wander along the bank, and listen to its low, placid voice.”
~George Eliot

river, path, companion,

“Light gives of itself freely, filling all available space. It does not seek anything in return; it asks not whether you are friend or foe. It gives of itself and is not thereby diminished.”
~Michael Strassfeld

light, unconditional, mountains,

“All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return again, as easily and secretly as a cat.”
~Walter de la Mare

corridors, mind, subconscious,

“And the Naiad-like lily of the vale,
Whom youth makes so fair and passion so pale,
That the light of its tremulous bells is seen,
Through their pavilions of tender green.”
~Percy Bysshe Shelley

rain, lily-of-the-valley, poetry,

“Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life”

~Jean de La Fontaine

friendship, shadow, la fontaine,

“The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.”

~Friedrich Nietzsche

nietzsche, osprey, soar,