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Music
speaks what cannot be expressed, soothes the mind and gives it rest,
heals the heart and makes it whole, flows from heaven to the soul.” santiz

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Picking up on your lovely quote from Charles Dickens about change, Tai, from the end of the last thread:

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.  ~Victor Frankl


Change always comes bearing gifts.  ~Price Pritchett

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It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
quote Alan Cohen
image Tai

we change sometimes without knowing it, and as the seasons change and as we mature into “our life”.  Plants change with the seasons, but each seasonal change brings about a beauty all of its own…

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That photo is a good example of part of the beauty of seasonal change Tai.

Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches, letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.  ~Pauline R. Kezer

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This is how change happens, though. It is a relay race, and we're very conscious of that, that our job really is to do our part of the race, and then we pass it on, and then someone picks it up, and it keeps going. And that is how it is. And we can do this, as a planet, with the consciousness that we may not get it, you know, today, but there's always a tomorrow. (interview broadcast on Nov. 11, 2008)
quote from Alice Walker
image Tai
 
beautiful image Nicole - we all need a little sunshine to feed our souls….. it's good for trees too!

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We are getting a lot of sunshine these days here, Tai, hoping for the sun to brighten your day too. Great quote and image.

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” Albert Einstein quotes

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Anna Garlin Spencer quote-
The essence of democracy is its assurance that every human being should so respect himself and should be so respected in his own personality that he should have opportunity equal to that of every other human being to show what he was meant to become.
image Tai

great pic, wonderful colour - as above, so below!

 

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“The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.” -Brian Tracy

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I am but dust and ashes

For this reason a single person was created (Adam was created alone)

To teach you that anyone who kills one soul of Israel (or humanity)

Is considered as if he has killed an entire world

And anyone who sustains one soul of Israel (or humanity)

Is considered as if he has sustained an entire world

And because of peace among mankind, so that one person won't say to his fellow

“My father is greater than your father”

And so that the apostates won't say “There are many authorities in heaven”

And to tell the greatness of the Holy One Blessed Be He

That a man mints many coins with one stamp, all of them the same as one another

And the King of Kings the Holy One Blessed Be He minted every person with the stamp of Adam

And not one of them is the same as his fellow

For this reason every single person must say

The world was created for me

Talmud Bavli, Sanhedrin 37B

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Dov, thank you, from my heart. 

[Ben Azzai] used to say: Do not scorn any person and do not disdain any thing; for there is no person who does not have his hour, and there is no thing that does not have its place.

Ethics of the Fathers, 4:3

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Thank you, Nicole!

Those old dead greybeards really did have a lot of wisdom.

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“A joyful and pleasant thing it is to be thankful”


 Book of Common Prayer quotes

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Dov, they were very wise, and it's wonderful we can still benefit from their words all these years later!


Tai, the picture is so vivid I think I can smell those flowers!


No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night.
–Elie Wiesel

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Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.”

There's so much truth in that (:0) - flowers are gifts to make the soul sing louder and longer….

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The Soul needs love as urgently as the body needs air.  In the warmth
of love, the soul can be itself.  All the possibilities of your human
destiny are asleep in your soul.  You are here to realize and honour
these possibilities.  When love comes into your life, unrecognized
dimensions of your destiny awaken and blossom and grow.  Possibility is
the secret heart of time.  On its outer surface time is vulnerable to
transience.  Regardless of its sadness or beauty, each day empties and
vanishes.  In its deeper heart, time is transfiguration….

passage from the Anam Cara - Spiritual Wisdom from the Celtic World

image - Tai

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That looks like a beautiful book, Tai. There is a lovely reading of his poem Blessing here


Deep peace of the running wave to you.
Deep peace of the flowing air to you.
Deep peace of the quiet earth to you.
Deep peace of the shining stars to you.
Deep peace of the infinite peace to you. 

adapted from - ancient gaelic runes 



Celtic Blessings

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Anton Chekov:

We shall find peace. We shall hear angels. We shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

John was a wonderful person, wish I could have met him, his voice imparts peace and beauty - wonderful image and blessing
image Tai

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Oh, I've always loved that quote! Like you, Tai, listening to his rich voice and reading that he had died, I felt like I have missed out on something, not knowing John.


We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.  ~Luciano de Crescenzo

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When babies look beyond you and giggle, maybe they're seeing angels.  ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994
I think maybe they are (:0)  - have anyone got a beautiful baby picture please

(picture added: credit David J Nightingale see c h r o m a s i a)

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This baby (above) either sees an angel or is an angel or both :)


A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
Carl Sandburg



(picture: credit David J Nightingale see c h r o m a s i a)

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Hi Little Angels (:0)

Angels descending, bring from above,
Echoes of mercy, whispers of love.
~Fanny J. Crosby

Thanks for posting the pics Nicole, wonderful
I always think daffodils look a bit like golden angels…

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Daffodils are lovely! Can't wait till our own blossom…


The daffodil is our doorside queen;
  She pushes upward the sword already,
    To spot with sunshine the early green.
      - William Cullen Bryant, 
        An Invitation to the Country 

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Earth laughs in flowers.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Hamatreya”
 
image - garden geranium
 
Spring has definately sprung here (:0)

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Last night, I dreamt I was in England, but as I had never seen it before, trees laden with white blossoms everywhere. I was dizzy with bliss.


The flower offered of itself
And eloquently spoke
Of Gods
In languages of rainbows
Perfumes
And secret silence…
~Phillip Pulfrey, from Love, Abstraction and other Speculations, www.originals.net

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     “Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.”

Love the above Nicole - I did see some white blossom on Sunday when out walking….

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Those are sweet flowers, Tai!


“Friends… they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.” Henry David Thoreau 

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I have one small drop
of knowing in my soul
let it dissolve in your ocean

Rumi

image my computer!  I love Thoreau…

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Lovely Rumi!


Heaven is so far of the Mind
That were the Mind dissolved –
The Site – of it – by Architect
Could not again be proved –

'Tis vast – as our Capacity –
As fair – as our idea –
To Him of adequate desire
No further 'tis, than Here –Emily Dickinson

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“Imagination creates reality…
Man is all imagination”

Neville (1905-1972)
Visionary and mystic
image Tai -“flame of imagination”

Beautiful poem Nicole

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“So why is the universe as big as it is?
Because we're here”

John Wheeler (1911) physicist
image Tai

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fantastic pictures and quotes Tai!


“Imagine the universe beautiful and just and perfect. 

Then be sure of one thing:

The Is has imagined it quite a bit better than you have.

The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't.” Richard Bach

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In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.

Deepak Chopra

image Tai

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Is that a photo of a painting? Lovely!


“To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.”

www.gaia.com/quotes William Blake

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Hi Nicole - it's a big glass dish with leaf patterns, pulled up with the zoom, just thought it was a bit unusual (:o) - glad you liked it, I'm trying to be a bit more experimental….love the quote by Blake

“The Kingdom is inside of you, and it is outside of you…There is nothing hidden which will not become manifest” - Jesus's words, recorded by Didymos Judas Thomas from the Nag Hammadi Library

image Tai - “different view”

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yes I see it now - very creative!


Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

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“Everything must be based on a simple idea.  Once we have finally discovered it, [it] will be so compelling, so beautiful, that we will say to one another, yes, how could it have been any different”
John Wheeler - physicist
image - “March Sunrise”

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“Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love.”


Hector Berlioz



Schumann/Liszt: Widmung

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Music
speaks what cannot be expressed, soothes the mind and gives it rest,
heals the heart and makes it whole, flows from heaven to the soul.” santiz

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To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.


Aaron Copland



Appalachian Spring - Part 1

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Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.  ~Berthold Auerbach

thank you for introducing me to so much beautiful music (:0) Nicole

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You're most welcome!


All deep things are Song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, Song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls! The primal element of us; of us, and of all things. The Greeks fabled of Sphere-Harmonies: it was the feeling they had of the inner-structure of Nature that the soul of all her voices and utterances was perfect music. Poetry, therefore, we will call musical Thought. The poet is he who thinks in that manner. At bottom, it turns still on the power of intellect; it is man's sincerity and depth of vision that makes him Poet. See deep enough, and you see musically; the heart of Nature being everywhere music, if you can only reach it.

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Loved this quote and the music was very heart-centered (:0)

There's music in the sighing of a reed;

There's music in the gushing of a rill;

There's music in all things, if men had ears:

Their earth is but an echo of the spheres.

~Lord Byron

image - “music of the spheres”

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Byron is matchless, thank you!


If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. 



Gustav Mahler



Mahler- Kindertotenlieder 1

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the guy singing reminded me of a very old tree, deeply rooted - I found myself shutting my eyes and gently nodding - the picture came of faeries or tree spirits flitting about at the very beginning, then swallows swooping, then there was passion, sadness and longing - the winds blew, the tree branches swayed, then the scene calmed….





“Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.”


 Albert Einstein quotes

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Interesting response, Tai, as I infer from the title that the music was about the death of children.


A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never. 

Henry Ward Beecher 

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maybe I'm a little quirky….

I had a new book - quote from Chang Tsai (1021-1077)

“In everything that moves through the universe
I see my own body
and in everything that governs the universe
my own soul”

tree image from a birthday card

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Tai, you're always delightful. Didn't we all have fun celebrating your birthday yesterday? Great quote. Thanks for introducing me to Chang Tsai.


Heaven is my father and earth is my mother, and even such a small being as I finds an intimate place in their midst. Therefore that which fills the universe I regard as my body and that which directs the universe I regard as my nature. All people are my brothers and sisters, and all things are my companions.



Chang Tsai

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Sure did (:0)  thanks - the book has quotes, meditation and wonderful pictures…


“Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.”

not sure who this quote is by

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The book sounds so great, Tai. I couldn't find an attribution for that quote either.


The measure of love is love without measure.

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“Every artist dips his brush into his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures”

Henry Ward Beecher

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Sheer delight, thank you!


Oh soul,
you worry too much.
You have seen your own strength.
You have seen your own beauty.
You have seen your golden wings.
Of anything less,
why do you worry?
You are in truth
the soul, of the soul, of the soul.

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I have stumbled
on the ancient voice
of honesty
and tremble
at the voice
of my people.

(Carl Rakosi)

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There is always enough for our needs

There is never enough for our greeds.

~Gandhi

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“Nothing is rich but the inexhaustible wealth of nature.  She shows us only surfaces, but she is a million fathoms deep”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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welcome, pirocheetah! Excellent quotes from you and Dov and Tai.


Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

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After a visit to the beach, it's hard to believe that we live in a material world.  ~Pam Shaw

hey dolphins, do you want to swim with this turtle and his fishy friends (:0)

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Thanks for bringing friends for my dolphins Tai! :)


The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire. 

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“Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.” John Lubbock quotes

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“I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.” Hamlin Garland 

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“Faeries hide what you want, and reveal what you need”

Brian Froud

  lovin' the sunsets - lovin' the faery world today…

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Faeries, come take me out of this dull world,
For I would ride with you upon the wind,
Run on the top of the dishevelled tide,
And dance upon the mountains like a flame.
~William Butler Yeats, “The Land of Heart's Desire,” 1894

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that's so beautiful…

“Faeiries speak to us in many, many ways and we perceive their intent with our ears, our eyes and our hearts and our laughter too”

Brian Froud

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A lady, with whom I was riding in the forest, said to me, that the woods always seemed to her to wait, as if the genii who inhabit them suspended their deeds until the wayfarer has passed onward: a thought which poetry has celebrated in the dance of the fairies, which breaks off on the approach of human feet.  


~Ralph Waldo Emerson, “History”

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Nicole, love Emerson and this is a beautiful picture…

“Remember, each journey into Faery is complete only when we come home again and make human sense of faery nonsense, passing on or making use of whatever we have learned”

Brian Froud

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Fairies are invisible and inaudible like angels.  But their magic sparkles in nature.  ~Lynn Holland

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posting is too difficult on this thread now - it's just jamming up!