#nat

Invite Tranquility The sea,-- Something to look at When we are angry. ↗

— Reiko Chiba

#sea #tranquility #nature

Nature is a word, an allegory, a mold, an embossing, if you will. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#nature #reality #nature

People believe a little too easily that the function of the sun is to help the cabbages along. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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Through recognizing and realizing the empty essence, instead of being selfish and self-centered, one feels very open and free ↗

— Tsoknyi Rinpoche

#healing #health #mindfulness #nature

But the philosophical and scientific process which I call 'secularization' necessarily involves the divesting of spiritual meaning from the world of nature; the desacralization of politics from human affairs; and the deconsecration of values from the human mind and conduct. ↗

— Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas

#secularization #nature

Ravens bring things to people. We're like that. It's our nature. We don't like it. ↗

— Peter S. Beagle

#ravens #nature

He well knew his mind's natural tendency to be endlessly on a thousand subjects at once, to flit from this to that and to the next thing to no particular purpose--indeed, he called it his "butterfly mind. ↗

— Eric Metaxas

#focus #nature

So all night long the storm roared on: The morning broke without a sun; In tiny spherule traced with lines Of Nature’s geometric signs, In starry flake, and pellicle, All day the hoary meteor fell; And, when the second morning shone, We looked upon a world unknown, On nothing we could call our own. Around the glistening wonder bent The blue walls of the firmament, No cloud above, no earth below,— A universe of sky and snow! ↗

— John Greenleaf Whittier

#snow #nature

I study nature so as not to do foolish things. ↗

— Mary Ruefle

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It is quite natural and inevitable that, if we spend sixteen hours daily of our waking lives in thinking about the affairs of the world and five minutes in thinking about God and our souls, this world will seem two hundred times more real to us than God. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

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