#nature

I remember the shift that occurred after Abby was born - there'd been the great big before, where dying grandparents and natural disasters on the news were sad but mostly distant concerns. But then I became a mother, and when that happens, you cross a line that makes all loss a crushing, personal matter. ↗

— DEB CALLETI

#motherhood #nature

Don't observe yourself too closely. Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen. Otherwise it will be too easy for you to look with blame (that is: morally) at your past, which naturally has a share in everything that now meets you. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#let-it-be #observe #past #nature

Meditation is an excellent habit and tool for transformation, however your ‘practice’ should eventually evolve into your natural primary state of being. ↗

— Gary Hopkins

#enlightenment #god #higher-self #holy-spirit #inspirational

Every time I stand before a beautiful beach, its waves seem to whisper to me: If you choose the simple things and find joy in nature’s simple treasures, life and living need not be so hard. ↗

— Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

#beautiful #life-inspirational #simple-joys #treasures #nature

A força da nossa vontade tem que ver com a vontade da nossa força. Porque a verdade é o que é pela sua justeza, mais o músculo anterior de quem a enuncia. Por isso é tão incompreensível a tolerância na juventude como a intolerância na velhice. Assim, a intolerância é um sinal de juventude de se ser um homem firme como na velhice é um sinal de se ser taralhouco. Assim a democracia não é o triunfo da juventude, a não ser como um terreno é o triunfo do que lá se cultiva. Porque a democracia não é uma “ideologia”, mas o caldo em que todas elas se podem desenvolver. Assim o que melhor a defende é que as ideologias perderam a semente do serem. Mas o que desse modo melhor a define a democracia na sua estabilidade e defesa contra o que a ameace, não é o convívio das várias ideologias, mas a indiferença em face de todas elas. Como na entropia, o regime que nos espera no limite do esperar, está para lá da democracia porque é a ausência de qualquer um. O homem não vai suicidar-se porque a vida sem razão não é razão para que o suicídio valha a pena. Honestamente, o homem vai continuar a morrer de “morte natural”. Mas talvez por inanição. Ou simplesmente de tédio, enquanto não achar um motivo que não o seja. E o tédio não se trata na psiquiatria, mas num sono em que se apodreça de bolor. ↗

— Vergílio Ferreira

#velhice #nature

Without law in some form, and, also, without butting up against that law, we cannot move forward easily or naturally. We have to have something hard and half-good to rebel against. ↗

— Richard Rohr

#rules #structure #nature

I knew the woodsy fragrance that accompanied Reed was his natural scent. It was one of the many things that made him hard to resist. ↗

— Cherie Colyer

#ya #nature

Our behavior is different. How often have you seen a headline like this?--TWO DIE ATTEMPTING RESCUE OF DROWNING CHILD. If a man gets lost in the mountains, hundreds will search and often two or three searchers are killed. But the next time somebody gets lost just as many volunteers turn out. Poor arithmetic, but very human. It runs through all our folklore, all human religions, all our literature--a racial conviction that when one human needs rescue, others should not count the price. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#rescue #nature

Communing with God is communing with our own hearts, our own best selves, not with something foreign and accidental. Saints and devotees have gone into the wilderness to find God; of course they took God with them, and the silence and detachment enabled them to hear the still, small voice of their own souls, as one hears the ticking of his own watch in the stillness of the night. ↗

— John Burroughs

#god #nature #religion #solitude #spirituality

Maybe she still was a pretty-head, making up irrational stories about the empty forest. The longer she stayed alone out here, the more Tally understood why the Rusties and their predecessors had believed in invisible beings, praying to placate spirits as they trashed the natural world around them. ↗

— Scott Westerfeld

#humanity #nature-of-human #religion #spirits #nature