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Why did the turtle cross the road?

Sweet gum tree flaming in the meadow
Sweet gum tree flaming in the meadow.  (The blustery wind and dark clouds yesterday morning made it look like a painting.  I helped it along with some tweaks in Photoshop.)

If there is any wisdom running through my life now, in my walking on this earth, it came from listening in the Great Silence to the stones, trees, space, the wild animals, to the pulse of all life as my heartbeat.

~ Vijali Hamilton

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Patience

Let's go for a bike ride
Let’s go for a bike ride

With patience, you are relaxed and centered; you have energy and attention that you can readily draw on; and you can proceed with the assurance that things are in their rightful place, even though you may not necessarily like them.  Patience is absolutely essential if you wish to keep treading the spiritual path. . . Patience will keep you centered, surrendered, detached, and content to just continue with the assurance that, “Yes, everything in its good time.”

~ Michael Goddart

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