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Shaded day

Rose red
Rose red

The great lesson from the true mystics, from the zen monks, from the humanistic and transpersonal psychologists, is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one’s daily life, in one’s neighbors, friends, and family, in one’s own back yard.  This lesson can be easily lost.  To be looking elsewhere for miracles is to me a sure sign of ignorance that everything is miraculous.

~ Abraham Maslow

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Giving thanks

Little things
Little things

The whole of life — even the hard — is made up of the minute parts, and if I miss the infinitesimals, I miss the whole.  These are new language lessons, and I live them out.  There is a way to live the big of giving thanks in all things.  It is this:  to give thanks in this one small thing.  The moments will add up.

~ Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

More little things
More little things