“Eres responsable siempre de aquello que has domesticado.” –
El Principito, Antoine de Saint Exupéry
“Don’t believe everything you think.” –
Unknown author
“When Skywoman arrived, she didn’t come alone. She was pregnant. Knowing her grandchildren would inherit the world she left behind, she didn’t work for flourishing in her time only. It was through her actions of reciprocity, the give and take with the land, that the original immigrant became indigenous. For all of us, becoming indigenous to a place means living as if your children’s future mattered, to take care of the land as if our lives, both material and spiritual, depended on it.” –
Robin Wall Kimmerer
“I must return the gift.” [Short film] by Phoebe Mussman Excerpts from Braiding Sweetgrass
“Kind words do not cost much.Yet they accomplish much.” –
Blaise Pascal
“Closing time, every new beginning Comes from some other beginning’s end” –
Semisonic, Closing Time
“In naming the plants who shower us with goodness, we recognize that these are gifts from our plant relatives, manifestations of their generosity, care, and creativity. When we speak of these not as things or products or commodities, but as gifts, the whole relationship changes. I can’t help but gaze at them, cupped like jewels in my hand, and breathe out my gratitude.” –
Robin Wall Kimmerer
“Plants are also integral to reweaving the connection between land and people. A place becomes a home when it sustains you, when it feeds you in body as well as spirit. To recreate a home, the plants must also return.”
Robin Wall Kimmerer
“Just as a model that doesn’t fit what it intends to describe, is a bad model, why isn’t the theory of humans only loving someone that is not biologically their same sex considered a bad theory, given the never ending observations that contradict it when seeing all the people that don’t love this way?”
Colibrí Mágico
“Entre tanto un nuevo mandamiento os doy, y es: Que os améis unos a otros; y que del modo que yo os he amado a vosotros, así también os améis recíprocamente. Por aquí conocerán todos que sois mis discípulos, si os tenéis un tal amor unos a otros.”
Jesús dice a sus discípulos durante la última cena.
“At one point I was visited by the temptation to use the theme of nymphéas [water lilies] for a decoration. Carried the length of the walls, enveloping the entire interior with its unity, it would attain the illusion of a whole without end, of a watery surface without horizon and without banks; nerves overstrained by work would be relaxed there, following the restful example of the still waters, and to whomsoever lived there, it would offer an asylum of peaceful meditation at the center of a flowering aquarium.”
-Claude Monet
“Don’t be pushed by your problems, be led by your dreams.”
-Blaise Pascal
“In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.”
-Blaise Pascal
“Something precious is lost if we rush headlong into the details of life without pausing for a moment to pay homage to the mystery of life and the gift of another day.”
-Kent Nerburn, Small Graces: The Quiet Gifts of Everyday Life
“[H]umans have a more complex motivational structure and more capability to solve social dilemmas than posited in earlier rational-choice theory. Designing institutions to force (or nudge) entirely self-interested individuals to achieve better outcomes has been the major goal posited by policy analysts for governments to accomplish for much of the past half century. Extensive empirical research leads me to argue that instead, a core goal of public policy should be to facilitate the development of institutions that bring out the best in humans.”
-Elinor Ostrom
“To hatch a crow, a black rainbow
Bent in emptiness
over emptiness
But flying.”– Ted Hughes, Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow (Faber and Faber, 1970)
I spent a long time running,
I never knew then what I know I know now,
that the fruits they’re always coming,
but you can’t go around just knocking them down.
It takes a long time to show,
you plant the seeds then and you look at them now,
but the roots are always growing, no matter if I am there or never around…- Planting Seeds: A song of life, Nimo and Daniel Nahmod
“A human being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security.” –Albert Einstein
“Don’t let people pull you into their storm. Pull them into your peace.” – Pema Chödrön
“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“No te quedes aguardando a que pinte la ocasión
Que la vida son dos trazos y un borrón…-Rosana, Llegaremos a tiempo
“I am a continuation, like the rain is a continuation of the cloud.” –Thich Nhat Hanh
“We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.” – Audre Lorde
Sonríe. Hoy es un buen día.
Smile. It’s a good day.
“We cannot hold a torch to light another’s path without brightening our own.” – Ben Sweetland
“To be purposeful is not to be goal oriented, but to seek to reconnect to the source of one’s life.”— Michael Meade
“The trickster trusts the universe. He trusts in its chaotic, lawless, ever-fascinating ways-and for this reason, he does not suffer from undue anxiety. He trusts that the universe is in constant play and, specifically, that it wants to play with him.” – Big Magic, Elizabeth Gilbert
“What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.” – Isaac Bashevis Singer
“If you restore balance in your own self, you will be contributing immensely to the healing of the world.” – Deepak Chopra
“Waking up this morning, I smile.
Twenty-four brand new hours are before me.
I vow to live fully in each moment
and to look at all beings with the eyes of compassion.”
Birth and death are only doors through which we pass,
Contemplation on No-Coming and No-Going by Thich Nhat Hanh [En español]
sacred thresholds on our journey.
Birth and death are a game of hide-and-seek.
So laugh with me,
hold my hand,
let us say good-bye,
say good-bye, to meet again soon.
We meet today.
We will meet again tomorrow.
We will meet at the source every moment.
We meet each other in all forms of life.
