we experience tenderness, love, kindness, happiness, sorrow, disappointment, pain, and even the challenges of physical limitations in ways that prepare us for eternity.” — David A. Bednar * * * Photo by Jan Logozzo © 2015
being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.” — Alice Koller * * * Photo by Jan Logozzo © 2015
and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.” — Paramahansa Yogananda Enjoy this coming Valentine’s Day, as we scatter a few happy smiles of our own in sad hearts! * * * Photo by Mary O’Connor © 2015
Meditation is the means to see beauty in the soul, which is the source of all beauty.” — Hari Prasad Shastri “Quiet the mind and the soul will speak.” — Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati * * * Photos by Mary O’Connor © 2015
even the beautiful and wonderful things — the more they become invisible to us. That is why we often take for granted the beauty of this world: the flowers, the trees, the birds, the clouds — even those we love. Because we see things so often, we see them less and less.” – Joseph B. … More “The more often we see the things around us…
and feasting reconciles everybody.” — Samuel Pepys * * * Egret photo by Jan Logozzo © 2015
lies in wildness, not in civilization.” — Charles Lindbergh * * * Photo by Mary O’Connor © 2014
but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit. The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do.” — Richard Nixon * * * Photo by Mary O’Connor © 2007
to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground.” — Henry David Thoreau * * * Gray’s … More “We need the tonic of wildness,
it’s about you. There’s a reason why you look great in the picture or you look great in real life, because someone has caught the essence of who you are, and a pose is not you.” — Nigel Barker * * * Muscovy duck photo credit: Jan Logozzo © 2015
Life Is Full of Sweet Spots 