Nature, spirituality, God, and silence are all directly interwoven. When I see, feel, sense, or hear these I know I am closer to my true being. Some quotes.
“A soul who is not close to nature is far away from what is called spirituality.
In order to be spiritual one must communicate, and especially one must communicate with nature;
one must feel nature.”
~~Hazrat Inayat Khan
“Man fights for a new conception of life and God, as he fights to plant seeds in the spring:
because he knows that is the only way to harvest.
If after harvest there is winter again, what does it matter?
It is just seasonable.”
~~D.H, Lawrence
“God is the friend of silence.
Trees, flowers, grass grow in silence.
See the stars, moon, and sun, how they move in silence.”
~~Mother Teresa
“Our birth is but a sleeping and a forgetting;
The soul that rises with us, our life’s star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And cometh from afar.”
~~William Wordsworth
“The quality of mercy is not strained;
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath; it is twice blessed;
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.”
~~William Shakespeare
(The Merchant of Venice)
“A black swan, a white raven.”
~~John Clarke
“Thou shalt love the stars, the ocean, the forest, and reverence all living things,
recognizing that the source of life is one.”
~~Elbert Hubbard
“A single graceful thought towards heaven is the most complete prayer.”
~~Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
“When someone speaks wrongly,
just hit your internal mute button and smile.”
~~ME
“Life’s greatest problems can never be solved but only outgrown.”
~~Carl G. Jung
“Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Toward the door we never opened
Into the rose garden.”
~~T.S. Elliot
Enough said.
