7/17/26 AM TM "I dream a world where man No other man will scorn, Where love will bless the earth And peace its paths adorn I dream a world where all Will know sweet freedom's way, Where greed no longer saps the soul Nor avarice blights our day. -Of such I dream, my world!" - Langston Hughes

7/16/26 PM TM What Are Heavy? “What are heavy? Sea-sand and sorrow; What are brief? Today and tomorrow; What are frail? Spring blossoms and youth; What are deep? The ocean and truth.” ~ Christina Rossetti

7/16/26 AM TM Learning “I'm learning to say thank you. And I'm learning to say please. And I'm learning to use Kleenex, Not my sweater, when I sneeze. … And I'm learning to chew softer When I eat corn on the cob. And I'm learning that it's much Much easier to be a slob.” ~ Judith Viorst

7/15/26 PM TM Lingering in Happiness "After rain after many days without rain, it stays cool, private and cleansed, under the trees, and the dampness there, married now to gravity, falls branch to branch, leaf to leaf, down to the ground where it will disappear - … " ~ Mary Oliver

7/15/26 AM TM “One is called yesterday and the other is called tomorrow, so today is the right day to love, believe, do, and mostly live.” ~ Dalai Lama “Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

7/14/26 PM TM “… simplicity, patience, compassion. … Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.” ~ Tao Te Ching by Lao Lzu

7/14/26 AM TM Love after Love (Derek Walcott) “The time will come When with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door in your own mirror, and each will smile at the other's welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self.” … ~ Derek Walcott

7/13/26 PM TM Who You Are “Who you are is so much more than what you do. … You are divinity; … It's the light of God, … the timeless, deathless essence of you that reaches out and touches me. Who you are transcends fear and turns suffering into liberation. Who you are is love.” ~ Danna Faulds

7/13/26 AM TM Oh, the Places You'll Go! “I'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win, cause you'll play against you. All Alone! Whether you like it or not, Alone you will be something quite a lot. … And never mix up your right foot with your left.” ~ Dr. Seuss

7/12/26 PM TM "Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." - Emerson

7/12/26 AM TM “My greatest wealth is the deep stillness in which I strive and grow and win what the world cannot take from me with fire or sword.” —Johann Wolfgang Goethe, 1749-1832, German polymath, who is widely regarded as the most influential writer in the German language.

7/11/26 PM TM The Infinite “The Infinite always is silent: It is only the Finite speaks. Our words are the idle wave-caps On the deep that never breaks. We may question with wand of science, Explain, decide and discuss; But only in meditation The Mystery speaks to us.” ~ John Boyle O’Reilly

7/11/26 AM TM “Two things define you: your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

7/10/26 PM TM “At times, our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.” ~ Albert Schweitzer

7/10/26 AM TM “ I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore

7/9/26 PM TM “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr. “How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.” ~ William Shakespeare

7/9/26 AM TM A Blessing “250 years have passed since America, a nation of disparate people, robust people, was born. … also image a time when America becomes (again) a blessing to the world. If we can imagine this, we, the people, can begin to become a blessing together.” ~ Emily Lewis Penn

7/8/26 PM TM “I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet Around me like circles on water. … Then what I am afraid of comes. I live for a while in its sight. What I fear in it leaves it, And the fear of it leaves me. It sings, and I hear its song.” ~ Wendell Berry

7/8/26 AM TM “Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.” ~ Anne Lamott

7/7/26 PM TM “The human mind, no matter how highly trained, cannot grasp the universe. We are in the position of a little child, entering a huge library whose walls are covered to the ceiling … Our limited minds cannot grasp the mysterious force that sways the constellations.” ~ Albert Einstein

7/6/26 PM TM The Little Boy And The Old Man “Said the little boy, … But worst of all, said the boy, it seems grown-ups don’t pay attention to me. And he felt the warmth of a wrinkled old hand. I know what you mean, said the little old man.” ~ Shel Silverstein

7/6/26 AM TM “When eating fruit, remember the one who planted the tree.” ~ Vietnamese proverb “Enough is a feast.” ~ Buddhist proverb

7/5/26 PM TM A Meditation on Gratitude and Joy ~ Jack Kornfield “With gratitude I remember the people, animals, plants, insects … Just as we are grateful for our blessings, so we can be grateful for the blessings of others. Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.”

7/5/26 PM TM "Make new friends, but keep the old; Those are silver, these are gold. … Cherish friendship in your breast-New is good, but old is best; Make new friends, but keep the old; Those are silver, these are gold." ~ JOSEPH PARRY

7/4/26 PM TM “Before we acquire great power… “Each admirable genius is but a successful diver in that sea whose floor of pearls is all your own.” “Within us is the soul of the whole, the wise silence, the universal beauty, the eternal One.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

7/4/26 AM TM “Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt:… “ ~ Eleanor Roosevelt ~ Arthur Ashe ~ Thomas Jefferson, 1816, Southeast Portico of the Jefferson Memorial

7/3/26 PM TM Temporary and Permanent “Most people in your life were only meant for dreams, and summer laughter. … Know who those people are. And love them the way they deserve. Not everyone in your life is temporary. A few are as permanent as love is old.” ~ Nikita Gill

7/4/26 AM TM How to Build a Tree “Sometimes your next halting step Is more powerful than the grandest vision. All a leaf knows about building a tree is to turn toward the light.” ~ James Pearson, author of “The Wilderness that Bears Your Name”

7/2/26 PM TM “I can feel everything and survive. What I thought would kill me, didn't. Every time I said to myself: I can't take this anymore — I was wrong. … I learned that I'd never be free from pain but I could be free from the fear of pain, and that was enough.” ~ Glennon Doyle, Untamed

7/2/26 AM TM “Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh