Quotes for this week's blog

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill

Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt

Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench

Care about people’s approval and you will be their prisoner

Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity. Tao Te Ching

There came a time when staying tight within the bud was more painful than the risk it took to bloom Anais Nin

Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right and the errors and faults are those of man. The man incapable of appreciating her, she despises and only to apt, the pure, the true, does she resign herself & reveal her secrets. Goethe

The force of the primal self manifested as love is the glory of God. Those who awaken it in others & nurture the nurturers glorify Him. The Ancestors

Wilderness holds the answers to questions we do not yet know how to ask. David Brower

I only went out for a walk & finally decided to stay until sundown, for going out, I discovered, was actually going in. John Muir