"Seek lonely places ...."

Seek lonely places and be still, listening, hearing the songs and cries of the winged ones, the sounds of the four-leggeds, and the cries of the insect people; feeling the breath and touch of the earth, of leaves, of bark; for all have messages for you from the Above One—Let your prayers rise like smoke rises from our fires, freed from all selfish desires.

Sees-Beyond-The-Lightning 

"This grand show ...."

This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.

When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.

John Muir

"If the sight of ...."

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.

Eleonora Duse

"That each day I may walk ...."

That each day I may walk unceasingly on the banks of my water, that my soul may repose on the branches of the trees which I planted.

Egyptian tomb inscription

"Sky empty and luminous ....

Sky empty and luminous

beyond all attachments,

Remains.

Me, the setting sun

resplendent with light,

Will not remain at all.

One must remain in the vastness,

     alert and lucid,

Letting one's gaze encompass

     the infinity of the sky,

As though seated on the summit of a mountain

open to all the horizons…..

Shabkar Tsogdruk Rangdrol