How Little We Understand

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates

From wonder into wonder existence opens.
- Lao Tzu

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore.
There is always something to make you wonder
in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.
- Albert Schweitzer

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
It is the source of all true art and all science.
He to whom this emotion is a stranger,
who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein

Wisdom begins in wonder.
- Socrates

Further reading: Appreciate the Basics of Life

All Life is a Miracle

Cherish Mystery

An Unknowable Future
    

The Grandeur of Creation

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing.
None is excluded, but excludes himself.
You have only to push aside the curtain.
- Henry David Thoreau

Today is a good day to look around at the grandeur of creation.
Whether flower or cactus, butterfly or caterpillar, elk or lizard,
vegetable garden or compost pile.
Our world is magnificent - all of it.
Rejoice and give thanks for all of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Study nature, love nature,
stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Further reading: Everything is a Miracle

Listen to Nature's Messengers

Beauty and Adventure in the Commonplace

One Drop of Water
     

Wonder Leads To Wisdom

From wonder into wonder existence opens.
- Lao Tzu

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
It is the source of all true art and all science.
He to whom this emotion is a stranger,
who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore.
There is always something to make you wonder
in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.
- Albert Schweitzer

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates

Wisdom begins in wonder.
- Socrates

Further reading: All Life is a Miracle

Appreciate the Basics of Life

An Unknowable Future

Cherish Mystery
    

From Wonder into Wonder

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
It is the source of all true art and all science.
He to whom this emotion is a stranger,
who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein

Wisdom begins in wonder.
- Socrates

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore.
There is always something to make you wonder
in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.
- Albert Schweitzer

From wonder into wonder existence opens.
- Lao Tzu

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates

Further reading: All Life is a Miracle

An Unknowable Future

Appreciate the Basics of Life

Cherish Mystery
    

Grandeur of Creation

Today is a good day to look around at the grandeur of creation.
Whether flower or cactus, butterfly or caterpillar, elk or lizard,
vegetable garden or compost pile.
Our world is magnificent - all of it.
Rejoice and give thanks for all of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing.
None is excluded, but excludes himself.
You have only to push aside the curtain.
- Henry David Thoreau

Study nature, love nature,
stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Further reading: Nature's Messengers

Everything is a Miracle

Beauty and Adventure in the Commonplace

One Drop of Water
     

Stand Rapt in Awe

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein

We have to stop and be humble enough
to understand that there is something called mystery.
- Paulo Coelho

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong

God is not what you imagine,
or what you think you understand.
If you understand you have failed.
- Saint Augustine

There is so much we can never know.
Breathe deeply and relax into the not-knowing.
There is much that we do not have to know
in order to live joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates

Further reading: All Life is a Miracle

Appreciate the Basics of Life

An Unknowable Future

Cherish Mystery
    

Pause to Wonder

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
It is the source of all true art and all science.
He to whom this emotion is a stranger,
who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein

Uncertainty that comes from knowledge
(knowing what you don't know)
is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
- Isaac Asimov

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted,
but beholds it as something
unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
- Albert Schweitzer

That sense of sacredness,
that thinking in generations,
must begin with reverence for this earth.
- Paul Tsongas

Be thankful that life is a mystery.
There is so much we can never know.
Breathe deeply and relax into the not-knowing.
There is much that we do not have to know in order to live joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: The Edge of All We Know

The Beat of the Universe

The Miracle of Gratitude

Life Really Is Good

Childlike Wonder

Your Path

Reverence

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein

Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter
everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe
that change forever how we experience life and the world.
- John Milton

That sense of sacredness,
that thinking in generations,
must begin with reverence for this earth.
- Paul Tsongas

Appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life,
with awe, pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy,
however stale these experiences may have become to others.
- Abraham Maslow

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes
the objects of his creation
and is but a reflection of human frailty.
- Albert Einstein

Look deep into nature, and then
you will understand everything better.
- Albert Einstein

Further reading: A Parent's Gift

The Edge of All We Know

Your Path

The Universal Sacrament of Compassion

Choosing Celebration

The Small Miracles of Our Life
      

Appreciation: Abraham Maslow: Appreciate again and again

Appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy, however stale these experiences may have become to others.
- Abraham Maslow

Never let frustration or disappointment tarnish your appreciation for all that is good in life. Every day say Thank You to the source of all that is good.

Further reading: Marianne Williamson: Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, Thank You, that would suffice. - Meister Eckhart

12 Life Lessons I Learned From My Cat

How To Be Happy In Life - The 9 Paths To Happiness

Albert Einstein: He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein

From wonder into wonder existence opens.
- Lao Tzu

Further reading: Visualize a kinder world

Lao Tzu: Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished

Rabindranath Tagore: Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.