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Food For Thought: Like Swans

Those who awaken never rest in one place. Like swans, they rise and leave the lake. On the air they rise and fly an invisible course. Their food is knowledge. They live on emptiness. … They have seen how to break free. Who can follow them? ~Buddha (563 – 483 BC)
(Photo: Three Mute Swans at Joppa Flats in Newburyport, MA ~ c. Pamela J. Leavey 2012)

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Food For Thought: The Quest

“I have come to believe that “the quest” is a metaphor for the willingness to live and wrestle with the perennial questions that underlie the mythic answers that religion offers. My “question” is the “quest I’m on.” – Sam KeenHymns To An Unknown God

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Food For Thought: The Scars on our Hearts

“The scars on our hearts do not last forever. They are the temporary signs of a tender soul who has touched the earth and been burned by such a low descent. Once the earth has been redeemed and our relationships are returned to God, the scars within us will be miraculously healed.” ~ Marianne Williamson – A Woman’s Worth

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Food For Thought: Human Life Is A Journey

Human life is a journey whose end is not in sight. Searching, longing and questioning is in our DNA. Who we are and what we will become is determined by the questions that animate us, and by those we refuse to ask. Your questions are your quest. As you ask, so shall you be. ~ Sam Keen

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Food For Thought from Huxley and God

“Graces are the free gifts of help bestowed by God upon each one of us, in order that we may be assisted to achieve our final end and purpose; namely, unitive knowledge of divine reality.” ~~ Aldous Huxley: Huxley and God, Essays

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Food For Thought: Alone

I’ve been living alone for the past few months, enjoying it more now that I am no longer constrained by a cast on my right foot. In living alone, I have found, as Krishnamurti notes, a “greater awareness for self-discovery”.

“There is no such thing as living alone, for all living is relationship; but to live without direct relationship demands high intelligence, a swifter and greater awareness for self-discovery.” ~ J. Krishnamurti

Alone in the garden of many…

(Photo: White Tulip with Red Stripes ~ c. Pamela J. Leavey 2012)

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